What’s Up with SUMO – 8th September

Hello, SUMO Nation!

September sun… Still hot! At least in some parts of the world. How are you doing? Are you missing summer holidays already? We surely are… But there’s loads to do before the end of this year, so let’s not delay and get cracking!

Welcome, new contributors!

• sakthi
• jdrewf

If you just joined us, don’t hesitate – come over and say “hi” in the forums!

SUMO Community meetings

• LATEST ONE: 7th of September- you can read the notes here and see the video at AirMozilla.
  
• NEXT ONE: happening on the 14th of September!
• If you want to add a discussion topic to the upcoming meeting agenda:
  • Start a thread in the Community Forums, so that everyone in the community can see what will be discussed and voice their opinion here before Wednesday (this will make it easier to have an efficient meeting).
  • Please do so as soon as you can before the meeting, so that people have time to read, think, and reply (and also add it to the agenda).
  • If you can, please attend the meeting in person (or via IRC), so we can follow up on your discussion topic during the meeting with your feedback.

Community

• LAST CALL! Is anyone going to the Participation Meeting in Berlin on 10th & 11th of September? Make yourselves known!
• Reminder: We need to be inspired by you! Share your favourite superhero with Rachel. We are looking for different heroes from all parts of the world.
• Reminder: MozFest is coming our way! London, October 28-30. Are you excited yet?
• Ongoing reminder #1: if you think you can benefit from getting a second-hand device to help you with contributing to SUMO, you know where to find us.
• Ongoing reminder #2: we are looking for more contributors to our blog. Do you write on the web about open source, communities, SUMO, Mozilla… and more? Do let us know!
• Ongoing reminder #3: want to know what’s going on with the Admins? Check this thread in the forum.

Platform

• PLATFORM REMINDER! The Platform Meetings are BACK! If you missed the previous ones, you can find the notes in this document. (here’s the channel you can subscribe to).
  • Last meeting includes a huge set of questions and answers from the 8th of September meeting – thanks to John99 for asking them!
  • Also… A complete and detailed breakdown of all the migration tasks – huge thanks to Madalina for managing the whole project with care.
• QUESTIONS? CONCERNS? Please take a look at this migration document and use this migration thread to put questions/comments about it for everyone to share and discuss. As much as possible, please try to keep the migration discussion and questions limited to those two places – we don’t want to chase ten different threads in too many different places.

Social

Support Forum

Knowledge Base & L10n

• We are 1 week before next release / 5 weeks after current release. What does that mean? (Reminder: we are following the process/schedule outlined here)
  
  • Only Joni or other admins can introduce and/or approve potential last minute changes of next release content; only Joni or other admins can set new content to RFL; localizers should focus on this content.
  • All other existing content is deprioritized, but can be edited and localized as usual.
  • The content to be localized with high priority can be found on this list.
• Pontoon / user interface reminder: please do not work on UI strings in Pontoon as we are moving to Lithium – work on localizing articles instead.
• Thanks to AliceWyman for her watchful eyes that helped us update this set of review guidelines and best practices.

Firefox

• for Android
  • Version 49 coming next week (tentatively on the 13th of September). Highlights include:
    
    • caching selected pages (e.g. mozilla.org) for offline retrieval
      
    • usual platform and bug fixes

• for Desktop
  • Version 49 coming next week (tentatively on the 13th of September) – read more about it in the release thread (thank you, Philipp!). Highlights include:
    • text-to-speech in Reader mode
    • ending support for older Mac OS versions
    • ending support for older CPUs
    • ending support for Firefox Hello
    • usual platform and bug fixes
  • There may be a possible delay to the release, as a number of last-minute fixes are being worked on.

• for iOS
  • Nothing new, steady as she goes, captain! ;-)
    

…and that’s it for today! If you need a bit less SUMO and a bit more fun, visit the Off Topic forums for some inspiration. We’ll see you around the helpful web, heroes and heroettes :-)