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Friends of the Tree

Contributors who made the MDN documentation sprint this weekend a great success:

• Florian Scholz (Elchi3)
• Jean-Yves Perrier (teoli)
• Sebastian Perez Vasseur
• David Bruant

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 11 October

Tuesday, 12 October

Wednesday, 13 October

• Brownbag: Web Developers & the Open Web Survey Results
  • 1:00 pm PST in Ten Forward and on Air Mozilla
  • Jay Patel & Joan Green will present the findings from our most recent MDN developer survey

Thursday, 14 October

Friday, 15 October

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 4

• Code freeze for Beta 7 marches on!
• There are 14 blockers left which we hope to close out in the next couple of days
• We created a relbranch for 4.0b7 to unblock mozilla-central work
  • Checkins are metered while dealing with the backlog
  • b7 blockers should be landed both on the relbranch and the default branch

Firefox 3.6 & 3.5

• Released to beta last week
• We will be respinning 3.6.11 for bug 601440
  • This puts the Thursday release date at risk. If we need to, we'll push to to next Tuesday (2010-10-19)

Mobile Firefox

• Firefox 4 Beta 1 for Android and Maemo shipped
• Beta 2 code freeze is October 19 (next Tuesday)
• Firefox Home 1.0.3 is now in the app store

Thunderbird

• 3.0 end-of-life plan posted to tb-planning
• 3.1.5 / 3.0.9 watching one issue (bug 601440), otherwise ok for release
• Contributor survey has generated good feedback, we will be accepting responses through end of day this Sunday, October 18th.

Older Branch Work

Drumbeat

• No update from Drumbeat this week -- Canadians are eating turkey and giving thanks.
• Next week: doubly awesome update on School of Webcraft Toolshed at the Drumbeat Festival

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.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

• Spun off versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org & services.addons.mozilla.org from the original Zeus cluster to a dedicated AMO Zeus cluster
• Wrapping up Mac Mini move to Santa Clara data center

Release Engineering

QA

QA Org Highlights

• WebQA
  • shipped Firefox mobile pages
• Browser Technologies
  • Shipped Fennec2.0/Firefox Mobile 4.0 Beta
• Desktop Firefox
  • Fx 4 Beta 7: Code freeze delay. Holding pattern for test execution.

Automation & Tools

• Brasstacks server performance upgraded!
• Log Parsers for War on Orange delivered to metrics, working on storing data
  • Experimenting with statistical views of orange data
• Working toward a 1.5.1 Mozmill release this week to fix issues surrounding running in buildbot environment
• More information here

Security

Engagement

PR

• Citing relevance, Mozilla to include Bing in Firefox 4 search box
• Firefox 4 getting Bing search option
• Firefox reshuffles default search engines, but Google and Yahoo! still top the list

• Mozilla releases Firefox 4 beta for Maemo and Android
• Firefox 4 Beta for Mobile Is Here
• Firefox for Android now available as Beta
• Firefox 4 for Android Greeted With Cheers and Jeers
• Android tablets, smartphones: Mozilla Firefox's best shot at mobile relevance

Participation

• Participation page is live! Please promote the page + share with people looking to spread Firefox.
• The Army of Awesome is live as well!
  • Go to the Army of Awesome page to try it out. Sending replies to users’ tweets takes only a few moments and goes a long way toward helping others have a better Web experience.

Creative Team

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

• Kumar McMillan - Add-ons Webdev
• Richard Newman - services
• Will Bamberg - Jetpack docs

Foundation Updates

Roundtable