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== Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x == | == Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x == | ||
* '''[[Releases/Firefox 3.0.11|Firefox 3.0.11]]''' | * '''[[Releases/Firefox 3.0.11|Firefox 3.0.11]]''' | ||
** Shipped! Yay! | |||
* '''[[Releases/Firefox 3.0.12|Firefox 3.0.12]]''' | * '''[[Releases/Firefox 3.0.12|Firefox 3.0.12]]''' | ||
** Code freeze targeted for '''tomorrow''' at 11:59pm. | |||
** ''Please work on your blockers'' | |||
* '''[[Releases/Thunderbird 2.0.0.22|Thunderbird 2.0.0.22]]''' / Gecko 1.8.1.22 | * '''[[Releases/Thunderbird 2.0.0.22|Thunderbird 2.0.0.22]]''' / Gecko 1.8.1.22 | ||
** Caught an update issue during testing | |||
** Targeting beta today, release in a week | |||
== Gecko 1.9.1 == | == Gecko 1.9.1 == | ||
* Sustained zero blockers over the weekend; however, there's at least [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498379 one] that has popped up today. Looks like a rebuild of the RC might occur. There's also one blocker nomination the JS team is looking into right now; however, it doesn't look like a blocker so far. | * Sustained zero blockers over the weekend; however, there's at least [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498379 one] that has popped up today. Looks like a rebuild of the RC might occur. There's also one blocker nomination the JS team is looking into right now; however, it doesn't look like a blocker so far. | ||
* In parallel to the Firefox 3.5 effort, we've been working on a [ | * In parallel to the Firefox 3.5 effort, we've been working on a [[Content_Processes|multi-process implementation]]. Chris Jones just sent a [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_frm/thread/aeb434de417456df# great update] to the dev list, and we will be having a [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_frm/thread/acb8d033d2d16da3# brown bag] to discuss the Chromium Security Sandbox. | ||
* New interns this week: | * New interns this week: | ||
** Justin Lebar, Stanford, working in the Content group with Jonas Sicking | ** Justin Lebar, Stanford, working in the Content group with Jonas Sicking | ||
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== Firefox 3.5 == | == Firefox 3.5 == | ||
'''Firefox Front End Work''' | '''Firefox Front End Work''' | ||
* helping QA test RC1, other than that, moved on to Firefox.next tasks (see below) | |||
'''[[Firefox/Namoroka|Namoroka]]''' | '''[[Firefox/Namoroka|Namoroka]]''' | ||
* moving on to [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=sw:tsnap TSnap] bugs which aim to make Firefox observably faster | |||
* also returning to [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=polish- polish] bugs and [[Firefox/Sprints|exploratory sprints]] | |||
* reminder to review and add your comments/feedback on the [[Talk:Firefox/Namoroka|discussion page]] or in the [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/cba189f02aa448d8# dev-apps-firefox thread] | |||
* Firefox Interns are totally rocking it: | |||
** both have code in the tree, MattN will have code in 3.5! | |||
** about:me has gotten fantastic feedback and even some press mentions (yay, Margaret) | |||
** can't wait for Felipe to get here | |||
== TB 3 == | == TB 3 == | ||
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== Release Engineering == | == Release Engineering == | ||
* FF3.5rc1 (build#1) handed to QA Friday+Sunday. FF3.5rc1 (build#2) waiting for formal "go". | |||
* TB2.0.0.22 beta delayed Friday because of {{bug|497956}} | |||
** builds, mars are fine. html snippets regen'd using older sha1. | |||
** going to beta today | |||
* did two *non*downtimes last week | |||
** lots of backlogged changes after long code freeze, more this week depending on rc1. | |||
** pooled talos machines on mozilla-central, 3.0; still need to convert 1.9.1 and tracemonkey. | |||
* Lukas in MV this week; stop by and say hi. | |||
== QA == | == QA == | ||
''' Test Execution ''' | ''' Test Execution ''' | ||
* Fx3.5rc1 testing in progress. Blocking: {{bug|498273}}, {{bug|498262}} | |||
* TB2.0.0.22 testing in progress. Blocking: {{bug|383390}} | |||
** Both are blocked by updates bug | |||
'''Web Dev Testing''' | |||
* Please join us in welcoming Raymond, our 1-year-long intern! | |||
* Shipped [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=support.mozilla.com&target_milestone=1.1&chfieldto=Now&known_name=Sumo&query_based_on=Sumo&order=bugs.resolution,bugs.bug_severity,bugs.priority SUMO 1.1], which included [[Support/ScreencastsPRD|screencast]] support (FLV, SWF, OGG) | |||
