WeeklyUpdates/2010-07-26
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Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 26 July
- Black Hat (July 24 – 29, 2010) is the premier North American security conference. Mozilla will be in attendance at the event as well as having our own “Milk and Cookies” Party on 7/28.
Tuesday, 27 July
- Black Hat (July 24 – 29, 2010) is the premier North American security conference. Mozilla will be in attendance at the event as well as having our own “Milk and Cookies” Party on 7/28.
Wednesday, 28 July
- Black Hat (July 24 – 29, 2010) is the premier North American security conference. Mozilla will be in attendance at the event as well as having our own “Milk and Cookies” Party on 7/28.
Thursday, 29 July
- Black Hat (July 24 – 29, 2010) is the premier North American security conference. Mozilla will be in attendance at the event as well as having our own “Milk and Cookies” Party on 7/28.
Friday, 30 July
- Black Hat (July 24 – 29, 2010) is the premier North American security conference. Mozilla will be in attendance at the event as well as having our own “Milk and Cookies” Party on 7/28.
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox 4
- due to the chemspill, we’re a bit behind on schedule for beta 2
- getting a QA update today, hoping for release tomorrow
- beta 3 planning and landings going on this week
- a set of planned milestones and release dates for beta revisions is available
Firefox 3.6
- Released Firefox 3.6.7 on last Tuesday
- Saw a high-volume crash regression with certain combinations of object and embed tags (bug 575836)
- Released Firefox 3.6.8 with the fix on Friday…an amazingly quick turnaround!
- Post-mortems for 3.6.(7|8) will be happening the week of the 1st and 3.6.(4|6) will be happening the week of August 9th. Exact dates will be sent out today
- We are ready to do a chemspill release if anything comes up at BlackHat, though there are no talks we are too concerned about for Firefox
- The Firefox 3.6.9 schedule will be out today
- Any approvals for 1.9.2.8 are now for 1.9.2.9
Mobile Firefox
Thunderbird
- Released Thunderbird 3.1.1 and 3.0.6
- Found a bad crasher; we expect to need to spin 3.1.2 before offering advertised major updates to 3.1.x from older versions
Older Branch Work
Speakers
The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.
| Title | Presenter | Topic | Media | More Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mozilla Social Media Toolkit | Sarah Doherty | Mozilla Social Media Toolkit | http://mozilla.sarahdoherty.net/temp/MozillaSocialMediaToolkit.zip | mzl.la/sfxsocialmediatoolkit |
| Firefox 3.6.8 in almost 24 hours | John O’Duinn | FF3.6.8 | blog post | |
| Your Title Here | Your Name Here | What are you going to talk about? | Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen | Link to where audience can find out more information |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
- Announced Tab Candy on Friday. Over the weekend we had:
- 28 press articles, including dream headlines: “Firefox Just Perfected Tabs Browsing” from Techcrunch and “With FireFox’s Tab Candy Feature, We’ll Finally Achieve Tab Nirvana” from Gizmodo.
- 3 million views of the video, with half a million watching all the way through.
- Tens of thousands of tweets, with many saying they’ll never look at another browser again.
- 30k+ installs of the Tab Candy alpha build of Firefox.
- Hundreds of feature suggestions and votes for them, not all of which say Opera did it first.
- Dozens of direct emails, some of which expressing a desire to have babies with Firefox.
- The Tab Candy team (especially Ian Gilman, Edward Lee, and Mitcho Erlewine) deserve all the credit for pushing long and hard to get Tab Candy this far.
- Please do some dogfooding with our Tab Candy build.
- “Dirty” startup goal work underway with interesting results.
Platform
Messaging
- Raindrop is rebooting: the backend is being rewritten for simplicity and speed on top of SQLAlchemy & MySQL/sqlite
- related to Tb participation work, dmose held BOF at OSCON about community & contribution metrics, will blog soon
Mobile
IT
Last Week
- Working through Firefix Sync scaling issues
- Pre-planning for Amsterdam datacenter move (could happen as soon as Friday)
- Wrapped up long-delayed Firewall upgrades in San Jose
This Week
- Performance problems with the generic web server cluster this morning
- Affected
wiki.mozilla.orgas well as others
- Affected
Release Engineering
QA
- Desktop QA:
- 3.6.8 chemspill release testing. Shipped next day (Friday).
