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== Firefox == | == Firefox == | ||
( [[Firefox/Projects|Projects]] | [http://planet.firefox.com/ Status] | [[Firefox/Goals|Goals]] | [[Firefox/whois|People]] ) | |||
'''[[Firefox/Namoroka|Namoroka]]''' | '''[[Firefox/Namoroka|Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka)]]''' | ||
* The new Troubleshooting Information (about:support) page landed on trunk and branch ({{bug|367596}}) | |||
* [[Firefox/Projects/Personas_Uplift_Exploration|Lightweight theme support has landed]] (aka: native Personas) through presently the gallery at getpersonas.com doesn't recognize the native client support | |||
* we have [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL%20flag%3Ablocking-firefox3.6%2B%2Cblocking1.9.2%2B%20product%3AFirefox%2CToolkit%2CNSS%2CNSPR%20-status1.9.2:fixed 27 front end blockers] to knock down, 7 of which to complete before beta | |||
* a beta schedule should be available by tomorrow's development meeting | |||
'''Firefox Future''' | |||
* ongoing theme development work for Firefox 3.7 and 4.0, discussions in dev-apps-firefox | |||
* targetting find-tab-in-awesomebar for Firefox 3.7 | |||
'''Team News''' | '''Team News''' | ||
* We reviewed the past quarter, and felt like we did well as a team despite not making as much progress on startup time as we'd hoped. Comments welcome! | |||
* Firefox's [[Firefox/Goals/2009Q4|team goals for Q4]] have been set with a focus on ensuring a stable, high quality Firefox 3.6 product is shipped and looking towards the future with work on Firefox 3.7 and Electrolysis. | |||
== Gecko == | == Gecko == | ||
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== Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x == | == Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x == | ||
* '''[[Releases/Firefox 3.0.15|Firefox 3.0.15]]''' / '''[[Releases/Firefox 3.5.4|Firefox 3.5.4]]''' | * '''[[Releases/Firefox 3.0.15|Firefox 3.0.15]]''' / '''[[Releases/Firefox 3.5.4|Firefox 3.5.4]]''' | ||
** mostly on track for October 21 releases | |||
** need to take at least two more fixes before starting builds | |||
** ETA for "go to build" tomorrow morning, possibly not until Wednesday | |||
* '''[[Releases/ | * '''[[Releases/Firefox 3.0.16|Firefox 3.0.16]]''' / '''[[Releases/Firefox 3.5.5|Firefox 3.5.5]]''' | ||
** branches open for check-ins later this week -- work on your patches and approval requests now! | |||
== Thunderbird == | == Thunderbird == | ||
* Shipped 3.0b4 | * Shipped 3.0b4 | ||
* Hard at work on patches for the 3.0 string freeze, which is tomorrow (Tuesday, September 29, 23:59 Pacific) | * Hard at work on patches for the 3.0 string freeze, which is tomorrow (Tuesday, September 29, 23:59 Pacific) | ||
* Please help by testing [ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/ nightly builds] and providing constructive feedback and filing bugs! | |||
== SeaMonkey == | == SeaMonkey == | ||
== Mobile == | == Mobile == | ||
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Notes Mobile team's notes] | |||
== IT == | == IT == | ||
'''Last Week''' | |||
* [http://blog.mozilla.com/mrz/2009/09/25/where-in-the-world-is-amo-part-vi-we-did-it-again/ Secret Singapore Project] | |||
** Now serving [https://addons.mozilla.org/ addons.mozilla.org]! | |||
** Dropped avg. global page load times on AMO. | |||
== Release Engineering == | == Release Engineering == | ||
* turned off build-and-unittests | |||
** Now running unittests separately from builds. | |||
** Unittests still visible on tinderboxpushlog and tinderbox on *-Unittests | |||
** last step in separate unittests from builds | |||
** now have unittests for optimized and debug builds | |||
** easier to rerun tests on a given build; job on weekends to rerun tests 'n' times in a row. | |||
== QA == | == QA == | ||
This was a big week for goals. Reviewed [http://blog.mozilla.com/tim/2009/07/22/4/ Q3 top level goals] along with completed first draft of Q4 top level goals (to be posted soon). | |||
'''Test Execution''' | '''Test Execution''' | ||
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== Security == | == Security == | ||
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493857 Content Security Policy] implementation is nearly complete | |||
* [https://build.mozilla.org/tryserver-builds/bsterne@mozilla.com-1253920027/ Tryserver preview builds] are available for testing | |||
== Marketing/PR == | == Marketing/PR == | ||
'''PR''' | '''PR''' | ||
* EC developments around ballot [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125390358526341705.html screen] [http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/180305.asp?from=blog_last3 in] [http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=00FE61EC-1A64-6A71-CE7CC260BD0CF6A2 the] [http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/09/28/technology/tech-us-opera-microsoft.html press] | |||
