WeeklyUpdates/2011-06-06

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Video for today’s meeting

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Friends of the Tree

• Alex Rodionov for his contributions to WebQA Automation from the test day and on going!

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 6 June

• MDN documentation sprint through Wednesday

Tuesday, 7 June

Wednesday, 8 June

• 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.

Thursday, 9 June

• Contribute Group at 10 AM PDT — forum for discussing helping people get involved with Mozilla

Friday, 10 June

• Developer Tools Testday – QA

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Future (5, 6, 7)

• Firefox 5 is getting very close
  • If we’re shipping Jun 21, then we need to be making that call this week
  • Watching addon compat closely
  • Likewise reports from our 1M+ beta users

• Firefox 6 moving through Aurora now, a few backouts but mostly we just need more people on Aurora – tell your friends!

• 4 weeks left on the Firefox 7 train!

Remember to watch the Channels Blog for updates on the process.

Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0)

• Firefox 3.6.18 code freeze is targeted for today
• Nag emails went out Friday to bugzilla email accounts
• Still have too many open blockers…if you have a bug in the open blocker list, please land ASAP

Mobile Firefox

Thunderbird

• Thunderbird 5 Beta shipped last week!

Older Branch Work

Drumbeat

• No voice update this week.
  • Successful Hackasaurus TEDx Kids event in Brussels last week. 60 10-year-olds learning HTML and webmaking. (Blog post coming this aft.)

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

• Fx5 Beta 4 Testing: Sign-off ETA, Monday.
• Developer Tools Testday: Friday, June 10.
• Fennec 5 Beta 4 Testing. bug 656782 is the main fix
• Python ap/sreg/reg server went live

WebQA

QA Community

Test Dev

Friends of QA

• New tool Stack-blame to help analyze crash regressions (Jesse)
• Updated Bug writing guidelines (Jesse)
• The guided bug reporting form is about to be simplified (screenshots) (Gerv, glob)

Automation & Tools

• Continuing with special powers work – wrote a mini-specialpowers plugin to replace the enable privilege calls in our PGO profiler test
• Bug Hunter UI starting in earnest, now that the migration to a MySQL backed database is complete – throughput is unchanged, still finding crashes
• Some visual enhancements landed to the War on Orange Site
  • Working on new APIs to determine orange history for a specific failure (bug 661372) and another to investigate correlations between instances of orange occurrence.
• More notes here

Security

Past

• Reviewed / Triaged 14 items for FX5

Current

• 34 items “in flight” for FX6 / FX7
  • 21 items already completed

Reminder: Please engage the security team (Curtis Koenig [curtisk] specifically) so that security discussions can occur at appropriate times for features and patches. Engaging the security team early on can help us ensure that we are landing things with high quality as quickly as possible. Patch reviewers / landers should also please engage the team when security could be at issue even if the chance of problems are remote.

More Information

• Security Review Information
• Security Radar

Engagement

• Launch of Mark Up is scheduled for June 8th, 9 am PST.
  • See the staged site here: https://markup.allizom.org
    • Username : markup Password : cho9Oh

Contributor Engagement

• Last update can be seen in video here.
• REMO:
  • Sign ups have relaunched.
  • 50+ applicants being mentored so far
  • aiming for 100 Mozilla reps signed up by end of June
  • ReMo council workshop set for July 8-11 to plan for phase 2

Communications

• Innovation: Johnathan Nightingale Talks Mozilla

• Ready for Firefox 6? Here’s What’s on the Way
• Firefox nudges Aurora to version 6

• NVIDIA Brings 3D Vision to YouTube Videos Using Firefox Web Browser

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Developer Tools

• Developer Tools Testday: Friday, June 10.

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

• Ali Juma, for Platform/Gfx
• JB Piacentino, Managing Director for Thunderbird
• Eddy Bruël, Software Engineer for Jetpack
• Matteo Ferretti, Software Engineer for Jetpack
• Maya Barrow, Executive Assistant to Jim Cook & Debbie Cohen
• Mihca Degele, People Partner
• Kimber Schlegelmilch — College Recruiting Coordinator
• Rob Hawkes, Developer Evangelist
• Michael Kelly, Web Developer

Interns from last week (5/31)

• Andrew Scheff — Platform (JS team)
• Arzhel Younsi — returning intern (IT)
• Diyang Tang — Metrics/Data Analysis
• Riccardo Pelizzi — Security
• Lilian Weng — User Research (Test Pilot)
• Josh Matthews – Platform (returning intern, all-about awesome)

Interns who started today

• Sinchan Banerjee — UX
• Jezreel Ng — Firefox
• Haoqi Li — Web Security

Foundation Updates

Roundtable