WeeklyUpdates/2010-06-28
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Friends of the Tree
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 28 June
Tuesday, 29 June
Wednesday, 30 June
- Brownbag @ 1pm : MDN Roadmap
- Learn more about the Mozilla Developer Network
- Website update and development plan
- Upcoming programs
- Info on Summit session
- Learn more about the Mozilla Developer Network
- Developer Event: Mozilla Add-ons Workshop London
Thursday, 1 July
Friday, 2 July
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox 4
Beta coming soon – working out some theme bugs on Windows.
Firefox 3.6
- Firefox 3.6.4
- Went out last Tuesday, yay!
- Too early for metrics yet (and we have been messing with throttling). OOPP looks good so far though
- Firefox 3.6.6 (where’s 3.6.5?)
- Quick chemspill release to increase the OOPP hang detector timeout (ONLY bug 574905)
- Created late Friday night, went out Saturday
- Thanks to everyone that gave up 1/2 their weekend
- Firefox 3.6.7
- Any 1.9.2.6 approvals are now implicitly for 1.9.2.7
- Codefreeze was Friday
- Still have too many open blockers (12 for 3.6.7 and 8 for 3.5.11)
- Most are security fixes with trunk patches, we need to fix them on branches as we are exposing users, especially before BlackHat (end of July)
- Only taking blockers at this time, and we need to get them all in TODAY
Mobile Firefox
Thunderbird
Older Branch Work
- Firefox 3.5.11
- Release is tied to 3.6.7, Codefreeze was Friday
- Still have too many open blockers (8 security bugs for 3.5.11)
- Most are security fixes with trunk patches, we need to fix them on branches as we are exposing users, especially before BlackHat (end of July)
- Only taking blockers at this time, and we need to get them all in TODAY
- Firefox 3.0.x
- RelEng has shut down the 3.0 build machines, so we can no longer do an update for 3.0 users easily
- We will be doing an advertised update (the pop-up window) to 3.6.6 for users shortly (we have done previous versions already to get people to move off 3.0)
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 Summit Social Scheduler Thingy | Atul Varma | A nifty social app for learning about Summit attendees and seeing what schedules they’ll attend. | The App | The App |
| Bugzilla Awesome Interface Thingy | Aza Raskin | An app to make Bugzilla beautiful and easy to use. | The App | Bugzilla Helper and Better Bug View |
| Powering off TB2 machines | John O’Duinn | bug#574901 |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
See above!
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
- Releases:
- Firefox 3.5.10/3.6.4
- Firefox 3.6.6 chemspill (awesome quick turnaround)
- Fennec 1.1rc1
- turning off Thunderbird 2.0 machines – YAY!
- Windows 7 unit tests enabled last weeks
- It will take several weeks to make all test suites green
QA
- QA Highlights
- General
- Completed QA org goals for Q3
- Desktop Firefox
- Fx Input is live at input.mozilla.com!
- Testpilot studies landed within the feedback extention for beta program
- 3.6.4: Shipped on Tuesday
- 3.6.6 chem-spill farmville issue shipped over the weekend.
- Fx Input is live at input.mozilla.com!
- Browser Technologies
- Testing Firefox home RC1, scheduled to ship this next week
- Jetpack SDK 0.5 shipped
- Web QA
- AMO 5.11.3 testing is in progress
- Student Reps
- QA Services
- Community
- Start planing for QMO 2.1 and 3.0
- A11Y
- My article on how to test websites with NVDA has been published in the 6th issue of the German Webstandards-Magazin, and the printed issue arrived on Wednesday. This will give NVDA some greater exposure to web devs in Germany. Mozilla is a recognized funder of the NVDA project.
- Wrote a blog post regarding Apple iOS 4 and their support for WAI-ARIA landmarks. Mozilla was one of the driving forces behind innovating and implementing these in the WAI-ARIA spec, and Apple are the first to release an accessible mobile phone with support for these landmarks.
- Community
Automation & Tools
- Landed Mochitest E10S support bug 567417
- Landed changes for Talos to measure add-on performance – bug 559929
- Continuing to run specialized one-off runs for AMO team (working toward making this into a self-serve utility)
- Have native events working with mouse events on linux.
- And as always more information here
Security
Engagement
PR
- Firefox 3.6.4 Addresses Plugin Issues
- Firefox 3.6.6 Released To Fix Crash Protection On Old Computers
- Mozilla updates Firefox to crush Farmville complaints
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 here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Black_Hat_2010
- FISL 2010 July 21-24, 2010; Porto Alegre, Brasil – We are looking into having a Mozilla room, talks and other activities. Follow progress on the wiki page.
- GUADEC 2010 – July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands. We are sponsoring at the bronze level. No Mozilla talks scheduled.
- Open Video Conference 2010 – October 1-2, 2010; New York, NY – Looking over sponsorship opportunities.
- BlogHer ’10 – August 6-7, 2010 – Looking into sponsorship opportunities – we will be having a hotel suite and a presence in the GeekLab. More details soon!
- 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.
- London Add-ons Challenge (name TBC): Exploring two consumer-focused events in SF & London.
Creative Team
Community Marketing
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
- The Bespin 0.8 blog post went up on Tuesday of last week and has the details of this major Bespin release.