* Soft-launching [http://mozillaservice.org/ Mozilla Service Week] (might be behind auth for a short while) today! | |||
''' | '''Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community''' | ||
* Moco Fx3.5 Preview Testday [http://quality.mozilla.org/blogs/results-fx35-preview-moco-testday results] | |||
** Had a max of 64 in the testday channel at its peak | |||
** Major contributors outside mozQA: Labs team! (jono, myk, Mardak), mak, kbrosnan, tmyoung, asadotzler, ozten, Lucas, TheUni, limi, zpao, dao, dria, mitchell, and dveditz | |||
** 23 Bugs found | |||
* Website testing Testday on June 19th. See [http://quality.mozilla.org/events/2009/jun/05/find-out-about-mozqas-website-testing-project QMO] for details | |||
''' Test Development ''' | ''' Test Development ''' | ||
* Working our way through running [ | * Working our way through running [[QA/TDAI/External_CSS_Testing|external CSS tests]] for 3.5 to checkpoint ourselves. (Thanks Aaron & Clint!) | ||
* Making great progress on JS Ref Tests - have browser based tests, shell tests should land this week | * Making great progress on JS Ref Tests - have browser based tests, shell tests should land this week | ||
* Running Reftest on Windows Mobile | * Running Reftest on Windows Mobile | ||
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== Security == | == Security == | ||
* Made a presentation on [[Security/CSP|Content Security Policy]] at a Web App Security event which was received well. | |||
* Content Security Policy design is stable and is being [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493857 implemented presently]. | |||
== Marketing/PR == | == Marketing/PR == | ||
'''Firefox 3.5 Launch''' | '''Firefox 3.5 Launch''' | ||
* "Fastest Firefox" video campaign continues, will wrap up with 3.5 launch. Over 130 community contributed videos have been uploaded. http://www.fastestfirefox.com | |||
* Apply for your Firefox 3.5 party pack here: http://bit.ly/fx35launch_swagrequest | |||
* Website, search engine marketing, and affiliate program updates are all on track for 3.5. | |||
'''Mozilla Service Week''' | |||
* Going live today! | |||
* Help get the word out by blogging & tweeting (tag: mozservice09) | |||
'''Community Marketing Call''' | '''Community Marketing Call''' | ||
* Next Community Marketing call is Wednesday, June 17th, at 10am PDT. Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#. Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on irc.mozilla.org. Please note the new the [http://air.mozilla.com/marketing/ new Air Mozilla channel] for all marketing-related activities. | |||
'''PR''' | '''PR''' | ||
* Mozilla marketing in [http://adage.com/digitalnext/post?article_id=137197 Ad Age] | |||
* Firefox 3.5 press tour coverage in [http://www.cio.com/article/494770/Firefox_._Features_New_Javascript_Engine_Built_in_Video IDG], [http://www.computerbild.de/cb-Special-Firefox-4427236.html CompeterBild] [http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/09/demo-firefox-35-treats-videos-like-web-pages-why-cant-flash-do-that/ TechCrunch] and [http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2009/06/browser_bits_safari_4_exits_be.html Washington Post] | |||
* Mozilla Add-ons team launches [http://blog.mozilla.com/news/2009/06/12/mozilla-add-ons-collections-in-the-news/ Collections] | |||
* [http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Google-Chrome-Mozilla-Firefox-Updates-Fix-Bugs-222445/ Firefox] [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/06/12/urnidgns852573C400693880002575D30059608F.DTL security] [http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2244094/firefox-reaches-150-million update] [http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com.au/news/33054-11-Firefox-flaws-patched released] in [http://www.pcw.gr/Downloads/Mozilla-Firefox-3011/2170605.html the] [http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3824746/Mozilla+Fixes+Firefox+Flaws+as+35+Release+Nears.htm news] | |||
* The latest round of EU coverage in [http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=D5CE27C6-1A64-6A71-CE19F52A07642B32 ComputerWorld], [http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2244052/opera-mozilla-microsoft-browser VNUnet] and [http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/mozilla-nonplussed-by-win-7-browser-news-607983 TechRadar] | |||
'''Events''' | '''Events''' | ||
* [http://opensourcebridge.org/ Open Source Bridge], Portland, June 17 - 19: | |||
