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= Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] =
= Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] =
* Henry Langi: All the great work he has been doing.
* Henry Langi: All the great work he has been doing.  Running all the brownbags and helping all the users.
* Ed Morley for getting commit access and immediately diving into checkin-needed and merge duty.


= Upcoming Events =
= Upcoming Events =
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'''Thursday, 1 September'''
'''Thursday, 1 September'''
* Contribute Group meeting at 10 AM PDT ([[Mozilla.org/Contribute/Group/09_01_11|meeting info and agenda on wiki]]) -- a forum for discussing issues around helping people get involved with Mozilla.
* Interns Show & Tell at 1 PM PDT  presentations by William Chen, Jezreel Ng, and Michael Kurze


'''Friday, 2 September'''  
'''Friday, 2 September'''  
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== Firefox Future (7, 8, 9) ==
== Firefox Future (7, 8, 9) ==
* Release trains continuing smoothly
* [http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2011/08/25/rapid-release-process/ Mitchell] and [http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/08/26/rapidity/ Johnath] both wrote posts about the rapid release process (and actually so have Jesse and Kairo, too)


== Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0) ==
== Firefox Current (3.6, 6.0) ==
* There will be a Firefox 3.6.21. Main goal is to backport Firefox 7 security fixes, will ship at the same time as Firefox 7
** There is a [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.6.21 schedule available on the wiki] with freeze dates
* 3.6 EOL? No news to share on that yet. Assume we are sticking with the status quo (creating updates for 3.6) until told differently


== Mobile Firefox ==
== Mobile Firefox ==


== Thunderbird ==
== Thunderbird ==
 
* Thunderbird 7 was released to Beta channels.
== Older Branch Work ==
* Thunderbird’s [http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/channel Channel Page] is up.


== Drumbeat ==
== Drumbeat ==
(no voice update this week)
'''What would you include in a "Webmaking 101" course?'''
* The School of Webcraft is designing a beginner's "Webmaking 101" course
* The heart of the course will be a series of projects and '''learning challenges'''
* Looking for feedback from MDN and broader Mozilla community on these draft challenges: http://webmaking101.p2pu.org/challenges
** a) are these challenges good?
** b) what's missing? what else do you need to know to become an effective novice web developer?
* Please post feedback as comments to this [http://blogs.p2pu.org/blog/2011/08/19/state-of-webcraft-webmaking-101/ blog post]


= Speakers =
= 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.
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.  


{| class="fullwidth-table"
{| class="fullwidth-table"
|-
|-
! Presenter
! Presenter  
! Topic
! Topic  
! Media
! Media  
! More Details
! More Details
|-
|-
| Your Name Here
| Diane Loviglio, User Experience Researcher
| What are you going to talk about?
| On Web Apps - users describing web apps from apps field research
| Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen
| [http://people.mozilla.com/~dloviglio/videos/On%20Web%20Apps.mp4 Video]
| Link to where audience can find out more information
|
|-
|-
| John Slater, Director Creative<br>
| [https://wiki.mozilla.org/One-Mozilla-Project One Mozilla, The Merge<br>]
| [https://wiki.mozilla.org/One-Mozilla-Project https://wiki.mozilla.org/One-Mozilla-Project<br>]
| Join us on Thursday, Sept 1, for the retrospective &amp;&nbsp;every Thursday afterwards for an update, Vidyo/All Your Base or #212<br>
|}
|}


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;WebQA
;WebQA
* MDN [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677997 1.0]
* SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-08-23
* AMO
** We [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650029 moved AMO] to the Phoenix datacenter, from San Jose
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681547 Push on 8/24]
* Mozilla.com/.org unification ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610724 One Mozilla])


;QA Community
;QA Community


;Automation Services
;Automation Services
* [http://blargon7.com/2011/08/running-the-mem-buster-endurance-test/ Running the 'Mem Buster' endurance test]
* Selenium 2.5 has been released


== Automation & Tools ==
== Automation & Tools ==
* Jmaher could use a hand diagnosing some leaks caused by the special powers refactor, please ping him on IRC
* Talos Addons Testing system has moved into beta state, we have the full system from AMO site to specific addons talos staging pool working for testing.
* Bugzilla now has inline history on by default for all users on BMO
* GoFaster project has new [http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/gofaster/#/endtoend/average web] [http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/gofaster/#/buildcharts dashboards] live
* More notes are [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Meetings/2011-08-29 here]


