WeeklyUpdates/2010-09-27
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Video for today’s meeting
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Friends of the Tree
- nominating Margaret Leibovic and Philipp von Weitershausen for climbing the learning curve in writing localization-friendly code with their b7 blockers (Axel).
- nominating Aleksej, Daniel, db48xOther, dickey, Fry-kun, gaby2300, Jan, kbrosnan, Mathnerd314 for contributing test cases as part of the multiple bugdays during the recent QA work week [ashughes]
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 27 September
Tuesday, 28 September
- Coffee/Brown Bag with Chris Jay Hoofnagle re Users’ Views and Expectations on Privacy and Privacy Settings (10 Forward and Air Mozilla)–be there or be square! Contact Julie Martin if you have any questions.
Wednesday, 29 September
- We host the jQuery Mobile project team meeting in R2D2/C3PO. Swing by if you want to see what they are up to.
Thursday, 30 September
Friday, 1 October
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox 4
- Code freeze for Beta 7 marches on! Another bunch of big changes have landed:
- 64-bit builds for OSX
- GC Compartments (tracemonkey only right now)
- there are 30 blockers left which we hope to close out in the next couple of days
- The tree remains closed to all other bugs until we hit this milestone
Firefox 3.6 and 3.5
- Code freeze for 3.6.11 and 3.5.14 is tomorrow, 2010-09-28 @ 11:59 pm PDT
- Please email Christian if you have a blocker that won’t be done by that time
- Post-mortem for 3.6.9/10 will be held on Thursday (see the wiki page for details)
Mobile Firefox
- Beta one is close!
- Please help test builds
Thunderbird
- Thunderbird trunk
- add-ons manager has been brought back to life in a tab
- now based on libxul
- Account provisioning work continues
Drumbeat
- Update on Transmediale Open Web Award Finalists – Henrik Moltke (present)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game On 2010 | Pascal Finette | Mozilla Labs’ “Game On 2010” Open Web games competition update | tbd | http://gaming.mozillalabs.com |
| Seabird Concept Phone | Pascal Finette | Some background on the Concept Series Seabird mobile phone concept | http://mozillalabs.com/seabird | http://mozillalabs.com/seabird |
| One Mozilla Domain Name Strategy | David Boswell | Proposal for a coherent domain name plan | Proposal | Governance thread |
| Change to OSX universal builds | John O’Duinn | blog post |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
- QA Org Highlights
- Q4 Goals locked and loaded!
- WebQA
- AMO 5.12 is currently planned to go out on 09/28
- Certify/ship Input 1.8
- Browser Technologies
- Tested and shipped Jetpack 0.8
- Desktop Firefox
- Fx 4 Beta 7: Code freeze delay. Holding pattern for test execution.
- Community
- Testday for recent Sync changes last Friday with 13 bugs filed.
Automation & Tools
- Temporary android automation running, continuing to work on final automation with Bear and Aki.
- Android Talos is running within the buildbot framework
- Started War On Orange discussions with Metrics team and RelEng for a Hadoop centric build/test log storage
- Have Mozmill testing ready for production on buildbot for Mac and Linux, working through the last issues with Windows – bug 516984
- More information is always on our page
Security
Engagement
PR
- Mozilla dreams up conceptual Seabird phone
- Mozilla Seabird Concept Phone Boasts Projector, Wireless Charging (VIDEO)
- Forget Facebook: I Want a Mozilla Seabird Phone
- Mozilla updates Firefox Home for iPhone, iPod touch
- Firefox Home for IPhone Adds URL Field, More
- Mozilla Launches New Version of Firefox Home iPhone App
Participation
- Help us improve our participation channels by filling out short surveys if you are:
- A student rep.
- Have a website badge (Affiliate)
- Follow us on Twitter
- Are a member of the Firefox Facebook page.
Events
Creative Team
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
Introducing New Hires
- Jason Grlicky, Webdev