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I can speak from experience that this kind of testing and coordination help is hugely valued and critical to the success of our community testing program and so I'm thrilled to second Aakash's nomination. -Asa | I can speak from experience that this kind of testing and coordination help is hugely valued and critical to the success of our community testing program and so I'm thrilled to second Aakash's nomination. -Asa | ||
Mary wrote in with a batch of FoTT nominations: | |||
* Jeremy Glassenberg: For being an awesome contributor and the best Firefox ever. Not to mention break dancer! http://www.flickr.com/photos/badubadu/4093935644/in/set-72157622653568287/ | |||
* Bob Moss & Alexander Milewski: Huge thanks for all their hardwork capturing the SF party on film. Special thanks to Bob for lugging all his equipment and making hundreds of prints. | |||
* Vineel Reddy: Congrats to Vineel for pulling off another wonderful Firefox party and for his continued creativity and dedication. His party in Hyderabad was picked up in the press: http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Internet+buffs+celebrate+Mozilla%92s+5th+anniversa&artid=7sqpRt0YVPI=&SectionID=xAV59odivTs=&MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&SectionName=BUzPVSKuYv7MFxnS0yZ7ng==&SEO= Pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/pindivineelreddy/5FirefoxAnniversary10D# | |||
* Carlo Frinolli: Congratulations to Carlo and team for lighting up Rome with Firefox. Carlo and team pulled together an amazing integrated campaign (including website, twitter teasers and videos) and came up with some of the most iconic pictures for "Light the world with Firefox." http://www.flickr.com/photos/nois3lab/sets/72157622640597827/ | |||
= Development Updates = | = Development Updates = | ||
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== Thunderbird == | == Thunderbird == | ||
* Working on 3.0 RC1, build 2 forthcoming shortly. | |||
== SeaMonkey == | == SeaMonkey == | ||
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** Fx2 users are 4,031,576 (4.27% of user base) | ** Fx2 users are 4,031,576 (4.27% of user base) | ||
** ready to go as soon as QA says so | ** ready to go as soon as QA says so | ||
* more n810s (40) and 30+ minis coming online | |||
== QA == | == QA == | ||
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*Firefox for Maemo Beta 5: [http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/11/10/firefox-for-mobile-beta-now-available-if-you-own-a-nokia-n810/ Download Squad], [http://www.wirelessweek.com/News/2009/11/FirstNews-Briefs-10/ WirelessWeek] | *Firefox for Maemo Beta 5: [http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/11/10/firefox-for-mobile-beta-now-available-if-you-own-a-nokia-n810/ Download Squad], [http://www.wirelessweek.com/News/2009/11/FirstNews-Briefs-10/ WirelessWeek] | ||
*[http://www.fsdaily.com/HighEnd/Mozilla_Jetpack_Gets_an_Update Jetpack update]! | *[http://www.fsdaily.com/HighEnd/Mozilla_Jetpack_Gets_an_Update Jetpack update] and [http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/mozilla-jetpack-gallery-spells.html Gallery launch]! | ||
*On heels of 5 year anniversary, NetApp announces [http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/a-milestone-one-in-four-users-run-firefox-what-about-you-20091116/ Firefox at 25% market share worldwide] | *On heels of 5 year anniversary, NetApp announces [http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/a-milestone-one-in-four-users-run-firefox-what-about-you-20091116/ Firefox at 25% market share worldwide] | ||
*[http://redmondmag.com/Articles/2009/11/01/The-2009-Redmond-Readers-Choice-Awards-Its-a-Grand-Slam.aspx Mozilla Firefox featured in Redmond "2009 Reader's Choice Awards" Best Non-Microsoft Browser]<br> | |||
'''Five Years of Firefox''' | '''Five Years of Firefox''' | ||
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**5340 new email subscribers | **5340 new email subscribers | ||
**Over 1,200 photos submitted. Please remember to get yours up on Flickr and tag with Firefox5. Enjoy the current [http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=firefox5&w=all pool!] | **Over 1,200 photos submitted. Please remember to get yours up on Flickr and tag with Firefox5. Enjoy the current [http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=firefox5&w=all pool!] | ||
**232 parties packs were sent. A list of parties can be found [http://www.spreadfirefox.com/event/2009/11/01/list/all/1221 here]. | **232 parties packs were sent. A list of parties can be found [http://www.spreadfirefox.com/event/2009/11/01/list/all/1221 here]. | ||
* There is still time to participate in the [http://creative.mozilla.org/challenges/4 5 year Mozilla Creative Collective] design challenge. | *There is still time to participate in the [http://creative.mozilla.org/challenges/4 5 year Mozilla Creative Collective] design challenge. Please get your submissions in by Dec. 9th! | ||
