WeeklyUpdates/2010-09-13

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Upcoming Events

This Week

• Mozilla QA is holding a work week through Friday. The schedule of events is located here. Welcome to Mt. View all the Mozilla QA remotees!
• The Gecko Platform Team is holding a work week through Friday.
• The Socorro (crash statistics) team is holding a work week.
• Direct employees of the Mozilla Foundation are on site this week.

Monday, 13 September

Tuesday, 14 September

Wednesday, 15 September

• Firefox 4 Beta 6 Code Freeze is scheduled
  • we will be discussing branch mechanics at the Tuesday meeting, but it is likely that this will also be the Gecko 2.0 branch point from mozilla-central

Thursday, 16 September

Friday, 17 September

Next Week

• Mozilla IT has requested a long downtime on the weekend, either Saturday or Sunday, in order to upgrade network infrastructure at the 650 Castro Office. This would require that mozilla-central be closed.

Product Status Updates

Firefox 4

• beta 6 code freeze moved from last Friday to this Wednesday
  • still many blockers left to go (UI bugs | Platform bugs)
• JaegerMonkey landed on mozilla-central, is now part of nightly builds
• beta 6 is still planned as Feature Freeze
  • no new user interface features to be added after this beta
  • no new web platform features to be added after this beta
  • no new strings to be added after this beta without l10n approval
  • no platform API changes to be added after this beta without driver approval

Firefox 3.6

Firefox 3.6.9 & 3.5.12

• Investigating a possible startup crash regression in 3.6.9/3.5.12 (bug 594699)
• Investigating personas plus issue (bug 590978) and possible fixes

Firefox 3.6.10 & 3.5.13

• Schedule is in flux due to 3.6.9 investigations
• We have been marking bugs as blockers and approving patches
  • Please get your blockers in early!

Thunderbird

• Account provisioning and pluggable storage feature work is ongoing.
• Shipped Thunderbird 3.1.3
• Halted 3.1.3 automatic updates due to startup crasher bug 594699
• Analysis about how to move forward in-progress

Drumbeat

• School of Webcraft classes start Wed, Sep 15
• Major new release for Universal Subtitles later this month -- more details soon
• Interesting new project: Graffiti Mark-up Language

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
Castro Downtime (Sept 18/19)	Ravi Pina	Upcoming downtime for Castro based Talos/builders
RelEng infrastructure load	joduinn	developers are busy! If using TryServer, please select what exact jobs you want using https://wiki.mozilla.org/Build:TryChooser - dont waste CPU cycles	http://oduinn.com/blog/2010/09/09/infrastructure-load-for-august-2010/
Mozilla & You Newsletter	Eve Murto	New Mainstream User Newsletter	http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/newsletter/2010-09/
Interactive Firefox 4 Heatmap	Blake Cutler & Chris Jung	Visualizing Usage of the Firefox 4 Beta UI	heatmap.mozillalabs.com

Status Updates By Team

Messaging

• Thunderbird add-on experiments ongoing

IT

Last Couple Weeks

• Amsterdam datacenter moved.
• input.mozilla.com & Fx4 releases. This site gets significantly more traffic than we had projected. Working on moving it off shared infrastructure.

This Week

• Castro Office Downtime - Saturday/Sunday
  • Will affect all Talos and builders in the Castro Street office
  • Upgrading office firewall & Aruba wireless controller
  • Outage will last ~6 hours
• mozilla.org & DNSSEC
• bugzilla.mozilla.org active/active between San Jose & Phoenix.

QA

QA Org Highlights

• Hiring
  • David Burns, accepted offer. Starts 10/25/2010.
• Browser Technologies
  • Fennec 2.0 Beta 1 code freeze pushed out until 9/14. Continuing to test nightlies on supported devices
  • Jetpack 0.8 tested and shipped this week
  • Encountered a settings bug 594178 in the test pilot study (about:firefox) that broke the home button on beta 5.
    • A meeting is setup next week by chris jung to discuss QA/Dev testing and additional process needed
• Desktop Firefox
  • Firefox 4 Beta 5 Shipped!
  • preparing for Firefox 3.6.9 and 3.5.12 final releases and release process

Automation & Tools

• 13,000 Test results submitted for Grafx Bot since the beta 5 release
  • only 2 crashes, sifting through the results, will blog later this week
• Profile manager is now ready for review, will be submitting for review
• We're throwing a war on orange coffee and doughnut discussion this week in honor of the platform work week. Friday at 10am.
• More info here

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla fixes Firefox holes, curtails clickjacking
• Mozilla fixes Firefox's DLL load hijacking bug
• Apple, Mozilla Fix DLL Loading Issue in Browsers
• Mozilla patches DLL load hijacking vulnerability

• Mozilla: Now is the time for browser-based games
• Mozilla launches web-gaming push
• Mozilla Launches Initiative to Promote Browser Games
• Mozilla Labs Vaguely Announces Web-Based Gaming Initiative

• Firefox 4 Beta 5 Gets IE9-Style Hardware Acceleration
• Firefox JaegerMonkey Builds Are Available
• First Look: Firefox 4 JaegerMonkey
• Try Out Firefox's New JaegerMonkey JavaScript Engine in Nightly Builds

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Evangelism

When the "Good News"'ll be annouced ?

(And when "the true news" 'll be ?)

I know it's not a forum, so, please let me knonw...

Fred.

Developer Tools

• The Inspector tool, which has been appearing in Firefox 4 beta releases, has been moved to the next Firefox release in order to give it more time to bake.
• The Web Console tool is looking good for the next Firefox beta.
• The Bespin project is now known as Mozilla Skywriter and its repository has moved to GitHub. Follow our updates on Twitter: @MozSkywriter