* Privacy feature in [http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Whos-Watching-You-Browse-68226.html?wlc=1254160029 TechNewsWorld] | |||
* Thunderbird 3 beta 4 [http://stuff.techwhack.com/7459-mozilla-thunderbird-3-beta-4 released], [http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/09/23/mozilla-releases-thunderbird-3-beta-4/ Download Squad], [http://lifehacker.com/5365214/thunderbird-3-beta-4-available-for-download Lifehacker] and [http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/09/hands-on-thunderbird-3-beta-4-hatches-with-improved-search.ars Ars Technica] | |||
* Fx 3.7 designs in [http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/24/new-firefox-3-7-design-suggestions-posted/ Ghacks], [http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-3-7-Changes-Looks-for-Windows-7-and-Vista-122537.shtml Softpedia] and [http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138395/Mozilla_plans_to_ribbonize_Firefox Computerworld] | |||
* Best Fx Add-ons in [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2353223,00.asp PC Mag] | |||
'''Mozilla Service Week''' | '''Mozilla Service Week''' | ||
*Please share your "Stories" for our round up next week. Post on [http://mozillaservice.org/tell_us/your_stories/en_US Mozillaservice.org] or email mary @ mozilla dot com. | |||
*Total pledge hours: Over 13,000 | |||
*Reported hours to-date: 7,177 | |||
**Please submit your hours and get your certificate! | |||
'''Events''' | '''Events''' | ||
'''Community''' | *[http://www.openwebcampsv.org/ '''OpenWebCamp Silicon Valley'''] September 26, 2009, Stanford, CA - We sponsored this event and had a few MoCo employees in attendance at the event. | ||
*[http://www.svgopen.org/2009/ '''Scalable Vector Graphics Open 2009'''] October 2 - 4, 2009, Mountain View CA. We are sponsoring this event - there will also be a few MoCo employees in attendance. | |||
*[[JRSL Chile|'''Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre en Chile''']]October 7 - 9, 2009, Santiago, Chile - Sponsoring event and bringing together the Mozilla Hispanic Community. + 2 day MozCamp Prior. It's almost here! We have a [https://wiki.mozilla.org/JRSL_Chile#MozCamp_Chile schedule for MozCamp Chile] and the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/JRSL_Chile#Schedule_2 schedule for JRSL]. At JRSL Seth and Chofman will both be keynoting in addition to 4 other MoCo talks throughout Wednesday - Friday. Please check out the wiki to see all of the work that has gone into making these events a reality - [https://wiki.mozilla.org/JRSL_Chile https://wiki.mozilla.org/JRSL_Chile] | |||
*[http://www.philippineblogawards.com.ph/ '''Philippine Blog Awards'''] October 9, 2009 in Luzon, Philippines - Sponsoring this even in order to continue to build the Philippiine community and Tagalog locale. | |||
*[http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2009/ '''Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS)'''] October 29 - 30, 2009 Toronto, Canada. We are sponsoring this event. We currently have representation from both Mozilla Foundation and Corporation speaking. | |||
*[http://addoncon.com/ '''Add-on-Con'''] December 2009, Mountain View, CA. We are sponsoring this event and starting to build sessions around the event theme. | |||
'''Mozilla.com''' | <br> '''Community''' | ||
*Next community marketing call is on Oct. 7th at 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC | |||
**Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391# | |||
**Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. If you're outside the US, use Skype to call in with our toll-free number. | |||
**You can also watch the meeting live in Open Video at air mozilla | |||
**For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on IRC (irc.mozilla.org). | |||
<br> '''Mozilla.com''' | |||
*Plan for the 3.6 version of the site is up: [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.6/WebsitePlan check it out] | *Plan for the 3.6 version of the site is up: [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.6/WebsitePlan check it out] | ||
== Support == | == Support == | ||
* Released SUMO 1.4.0.1 and [http://mobile.support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/ Fennec support site] last week. | |||
== Metrics == | == Metrics == | ||
* Why don't users upgrade their browser? | |||
** You may remember our findings when we looked at why Fx2 users refused to upgrade to Fx3 (reason #1 was related to the Location/Awesome bar). With the 3.0.14 -> 3.5.3 Major Update offer going out this week, we're going to run the same survey. | |||
== Evangelism == | == Evangelism == | ||