'''General''' | '''General''' | ||
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* [http://jetpackgallery.mozillalabs.com/ Jetpack gallery site] is up | * [http://jetpackgallery.mozillalabs.com/ Jetpack gallery site] is up | ||
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?classification=Server%20Software;query_format=advanced;bug_status=RESOLVED;bug_status=VERIFIED;bug_status=CLOSED;component=Socorro;component=Socorro;component=Socorro;product=Webtools;target_milestone=1.1;target_milestone=1.1;target_milestone=1.1 Socorro 1.1] launched Thursday (crash reporter update) - [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/5404d9dd7c0e3d27# see dev.planning thread] for change log. [http://bit.ly/ef1sW Socorro 1.2] underway with launch right before Thanksgiving. | * [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?classification=Server%20Software;query_format=advanced;bug_status=RESOLVED;bug_status=VERIFIED;bug_status=CLOSED;component=Socorro;component=Socorro;component=Socorro;product=Webtools;target_milestone=1.1;target_milestone=1.1;target_milestone=1.1 Socorro 1.1] launched Thursday (crash reporter update) - [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/5404d9dd7c0e3d27# see dev.planning thread] for change log. [http://bit.ly/ef1sW Socorro 1.2] underway with launch right before Thanksgiving. | ||
* Plugins directory work continues - Les [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528248 filed a tracking bug]. We plan on releasing a plugin directory by end of Q4. See [http://decafbad.com/2009/10/pfs2/mockups/pngs/ mockups to get an idea of what we're aiming for]. | |||
== L10n == | == L10n == | ||
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* [http://l10n.mozilla.org/dashboard/?tree=fx36x Dashboard shows the current status] | * [http://l10n.mozilla.org/dashboard/?tree=fx36x Dashboard shows the current status] | ||
** [http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/file/5f8370a86737/browser/locales/shipped-locales 62 participated] | ** [http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/file/5f8370a86737/browser/locales/shipped-locales 62 participated] | ||
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528943 Tracking bug for the What's New and Getting Started pages] | |||
Fennec | Fennec | ||
* String freeze tomorrow, November 17 | * String freeze tomorrow, November 17 | ||
** [http://l10n.mozilla.org/dashboard/?tree=fennec10x Fennec locales participating] | ** [http://l10n.mozilla.org/dashboard/?tree=fennec10x Fennec locales participating] | ||
* Web l10n underway | * [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522973 Web l10n underway] | ||
Infrastructure updates | Infrastructure updates | ||
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523920 Verbatim going live soon!] | * [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523920 Verbatim going live soon!] | ||
** Hope to have AMO, SUMO, and Get Personas hooked in for translation | ** Hope to have AMO, SUMO, and Get Personas hooked in for translation | ||
** Wenzel and Gandalf are experimenting with a website translation jetpack called Pontoon with Silme hooked in to track changes | |||
* Pike and Gandalf continue their work with IT to take the localization sign-off website live | * Pike and Gandalf continue their work with IT to take the localization sign-off website live | ||
QA | |||
* Working with a team called Multi-lingual QA to do some automated l10n testing for us. | |||
= Foundation Updates = | = Foundation Updates = | ||
* We published a [[Education/ProgressReport2009|progress report on the Mozilla Education program]] in 2009, along with a [[Education/Contacts|list of professors and schools involved in Mozilla Education activities]]. | * We're getting a great response from the new [http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/ Get Involved page] and we're '''looking for people from marketing, security, UI design and documentation to help us''' bring new people into the community. Contact david at mozillafoundation dot org if you're interested. | ||
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:REST_API Bugzilla API 0.2] released. This is pretty much fully-functional; please build cool stuff with it to ease any Bugzilla-related pain you may have. After the bugzilla.mozilla.org upgrade at the weekend, it's fully-functional against that server. | * We '''published a [[Education/ProgressReport2009|progress report on the Mozilla Education program]] in 2009''', along with a [[Education/Contacts|list of professors and schools involved in Mozilla Education activities]]. | ||
* '''[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:REST_API Bugzilla API 0.2] released.''' This is pretty much fully-functional; please build cool stuff with it to ease any Bugzilla-related pain you may have. After the bugzilla.mozilla.org upgrade at the weekend, it's fully-functional against that server. | |||
= Roundtable = | = Roundtable = | ||
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