What’s Up with SUMO – 19th January 2017

Hello, SUMO Nation!

Welcome to the third post of the year, friends and revolutionaries :-) Time flies! We have a large set of updates to share with you, so let’s dig in without delay. As always, if you think we’re missing something in this post (or you’d like to see something mentioned in the future) use the comments section!

Welcome, new contributors!

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

Contributors of the week

All the forum supporters who tirelessly helped users over the last week.
All the writers of all languages who worked tirelessly on the KB over the last week.
Seburo for sharing his 2016 and 2017 perspectives with all of us – thanks!

We salute all of you!

SUMO Community meetings

LATEST ONE: 18th of January – you can read the notes here (and see the video at AirMozilla).
NEXT ONE: happening on the 25th of January!
Reminder – 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

IMPORTANT! The Internet Health Report (v 0.1) is out. Read it, please. Share it with others! Then, join the conversation about the health of the Internet. Mozilla hopes to hear your thoughts on the following:
- Are we asking the right questions?
- What related projects/research/experiences come to mind?
- Who is missing from this conversation?
- How might the format be improved?
Have you already seen the new “moz://a” logo?
Read Happy112’s idea for SUMO’s future. Join the conversation!
Share your ideas for SUMO gear for the All Hands in SFO!
Don’t forget about the Firefox subreddit (featuring Caspy)
Final reminder: What are the best and worst support experiences you have had? Share them with us in the Best Practices document.
Final reminder: If you are struggling with using Vidyo on Ubuntu, please contact Seburo – he may have found a solution for your pains.
Final reminder: Are you interested in working together on training for new contributors? Talk to Rachel!
Calendar time! January dates that you should remember:
- 24th – Firefox 51 release
- 25th-26th – SUMO Day & SUMO Social Day
- 28th – International Privacy Day
- 31st – planned platform migration day
- …any other dates you want us to keep in mind? Use the comments below!

Platform

Check the notes from the last meeting in this document. (and don’t forget about our meeting recordings).
The main points of today’s meeting were:
- The migration schedule has been updated. We are less than two weeks away from the migration!
- The 5th migration test has been completed. Please review the results on the migration test site.
- If you are using Kitsune’s API you should read this.
Reminder: You can preview the current migration test site here.
- If you can’t access the site, contact Madalina.
- Drop your feedback into the same feedback document as usual.
- We have a Bugzilla component for issues. You can see their list here and you can create new ones here – please do not assign them to anyone when you create them.
Reminder: The post-migration feature list can be found here.

Social

Urgent reminder! Army of Awesome is going away at the end of the month, please contact us if you are interested in Social Support.
Please also provide your feedback for 2016 in Social here.
Reminder: you can contact Sierra (sreed@), Elisabeth (ehull@), or Rachel (guigs@) to get started with Social support. Help us provide friendly help through the likes of @firefox, @firefox_es, @firefox_fr and @firefoxbrasil on Twitter and beyond :-)
Reminder: that you can subscribe to the social-support@ mailing list and get updates from Sierra!

Support Forum

Check out the new features on iOS for questions about mailto:// links!
SUMO day is next Friday, check out the new features coming in Firefox 51!
Check the meeting notes for useful phrases you may find good to use while in the daily chats.
You tell us! Shall we show a fun tip in Lithium, are there any questions on the training and things here? Your feedback welcome here.
Final reminder: Mark your calendars for SUMO day in January – preparations for swag are beginning, spread the word!
- Jan 24 – Release of Firefox 51 + a secret (?) bonus
- Jan 25-26 – SUMO Day and Social SUMO Day

Knowledge Base & L10n

Over 400 edits in the KB in all locales since the last blog post – thank you for making the Knowledge Base better, everyone!.
Jeff from the l10n team shared our “big cousin’s” plans for 2017 – read all about it here!
You can see the L10n migration bugs in progress and fixed here: (the list includes making sure localized content lands in the right language category – yay!)
We now have an “Other languages” component linking to existing locales. It can be seen on article pages in the side panel. We’re working to figure out the best way to make it easier for non-existing locales to be translated using the same (or similar) setup. Thanks for all your feedback on that!
Michal is taking a well-deserved break from making SUMO awesomer for Czech users. Thank you Mikk & good luck with your final educational stretch! In the meantime, Jiri is taking over the keys to the Czech part of the SUMO kingdom :-) Teamwork!

Firefox

for Android
- The forum thread for version 50 is here.
- 24th January 2017 keeps being the release date for Firefox 51 for Android.

for Desktop
- The forum thread for version 50 is here.
- The forum thread for version 51 is here.
- Final reminder: The Cliqz test pilot add-on experiment launched on the 11th, focused on Germany and the German results for now.

for iOS
- Version 6.0 was released on January 17th, including:
  - an update for mailto:// links.
  - something for developers – Swift 2.3!
- You can find the contributor forums for iOS here.
- Firefox Focus / Firefox Klar comes out next week! There will be a “Set your default search engine” article and an update to the existing article in the works.

…and that’s that for this week, dear people of SUMO (and not only). We hope you’ve had a good week so far and that the next seven days bring a lot of interesting, exciting, and inspiring moments. See you next week!