WeeklyUpdates/2010-01-25

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Friends of the Tree

Tomcat wrote in, "I want to nominate bc (bob clary) for all his help in getting reproducible crashes/crashkill!"

Ryan Doherty nominates Shae Rivard for his help supporting Personas before, during and after the 3.6 launch. Also nominating Donna Macomber, Toby Elliot and 'VanillaOrchids' for their help reviewing thousands of personas during and after the 3.6 launch.

Upcoming Events

Put upcoming events here, with dates if possible. Are there any brown bags scheduled for this week? Software releases scheduled for this month?

Previously on "Mozilla"...

• Firefox 3.6 Released! (Thursday, Jan 21)
  • smoothest release to date, everyone was ready to roll
  • live broadcast on Air Mozilla was seen by more than 200 people
  • over 12M downloads since release, over 5% of Firefox users on this version
  • extremely positive press reaction to all key features

Monday, January 25

Tuesday, January 26

• Mozilla Labs night, starting 6pm
  • Seedcamp presentations (European startups, Seedcamp is equivalent of Y! Combinator)
  • Jay to talk about Mobile Strategy
  • Labs/AMO lightning talk updates
  • There will be food, but only if you RSVP on the Meetup page

Wednesday, January 27

• Privacy Forum (10am - 3pm PST)
  • In conjunction with the upcoming FTC privacy roundtable in Berkeley, will be discussing Mozilla's views on privacy including engineering, organizational, and legal perspectives (and how those are intertwined here at Moz). Will spend significant time on working groups generating variables and settings within those for use in privacy policies across the web. The outside invitees are largely lawyers, but the point is to have a cross-lawyer-engineer-everyone discussion and working groups. Please come and have your opinion heard and incorporated into the deliverable. Questions? Ask Julie or Aza.

Thursday, January 28

• Contribute group meeting at 11 pacific
  • A forum for anyone from across the community to talk about how to find people interested in their projects and how to help those people become contributors.

Friday, January 29

Coming up on "Mozilla"...

Lightning Talks

Starting this week, we'll have a timer showing each speaker how long they have left to speak. The limit will be 3 minutes per speaker.

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
What's Next for Firefox?	Mike Beltzner	Product Roadmappery	coming soon	some context
JägerMonkey - Fast JavaScript, Always!	David Anderson	JagerMonkey Concept and Roadmap	coming soon	JaegerMonkey @ wiki
Personas launch stats	Ryan Doherty	Some fun stats about Personas during and after the launch of Firefox 3.6	coming soon

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

• Dietrich took some time to refactor the index of active front end projects so that it matches up against to our team goals list. If you're looking to get involved with high priority Firefox front end projects, that's a great place to see what's top-of-mind!
• Feedback from Firefox 3.6 indicates that we're getting great perceived performance wins by focusing on optimization of I/O operations, specifically batching and taking them off the main thread. This work will continue.
• Will be scheduling a Firefox 3.6 Post Mortem later this week focusing on the development and release cycles
• Android Update (vlad)

Branch work: Firefox 3.5.x / Firefox 3.6.x / Thunderbird 3.0.x

• Schedule for Firefox 3.5.8 are:
  • Code freeze: January 19, 11:59pm (overdue)
  • QA starts: January 20 (overdue)
  • Builds start: February 1
  • QA with builds start: February 1
  • Beta period starts: February 4 - 5
  • Final release: February 16

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

• Schedule for Firefox 3.0.18 are:
  • Code freeze: January 19, 11:59pm (overdue)
  • QA starts: January 20 (overdue)
  • Builds start: February 1
  • QA with builds start: February 1
  • Beta period starts: February 4 - 5
  • Final release: February 16

IT

Last Couple Weeks

• Very Busy.
  • 19 node Hadoop cluster up @ San Jose
  • 100 Mac Minis up @ 650 Castro
  • RF Shielded room up @ 650 Castro (network)
• Firefox 3.6