- 4.0beta2, ongoing testing. Should ship tomorrow.
- Browser Technologies QA:
- Fennec 2.0 features are landing and specs are getting assigned. looking to eta an alpha end of month
- Sync 1.4.2b1 tested and pushed to AMO
- Firefox Home 1.0.1 tested and submitted to App Store
- WebQA:
- Pushed AMO 5.11.4 on 7/13
- Shipped a new version of Input last week
- Pushed a small change to fix some galleries in Personas
- Released the 1.1 version of the plugin directory
- QA Services:
- Meetup next week in NYC: http://www.meetup.com/Mozilla-in-the-Big-Apple/calendar/14115600/ as part of BlogHer – all NYC community welcome to attend! As part of the action packed weekend there will also be a Drumbeat Festival in NYC on August 7
Automation & Tools
- Lots of things in progress:
- Android work finalizing apace
- Mozmill moving quickly toward 1.4.2
- Cycle collector talos runs in progress
- Cross weave full automation should be ready for production at the end of the week
- Held test day on grafx bot on Friday, submitted it to AMO.
- More info here.
Security
Engagement
PR
- Firefox Just Perfected Tabbed Browsing. It’s Like Apple’s Expose Plus Spaces For The Web
- Mozilla tames Firefox tab monster with Candy
- With Firefox’s Tab Candy Feature, We’ll Finally Achieve Tab Nirvana
- Firefox Offers a Taste of Tab Candy
- Tab Candy: Firefox Invents a Better Way to Manage Tabs [VIDEO
- Firefox 3.6.8 Released
- Mozilla delays second Firefox 4 beta
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8 Update Released
- Mozilla re-patches Firefox 3.6 to fix plug-in problem
Events
- Black Hat USA 2010 July 24-29, 2010; Las Vegas, NV – We will be hosting our “traditional” Mozilla milk & cookies party on 7/28. Check out the information on the wiki.
- GUADEC 2010 – July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands. We are sponsoring at the bronze level. No Mozilla talks scheduled.
- BlogHer ’10 – August 6-7, 2010 – We will be having a hotel suite and a presence in the GeekLab as well as a meetup on Thursday (open to non BlogHer folk) – sign up for the meetup here.
- Open Video Conference 2010 – October 1-2, 2010; New York, NY – Looking over sponsorship opportunities.
- Maker Faire Africa – August 27-28, 2010; Nairobi, Kenya – Looking into sponsorship opportunties.
- Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010 – September 11-12, 2010 – We will have a booth and be doing some innovative activities. Check out the wiki for more details Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
Creative Team
Community Marketing
- Community Marketing Call: Next call is Wednesday July 28th at 10 a.m. PST/17:00 UTC. Please send agenda items to mary at mozilla dot com.
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
- The L10n-drivers and Firefox Home team are finalizing a plan to localize the application. An announcement to the l10n newsgroup on instructions is forthcoming, hoping to post this week.
- Firefox 4 beta 2 will ship with 23 locales, some taking advantage of our “l10n-merge” technology.
- Firefox 4 beta web l10n work has been led by Pascal C. (Excellent work by Pascal) This tracking bug gives a good summary of the status of pages.
- KaiRo (Robert Kaiser) posted an explanation about the goals of the l20n project in the dev.platform newsgroup. Thanks, KaiRo!
- Congrats to the Malayalam localization for moving out of beta and into “official” status
- Oriya, es-CL, and es-MX will be next to de-beta
- L10n-drivers have a quarterly goal to reduce the number of locales in beta
- Several new locales are expected for Firefox 4 as the l10n-drivers team starts afresh with outreach to long-standing contributors trying to make it into an official release.
- Because of that, the team is refining the process by articulating more clearly what it takes to enter an official release, what is expected from both the l10n-drivers and the community proposing the new localization, and what are the consequences if all to-do items are not completed.
Introducing New Hires
- Laura Forrest