WeeklyUpdates/2009-10-26

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Development Updates

Firefox

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Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka)

Firefox Future

Team News

Gecko

• In our CrashKill meetings we are still digging through top crashers and reaching out to vendors. We still need contacts for vendors who produce top crashing add-ons. If you have contacts at one of these that you can share, please comment in the bug. Also, if you want to keep the contact info confidential, you can mark your comment as private as well.
• Thanks to BitDefender who is pushing out fixes to their toolbar in response to our outreach. It's still early, but we're watching crash reports to make sure we see those crash numbers drop.
• Blockers:
  • P1: 2
  • P2: 105
  • P3: 0
  • Other: 6
• Team blocker numbers:
  • Layout: 20
  • Content: 21
  • GFX: 10
  • JS: 24

• SpiderMonkey Happenings
  • Continuous Perf Improvements
  • ES5 coming together well
  • Most blockers seem to be well understood

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4
  • on track for shipping tomorrow (yay)
• Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.5
  • proposed schedules available on the wiki
  • mid-December release date... yeah.
  • changing our beta period structure to push the release to beta channel earlier

SeaMonkey

• KaiRo not here today - party on the eve of the 2.0 release (in cooperation with local organization here in Vienna)
• And that's also the main news: SeaMonkey 2.0 release is on track for an early morning (Pacific Time) release tomorrow!
• Any fans of the suite on this meeting, please spread the word - and party like it's 2.0! ;-)

IT

Last Week

• The Amsterdam Reboot
  • Now serving support.mozilla.com!
  • Now serving www.spreadfirefox.com!
• Personas Uplift. Personas infrastructure is now part of IT's production infrastructure and out of Labs.

This Week

• Thursday bugzilla.mozilla.org Upgrade
  • Up in stage @ https://bugzilla-stage-tip.mozilla.org
  • Please play with it and report problems *before* it goes to production. :)

QA

Test Execution

• Fx3.6b1 testing in progress.
  • list of bugs reported. Note that 3 are marked critical due to crashes: bug 523745, bug 523494, bug 523895
• Fx3.0.15 and Fx3.5.4 shipped to beta
  • Mozmill automation is now covering 92% Smoketests & 33% BFTs runs!
• Fennec QA status: 36 fixed, 102 triaged

Web Dev Testing

• Tested Jetpack, Personas,
• Tested AMO 5.2 for release last week
• Tested SUMO 1.4.1 for release last week
• Automating test cases: Landed Truman's breadcrumb testcase along with Milos' testcases for SUMO

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Community
  • Unconference-style QA meetup this wednesday, 10/28!
  • MozMill Testscripting Workshop and 2-Day Testday this week!
  • There will be a Thunderbird opensource meetup. We are expecting 20 (or more people) and also we hope some to get some press people signed up!

Test Development

Marketing/PR

PR

General

Mozilla Service Week

Events

• Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) October 29 - 30, 2009; Toronto, Canada.  We are sponsoring this event.  We currently have representation from both Mozilla Foundation and Corporation speaking.
• Music Hack Day November 21-22, 200; Boston, MA.  We are sponsoring this event.
  
• Add-on-Con December 2009, Mountain View, CA.  We are sponsoring this event and starting to build sessions around the event theme.
• Internet Identity Workshop November 3-5, 2009.  We are sponsoring this conference.  
• OWASP AppSec DC 2009  November 10-13, 2009; Washington, DC.  Web application security conference - we are currently looking into sponsoring this.
• Foundations of Open Media Software January 13 - 15, 2010; Wellington, New Zealand.  Perfect venue to promote open video.  We are currently looking into sponsoring this.
• SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  Working on putting together a Firefox party.  Please continue to check our wiki page for information.
  

Community

Support

• No updates this week. <3

Metrics

• Plugin Check page – we blogged with results from the first week since the page went live
• User Outreach – we currently have feedback buttons on three critical Fx pages (Getting Started, Firstrun, and Whatsnew). We've been able to identify a couple user pain points (analysis and blog post coming soon). Does anyone want to guess the #1 comment from users?

Evangelism

• Last week was WOFF week - lots of good feedback and press about it.
• Automattic announced they would support Theora on wordpress.com for VideoPress.
• Developer Survey coming together - will want help from people this week on promoting it and getting developer people involved.
• Also will want help spreading news about some exciting WebGL stuff this week.

Add-ons

• AMO 5.2 launched last Tuesday with support for Personas and new statistics for developers
• Kicking off Firefox 3.6 compatibility efforts. Currently at 36%
• Add-on Compatibility Reporter was announced last week
• Add-ons Meetup at 7pm tomorrow night in Mountain View, RSVP!

L10n

Calling our l10n community to action. Firefox 3.6 RC is string frozen, just 9 strings since Beta. Get your strings landed, and listen to community feedback from Beta and the nightlies.

Foundation Updates

• Help turn the open Web into a rich learning environment and explore new possibilities for using Firefox add-ons to support learning online. We're announcing the start of the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge, sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation with support from the MacArthur Foundation. This is just one of many things going on with Mozilla Education.
• A dormant accounts policy is being implemented; if you haven't used a particular SCM account for more than six months, it will be deactivated for security reasons. You can file a bug to get it reactivated - this should be a simple and quick process. Let us know if it's not.
• Mozilla Drumbeat is moving into pilot mode over the coming weeks. As part of this, Mark posted a call for sample content to include on the Drumbeat website currently being mocked up. Please add your ideas. Join the weekly Drumbeat call on Monday at 8AM PDT to share your ideas.

Roundtable

• Daylight savings time ends in North America this weekend