** [http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/36 Mikeal Rogers] and [http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/251 Dietrich Ayala] are both speaking. | |||
** Mozilla will participate in the Hacker Lounge. Our proposed session: Firefox & extension hacking. Dietrich will also participate in the Open Web Games session. | |||
** We're also looking to participate in the Knowledge Fair | |||
** More details on our participation [[Open_Source_Bridge|here]]. | |||
* [http://openvideoconference.org/ Open Video Conference], New York, June 19 - 20: | |||
** Help get the word out about the conference! http://openvideoconference.org/ | |||
** Chris Blizzard and Mark Surman will be speaking. | |||
** We're hosting a video contest that will now kick off at the conference vs. wrapping up then. | |||
** NYC-based and interested in attending? You can do so in exchange for time at the Mozilla table! | |||
* [http://personaldemocracy.com/pdf-conference/personal-democracy-forum-conference Personal Democracy Conference], New York, June 29th - 30th: Mozilla Foundation is sponsoring the PdF conference. Frank could use some help hosting a Mozilla booth -- free passes in exchange! | |||
* [http://www.fisl.org.br/10/www/en FISL] - Porto Alegre, Brasil, June 24 - 27 | |||
'''New Team Members''' | '''New Team Members''' | ||
* Welcome Sarah Doherty, Community Marketing Manager and Shannon Prior, PR Intern! | * Welcome [http://sarahdoherty.net/blog Sarah Doherty], Community Marketing Manager and Shannon Prior, PR Intern! | ||
== Support == | == Support == | ||
* Support is doing a [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Support+Firefox+Day?bl=n Support Firefox Day] next Thursday to gear up for 3.5. Blog post coming. We'd love to see you all there. | * Support is doing a [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Support+Firefox+Day?bl=n Support Firefox Day] next Thursday to gear up for 3.5. Blog post coming. We'd love to see you all there. | ||
* If you want to help with Firefox 3.5 support during release, let us know. | |||
== Metrics == | == Metrics == | ||
* Our 8th edition of Funnelcake ships this Thursday | |||
* Firefox.com download button test | |||
** launched the test last Monday | |||
** testing three new colors of the Fx download button to see if we can improve our conversion rate | |||
** orange/yellowish color seems like a clear loser (from early analysis) | |||
* Firefox Uninstall Survey | |||
** Early results are available at http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/firefox-uninstall-survey/ | |||
** Does anyone want to guess the #1 reason why people uninstall Firefox? | |||
* Introducing Eric Hergenrader, our analytics intern | |||
** Eric will be working on analytics projects related to SUMO, l10n, and AMO (among other projects) | |||
== Evangelism == | == Evangelism == | ||
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** Continuing to work on back-end stuff; we should have some more new features and skin fixes up very soon. | ** Continuing to work on back-end stuff; we should have some more new features and skin fixes up very soon. | ||
** Firefox 3.5 documentation cleanup continues, but there's not much happening there anymore. Starting to gear up for some content reorganization. Expect to see blog posts on this soon. | ** Firefox 3.5 documentation cleanup continues, but there's not much happening there anymore. Starting to gear up for some content reorganization. Expect to see blog posts on this soon. | ||
* 35 days week 1 is done! | |||
** Posted 7 features and 7 demos | |||
** More than 500 followers on twitter now | |||
** 200 comments in the various posts | |||
** Today featured first demo written by someone who found us instead of us reaching out to someone else | |||
== Labs == | == Labs == | ||
* Working on pulling together a Weave 0.4 release in the next two weeks. | |||
* Personas 1.2.1 released, fixes Thunderbird regression in Personas 1.2. | |||
* Jetpack 0.2 was released with slidebar support, storage, and the future! http://jetpack.mozillalabs.com . Good press coverage, with many [[Labs/Jetpack/In_The_Wild|new]] [http://userscripts.org/jetpacks Jetpacks] created by web developers. | |||
== Developer Tools == | == Developer Tools == | ||
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* Compatibility up to almost 80% for 3.5.* | * Compatibility up to almost 80% for 3.5.* | ||
** Most of the remaining add-ons are in the long tail, we're now approaching developers directly to see if they'll upgrade | ** Most of the remaining add-ons are in the long tail, we're now approaching developers directly to see if they'll upgrade | ||
* [http://extendfirefox.com Extend Firefox 3.5] launches this week | |||
* AMO 5.0.6 launched! | * AMO 5.0.6 launched! | ||
