WeeklyUpdates/2011-05-23
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Video for today’s meeting
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Friends of the Tree
- Gaby and Aleksej for contributing and demonstrating their eagerness to test out the mobile Firefox beta during the testday last Friday. – (Aaron)
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 23 May
Tuesday, 24 May
- [WebQA] – WebQA Automation Test Day
Wednesday, 25 May
- Community Engagement Call, 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391# You can also join us on Air Mozilla and via irc in #mozillians or #marketing. Agenda can be found here.
- MDN Community meeting, 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET, in #devmo on irc.mozilla.org. Agenda/notes
Thursday, 26 May
- Contribute group meeting at 10 PDT — forum to discuss ideas about how to help people get involved with Mozilla
Friday, 27 May
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox 6
- Tuesday, May 24th (TOMORROW) is the mozilla-central → mozilla-aurora source migration
- To make sure your fixes make the cut they need to be in the tree by 11:59 pm PDT
- There will be blog posts and comments in #developers announcing when the merge is starting and ending so fixes can be targeted for the proper version
- There will be a Mercurial “war room” tomorrow, as the source migration may be more complicated. Time TBD (most likely 10:00 am PDT)
- Please note the difference between source migration and updates being offered
Firefox 5
- Offered to the existing Firefox 4 beta audience on Friday (throttled)
- Will unthrottle this week
Firefox 4
Mobile Firefox
- Shipped Firefox 5 Beta 2 last week (same time as desktop) – rel notes
- Two important bug fixes may go into next Fx5 beta
- Upcoming features and releases: see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Mobile and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Flight_Tracking#Mobile
Thunderbird
- Tuesday, May 24th: Central -> Aurora merge for TB 6
- Wednesday May 25th: L10n freeze for TB 6
- Wednesday May 25th: start of TB 5 beta, build 1
Older Branch Work
Drumbeat
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 |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
- Test Execution
- Fennec
- Shipped Fennec 5 to Beta Channel
- Already known blockers needed to land in next beta
- bug 655864 – Aurora: password field is not masked immediately and shows artifacts, when typing past the end of the field
- bug 655852 – Typing past the boundaries of the textbox will start clearing the beginning characters, instead of scrolling
- Testplan for Fennec 6 is up
- Aurora merge scheduled for 5/24.
- Services
- Scheduled to deploy Python Sreg/reg server today. bug 654148
- Sync Discovery feature is at-risk for aurora. bug 618913
- ID, Share projects on hold for services work
- WebQA
- AMO 6.0.10 on 5/18 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657459
- Input 3.5 on 5/16
- Mozilla.com 2.5 on 5/17
- SUMO 3.8.3 on 5/17
- QA Community
- Test Dev
Automation & Tools
- Working on moving tests into the chrome harness in the ongoing effort to get rid of enablePrivilege
- We need some help solving some toolkit event tests – see jmaher and bug 508710
- Improved Performance on the War On Orange site
- Talos with Xperf is going into staging this week
- More notes here
Security
Engagement
PR
- 10 New Firefox 5 Features You Should Be Excited About
- Mozilla delivers Firefox 5 beta on schedule
- Firefox 5 beta lands right on schedule
- Firefox 5 beta starts rapid release cycle for Mozilla
- What’s Inside Mozilla’s Firefox 5 Beta
Events
Creative Team
Contributor Engagement
- Check out our updates in yummy HTML: Week of May 16.
- Last week’s about:mozilla newsletter. Please send story ideas, events and tips to about-mozilla[at]mozilla.com.
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
Introducing New Hires
We have 10 new (some of them are actually not that new to Mozilla) interns joining us this week:
John Kerahalis — Dev. Engagement
Eshwaran Kumar — Research
Vitor Menezes — Platform (Layout)
Brinda Gupta — SUMO
Sully (Michael Sullivan) — Research, past JS intern (2009)
Sam Liu — Automation/Tools
Josh Cranmer — Platform (dxr project)
Rezwana Karim — Research
Paul Sawaya — Services
Ryan Pearl — Platform (JS)
Ian Melven — Product Security
Total number of interns so far: 31. We’re still 24 interns short to complete the program!
Joey Armstrong – Snr Release Engineer (not an intern!) 1797 makefiles and where does the time go when you build?