This Week

• Phoenix! Status
  • Mountain View IT folk onsite, moving in this week
    • if you need something urgent, [1] is best.
  • AboveNet (IP transit) came through with a Jan 25 install
• 2 additional ISC hosted download mirrors

Upcoming

• Next Week 50 1u RelEng builders
• Production services in Phoenix
  • download.mozilla.org
  • aus2.mozilla.org

Release Engineering

• Firefox 3.6 release - first release to include unittest and talos coverage for the actual release bits
  • release automation for partner builds is now in place for 3.6 builds
• Lorentz project branch setup
• Talos rebasing: new minis reporting to graphserver concurrently with old/current production minis
• turned off build+unittest jobs for good on trunk
• setup repack-on-change builders for Maemo L10n and Fennec Desktop L10n
• Lorentz project branch bug 536188
• New Talos recalibration started Friday.
  • transition will have two sets of results for talos; old/current machines and new machines
  • expected to last until end January
  • Details in bug 537065

QA

Test Execution

• Shipped Fx3.6 to World
• Fennec RC3 is targeted for builds this week. Need help with testing Flash on the n900. See list for top pages.
• Mozmill 1.4 has been released! See whimboo's blog post for a list of changes. Currently still under AMO review, but can be downloaded here.

WebQA

• Shipped Mozilla.com 3.6 to support the launch of Firefox 3.6
• Working on AMO 5.6
• Working on SUMO 1.5.1, especially:
  • Live chat integration testing
• Shipped GetPersonas 2.3
• Working on testing the latest updates to the Jetpack Gallery

QA Community

• Had the Website Compatibility with Firefox 3.6 Testday. Recap can be found here
• Next friday, Feb 5th, is scheduled for a AMO/SUMO testday

Marketing/PR

PR

• Flickr link to coverage screenshots - More than 50 original stories and trending topic on Twitter, Mashable
• Ars Technica: Review: Firefox 3.6 brings joy to Web devs, not just users
• Chicago Tribune: Firefox 3.6 debuts
• Christian Science Monitor: Firefox 3.6 released
• CNET: Mozilla forges ahead with Firefox 3.6
• Computerworld: Make the right browser update: Firefox 3.6
• Financial Times: Firefox 3.6 launches
• InternetNews: Firefox 3.6 Gets Speedier, New Enhancements
• Lifehacker: Firefox 3.6 Officially Available, Brings Speed Increases, One-Click Themes, and More
• Mashable: Firefox 3.6 Released (trending story on Mashable
• ReadWriteWeb: Firefox 3.6 Released
• VentureBeat: Mozilla releases Firefox 3.6 with promise of more speed, stability
• WebMonkey: Firefox Has Been Hitting the Gym — Version 3.6 Is Faster, More Capable (reposted on WIRED.com home page
• ZDNET: Mozilla drops Firefox 3.6 with security goodies

Events

• Interaction10 (IxD10) February 4-7, 2010; Savannah, GA.  Labs is sponsoring this event.  JBoriss and Madhava will be attending/
  
• Techkriti, GNUnify - February 2010; India.  Seth, Arun and Ragavan will be in India during February to participate in a number of university based events.
  
• SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  We have a small sponsorship and are hosting a Mozilla party on Saturday, March 13th from 6-8pm at the Cedar Door.  We will have more details on our party soon.  Please continue to check our wiki page for information.
  
• ROFLCon April 30 - May  1, 2010; Boston, MA.  We have a join sponsorship with the Mozilla Foundation and will be live streaming and archiving the event with HTML5 open video.
  

Support

No updates this week.

Developer Tools

• Bespin Embedded 0.6 was released on January 15th. Still an alpha quality release, but quite a bit of progress made over last month's 0.5.2 release.

Foundation Updates

• Welcome to Sara Yap starting today as grant and fundraising coordinator.
• Webcast of Mozilla Foundation 2010 priorities and board slides up on Mark's blog. Questions and feedback encouraged.
• Watch out for the "Bugzilla Tips" blog, coming to planet.mozilla.org soon to make your Bugzilla-using life easier. If you have tips and tricks on how to use Bugzilla better, send them to Gerv.