** [http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/06/10/introducing-add-on-collections/ launch post] | ** [http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/06/10/introducing-add-on-collections/ launch post] | ||
** Still waiting on overall web metrics but | ** Still waiting on overall web metrics but downloads are steady | ||
*** Target is new users, will get interesting data once 3.5 launches. | |||
** over 9000 collections created since Wednesday | ** over 9000 collections created since Wednesday | ||
** 36,000 downloads of the Add-on Collector | ** 36,000 downloads of the Add-on Collector | ||
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== Webdev == | == Webdev == | ||
* Introductions | |||
** [http://davedash.com/ Dave Dash] - welcome Dave! | |||
** RJ Walsh! | |||
* Finished | |||
** [http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/06/10/introducing-add-on-collections/ AMO 5.0.6] | |||
** Site for Extend Firefox 3.5 contest | |||
** SUMO 1.1 (screencasts!) | |||
** new orgchart | |||
** [http://mozillaservice.org/ Mozilla Service Week] | |||
** download button tests up on mozilla.com | |||
* Upcoming | |||
** AMO 5.0.7: Freeze 6/25 - Launch 6/30 (tentative) | |||
* Working on | |||
** Bugzilla integration with Socorro [http://people.mozilla.org/~aking/Socorro/bugzilla_integration/query_results_Show_More_Bug_Numbers.jpg see example] | |||
** ySlow automated tests [[Webdev:Cesium|read about Cesium]] | |||
** [[Design/CreativeCollective|Mozilla Creative Collective]] | |||
** [[Labs/Chocolate_Factory/Specs|Chocolate Factory]] | |||
== L10n == | == L10n == | ||
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= Foundation Updates = | = Foundation Updates = | ||
* We'll be '''hosting the hybrid organization summit this week'''; for more information see the [ | * We'll be '''hosting the hybrid organization summit this week'''; for more information see the [[Hybrid:Summit:Agenda|agenda]]. | ||
* We continue to '''prepare for the relaunch of www.mozilla.org''': | * We continue to '''prepare for the relaunch of www.mozilla.org''': | ||
** June 30th is the tentative launch date. | ** June 30th is the tentative launch date. | ||
** The new [http://www.mozilla.org/causes/ Causes section] is now live. | ** The new [http://www.mozilla.org/causes/ Causes section] is now live. | ||
** We're interested in working with others to make a [ | ** We're interested in working with others to make a [[Mozilla.org/Community|Community dashboard]] on the site | ||
* We've '''started requirements gathering for the Bugzilla project''': | * We've '''started requirements gathering for the Bugzilla project''': | ||
** See Gerv's [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2009/06/bugzillamozillaorg_improvements_requirem.html blog post] for an introduction. | ** See Gerv's [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2009/06/bugzillamozillaorg_improvements_requirem.html blog post] for an introduction. | ||
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= Roundtable = | = Roundtable = | ||
The interns group has just exploded this week! Please give a warm welcome to our new 9 recruits: | |||
* David Tran -- IT/Ops | |||
* Jeremy Hiatt -- l10n | |||
* Shannon Prior -- PR/Marketing | |||
* Eric Hergenrader -- Metrics | |||
* Matin Movassate -- Content | |||
* Justin Lebar -- Content | |||
* Roy Frostig -- Mobile | |||
* Ryo Kawaguchi -- Layout | |||
* RJ Walsh -- Web Dev | |||
= Other Business = | = Other Business = | ||
[[Category:Weekly Updates]] | |||
[[Category:Meeting Notes]] |
Latest revision as of 06:27, 1 October 2014
Friends of the Tree 
Development Updates
Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x
- Firefox 3.0.11
- Shipped! Yay!
- Firefox 3.0.12
- Code freeze targeted for tomorrow at 11:59pm.
- Please work on your blockers
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 / Gecko 1.8.1.22
- Caught an update issue during testing
- Targeting beta today, release in a week
Gecko 1.9.1
- Sustained zero blockers over the weekend; however, there's at least one that has popped up today. Looks like a rebuild of the RC might occur. There's also one blocker nomination the JS team is looking into right now; however, it doesn't look like a blocker so far.
- In parallel to the Firefox 3.5 effort, we've been working on a multi-process implementation. Chris Jones just sent a great update to the dev list, and we will be having a brown bag to discuss the Chromium Security Sandbox.
- New interns this week:
- Justin Lebar, Stanford, working in the Content group with Jonas Sicking
- Matin Movassate, Stanford, working in Content with Blake Kaplan
- Ryo Kawaguchi, CMU, working in Layout with Daniel Holbert.
