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= Video for today's meeting =
= Video for today's meeting =
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== Firefox 4 ==
== Firefox 4 ==
 
* due to the chemspill, we're a bit behind on schedule for [[Releases/Firefox_4.0b2|beta 2]]
* getting a QA update today, hoping for release tomorrow
* beta 3 planning and landings going on this week
* a set of [[Firefox/4/Beta#Milestones|planned milestones and release dates]] for beta revisions is available


== Firefox 3.6 ==
== Firefox 3.6 ==
 
* Released Firefox 3.6.7 on last Tuesday
* Saw a high-volume crash regression with certain combinations of object and embed tags ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575836 bug 575836])
* Released Firefox 3.6.8 with the fix on Friday...an amazingly quick turnaround!
* Post-mortems for 3.6.(7|8) will be happening the week of the 1st and 3.6.(4|6) will be happening the week of August 9th. Exact dates will be sent out today
* We are ready to do a chemspill release if anything comes up at BlackHat, though there are no talks we are too concerned about for Firefox
* The [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.6.9 Firefox 3.6.9 schedule] will be out today
* Any approvals for 1.9.2.'''8''' are now for 1.9.2.'''9'''


== Mobile Firefox ==
== Mobile Firefox ==
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| Sarah Doherty<br>
| Sarah Doherty<br>
| Mozilla Social Media Toolkit<br>
| Mozilla Social Media Toolkit<br>
| [http://mozilla.sarahdoherty.net/temp/MozillaSocialMediaToolkit.zip http://mozilla.sarahdoherty.net/temp/MozillaSocialMediaToolkit.zip]<br>
| [http://mozilla.sarahdoherty.net/temp/MozillaSocialMediaToolkit.zip http://mozilla.sarahdoherty.net/temp/MozillaSocialMediaToolkit.zip]
| [http://mzl.la/sfxsocialmediatoolkit mzl.la/sfxsocialmediatoolkit]<br>
| [http://mzl.la/sfxsocialmediatoolkit mzl.la/sfxsocialmediatoolkit]
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| Firefox 3.6.8 in almost 24 hours
| John O'Duinn
| FF3.6.8 
| [http://oduinn.com/blog/2010/07/26/firefox-3-6-8-by-the-wall-clock-numbers blog post]
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| Your Title Here  
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== Firefox  ==
== Firefox  ==
* Announced Tab Candy on Friday. Over the weekend we had:
** 28 press articles, including dream headlines: "Firefox Just Perfected Tabs Browsing" from Techcrunch and "With FireFox's Tab Candy Feature, We'll Finally Achieve Tab Nirvana" from Gizmodo.
** 3 million views of the video, with half a million watching all the way through.
** Tens of thousands of tweets, with many saying they'll never look at another browser again.
** 30k+ installs of the Tab Candy alpha build of Firefox.
** Hundreds of feature suggestions and votes for them, not all of which say Opera did it first.
** Dozens of direct emails, some of which expressing a desire to have babies with Firefox.
* The Tab Candy team (especially Ian Gilman, Edward Lee, and Mitcho Erlewine) deserve all the credit for pushing long and hard to get Tab Candy this far.
* Please do some dogfooding with our [http://azarask.in/projects/tabcandy/build.php Tab Candy build].
* [[Firefox/Projects/2010Q3_Dirty_Startup_Reduction|"Dirty" startup goal]] work underway with [http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/421 interesting results].