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*** A bug in 9.08 has broken the language selector pop-up menu; we're pressing MindTouch for a fix. | *** A bug in 9.08 has broken the language selector pop-up menu; we're pressing MindTouch for a fix. | ||
** A massive, seemingly botted, spam attack led us to disable new user account registration last week until we figure out how they're bypassing the captcha. We're working on this. See [http://www.bitstampede.com/2009/09/22/mdc-user-registration-disabled-for-now/ this blog post] for details. | ** A massive, seemingly botted, spam attack led us to disable new user account registration last week until we figure out how they're bypassing the captcha. We're working on this. See [http://www.bitstampede.com/2009/09/22/mdc-user-registration-disabled-for-now/ this blog post] for details. | ||
* MozCampEU - Evangelism Europe will be there in spades. Looking for cool demos and WebGL stuff. | |||
== Labs == | == Labs == | ||
* [https://testpilot.mozillalabs.com/testcases/tab-open-close/rawdata.html Test Pilot Raw Data] from the Tabs open/close experiment has been posted, for the use of anyone in the researcher or UI designer community who wants to use it; we'll start publicizing it this week. | |||
* Graphs of results from the Tabs open/close experiment are going up today and tomorrow. Here are a couple of sneak previews: [http://people.mozilla.com/~jdicarlo/min-max-avg-tabs-open.png Histogram of Minimum, Average, and Maximum tabs open per user], [http://people.mozilla.com/~jdicarlo/tab-lifespans.png Histogram of Tab Lifespans in minutes]. | |||
* [http://labs.mozilla.com/weave/ Weave 0.7] is coming out this week; it has greatly improved syncing algorithms designed to take a lot of the load off of our servers in order to increase scalability. | |||
* Next [http://labs.mozilla.com/blog/2009/09/mozilla-labs-meetup-oct-8-2009/ Labs Night] will be October 8. | |||
* There will be a [http://labs.mozilla.com/jetpack/ Jetpack] hack-a-thon at the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Prague_DevDay_2009 Prague DevDay 2009] next week. | |||
== Developer Tools == | == Developer Tools == | ||
== Add-ons == | == Add-ons == | ||
* AMO 5.1 launches this week | |||
* [http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ARYIQk822ZJkZGN4dzN3NWtfMjVobjluZDh2Zw&hl=en Reviewed proposed review process on new editor call] | |||
* [[AddonMeetups:2009:Chicago|Chicago Meetup]] on Sept 29 at Threadless HQ! | |||
* Get ready for Firefox 3.6! | |||
== Webdev == | == Webdev == | ||
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=support.mozilla.com&target_milestone=1.4&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&known_name=Sumo&query_based_on=Sumo&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= SUMO 1.4] - 49 fixed bugs - Launched last Thursday | |||
* Firefox for Mobile support site going into prod tomorrow | |||
* [http://moxie.fligtar.com/bugstats/amo/5.1 AMO 5.1] - 97 fixed bugs - Launches Tuesday (9/29) | |||
== L10n == | == L10n == | ||
* Finalized our Q4 goals | |||
* L10n team will travel to MozEU in Prague, [https://wiki.mozilla.org/EU_MozCamp_2009/Schedule/L10n_Track l10n track] can be found here. | |||
* Firefox 3.6 beta 1 is still in string freeze, so please check in changes | |||
* Philippines brownbag this afternoon at 4 PM MV time | |||
= Foundation Updates = | = Foundation Updates = | ||
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Gerv/BugzillaAPIDesign Bugzilla HTTP API] deploying this week. Send any comments (and offers of testing) to Gerv. | * [https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Gerv/BugzillaAPIDesign Bugzilla HTTP API] deploying this week. Send any comments (and offers of testing) to Gerv. | ||
* Thanks to everyone who helped with the I Love the Web wave on OneWebDay. Great community participation and creativity. See [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/owdposter/interesting/show/ slide show here]. | |||
* Latest mockup for redesigned [http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/getting-involved-redesign-round-2-5/ Getting Involved page] has been posted. Comment on the blog post and let us know what you think. | * Latest mockup for redesigned [http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/getting-involved-redesign-round-2-5/ Getting Involved page] has been posted. Comment on the blog post and let us know what you think. | ||
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= Other Business = | = Other Business = | ||
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