WeeklyUpdates/2011-03-21

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Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 21 March

Tuesday, 22 March

FIREFOX 4 LAUNCH DAY WOOT! Watch it live starting at 6:30 a.m. PDT on Air Mozilla. Please post questions to the launch team in #airmozilla on irc.mozilla.org or directly to @firefox with the hashtag #airmoz.

Wednesday, 23 March

Thursday, 24 March

Friday, 25 March

• [QA Testday]: Crowd Testing Firefox 4 Performance
• 12pm PDT: Brown bag talk by Lisa Crispin on Agile Testing in Ten-Forward. Will be streamed on air.mozilla.com.

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 4

• We're shipping it tomorrow.

Firefox 5+

• Check out the proposed post-Fx4 rapid release process
  • Comments go to dev-planning
  • We will talk about it more next Monday

Firefox 3.6 and 3.5

• Code freeze for blockers is this Thursday

Mobile Firefox

• RC1 soon

Thunderbird

• Miramar Alpha 3 released
• We need your help testing the GetAnAccount addon
  • It's also available for download bundled with Thunderbird 3.1.9

Drumbeat

• Drumbeat Beijing hackfest this week. March 23 - 25. Focused on citizen science.
• New communications assets for Open Badges project. User stories, one-pager (PDF) and napkin sketch.

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
Firefox Input for Fx4	Dave Dash	How pretty charts tell us how we're doing.	http://input.mozilla.com/ <-- I'm doing it live!	http://input.mozilla.com/
Firefox 4 Download Stats	Jeff Balogh/ Matt Claypotch	How pretty charts tell us how we're doing.	http://glow.allizom.org/	http://glow.allizom.org/ (will be glow.mozilla.org tomorrow!)
Support for Fx4	Cheng Wang	How you can help support Fx4		[1] Sign up here: [2]
Proposed post-Fx4 rapid release process	Christian Legnitto	Proposed post-Fx4 rapid release process		http://people.mozilla.com/~sayrer/2011/temp/process.html (comments go to dev-planning)

Status Updates By Team

Messaging

• Thunderbird Ubuntu unity launch integration work progressing; see the blog post for details.
• New release of Thunderbird Conversations

QA

Browser Technologies

• Firefox Mobile RC1 built and tested this week. See Testplan results
  • ETA release on 3/21 or 3/22
• Input 3.3 shipped

WebQA

• blog on selenium IDE
• Projects Shipping this week:
  • WoW Phase III 03/15 moved to 03/16 9:00 PDT [ttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640291 bug 640291]
  • AMO 6.0.1
  • SUMO move netaccess app to PHX [no release #]
  • Personas

Desktop Firefox

• Scrambled for respins of FF RC2 and 3.x releases to address hot issue.
• RC: Monday - We're going assess where we are at with regards to bugs and stability to come up with a ship date for final.

Automation & Tools

• Ted is fixing bug 641969
• Donating 7 machines from the automation and tools staging environment to Addons Testing Service.
• Web GL-enabled Grafx bot beta went well, should be landing in AMO this week, thanks for the testing!
• More notes are here

Engagement

PR

• firefox maker do not track likely to be regulated
• Firefox 4: New streamlined interface, 'app tabs

• Mozilla delivers first Firefox 4 release candidate

• Mozilla puts out a Firefox 4 release candidate

• New browsers offer tons of improvements

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

• Join us on Wednesday for Support Firefox Day!

Introducing New Hires

• David Bolter - Accessibility Engineering Manager (not new, but new role!)
• Lee Tom - Visual Designer (Engagement)
• Jake Maul - IT/System Ops