== Platform ==
== Platform ==


== Messaging  ==
== Messaging  ==
 
* Raindrop is rebooting: the backend is being rewritten for simplicity and speed on top of SQLAlchemy & MySQL/sqlite
* related to Tb participation work, dmose held BOF at OSCON about community & contribution metrics, will blog soon


== Mobile  ==
== Mobile  ==


== IT ==
== IT ==
''' Last Week'''
* Working through Firefix Sync scaling issues
* Pre-planning for Amsterdam datacenter move (could happen as soon as Friday)
* Wrapped up long-delayed Firewall upgrades in San Jose
'''This Week'''
* Performance problems with the generic web server cluster this morning
** Affected <code>wiki.mozilla.org</code> as well as others


== Release Engineering  ==
== Release Engineering  ==
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** 3.6.8 chemspill release testing. Shipped next day (Friday).
** 3.6.8 chemspill release testing. Shipped next day (Friday).
** 4.0beta2, ongoing testing. Should ship tomorrow.
** 4.0beta2, ongoing testing. Should ship tomorrow.
* '''Browser Technologies QA''':
** [https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/Milestones/2.0 Fennec 2.0 features] are landing and specs are getting assigned.  looking to eta an alpha end of month
** Sync 1.4.2b1 tested and pushed to AMO
** Firefox Home 1.0.1 tested and submitted to App Store
* '''WebQA''':
* '''WebQA''':
** Pushed [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578053 AMO 5.11.4] on 7/13
** Pushed [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578053 AMO 5.11.4] on 7/13
** Shipped a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579341 new version] of [http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/ Input] this morning
** Shipped a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579341 new version] of [http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/ Input] last week
** Pushed a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579983 small change] to fix some galleries in Personas
** Pushed a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579983 small change] to fix some galleries in Personas
** Released the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=FIXED&classification=Other&query_format=advanced&component=plugins.mozilla.org&product=Websites&target_milestone=1.1 1.1 version] of the plugin directory
** Released the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=FIXED&classification=Other&query_format=advanced&component=plugins.mozilla.org&product=Websites&target_milestone=1.1 1.1 version] of the plugin directory
* '''QA Services''':
**Meetup next week in NYC: http://www.meetup.com/Mozilla-in-the-Big-Apple/calendar/14115600/ as part of BlogHer - all NYC community welcome to attend! As part of the action packed weekend there will also be a Drumbeat Festival in NYC on August 7


== Automation & Tools ==
== Automation & Tools ==
* Lots of things in progress:
** Android work finalizing apace
** Mozmill moving quickly toward 1.4.2
** Cycle collector talos runs in progress
** Cross weave full automation should be ready for production at the end of the week
* Held test day on grafx bot on Friday, submitted it to AMO.
* More info [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Meetings/2010-07-26 here].


== Security  ==
== Security  ==
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'''PR'''  
'''PR'''  
*[http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15587773?nclick_check=1 Mercury News interview: Mitchell Baker, chairwoman, Mozilla]
*[http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/23/firefox-tab-candy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29 Firefox Just Perfected Tabbed Browsing. It’s Like Apple’s Expose Plus Spaces For The Web]
* [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/23/firefox_tab_candy/ Mozilla tames Firefox tab monster with Candy]
*[http://gizmodo.com/5595017/with-firefoxs-tab-candy-feature-well-finally-achieve-tab-nirvana With Firefox's Tab Candy Feature, We'll Finally Achieve Tab Nirvana]
*[http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/07/firefox-offers-a-taste-of-tabcandy/ Firefox Offers a Taste of Tab Candy]
*[http://mashable.com/2010/07/23/tab-candy-firefox/ Tab Candy: Firefox Invents a Better Way to Manage Tabs [VIDEO]
*[http://www.ghacks.net/2010/07/24/firefox-3-6-8-released/ Firefox 3.6.8 Released]
*[http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Mozilla-delays-second-Firefox-4-beta-1045234.html Mozilla delays second Firefox 4 beta]
*[http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2010/7/26/mozilla-firefox-368-update-released/ Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8 Update Released]
*[http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179638/Mozilla_re_patches_Firefox_3.6_to_fix_plug_in_problem Mozilla re-patches Firefox 3.6 to fix plug-in problem]


<br> '''Events'''  
<br> '''Events'''  
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= Introducing New Hires =
= Introducing New Hires =
 
* Laura Forrest


= Foundation Updates  =
= Foundation Updates  =


= Roundtable =
= Roundtable =
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