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* Shipped a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=FIXED;classification=Server%20Software;query_format=advanced;bug_status=RESOLVED;bug_status=VERIFIED;product=addons.mozilla.org;target_milestone=5.3.1 special release] of AMO 5.3.1 | * Shipped a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=FIXED;classification=Server%20Software;query_format=advanced;bug_status=RESOLVED;bug_status=VERIFIED;product=addons.mozilla.org;target_milestone=5.3.1 special release] of AMO 5.3.1. | ||
* SUMO 1.5 - Tested the new Forum search. Blogged about [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/stephend/archives/2009/11/help_us_test_se.html testing SUMO search]. | * SUMO 1.5 - Tested the new Forum search. Blogged about [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/stephend/archives/2009/11/help_us_test_se.html testing SUMO search]. | ||
* Selenium - Created a logic framework in Selenium for verifying details on persona page. | * Selenium - Created a logic framework in Selenium for verifying details on persona page. | ||
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Friends of the Tree 
The People People team would like to warmly thank Asa Dotzler for being such an emblematic figure for Mozilla and an awesome story teller. There's been a great deal of interest generated by all his blog posts, resulting in a big increase of people actually viewing our career website. How many viewers, are you asking? Just 11,000 in just over a year! Thanks Asa!
Mike Beltzner would like to nominate Chris Hofmann as a friend of the tree for his long standing and relentless work at digging into the corners of our beta feedback to help us better understand how to improve the stability of Firefox, and how to use our beta feedback to extrapolate to a final release.
Stephen Donner would like to thank and nominate Tobias Markus for friend of the tree, for his awesome work writing Litmus testcases for the Add-on Collector, and being an all-around enthusiastic and friendly contributor.
Development Updates
Firefox
( Projects | Status | Goals | People )
- there are still over 80 blockers left to be fixed for Firefox 3.6
- many are fixed on other branches and need to be moved over
- some seem to be tracking bugs for stability issues, and may not block
- there are still several code blockers awaiting patches or review which should be the highest priority for everyone in advance of the long weekend
Firefox Future
- Vlad's started some exploration for building Firefox on Android, if you're interested in getting involved, drop him a line to let him know.
- Boriss and Mossop have some ideas about how to make the Add-ons Manager better
- Blair has got Firefox/Projects/Tab_Matches_in_Awesomebar tab matches in the awesomebar working on tryserver builds; it's hot!
Gecko
Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x
Thunderbird
- [build 3] available
- please help us test and file bugs
- autoconfiguration of new accounts at various providers needs special testing
- we hope to label and announce as RC1 in the next small number of days
SeaMonkey
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
- Tested and shipped Firefox 2.0.0.20 to 3.0.15 Major Update
- Continued with Firefox 3.5.6 and 3.0.16 bug verifications. Closed most security bugs but have many non-security bugs to close
Web Dev Testing
- Shipped a special release of AMO 5.3.1.
- SUMO 1.5 - Tested the new Forum search. Blogged about testing SUMO search.
- Selenium - Created a logic framework in Selenium for verifying details on persona page.
- Spread Firefox - Verified bug fixes and testing prior to release.
Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community
- Community
- Held a successful L10n+QA Test Firefox 3.6 Testday' last Friday. Top testers: Aleksej and AaronMT! [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=l10nfxtestday 11 bugs files!
- Held a very successful Open Source Meet-up in Munich with about 50 People attended during the evening, talked about Mozilla and get-involved. See photos.
- Today there will be another Open Source Meet-up in Leipzig, Germany. This is our first Open Source Meetup outside of Munich.
- Accessibility-
- Having trouble with different version of builds. Local builds, even when built for release, sometimes behave differently than regular nightly builds coming from the Mozilla build bots. Try-server builds also don't always behave the same. Couldn't reproduce some crashers when a nightly build reliably did. This made testing a bit extended since we often had to wait for a regular nightly to show some difference.
- Finished first article for German Webkrauts. It's about good markup for form controls and their labels. It hasn't been published yet.
Test Development
- We just finished Sprint 2 last week and have some updates:
- Mozmill 1.3 is Released on AMO!
- We have a really nice graphical regression finder tool in the works, it's coming soon to a blog near you.
- Making good progress on the Orodruin (XPCShell is Completed) and Crash Automation (Crash Log Parser is completed) projects
- Electrolysis Test code for E10s plugins has landed in the E10s tree. Delving into E10S Talos support next.
- More Notes here.
Security
- No updates this week.
Marketing/PR
PR
Five Years of Firefox
General
- Mozilla Facebook Security Quiz launched on Thursday. It is a 5 question quiz designed to teach users some quick tips and how to stay safe online. Learn more about the quiz from the Mozilla blog post.
Events
- Add-on-Con December 2009, Mountain View, CA. We are sponsoring this event and will have 3 sessions: Taking Flights with JetPack (Aza), Mobile Firefox Add-on Development (Mark Finkle), Future of Add-on Ecosystem (Justin, Nick, add-on developer community member).
- Sunlight Labs Great American Hackathon December 12-13, 2009; Mountain View, CA. We will be holding a hackathan at Mozilla HQ on Saturday and Sunday 12/12-12/13. Signup form and details to come soon.
- 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.
- Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) 2010 January 20-22, 2010; Madrid Spain. We are sponsoring this event.
- SXSW Interactive 2010 March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas. Working on sponsorship oportunities and Firefox party. Please continue to check our wiki page for information.
- Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2010) June 10, 2010; Toronto, Canada. We are sponsoring this event.
Support
- Firefox 3.6 support documentation update to be completed today with a lot of help from Chris Ilias and our fantastic Knowledge Base community. See the plan and the progress
Metrics
- Firefox Market Share
- Gemius, which has the largest sample size of any market share provider, has started creating a custom report aggregating their entire sample. The data show that Firefox surpassed IE in market share a few months back and is now poised to hit 50%.
- Gemius data includes traffic from ten countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
Evangelism
Labs
- We're releasing Weave 1.0 beta 2 today, which fixes some bugs found in beta 1.
Developer Tools
- No updates this week.
Add-ons
- 3.6 compatibility up to 58%
- Engaging with a number of high probability authors who will bump this number by ~10% or more when they flip to 3.6.
Webdev
L10n
Foundation Updates
- Just one week left to enter the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge; the deadline for submissions is this Friday, November 27, at midnight Pacific time.
- First two Drumbeat local events scheduled for December, one in Singapore and one in Bangalore. Goal: get people to pitch open web project ideas that feed into the Drumbeat pipeline. If you know people in those cities, please promote.