WeeklyUpdates/2010-10-11
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Video for today’s meeting
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Friends of the Tree
Contributors who made the MDN documentation sprint this weekend a great success:
- Florian Scholz (Elchi3)
- Jean-Yves Perrier (teoli)
- Sebastian Perez Vasseur
- David Bruant
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 11 October
Tuesday, 12 October
Wednesday, 13 October
- Brownbag: Web Developers & the Open Web Survey Results
- 1:00 pm PST in Ten Forward and on Air Mozilla
- Jay Patel & Joan Green will present the findings from our most recent MDN developer survey
Thursday, 14 October
Friday, 15 October
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox 4
- Code freeze for Beta 7 marches on!
- There are 14 blockers left which we hope to close out in the next couple of days
- We created a relbranch for 4.0b7 to unblock mozilla-central work
- Checkins are metered while dealing with the backlog
- b7 blockers should be landed both on the relbranch and the default branch
Firefox 3.6 & 3.5
- Released to beta last week
- We will be respinning 3.6.11 for bug 601440
- This puts the Thursday release date at risk. If we need to, we’ll push to to next Tuesday (2010-10-19)
Mobile Firefox
- Firefox 4 Beta 1 for Android and Maemo shipped
- Beta 2 code freeze is October 19 (next Tuesday)
- Firefox Home 1.0.3 is now in the app store
Thunderbird
- 3.0 end-of-life plan posted to tb-planning
- 3.1.5 / 3.0.9 watching one issue (bug 601440), otherwise ok for release
- Contributor survey has generated good feedback, we will be accepting responses through end of day this Sunday, October 18th.
Older Branch Work
Drumbeat
- No update from Drumbeat this week — Canadians are eating turkey and giving thanks.
- Next week: doubly awesome update on School of Webcraft Toolshed at the Drumbeat Festival
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
Castro Downtime Part Deux: Electric Boogaloo | Ravi Pina | Upcoming downtime for Castro office (Wkend of 10/16) | ||
Army of Awesome | William Reynolds | Help other Firefox users on Twitter & point them in the right direction | Slides (runs best in Fx 4 beta) | Army of Awesome page |
Weekly Meeting HTML Slideshow Thingy | Atul Varma | Making Weekly Meeting Information More Ambient and Digestable | The Slideshow (super-fast version) | Github Project Page |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
- Spun off
versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org
&services.addons.mozilla.org
from the original Zeus cluster to a dedicated AMO Zeus cluster - Wrapping up Mac Mini move to Santa Clara data center
Release Engineering
QA
- QA Org Highlights
- WebQA
- shipped Firefox mobile pages
- Browser Technologies
- Shipped Fennec2.0/Firefox Mobile 4.0 Beta
- Desktop Firefox
- Fx 4 Beta 7: Code freeze delay. Holding pattern for test execution.
Automation & Tools
- Brasstacks server performance upgraded!
- Log Parsers for War on Orange delivered to metrics, working on storing data
- Experimenting with statistical views of orange data
- Working toward a 1.5.1 Mozmill release this week to fix issues surrounding running in buildbot environment
- More information here
Security
Engagement
PR
- Citing relevance, Mozilla to include Bing in Firefox 4 search box
- Firefox 4 getting Bing search option
- Firefox reshuffles default search engines, but Google and Yahoo! still top the list
- Mozilla releases Firefox 4 beta for Maemo and Android
- Firefox 4 Beta for Mobile Is Here
- Firefox for Android now available as Beta
- Firefox 4 for Android Greeted With Cheers and Jeers
- Android tablets, smartphones: Mozilla Firefox’s best shot at mobile relevance
Participation
- Participation page is live! Please promote the page + share with people looking to spread Firefox.
- The Army of Awesome is live as well!
- Go to the Army of Awesome page to try it out. Sending replies to users’ tweets takes only a few moments and goes a long way toward helping others have a better Web experience.
Creative Team
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
Introducing New Hires
- Kumar McMillan – Add-ons Webdev
- Richard Newman – services
- Will Bamberg – Jetpack docs