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** Final release date a moving target, but aiming for late this week or early next | ** Final release date a moving target, but aiming for late this week or early next | ||
* '''[[Releases/Firefox_3.0.6|Firefox 3.0.6]]''' | * '''[[Releases/Firefox_3.0.6|Firefox 3.0.6]]''' | ||
** Code freeze is moved out to Wednesday, January 7 | ** Code freeze is moved out to Wednesday, January 7 (at 11:59pm) | ||
** Does not move out final ship date of February 3 | ** Does not move out final ship date of February 3 | ||
** Currently [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?keywords_type=nowords&keywords=fixed1.9.0.6+verified1.9.0.6&field0-0-0=flagtypes.name&type0-0-0=equals&value0-0-0=approval1.9.0.6%2B&order=map_assigned_to.login_name,bugs.bug_id '''20''' approved patches] that need landing. Please land your patches. | ** Currently [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?keywords_type=nowords&keywords=fixed1.9.0.6+verified1.9.0.6&field0-0-0=flagtypes.name&type0-0-0=equals&value0-0-0=approval1.9.0.6%2B&order=map_assigned_to.login_name,bugs.bug_id '''20''' approved patches] that need landing. Please land your patches. | ||
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Friends of the Tree 
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
Branch work: Firefox 3.0.6 / Major Update
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.19
- Went live last Tuesday thanks to some holiday work by QA and build
- Moving Thunderbird 2.0.0.x to 2-month releases (every 8 weeks or so)
- Will likely be supported until six months after Thunderbird 3 release
- Firefox 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.5 Major Update
- Went to beta users last Monday
- Localizers are currently working to get the new banner translated (36 done, 8 remain!)
- Final release date a moving target, but aiming for late this week or early next
- Firefox 3.0.6
- Code freeze is moved out to Wednesday, January 7 (at 11:59pm)
- Does not move out final ship date of February 3
- Currently 20 approved patches that need landing. Please land your patches.
Gecko 1.9.1
- New to the Platform Team:
- David Bolter, working out of the Toronto office, a new accessibility engineer.
- Jason Duell, Content Team, reporting to Johnny Stenback, networking code. YAY!
- Nicholas Nethercote, Javascript Team, reporting to Robert Sayre, core Valgrind hacker.
- 38 Bugs blocking beta 3, down one from before holidays!
- Beta 3 code freeze is Jan 13.
- For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
- Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
- 153 1.9.1 blockers.
Firefox 3.1
Dec 31Jan 1 - string freeze has come and gone- Jan 13 - code freeze
- Jan 19 - QA start
- Jan 26 - ship to users
- workin' on Beta 3 (triage queries)
- New faces on the Firefox team - please say "hi" on IRC!
- David Dahl (ddahl) - from ILM, author of the rCache add-on for Firefox and the Clarify Python wrapper for Tesseract OCR
- Drew Willcoxon (adw) - from Stanford and University of Georgia, author of the Extend Firefox 3 winning TagSifter add-on, as well as several other projects (see his web page)
TB 3
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Welcome Marco Zehe and Henrik Skupin as new employees!
Test Execution
Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Crash Reports
- Tomcat attended the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. See his report.
- Code Coverage metrics: Working on ways to drill down and to visualize the coverage.
Test Development
Security
Marketing/PR
PR
- Firefox add-ons on the homepage on CNET's download.com
- John Lilly interviewed in the LA Times
- Johnathan Nightingale quoted in BusinessWeek.com’s “Tech Beat”
- Ubiquity update covered in InternetNews and NewsFactor
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
- Socorro launched 2 new reports
- MTBF - example Thunderbird development
- Top Crashers by URL example FF 3.0.5
L10n
Foundation Updates
- It was a generally slow week, with some folks on vacation.
- Mark produced some initial notes on a possible Mozilla Foundation education program.
- David did updates to the Projects and History pages on www.mozilla.org (to add Fennec as a project, note Adobe Acrobat and Kirix Strata as applications using Mozilla technologies, and address comments raised in bug 471494).
- Frank continued participating in the public discussion about Comodo and Certstar.
- The new Mozilla shirt is now available in the International Store.
- And last but certainly not least, there's a new member of the Boswell family.