Firefox 3.5
Firefox Front End Work
- helping QA test RC1, other than that, moved on to Firefox.next tasks (see below)
- moving on to TSnap bugs which aim to make Firefox observably faster
- also returning to polish bugs and exploratory sprints
- reminder to review and add your comments/feedback on the discussion page or in the dev-apps-firefox thread
- Firefox Interns are totally rocking it:
- both have code in the tree, MattN will have code in 3.5!
- about:me has gotten fantastic feedback and even some press mentions (yay, Margaret)
- can't wait for Felipe to get here
TB 3
- 3.0b3 work continues
- The folder display refactoring (part 2 of the Great Gloda Landing bug 474701) made it into the tree on Friday. If you encounter a bug in the nightlies which may be related, please check the regression tracker dependency tree], filing and adding a new bug if appropriate.
- After part 3 (the search UI and backend changes) lands, we'll set some new dates for beta 3.
- We're planning to ship jQuery, parts of jQuery UI, and Protovis with Thunderbird 3.
Mobile
IT
- Fx 3.0.11 went out unthrottled!
- That's four for four!
- Bouncer logging still needs a re-architect (bug 464778)
Release Engineering
- FF3.5rc1 (build#1) handed to QA Friday+Sunday. FF3.5rc1 (build#2) waiting for formal "go".
- TB2.0.0.22 beta delayed Friday because of bug 497956
- builds, mars are fine. html snippets regen'd using older sha1.
- going to beta today
- did two *non*downtimes last week
- lots of backlogged changes after long code freeze, more this week depending on rc1.
- pooled talos machines on mozilla-central, 3.0; still need to convert 1.9.1 and tracemonkey.
- Lukas in MV this week; stop by and say hi.
QA
Test Execution
- Fx3.5rc1 testing in progress. Blocking: bug 498273, bug 498262
- TB2.0.0.22 testing in progress. Blocking: bug 383390
- Both are blocked by updates bug
Web Dev Testing
- Please join us in welcoming Raymond, our 1-year-long intern!
- Shipped SUMO 1.1, which included screencast support (FLV, SWF, OGG)
- Soft-launching Mozilla Service Week (might be behind auth for a short while) today!
Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community
- Moco Fx3.5 Preview Testday results
- Had a max of 64 in the testday channel at its peak
- Major contributors outside mozQA: Labs team! (jono, myk, Mardak), mak, kbrosnan, tmyoung, asadotzler, ozten, Lucas, TheUni, limi, zpao, dao, dria, mitchell, and dveditz
- 23 Bugs found
- Website testing Testday on June 19th. See QMO for details
Test Development
- Working our way through running external CSS tests for 3.5 to checkpoint ourselves. (Thanks Aaron & Clint!)
- Making great progress on JS Ref Tests - have browser based tests, shell tests should land this week
- Running Reftest on Windows Mobile
- Running FennecMark for TPanning & Tzoom for performance testing on Fennec maemo.
- Continued tracking down crashtests and other reported bugs for 3.5.
Security
- Made a presentation on Content Security Policy at a Web App Security event which was received well.
- Content Security Policy design is stable and is being implemented presently.
Marketing/PR
Firefox 3.5 Launch
- "Fastest Firefox" video campaign continues, will wrap up with 3.5 launch. Over 130 community contributed videos have been uploaded. http://www.fastestfirefox.com
- Apply for your Firefox 3.5 party pack here: http://bit.ly/fx35launch_swagrequest
- Website, search engine marketing, and affiliate program updates are all on track for 3.5.
Mozilla Service Week
- Going live today!
- Help get the word out by blogging & tweeting (tag: mozservice09)
Community Marketing Call
- Next Community Marketing call is Wednesday, June 17th, at 10am PDT. Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#. Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on irc.mozilla.org. Please note the new the new Air Mozilla channel for all marketing-related activities.
PR
- Mozilla marketing in Ad Age
- Firefox 3.5 press tour coverage in IDG, CompeterBild TechCrunch and Washington Post
- Mozilla Add-ons team launches Collections
- Firefox security update released in the news
- The latest round of EU coverage in ComputerWorld, VNUnet and TechRadar
Events
- Open Source Bridge, Portland, June 17 - 19:
- Mikeal Rogers and Dietrich Ayala are both speaking.
- Mozilla will participate in the Hacker Lounge. Our proposed session: Firefox & extension hacking. Dietrich will also participate in the Open Web Games session.
- We're also looking to participate in the Knowledge Fair
- More details on our participation here.
- Open Video Conference, New York, June 19 - 20:
- Help get the word out about the conference! http://openvideoconference.org/
- Chris Blizzard and Mark Surman will be speaking.