== Security  ==
== Security  ==
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'''PR'''  
'''PR'''  
*[http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/08/firefox-to-stick-with-version-numbers-after-all/ Firefox to Keep Version Numbers After All]
*[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2391901,00.asp Mozilla Will Keep Firefox Version Numbers...For Now]
*[http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219521/Mozilla_We_won_t_ditch_Firefox_version_numbers Mozilla: We won't ditch Firefox version numbers]
*[http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/08/mozillas-webapi-wants-to-replace-native-apps-with-html5/ Mozilla's WebAPI Wants To Replace Native Apps With HTML5]
*[http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219439/Mozilla_s_WebAPI_eyes_cross_platform_mobile_apps Mozilla's WebAPI eyes cross-platform mobile apps]
*[http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/firefox-6-already-sees-bump-in-traffic-soon-after-debut/56333 Firefox 6 Already Sees Bump In Traffic Soon After Debut]


'''Events'''  
'''Events'''  
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= Introducing New Hires =
= Introducing New Hires =
* Artur Adib: joining the Innovation team as a Software Engineer, managed by Bill Walker, located in Washington, DC.
* Michael Edwards: joining the Research Engineering Team as a Sr. Software Engineer, managed by Andreas Gal, located in Mtn. View.
* Erin Lancaster: joining the Engineering team as a Project Manager, managed by Sheila Mooney, located in Mtn. View.


= Introducing New Interns =
= Introducing New Interns =
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= Roundtable =
= Roundtable =
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Friends of the Tree Friends of the Tree

  • Henry Langi: All the great work he has been doing. Running all the brownbags and helping all the users.
  • Ed Morley for getting commit access and immediately diving into checkin-needed and merge duty.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 29 August

Tuesday, 30 August

Wednesday, 31 August

Thursday, 1 September

  • Interns Show & Tell at 1 PM PDT presentations by William Chen, Jezreel Ng, and Michael Kurze

Friday, 2 September

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Future (7, 8, 9)

  • Release trains continuing smoothly
  • Mitchell and Johnath both wrote posts about the rapid release process (and actually so have Jesse and Kairo, too)

Firefox Current (3.6, 6.0)

  • There will be a Firefox 3.6.21. Main goal is to backport Firefox 7 security fixes, will ship at the same time as Firefox 7
  • 3.6 EOL? No news to share on that yet. Assume we are sticking with the status quo (creating updates for 3.6) until told differently

Mobile Firefox

Thunderbird

  • Thunderbird 7 was released to Beta channels.
  • Thunderbird’s Channel Page is up.

Drumbeat

(no voice update this week) What would you include in a "Webmaking 101" course?

  • The School of Webcraft is designing a beginner's "Webmaking 101" course
  • The heart of the course will be a series of projects and learning challenges
  • Looking for feedback from MDN and broader Mozilla community on these draft challenges: http://webmaking101.p2pu.org/challenges
    • a) are these challenges good?
    • b) what's missing? what else do you need to know to become an effective novice web developer?
  • Please post feedback as comments to this blog post

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.

Presenter Topic Media More Details
Diane Loviglio, User Experience Researcher On Web Apps - users describing web apps from apps field research Video
John Slater, Director Creative
 One Mozilla, The Merge
 		https://wiki.mozilla.org/One-Mozilla-Project
 		Join us on Thursday, Sept 1, for the retrospective & every Thursday afterwards for an update, Vidyo/All Your Base or #212

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution
WebQA
QA Community
Automation Services

Automation & Tools

  • Jmaher could use a hand diagnosing some leaks caused by the special powers refactor, please ping him on IRC
  • Talos Addons Testing system has moved into beta state, we have the full system from AMO site to specific addons talos staging pool working for testing.
  • Bugzilla now has inline history on by default for all users on BMO
  • GoFaster project has new web dashboards live
  • More notes are here

Security

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

  • Artur Adib: joining the Innovation team as a Software Engineer, managed by Bill Walker, located in Washington, DC.
  • Michael Edwards: joining the Research Engineering Team as a Sr. Software Engineer, managed by Andreas Gal, located in Mtn. View.
  • Erin Lancaster: joining the Engineering team as a Project Manager, managed by Sheila Mooney, located in Mtn. View.

Introducing New Interns

  • Matt McPherrin -- Platform
  • Mohamed Dabbagh -- QA
  • Trevor Fairey -- Tools

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

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