WeeklyUpdates/2009-08-31

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Friends of the Tree

Five people, Stuart, Tony, Clint, Tim, and Aakash all wrote in to nominate Joel Maher as a Friend of the Tree for his great work over the last 2-3 weeks

• Handled and drove Beta 3 maemo AND winmo a3 release testing
• Created a test harness to run mochitests on winmo
• Created first test harness to run reftest, crashtest, xpcshell on winmo
• Driving the log compare effort to get known failures factored out of tinderbox output for maemo tunit reports so that we can have a system that we can use going forward to maintain detailed information about our testing on Fennec and even Firefox going forward.
• verified 140+ Fennec bugs last week alone
• leading charge to debug known failures for maemo fennec on tunit
• Mentoring QAE folks on how to test Fennec, aiding with Fennec testday

And I (Asa) would like to nominate David Tran for all his help this summer in improving the experience of streaming content to Air Mozilla.

Development Updates

Firefox

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

Team News

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.14 / Firefox 3.5.3
  • QA is wrapping up cycle
  • hoping to go to beta tomorrow
  • on track for release next week

• Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4
  • please work on your blockers
  • code freeze set for September 22 at 11:59pm
  • targeting mid-late October release

IT

Last Week

• VeriSign EV cert for addons.mozilla.org (08/25/2009) bug 503040
• Added Layer42 as a transit provider in San Jose.
• Added multi-state flags
  • status1.9.2 bug 512539
  • blocking1.9.3 bug 510664

This Week

• The Amsterdam Reboot
  • Turned down sites last week. Did we break anything yet?
  • Derek & Arzhel in transit Tuesday, onsite Wednesday

QA

Test Execution

• Fx3.5.3/3.0.14 ETA to beta, 9/1
• Winmo Alpha 3 testing in progress, blockers found
• Iterating the list and contacts on the Firefox 3.6 Testplan
• Investigating exploitable crash reports
• Automating of manual litmus tests progress: Smoketests 88%, BFTs 20%

Web Dev Testing

• Shipped AMO 5.0.9
  • This release included the run of over 100 Litmus testcases

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Community:
  • Testday on Fx3.5 Session Store Testing using QA Companion! is this Friday, Sept 4th
  • Next German Open Source Community Meetup is on September 25. See new blog post.
  • Helped es-MX contributor. See bug 512553.
• Accessibility: Reviewed of provided feedback on these bugs. Provided ports and updates to patches for these: bug 499816 and bug 504053. Evaluated both the Yahoo! RichText editor and the CKEditor WYSIWYG editors for web applications to advise on their accessibility.
• Metrics:
  • Filed a bug on the MAKE rules of security component bug 512341 to allow instrumenting the code base. Provided the solution as well!
  • Mac OS Firefox instrumentation is a success.
  • Investigating the mochitest-browser-chrome test harness hang issue. Seems to be caused by memory leak while switching between private browsing and regular browsing in the harness testing.
  • Started a new usage based code coverage project

Test Development

• Have a full run of Reftests over HTTP for Tegra, will put failures into bugs this week.
• Beginning work with Electrolysis team to work on test harnesses for electrolysis. Our first priority will be testing Out of Process Plugins.
• Working with Dmandelin to use his python harness for JS Shell testing
• Released the first release of QAC For Mobile
• Pushed Mozmill 1.2.1
• Nearing completion for the log comparison tool to help get the Fennec Test Tree Green
• More details here.

Marketing/PR

PR

• Nokia N900 launched with Mozilla-based browser
• Open source's impact on MSFT in CNET
• Why People Don’t Upgrade Their Browser post in Beta News
• Snowl featured in Linux Magazine
• Lifehacker's Five Features We Want to See in Firefox

Mozilla Service Week

Events

• Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre en Chile October 7 - 9, 2009, Santiago, Chile - Sponsoring event and bringing together the Mozilla Hispanic Community. + 2 day MozCamp Prior.
• WordCamp Philippines September 19, 2009 in Makati City, Philippines - We are sponsoring this event.  Our mission is to help build up the Philippine community and build the Tagalog locale.
  
• Philippine Blog Awards October 9, 2009 in Luzon, Philippines - We are sponsoring this event.  Our mission is to help build up the Philippine community and build the Tagalog locale.
  

Community

Support

• One-day sprint to write crash articles for the knowledge base on Thursday September 3
  • Goal is to document the most common crash signatures in Firefox so that they all have a Knowledge Base article explaining the cause of the crash and the way to fix it (and any other info that is relevant).
  • See blog post and list of crash signatures (still being worked on) for more info

Evangelism

• Firefox 3.6 documentation is progressing. Don't forget to tag relevant bugs with the dev-doc-needed keyword so we can find them while looking for the next thing to write about!

Add-ons

• New release last week
• Next release is 9/24, will include the Add-on Developer Hub
• Join us in Miami on 9/15 or Chicago on 9/29 for our Add-ons meetups

Webdev

• AMO 5.0.9 launched last Thursday
• Making progress on the plugins front. Adding warning to whatsnew page on mozilla.com and creating a plugin campaign. (see screenshot)

Foundation Updates

• Mark posted extensively on Drumbeat, an initiative to engage huge numbers of people as promoters and stewards of the open web.
  • This is likely major MoFo priority for 2010. Feedback and involvement highly encouraged.
  • A wiki and google group have also been put up to support Drumbeat conversations.

• Thank you to everyone who helped with the relaunch of www.mozilla.org

• The second Mozilla Service Week action template is up: Digital Marketing.

Roundtable

Intern Show & Tell

This week we have the following interns presenting: