WeeklyUpdates/2009-05-04

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Friends of the Tree

Bret Reckard wrote in to nominate Amie Tyrrel for all the work she put in getting visas sorted out for the Mozilla Summer Intern Program. "It's a huge undertaking with Mozilla's ever-growing and diverse program. Amie's kept the entire process moving throughout the spring and it's going to start paying off when the interns arrive beginning of May."

Development Updates

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

• Firefox 3.0.9
  • Shipped just shy of two weeks ago
• Firefox 3.0.10
  • Shortly after shipping 3.0.9, noticed that a major stability regression had been introduced
  • Firedrilled 3.0.10 with a fix for the stability issue
  • Shipped last Monday, April 27
• Firefox 3.0.11
  • New schedule on the wiki
  • Aiming for early June release
• Firefox 2.0.0.20 MU 2
  • Initially scrapped due to 3.0.10 firedrill
  • Planning a release in two to three weeks

Gecko 1.9.1

• Beta 4 progress: Shipped. Now, watching feedback and nom queues for issues and fixing remaining blockers to get us to RC 1.
• Last week we completed a round of planning for each team:
  • For overall Platform planning, see this wiki page.
  • Next steps are to discuss the overall plan for what the next Gecko release (post 1.9.1) will look like, not just features, but duration and timing.
• Blocker Status:
  • 13 final blocker bugs left in content. (9 last time)
  • 6 GFX final blockers. (Two weeks ago: 3)
  • 5 Layout final blockers. Six have patches. (Two weeks ago: 9)
  • 0 SVG final blockers (Last time: 2).
  • JS with 15 blockers. (Two weeks ago: 29)
• Triage needed. 25 noms are in the queue right now.
• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• 58 total 1.9.1 blockers (two weeks ago: 73).

Mobile

• Mozilla/Nokia developer camp

Release Engineering

• Tshutdown tests enabled in talos last week, details here
• expecting this week to be busy week, pent up demand after FF3.5beta4 lockdown and allhands. Watching the wait times posted to mozilla.dev.tree-management.
• Welcome to John Ford (jhford on irc)

QA

During work week we tested and shipped Firefox 3.5 B4, 3.0.10, AMO 5.0.5 and Spread Firefox. Whew!!

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• WebDev Testing - Tested and shipped AMO 5.0.5 and Spread Firefox (yay!) amid the crazy work week!
• Project metrics- Generated branch coverage details for the first time. this allows us to see into the coverage of multiple conditions on one line.

8 Accessibility - Focus last week was on video screen reader accessibility. TRhis is about exposing the embedded controls of the HTML5 video and audio elements to screen readers. Tested patches and reviewed test check-ins.

Test Development

Marketing/PR

General

• Next Community Marketing call is Wednesday, May 6th, at 10am PDT. Dial-in Info: +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#. For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on irc.mozilla.org.
• New Spread Firefox design live! Thanks to all the amazing hardwork - especially Alex Buchanan, Krupa Raj and Stephen Donner!

Firefox 3.5 Launch

• Marketing is hosting a series of online workshops via Air Mozilla to prep for the Firefox launch. This week's lineup includes:
  • May 5th: PR workshop, 9 a.m. PDT/16:00 UTC.
  • May 7th: Creative workshop, 9 a.m. PDT/16:00 UTC.

Mozilla Service Week"

• June 22 - 29, 2009
• A week to provide technology & Web-related service to organizations in need.
• Looking for localization help with the "Mozilla Service Week" name.

PR

• Firefox 3.5 beta 4 in the news
• Personas video on Revision 3 TV
• Geolocation feature in covered in CNET, TechCrunch, Venture Beat, Into Mobile
• Mozilla extension policy in Ars Technica

Events

• eLiberatica Open Source and Free Software Conference (Bucharest,

Romania) - May 22-23:

• • Gandalf and William to present
  • Special "Mozilla Community Booth" will be set up for presentations and

contributor sign-ups

• • Full details here
• Mozilla-Maemo Danish Weekend (Copenhagen, Denmark) - May 30-31:
  • 2-day workshops focusing on Mozilla, Maemo and Mozilla-Maemo projects
  • Details

L10n

Web l10n:

• Web localization for Firefox 3.5 started tracking bug: #490884
• New in-product page for localization compared to 3.0: Geolocation. Will be ready for localization by end of the week
• Mozilla Service Week promotional website to be localized too, English copy being prepared now, should be ready for l10n by end of the week, early next week
• More locales this year but less pages per locale, focusing on high visibility pages as well as marketing related localization for launch

Community:

• Cédric Corazza (French localizer) is helping the Kompozer project (nvu-Fork) led by Fabien Cazenave to have a coordinated product localization: Documentation
• Good news, 4 new web localizers in the past two weeks (Serbian, Greek, French and Spanish)

Foundation Updates

• James Boston is our new Mozilla Education intern, working on the Mozilla Education site and related activities. Please welcome James!
• The Open|Web|Content|Education course continues this week with a week 6 seminar on open learning and pedagogy.
• As noted in David's blog post, we have a third round of designs for www.mozilla.org available for review.
• We blogged about Mozilla as a hybrid organization (Mark's original post and Frank's follow-up)
• We talked about Mozilla, openness and participation to 150+ Government of Ontario communications professionals at the Reach Out conference (Mark's slides).
• Based on Kathleen Wilson's recommendations, we approved CA requests from ComSign and StartCom to include ComSign's root certificate in Mozilla (bug 420705) and enable StartCom's root for EV and trust it for code signing (bug 451298).
• For more information on what we're working on, see Mark's blog post on Mozilla Foundation team priorities for the coming months.

Roundtable

Our first 8 interns started today:
Arzhel Younsi - IT
Chris Howse - AMO
John Ford - Build
Matt Noorenberghe - FFx
Reed Loden - IT
Anthony Hughes - QA
Aaron Train - QA
Nino D'Aversa - Mobile

A warn welcome to all of them!