WeeklyUpdates/2009-08-31
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Friends of the Tree
Development Updates
Firefox
Firefox Front End Work
Team News
Gecko
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
TB 3
Mobile
IT
Last Week
- VeriSign EV cert for addons.mozilla.org (08/25/2009) bug 503040
- Added Layer42 as a transit provider in San Jose.
This Week
- The Amsterdam Reboot
- Turned down sites last week. Did we break anything yet?
- Derek & Arzhel in transit Tuesday, onsite Wednesday
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
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.
Test Development
Security
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
Metrics
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!
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
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.
L10n
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: