WeeklyUpdates/2010-12-06

From MozillaWiki

« previous week | index | next week »

Video for today’s meeting

<video controls=”controls”><source src=”http://videos.mozilla.org/serv/air_mozilla/monday_meetings/status-2010-12-06.ogg” type=”video/ogg; codecs=”theora, vorbis””/></video>

Friends of the Tree

• Henrik Skupin nominates B.J. Herbison, Aleksej, Tobbi, variable, and auscompgeek, who helped us running a successful Add-ons Manager test day last Friday.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 6 December

Tuesday, 7 December

Wednesday, 8 December:

• Add-On Con and Add-On Con Social Event (Computer History Museum)
• Sign Up for Add-On Con and Add-on Con Social Event

Thursday, 9 December: 

• Add-On Con (Computer History Museum)

Friday, 10 December

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 4

• Beta 8 is holding for JPAKE work
• 16 blockers, will likely be down to ~10 EOD

Firefox 3.6 and 3.5

• Created 3.6.13 build #3 due to a regression on Friday
• Released 3.6.13 build #3 to the beta audience this morning
• Still intend to release 3.6.13 and 3.5.16 on Thursday, December 9th

Mobile Firefox

• Beta 3 holding for JPAKE work
• Beta 4 work is underway

Thunderbird

• 3.1.7 and 3.0.11 beta releases live, final targeted for Wednesday, Dec 9th.

Drumbeat

• School of Webcraft: January semester call for courses now open
  • Propose your course ideas here

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
MPL B1 Released!	Luis Villa	MPL Beta 1.	http://mpl.mozilla.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/MPL-beta-one.pdf	http://mpl.mozilla.org/

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

• New version of F1 coming this week: Google Apps, Yahoo support, & a keybinding
• bwinton has started iterating on some review & commit checklists, probably useful to both Firefox & Thunderbird developers

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

• win7 debug unit tests have been enabled
  • Win7 debug unit tests showing up on tbpl

QA

QA Org Highlights

• Desktop Firefox
  • Still waiting for Beta8 builds to land. Should be this week.
• Browser Technologies
  • Awaiting Fennec beta 3 to land. This week.
  • Awaiting Firefox 1.1 final to land. This week.
  • Jetpack 1.0b1 release 12/7
• Web QA
  • SUMO KB 2.3 release 11/30
  • Shipped Mobile Add-ons Cup
  • Shipped Red Panda / Firefox Live
• QA Services
  • Community
    • Meetup in Munich to introduce Gary Kovacs to the community was a big success. Thanks to Tomcat for arranging this.
    • A successful Add-ons Manager test day was held last Friday.

Automation & Tools

• First results from Addons performance testing are landing in AMO Db via the changes to Buildbot and Graph Server – huge milestone for that team
• Nightly Tester Tools Version 3.0 is released!
• Bughunter crash reproduction system running, sent list of reproduced crashes to developers
• More information here

Security

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla adopts two Firefox cubs
• Mozilla adopts two real-life baby firefoxes
• Firefox Launches Cub Cam
• Cutest marketing tactic ever: Mozilla Firefox streams round-the-clock videos of baby firefoxes
• Firefox Debuts Baby Firefox Webcam

• Open This Story in a New Tab

Events

• Add-On Con and Add-On Con Social Event (Computer History Museum)
  
• Sign Up for Add-On Con and Add-on Con Social Event

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

• What’s up with SUMO? – Nov. 30
  

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

Foundation Updates

Roundtable