WeeklyUpdates/2010-08-23

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Friends of the Tree Friends of the Tree


Mary Colvig wrote in, "I wanted to nominate the following people for pitching in on tours last week: Matthew Zeier, Daisuke, Jono, Dave Dash, Bret Reckard, Sara Yu, & Vineel Reddy."



Upcoming Events


This Week

Monday, 23 August

Tuesday, 24 August

Wednesday, 25 August




Thursday, 26 August




Friday, 27 August 

Next Week



Product Status Updates


Firefox 4


  •  QA working through FF4 beta 4 validation, chasing a couple bugs around RTL support and support for PPC, but might be ready to sign off today
    • 

  •  Feature freeze targeted for next week, a lot of work needs to stabilize quickly, or miss


Firefox 3.6


Firefox 3.6.9




Mobile Firefox


Thunderbird


  •  Advertised major updates from Tb2 and Tb3.0.x are live, and we're ramping up the throttle!
    • 

  •  3.1.3 and 3.0.7 are scheduled for simultaneous release with the analogous Firefox updates.


Older Branch Work


Firefox 3.5.12




Drumbeat




Speakers


The limit is 3 minutes per speaker.  It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.







  Title

  Presenter

  Topic

  Media

  More Details




 General Browsing, Private Browsing

 Hamilton Ulmer

 A handful of insights on how long the browser stays open, as well as how long people stay in private browsing.

 http://bit.ly/ciKc9J, http://bit.ly/cKNqqU, http://bit.ly/bOd4sP






 Mozilla Community Map

 David Boswell

 Demo and update on Community Map

 http://www.mozilla.org/community






 Add-ons API Coverage - Where we stand

 Daniel Buchner

 Demo the coverage/competitive comparison table

 http://people.mozilla.com/~dbuchner/pages/apicoverage/index.html





Status Updates By Team


Firefox


Platform


Messaging


  •  Ongoing work on various experimental Thunderbird add-ons:

    •  QuickLook integration on OS X
      • 

    •  MuteThread for ignoring threads in email
      • 

    •  DataMiners offers users interesting handling of detected data in messages (eg slideshow of image attachments)


Mobile


IT


Last Week



  •  Half way through the San Jose router upgrades (going so well, no one even knew we started).


This Morning



  •  Faulty optic in a San Jose router caused some connectivity issues.  Have that interface disabled and are en route to replace optics.


This Week



  •  Amsterdam datacenter move: after a number of slips, it's actually moving this week.

    •  site will go offline during Tuesday local time while hardware is moved
      • 

    •  users will be directed to US-based sites instead


Release Engineering


QA


QA Org Highlights


  •  Hiring

    •  Cameron Dawson, offer accepted. Start date 08/30
      • 

    •  Naoki Hirata, offer accepted. Start date 08/30
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  •  Browser Technologies

    •  still testing pre-alpha releases for Fennec
      • 

    •  Signed off changes for production Sync services
      • 

    •  Signed off on Firefox Home Beta3, still are looking at some testing logistics for L10N testing.
    • 

  •  Desktop Firefox

    •  begin release testing for 1.9.2.9 and 1.9.1.12
      • 

    •  finishing up FF 4 Beta4 testing, should be signed off Monday assuming issues with the PPC builds are resolved.
    • 

  •  QA Services



Automation & Tools


  •  Grafx bot UI updates are done, working on a small feature needed to restart the browser to switch between hardware & software rendering mode on Linux and Mac.  Should be ready for Beta 5
    • 

  •  Bug Hunter VM rollout begins this week in Phoenix colo.
    • 

  •  Firebug test harness is now packaged python module - runFBTests
    • 

  •  The Automation & Tools staging buildbot staging environment should be online this week
    • 

  •  We're getting folks ready to help out with removing universal xp connect from mochitest a la bug 582472
    • 

  •  We also want to ensure that Debug CRT exceptions do not throw up modal dialogs on windows, so we are going to land a patch for bug 587982
    • 

  •  More information on our team page.


Security


Engagement


PR 





Community



  •  Community Marketing Call: Next call is Wednesday, August 25th at 10 a.m. PST/17:00 UTC. Please send agenda items to mary at mozilla dot com.

    •  You can watch the call live on Air Mozilla or dial in:

      •  +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#
        • 

      •  Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. If you're outside the US, use Skype to call in with our toll-free number.
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    • For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on IRC (irc.mozilla.org).




Events 



  • Maker Faire Africa - August 27-28, 2010; Nairobi, Kenya - William Quiviger, Raymond Etornam, Kwamena Apphia and Alex Wafula representing Mozilla / Mozilla is main sponsor this year 
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  • DjangoCon.us 2010 - September 7 - 9th; Portland Oregon - Sponsoring and a few Mozilla web devs will be in attendance
    • 

  • OWASP AppSec USA 2010 - September 7-10th; Southern California - This year we will have a booth, we are an organizational supporter and we have a speaking slot.  Follow the wiki for more updates on our presence.
    • 

  • Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010 - September 11-12, 2010 - We will have a booth and be doing some innovative activities.  Check out the wiki for more details Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
     
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  • Y4IT 2010 - September 14-17, 2010; University of the Philippines Dilman, Quezon City Philippines - We are sponsoring and will have a table - the Philippines community will be representing Mozilla.
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  • Open Video Conference 2010 - October 1-2, 2010; New York, NY  - Looking over sponsorship opportunities. 
    • 

  • German Community Meetup 2010 - September 18-19 (Cologne, Germany) - 25 active German/Swiss/Austrian contributors gathering for 2-day workshop to discuss goals for next 2 quarters 
    • 

  • Bi-annual Aviary.Pl meeting - October 2-4 (Poznan, Poland) - 3-day workshop of active Polish contributors to review past 6 months and plan 6 months ahead



 

Creative Team 

Community Marketing 



  • Community Marketing Call: Next call is Wednesday August 25th at 10 a.m. PST/17:00 UTC. Please send agenda items to mary at mozilla dot com.


Support


Metrics


Evangelism


Labs


Developer Tools


Add-ons


Webdev


L10n



Introducing New Hires


Foundation Updates


  • Mozilla 2010 T-shirts. They're awesome, they're fancy, they're all the rage. Tell your friends! http://mzl.la/bBM5YP
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  •  Community map is live. See David Boswell's lightning talk above


Roundtable








					

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