Hello, SUMO Nation!
We had a bit of a delay with the release of the 49th version of Firefox this week… but for good reasons! The release is coming next week – but our latest news are coming right here, right now. Dig in!
Welcome, new contributors!
If you just joined us, don’t hesitate – come over and say “hi” in the forums!
SUMO Community meetings
- LATEST ONE: 14th of September- you can read the notes here and see the video at AirMozilla.
- NEXT ONE: happening on the 21st 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
- Final 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).
- We have a first version of working {for} implementation on the staging site for the Lithium migration – thanks to Tyson from the Lithium team.
- Some of the admins will be meeting with members of the Lithium team in two weeks to work face-to-face on the migration.
- More questions from John99 and answers from our team – do check the document linked above for more details.
- If you are interested in test-driving the new platform now, please contact Madalina.
- IMPORTANT: the whole place is a work in progress, and a ton of the final content, assets, and configurations (e.g. layout pieces) are missing.
- 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
- SUMO Day coming up next week! (For real, this time – unless we have to move the release day again…)
- Welcome to our Social Superheroes from Brazil!
- Want to join us? Please email Rachel and/or Madalina to get started supporting Mozilla’s product users on Facebook and Twitter. We need your help! Use the step-by-step guide here. Take a look at some useful videos:
Support Forum
- SUMO Day coming up next week! (As mentioned above).
- The Norton startup crash for version 49 is still waiting for a fix from Symantec – if that doesn’t happen, expect a few questions in the forums about that.
- A vulnerability was found in the Flash player last week – if you’re using it, please update it as soon as you can to the latest version!
Knowledge Base & L10n
- We are (still) 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.
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- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/hello-status/translate
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/firefox-reader-view-clutter-free-web-pages/translate
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/html5-audio-and-video-firefox/translate
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/your-hardware-no-longer-supported/translate
Firefox
- for Android
- To repeat what you’ve heard last week (because it’s still true!): version is 49 coming next week. Highlights include:
- usual platform and bug fixes
- To repeat what you’ve heard last week (because it’s still true!): version is 49 coming next week. Highlights include:
- for Desktop
- You’ve heard it before, you’ll hear it again: version 49 is coming next week – 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
- You’ve heard it before, you’ll hear it again: version 49 is coming next week – read more about it in the release thread (thank you, Philipp!). Highlights include:
OK, I admit it, I’m not very good at making hardware jokes. I’m sorry! I guess you’ll have to find better jokes somewhere on the internet – do you have any interesting places that provide you with fun online? Tell us in the comments – and see you all next week!