WeeklyUpdates/2010-01-04

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Development Updates

Firefox

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Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka)

Firefox Future

Team News

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

• Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7
  • Releases currently in Beta. Scheduled for final release tomorrow (1/5/2010).

IT

Last Couple Weeks

• Rolled out geo-ip aware bouncer/download.mozilla.org - bug 459919
  • Still fine tuning
• San Jose Production ESX upgrades
  • Went from 4 ESX hosts to 3!
  • Increased cluster capacity from 32Ghz of CPU to 72Ghz (even with one less host)
  • It is fast.
• Completed NetApp OS upgrade
  • RelEng related (netapp-c/d) - Bug bug 502151
• Web stuff
  • Moved www.mozilla.com behind EdgeCast, a CDN
  • Staged getpersonas.com behind EdgeCast
  • Staged EU Browser Ballot download-eu.mozilla.org instance
• b01 Database Cluster work
  • Bug bug 535859
  • Bug bug 528573

Upcoming

• Final set of NetApp OS upgrades - TBD, but hopefully January
  • Ops related (netapp-a/b)- bug 531233
• Working on infrastructure to support deactivating Hg/SVN dormant accounts bug 524153
  • tentatively shooting for Jan 26.

• Phoenix!
  • We're building out our Phoenix data center

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

Test Development

Marketing/PR

PR

Five Years of Firefox

General

Events

• Foundations of Open Media Software January 13 - 15, 2010; Wellington, New Zealand.  Perfect venue to promote open video.  We are currently sponsoring this - Matthew Gregan, Chris Double and Chris Pearce will be attending and representing Mozilla.
• Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) 2010 January 20-22, 2010; Madrid Spain.  We are sponsoring this event.
  
• Techkriti, GNUnify, Quark - February 2010; India.  Looking into participation and sponsorship at these events in India. 
• SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  Working on sponsorship opportunities 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.
  

Foundation Updates

• Drumbeat is moving into full gear this quarter. We need some new people to help make this happen. We're hiring two project leaders and a fundraising support person. Please contact Mark if you know people who would be good for these roles.