WeeklyUpdates/2009-06-22

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Development Updates

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.12
  • Missed blockers for code freeze a week ago
  • Still trying to get in a couple more
  • Pushing out release by one week due to blockers missing code freeze
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 / Gecko 1.8.1.22
  • Shipping today!

Gecko 1.9.1

• Dan Witte now full time! He's initially working with Taras on static analysis.
• Check out Chris Jones' post on a very raw demo of our ongoing multi-process browser work. This work completes Phase I, and we're really excited to see such great progress so quickly.
• Last week, Andreas Gal, David Anderson, and David Mandelin were in Dublin for PLDI to present their paper Trace-based Just-in-Time Type Specialization for Dynamic Languages, which describes some of the guts of TraceMonkey, the new Javascript engine and a key feature of Firefox 3.5.
• Oh, and no new blockers holding the release. So far.

Firefox 3.5

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

QA

Test Execution

• Shipped 3.5RC1 [Testplan], and next day, shipped 3.5RC2 [Testplan]
  • Extra thanks to qa team, build team, and the fx-team for pulling short notices for builds and tests!
• Tested Thunderbird 2.0.0.22
• Investigated bugs for 3.0.12
• Tested Firefox 3.0.11 to 3.5 Major Update
• Worked with Microsoft to test the .NET Framework Assistant patch for Fx3.0, Fx3.5, and Fx3.0->Fx3.5. See results (Thanks AaronMT, tchung)

Web Dev Testing

• Tested and shipped Mozilla Service Week 1.0!
• AMO. Verified a few AMO 5.0.6 bugs. Testing the new 1.3 version of the Add-ons Collections extension. Created a 5.0.7 test plan
• SUMO: Testing of Metrics is in progress
• Spread Firefox redesign: Worked on testing the "Let's party" page

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Community
  • QMO has simplied its homepage and usability. See here. Remember, you can log into #qa channel via the mibbit client on QMO right here.
  • There was a Test Day about MozQA's Website Testing Project on Friday, June 19th. See the results. 5 bugs filed (2 security, of which 1 has severity:critical)
  • There is a Testing Web Properties meet-up - Wednesday, June 24th, 6:30pm in Mountain View, CA. Please RSVP!
  • There is a Berlin Meet-up on Wednesday, June 24

Test Development

• Javascript Ref Tests for browser based tests are up for review: bug 469718
• Mozmill Tinderbox integration is getting closer many thanks to bhearsum and catlee! bug 457265
• Mozmill 1.2 development is still ongoing - in a find fix mode, 3 blockers remaining.
• Got FennecMark up and Running on Tinderbox bug 493057
• Will be having a Fennec Testday on Friday!

Marketing/PR

Firefox 3.5 Launch

• Firefox 3.5 Launch Parties: Call to Action (CTA) is live on the home page of SFx. Directions on how to host a party are here.
• Regional Social Network outreach. We need help updating regional social networks and Mozilla/Firefox groups. Please sign up here if you would like to take on one.

PR

Events

• Velocity 2009, June 22-24, 2009, San Jose, CA - Speakers: Dion Almaer, Ben Galbraith & Chris Blizzard. Schedule here.
• FISL 2009, June 24 - 27, 2009, Porto Alegre, Brazil - Kicking off later this week.
• Renegade Craft Festival, July 18 - 19, 2009, San Francisco - Looking to showcase add-ons and demonstrate how to make a persona.
• Maker Faire Africa August 14 - 16, 2009, Accra, Ghana - Working out level of participation. Check out the wiki for early details. Let Sarah know if you are interested in helping. To sign up visit the wiki.

Evangelism

• Documentation work is now focused on cleanup and the like, but we're watching the 35 Days posts to be sure anything they talk about is documented cleanly.
• Working on developing new plugins for MDC to start augmenting its functionality.
• Tracking ongoing work for this summer's planned MindTouch wiki software update.

• Chris Blizzard, Mark Surman + Paul Rouget at the open video conference
  • Tons of people there from various segments of the industry - producers, hosters, codec people, companies, browser vendors
  • Great conference, great to work with the open video conference people
  • Got a lot done with the Xiph folks on Theora
  • Got to give a few great demos - great feedback from people as well

Webdev

• on-site last week
• AMO 5.0.7 -- work continues

L10n

Firefox 3.5

Web

Tools

Foundation Updates

• We'll be representing Mozilla at FISL in Brazil, where Mark will be speaking about Mozilla Education and open video.
• We continue to prepare for the relaunch of www.mozilla.org:
  • Files on the staging server are being tweaked
  • Current site editors should be aware of the upcoming transition to Subversion
  • Archiving has reduced the number of files from roughly 24,000 to 14,000
  • Pages are being updated to tell more of the Mozilla story
• The discussion about improving Bugzilla is ongoing, check the newsgroup thread and wiki page for the latest.
• We're continuing to work with new Mozilla Education partners and plan new projects:
  • Universidad Rey Juan Carlos will soon be starting its Mozilla technologies course.
  • On next week's Mozilla Education call we'll be discussing a proposed Mozilla course at the University of Evry.
  • We're considering contributing to a proposed textbook on teaching open source.
• Based on Kathleen Wilson's recommendations, we approved CA requests from Kamu SM and Buypass (bugs 381974 and 477028 respectively).

Roundtable

New Interns

We have 3 new interns joining us this week:

• Jeff Zeller (Marketing)
• Pejman Pour-Moezzi (Legal)
• David Keeler (Security)

Show & Tell

Starting this week, we'll have a Show & Tell session at the end of each All-Hands where a small group of interns will give an overview of the progression of their project(s). This week we have the following interns:

• Chris Howse (AMO)
• John Ford (Build)
• Arzhel Younsi (IT)
• Matthew Noorenberghe (FFx)
  • Improved form history
  • Doorhanger notifications