WeeklyUpdates/2011-05-02

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Friends of the Tree

David Boswell would like to thank George Fiotakis, Josh Matthews, Jay Garcia, Bogomil Shopov, tomcat, Juan Becerra, Jorge Villalobos and Paul Biggar for responding to over 1,600 people in April who contacted us through the Get Involved pages about wanting to contribute to Mozilla.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 2 May

Tuesday, 3 May

Wednesday, 4 May

Thursday, 5 May

Friday, 6 May

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 5

• About halfway through the first aurora train, the merge to beta happens 2011-05-17
• Beta meetings start this week, at 2pm PDT today
• The next mozilla-central → mozilla-aurora merge is on 2011-05-24 (6 weeks after the previous mozilla-central → mozilla-aurora merge, which happened on 2011-04-12)

Firefox 4, 3.6, 3.5

• New updates pushed out last week on all branches

Mobile Firefox

• Shipped Firefox 4.0.1 last week
• Continuing to test aurora builds, planning to go to beta at same time as desktop

Thunderbird

• Faster folder switching landed in Miramar nightly builds; please help us test and add any feedback onto bug 520272.
• Schedule and build mechanics details for Miramar posted to tb-planning.
• Released Thunderbird 3.1.10

Drumbeat

Knight-Mozilla News Project: "Unlocking Video" innovation challenge now underway

• Seeking designers and developers to submit ideas:
  • How can new HTML5 web video tools transform news storytelling?
• Learn more or participate here: https://drumbeat.org/en-US/challenges/unlocking-video/

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Mozilla Bootcamp	Julie Deroche	Stanford Open Source Bootcamp	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NO4M03OyGw	TBD

Status Updates By Team

QA

Test Execution

• Fx.Next
  • Aurora(5) -> Beta, May 17th
    • Channel switcher should be all tested a week+ before then.
  • Workspaces in development on Nightly(6)

WebQA

• Shipped last week:
  • Web of Wonder
  • MDN 0.9.4
  • SUMO 2.8
  • AMO 6.0.7
  • Input 3.4

QA Community

• Updated QMO for the London meetup event and the upcoming Selenium meetup
• Upcoming Test Day Friday, May 6: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/firefox-bugday-2011-05-06

Test Dev

Automation & Tools

• Bughunter backend refactor nearing completion
• Fixes for addon testing service should be rolled out in downtime this week (affecting Talos Ts)
• Autolog is up and running - check out the crossweave data (sync testing)
• Other notes can always be found on our page

Engagement

PR

• 10 must-have free Firefox 4 add-ons

• Update Adds Firefox 4 Engine to Mozilla’s ‘Chromeless’ Project

• Firefox gets faster on Linux

• Mozilla Fixes Vulnerabilities in Firefox 4
• Firefox 4.0.1 fixes several security issues

Events

Creative Team

Contributor Engagement

• Firefox 4 launch: Awesome Firefox events continue around the world, including a series of events in Senegal, Kenya and Indonesia.
  • Senegal: Check out event photos here, as well as a spotlight on Emmanuelle Bouiti who helped host the events.
  • Indonesia: Photos, photos and more photos
  • Kenya: Check out Dietrich Ayala's write up.
• Community Marketing Call:
  • The next call is set for May 11th at 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET
  • Notes from last week's call are here

Webdev

• Kicked off working on elmo, the next iteration of the l10n dashboard. Moved the project to github, feel free to fix your papercuts and contribute, or grab a bug. We're using gitflow now, too. Join laura, peterbe, pike, stas.

Introducing New Hires

We have 4 new interns who started this week!
- Marc Jessome (RelEng)
- Owen Coutts (QA)
- William Chen (Content)
- Albert Noll (Research)

Foundation Updates

• Introducing Marilyn Wigglesworth, the new Director of Finance for the foundation