WeeklyUpdates/2009-01-26
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Development Updates
Branch work: Firefox 3.0.6 / 3.0.7
- Firefox 3.0.6
- Beta release tomorrow
- Release on track for next week (aiming for Wednesday, February 4)
- Firefox 3.0.7
- Code freeze is next Tuesday, February 3, at 11:59pm
- List of blocking bugs without patches
- Patches that need landing
- Please checkin your approved1.9.0.7+ patches ASAP.
Gecko 1.9.1
- 24 Bugs blocking beta 3. Breakdown:
- 16 Javascript bugs.
- 6 in Content
- 2 in Video
- Looking like tree closure for freeze will extend at least until end of day Tuesday, Jan 27th.
- For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
- Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
- 133 1.9.1 blockers.
Firefox 3.1
- tree will remain closed for beta 3 as patches need quiet places to land on mozilla-central; gathering ETAs, but we're looking at Tuesday as a date for re-opening
- attention will turn to rc1 later this week, more at tomorrow's development meeting
- beta 3 still expected in first week of february
TB 3
Mobile
Targeting M1 milestone release of Fennec for Windows Mobile.
As always, the weekly update has the up-to-date information of what happens in mobile-land
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Crash Reports
- RRRT: Setup pages for 3.0.6 and 3.1 Beta 3 are created
- Updated the Fennec test plan. Collected feedback from QMO, QA and Mobile Team.
Test Development
- Landed bug 472144 Sisyphus - Support mozilla-central repository along with recent modifications and additions to the JavaScript tests.
- Completed inital 100,000 TopSite test run - working on verifying crashes and leaks - some leaks are caused by timing issues (shutdown leaks etc). About 50 leaks and hundreds of assertions found. Triaged Assertions and verified 1.9.1 Bugs
Security
Marketing/PR
- Please join our mailing list to follow Mozilla marketing or join in the fun!
- Join us for our first community marketing call on Wednesday, Jan. 28th at 10 a.m. PDT. Dial-in & agenda here.
PR
- Labs releases Test Pilot, covered in CNET, ComputerWorld and WIRED
- John Resig featured in Mass High Tech
- Firefox named Best Web Browser in InfoWorld's “2009 Technology of the Year Awards: Applications, Middleware, and Data Management”
- Swedish praise for Firefox
- Mitchell included in Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock and Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology
Events
- Techkriti, Feb. 12 - 14, Kanpur, India: Sethb & Arun will be participating in FOSSkriti there.
- GNUnify, Feb. 13 - 14, Pune, India: Sethb & Arun will be conducting a Mozilla workshop.
- SCALE, Feb. 20 - 22, Los Angeles: Chris Blizzard accepted to speak.
- SxSW, March 13 - 17, Austin, Texas: Brendan & Arun have been accepted for the annual browser panel.
Support
- SUMO 0.8.1 has been released!
- SUMO roadmap for 2009
- One Year Anniversary for Live Chat -- 20,000 answered live chat requests so far!
- Work on splitting up the Options Window reference into separate articles per panel.
- Rewarding community meeting on January 12 with open discussions about SUMO. See the meeting minutes for the details.
Metrics
Evangelism
- Documentation
- Increasingly intensive bilateral discussions with Mindtouch about Deki planning.
- Started work on a list of features we'd like to investigate adding to MDC.
- New MDC content about workers (Using workers in extensions).
- Having a work week this week, people in town, come say hi!
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
- 5.0.1 Code Freeze Today! open bugs & fixed bugs - January 26 freeze - January 29 push
- Welcome Jeff Balogh
- Congrats to Wil Clouser, our AMO Dev Lead
- AMO Brown Bag this Thursday at 12:30
- Review queue update
- Nomination queue down to 360 from 560
- Update queue is holding steady but throughput is higher
- Compatibility update
- Rey Bango sending out email this week to get top 500 add-on developers to migrate
- Target is 95% (by usage) of extensions currently compatible with Fx 3.0
Webdev
- Jeff Balogh started last Tuesday, and will be working with Wil Clouser on AMO. He's hacked on a few interesting things like DrProject and dojo toolkit. We're lucky to have him!
- Wil Clouser will be mentoring Jeff and leading AMO webdev efforts moving forward. Congrats to Wil on his new role.
- Socorro partitioning patch staged, ready to deploy Thursday -- see the code or read bug 432450.
- Graph server was staged successfully using the new schema last week!
- http://graphs-stage2.mozilla.org/graph.html
- Feedback appreciated on old data migration:
- SUMO 0.8.1 was pushed live on Thursday. Chris Ilias wrote a nice blog post describing this milestone.
- Work continued on Prior Art Share. Watch for an upcoming blog post from Tiffney.
L10n
- 61 locales participating, with 2 missing the opt-in call, in FF 3.1 Beta 3. Here is the shipped locales bug.
- How do l10n-driver do outreach during a beta process?
- First call went to all locales on January 8
- Sent ~10 individual emails to localizers we had not heard from on January 20
- Friendly reminder again to all on January 23
- How do l10n-driver do outreach during a beta process?
- Last quarter's testing survey raw results are available, Stas and Seth are analyzing now
- Fennec localization plan developed
- 10 locales are participating in early group
- Pike will make builds visible on the l10n server soon
- Stas is producing productization guidelines
- Gandalf is fielding questions from localizers and filing bugs
- L10n team will be at FOSDEM
Foundation Updates
- Mark and Frank further developed Mozilla education program plans, and Mark did an initial blog posting to gather feedback on this program.
- Mark blogged about Foundation program planning and Foundation identity.