- We're hosting a video contest that will now kick off at the conference vs. wrapping up then.
- NYC-based and interested in attending? You can do so in exchange for time at the Mozilla table!
- Personal Democracy Conference, New York, June 29th - 30th: Mozilla Foundation is sponsoring the PdF conference. Frank could use some help hosting a Mozilla booth -- free passes in exchange!
- FISL - Porto Alegre, Brasil, June 24 - 27
New Team Members
- Welcome Sarah Doherty, Community Marketing Manager and Shannon Prior, PR Intern!
Support
- Support is doing a Support Firefox Day next Thursday to gear up for 3.5. Blog post coming. We'd love to see you all there.
- If you want to help with Firefox 3.5 support during release, let us know.
Metrics
- Our 8th edition of Funnelcake ships this Thursday
- Firefox.com download button test
- launched the test last Monday
- testing three new colors of the Fx download button to see if we can improve our conversion rate
- orange/yellowish color seems like a clear loser (from early analysis)
- Firefox Uninstall Survey
- Early results are available at http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/firefox-uninstall-survey/
- Does anyone want to guess the #1 reason why people uninstall Firefox?
- Introducing Eric Hergenrader, our analytics intern
- Eric will be working on analytics projects related to SUMO, l10n, and AMO (among other projects)
Evangelism
- Mozilla Developer Center
- Continuing to work on back-end stuff; we should have some more new features and skin fixes up very soon.
- Firefox 3.5 documentation cleanup continues, but there's not much happening there anymore. Starting to gear up for some content reorganization. Expect to see blog posts on this soon.
- 35 days week 1 is done!
- Posted 7 features and 7 demos
- More than 500 followers on twitter now
- 200 comments in the various posts
- Today featured first demo written by someone who found us instead of us reaching out to someone else
Labs
- Working on pulling together a Weave 0.4 release in the next two weeks.
- Personas 1.2.1 released, fixes Thunderbird regression in Personas 1.2.
- Jetpack 0.2 was released with slidebar support, storage, and the future! http://jetpack.mozillalabs.com . Good press coverage, with many new Jetpacks created by web developers.
Developer Tools
- Integration is complete. Thunderhead 2 and Bespin have collided and the new UI has been created
- Next, we polish
Add-ons
- Compatibility up to almost 80% for 3.5.*
- Most of the remaining add-ons are in the long tail, we're now approaching developers directly to see if they'll upgrade
- Extend Firefox 3.5 launches this week
- AMO 5.0.6 launched!
- launch post
- Still waiting on overall web metrics but downloads are steady
- Target is new users, will get interesting data once 3.5 launches.
- over 9000 collections created since Wednesday
- 36,000 downloads of the Add-on Collector
- 116,000 add-on downloads from collections
- Nick will be at FISL next week in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Webdev
- Introductions
- Dave Dash - welcome Dave!
- RJ Walsh!
- Finished
- AMO 5.0.6
- Site for Extend Firefox 3.5 contest
- SUMO 1.1 (screencasts!)
- new orgchart
- Mozilla Service Week
- download button tests up on mozilla.com
- Upcoming
- AMO 5.0.7: Freeze 6/25 - Launch 6/30 (tentative)
- Working on
- Bugzilla integration with Socorro see example
- ySlow automated tests read about Cesium
- Mozilla Creative Collective
- Chocolate Factory
L10n
Firefox 3.5
Web
Tools
Foundation Updates
- We'll be hosting the hybrid organization summit this week; for more information see the agenda.
- We continue to prepare for the relaunch of www.mozilla.org:
- June 30th is the tentative launch date.
- The new Causes section is now live.
- We're interested in working with others to make a Community dashboard on the site
- We've started requirements gathering for the Bugzilla project:
- See Gerv's blog post for an introduction.
- The newsgroup thread has lots of interesting discussions.
- There's a new wiki page to collect and summarize feedback.
- We're continuing to look for new Mozilla Education partners and projects:
- On last week's call we discussed possible new ideas for online courses; for more information see the call notes.
- Frank attended a workshop last week on teaching open source and blogged about it.
Roundtable
The interns group has just exploded this week! Please give a warm welcome to our new 9 recruits:
- David Tran -- IT/Ops
- Jeremy Hiatt -- l10n
- Shannon Prior -- PR/Marketing
- Eric Hergenrader -- Metrics
- Matin Movassate -- Content
- Justin Lebar -- Content
- Roy Frostig -- Mobile
- Ryo Kawaguchi -- Layout
- RJ Walsh -- Web Dev