WeeklyUpdates/2008-11-17

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 8, 2009)
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Friends of the Tree

• Marcia Knous nominated Kurt Schultz (irc nick supernova_00) for creating the first private browsing extension Toggle Private Browsing 1.5

• Jeff Walden nominated Serge Gautherie for his spectacular work recently as a Mochitest-and-derivatives leak champion filing bugs to see existing leaks fixed. Yay for leaking less!

• Brendan Eich nominated Jim Jeffery [Littlemutt] saying that "he has been a huge help in QA'ing the TraceMonkey work. See most recently bug 465013" where Jim helped track down a TM bug that broke a bunch of Flash content where that content was using a particular bit of Macromedia scripting glue.

• Ben Hearsum nominated Nick Thomas "for all speedy reviews he's done lately. It's helped release automation move along at a great pace."

Please send FotT nominations to asa@mozilla.org. This is a great opportunity for the community to recognize those who go above and beyond, so please tell me when you see that happening. Thanks.

Development Updates

Gecko 1.9.1

• Currently 2 beta 2 blockers remaining; however, several correctness bugs in TM were found over the weekend and we'll be landing several fixes for those today.
• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
• 140 1.9.1 blockers.
  • 4 Blocking 1.9.1 P1s
  • 44 Blocking 1.9.1 P2s
  • 36 Blocking 1.9.1 P3s

IT

Last Week

• EqualLogic storage array issues (bug 464458)

This week

• Bugzilla upgrade - Tuesday (Nov 17) (bug 464713)
• Router upgrades - Tuesday & Thursday

QA

Firefox 2.0.0.*/3.0.*

• 2.0.0.18/3.0.4
  • Released on Wednesday Nov 12th! Live bits testing.
  • Writing content for website changes for EOL [ss]
• 3.0.5 - Landed accessibility fixes that were approved for 3.0.5: bug 454211, bug 439566, bug 452710 [marcoz]

Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 - Beta was released on Wednesday Nov 12th! Busy week! Executed BFT, l10n spot checks, update tests [abillings, juanb]

Firefox 3.1

• Finished beta 2 testplan [tchung]
• Maintained Beta 1 QA/Topcrashes#Current_topcrashes_being_tracked_3.1b1 page [ss]
• Feature testing
  • Addons Updates: completed 10% more test cases. Now at 80% complete. [tchung]
  • Control Tab/Tab Preview: Added 25% more testcases [marcia]
  • Private Browsing: Completed the test plan and 50% of the test cases [marcia]
  • Overall Feature testing status:
    • Testplan completion: 86%
    • Testcases planned: 748
    • Testcase completion: 59%
• Accessibility
  • tested new features. Private Browsing: Works 100%. New CtrlTab: Is disabled for most Windows screen readers, behaves like old Ctrl+Tab keystroke in Firefox 3.0. [marcoz]
  • Started testing and defining each ARIA testcase on the ARIA testcases page on CodeTalks. This is to help ensure that ARIA implementations are consistent throughout browsers and assistive technologies.
• Snow Leopard work: Installed the latest seed of Snow Leopard (10.6) on the machine in the lab and found bug 464353.

WebDev testing

• AMO: Lots of testing of Bandwagon/Collections. Verified 12 bugs
• Community Store: Lots of testing. Filed 10 bugs. Verified 13 bugs
• SUMO 0.7.2: Verified 7 bugs. Shipped it Thursday night!

Mobile

• Continuing testing based on the test plan. Worked with the team to see features that will make it into A2.
• Continued porting test automation and tests.
• Cleaned up Litmus test cases for mobile BFT's

Community

• Helped out at the Green Festival Mozilla booth over the Weekend (Nov 14-16) [marcia, clint, timr, tchung]
• Finished editing the piece at shot and Moz EU Camp and uploaded it to Air Mozilla (Click "On Demand" at the bottom of the player window, then "More Mozilla", "Mozilla EU Camp") [marcia]

Security

No updates.

Marketing/PR

Impact Mozilla

PR

• Mitchell interviewed for LiveMint (Wall Street Journal affiliate in India)
• Lifehacker: Why TraceMonkey is Going to Blow Your Web Browsing Mind
• Coverage of 2.0.0.18 and 3.0.4

Events

First of all, a big "THANK YOU" to all of you who helped out with Green Festival! It was a great success!

A couple of events are taking place this week:

• Nonprofit Software Development Summit, Nov. 17 - 19, Oakland, CA: Please check it out if you are local!
• Mashup Camp, Mountain View, Nov. 17 - 19: Dave Camp is participating in a session on persistence.

Coming up:

• FOSSCamp, Mountain View, Dec. 5 - 6: Organized by Ubuntu folks. Please check it out if you are local!
• Add-ons conference, Mountain View, Dec. 11th

Events triage call is this Wednesday, November 19th, at 10am PST. Please call 650-903-0800, ext 92, id 248 if you're interested in joining us.

Spread Firefox

Logos

• Firefox 3.1 logos are now available at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.1/Logos. More details at http://www.intothefuzz.com/2008/11/17/firefox-31-logos-get-em-while-theyre-hot/.

Metrics

Funnelcake

• funnelcake03 ships tomorrow!
• The purpose is to better understand the experience of new Fx users when they download, install, and use Fx for the very first time
• Last year's Funnelcake experiment was documented and analyzed here, here and here.
• Thanks to Justin, Kev, the build team, stephend, oremj, tomcat (and others) for pulling this off.

Evangelism

• Documented in the past week: private browsing, plus additional work on web workers (which are now on hold pending possible spec changes). Additional writing work done on an assortment of topics.

L10n

• Final count: 54 localizations participated in FF 3.1 beta 2
• Thunderbird 3 beta 1 code freeze is on Tuesday 18th November at 23:59 Pacific time
• Localizers are also translating "about:rights" that will be included in Firefox 3.0.5
  • The past few weeks have been very high work-load for localizers. The localization community and the l10n-drivers team appreciates everyone's efforts to give advance notice of any localization needs so we can best coordinate our efforts and not overwhelm anyone. Planning a few weeks in advance really helps as we have seen with the about:rights work. Thanks to Beltzner, Harvey, Kev and Dolske for really setting the schedule on this.
• Special thanks to Pascalc who worked late last Wednesday to quickly process a request from the SUMO team last week to get a number of localized snippets into the Firefox start page for the upcoming Support Day.

Foundation Updates

• Frank restarted public discussion on the root CA inclusion request from WISeKey.
• Kathleen Wilson and Frank wrote up a draft guide for CAs applying to have their root CA certificates included in Mozilla.
• Mark posted a report on recent Mozilla Foundation activities.
• Mark announced availability of the video from the Mozilla Foundation brown-bag presentation in Mountain View on October 29.