WeeklyUpdates/2010-11-15

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Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 15 November

Tuesday, 16 November

Wednesday, 17 November

Thursday, 18 November

• Websites Task Force meeting at 10 AM pacific (meeting details in link)

Friday, 19 November

Saturday, 20 November

• Firefox Developer Conference, Tokyo

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 4

We Shipped Beta 7

• ... and it's awesome!
• Next up: Beta 8!
  • Schedule will be quicker for these ones, they aren't landmark releases the way beta 7 was, they are incremental progressions as we clamp down blockers
    • If you can't come up with a good reason why a bug should go into beta 8 instead of beta 9 → not a beta 8 blocker
  • Beta 8 schedule will be discussed in tomorrow's development call and wednesday's product call, each at 11am PST.

A quick list of Firefox 4 triage queries is available:

• Beta 8: 66 blockers
• Beta: 471 blockers
• Final: 339 blockers
  • TOTAL: 812 blockers
  • nominations: 211 nominations
  • ready to land: 11 blockers ready

Firefox 3.6 & 3.5

• Code freeze for 3.6.13 and 3.5.16 is this Thursday, 2010-11-18 @ 11:59 PST
• Nag emails and blocker reports will be sent out today
• Plan to final ship on Thursday, December 9th

Mobile Firefox

• Beta 3 code freeze is still next Tuesday, November 23
• Firefox Home 1.0.4 is now in the app store

Thunderbird

• Mac 32 & 64 bit builds expected today and tomorrow
• We are preparing a 3.3a1 release and are looking for some help on the testing side
  • Alpha builds start this week

Drumbeat

• Universal Subtitles: 2,856 videos subtitled. Need help to reach their 10,000 videos by Jan 1 target.
• Drumbeat Festival follow-up: early work started on 4 new Festival projects.
• Lightning talk on Festival coming next week.

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
Your Title Here	Your Name Here	What are you going to talk about?	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information
Tracking Polish Bugs in Firefox 4	Alex Faaborg	Now that all of the major features have landed for Firefox 4, we are shifting our focus towards small polish bugs. We want Firefox 4 to looks and feel like a finely crafted product.	Main Window Menus	Learn more about Atul's buzilla.js which was used to provide the live data in these mockups. Also thanks go to Gerv for building the API we're accessing!

Status Updates By Team

Messaging

• Launched F1, an experimental service & Firefox add-on designed to help users easily share links while avoiding the "NASCAR problem."

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla releases new Firefox 4 beta, link-sharing extension
• Firefox 4 regains speed mojo
• Firefox 4 gets much, much faster
• New Beta Release Gives Firefox a Shot of Jäger

• Firefox Launches F1 Social Add-On
• Firefox F1 Fights Back Against RockMelt
• Mozilla launches F1, a new way to share links

• Top 10 Must-Have Apps for the iPhone, and Some Runners-Up

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

• What's up with SUMO? - Nov. 9
  

Introducing New Hires

• William Reynolds - User Engagement
• Cameron McCormack - Web standards, platform work of some variety
• Kevin Fox - Principal UX Designer, Labs
• Ian Bicking (not really a new hire!) - moves from WebDev to Labs
• Thomas Arend - Mobile PM