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** Remember: 8 has a bunch of smarts around third-party add-ons, including some new UI, so even with beta behind us we're gonna hear some surprise and learn a lot in the first 24 hours.
** Remember: 8 has a bunch of smarts around third-party add-ons, including some new UI, so even with beta behind us we're gonna hear some surprise and learn a lot in the first 24 hours.
** But we think it means our add-on compatibility story will get a lot better (and maybe our user experience, too, for many users!)
** But we think it means our add-on compatibility story will get a lot better (and maybe our user experience, too, for many users!)
** Firefox 3.6.24 is going out the door tomorrow as well
** [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.6_MU Firefox 3.6.x &rarr; Firefox 8 advertised update] is currently planned for 2011-11-17


== Firefox Android ==
== Firefox Android ==


''Speaker Location: Toronto''
''Speaker Location: Phone (toronto)''
* Holy crap the birch builds of Native UI for Android are getting excellent.
* Holy crap the birch builds of Native UI for Android are getting excellent.
** Tabbed browsing
** awesome bar
** preferences
** save as PDF
** a new panning/zooming patch landing soon
** '''and all of it needs your help testing'''
* [http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-birch-android/ Go get one right now] - now with nightly updates!
* [http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-birch-android/ Go get one right now] - now with nightly updates!


[[File:Birch-nightly-v10.qrcode.png]]
[[Image:Birch-nightly-v11.qrcode.png]]


== Thunderbird ==
== Thunderbird ==
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''Speaker Location: '' (No voice update)
''Speaker Location: '' (No voice update)


* It's migration week for us, just like Firefox!
* Crowd testing event during next week - details are on the [https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/thunderbird-testers/2011-October/000077.html tb-testers mailing list]. if you want to participate - shout an email to [mailto:ludovic@mozilla.com?subject=testing%20TB10 ludovic@mozilla.com]
* Crowd testing event during next week - details are on the [https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/thunderbird-testers/2011-October/000077.html tb-testers mailing list]. if you want to participate - shout an email to [mailto:ludovic@mozilla.com?subject=testing%20TB10 ludovic@mozilla.com]
* Lightning 1.0 being released tomorrow!
* Lightning 1.0 being released tomorrow!
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;Test Execution
* Fennec 8 RC testing signed off
* Testday for Fennec Native planned this friday, 11/11


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= Roundtable =
= Roundtable =
[[Category:Weekly Updates]]
[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

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Friends of the Tree Friends of the Tree

Speaker Location: Mountain View

  • Janet Swisher nominates longtime accessibility contributor Aaron Leventhal for revitalizing the ARIA docs on MDN.

Upcoming Events

Speaker Location: Mountain View

This Week

Monday, 7 November

Tuesday, 8 November

Wednesday, 9 November

Thursday, 10 November

Friday, 11 November

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: Phone (johnath)

  • Migration week!
  • Tomorrow 8 goes out the door, Beta becomes 9, Aurora becomes 10, Nightly becomes 11
    • Remember: 8 has a bunch of smarts around third-party add-ons, including some new UI, so even with beta behind us we're gonna hear some surprise and learn a lot in the first 24 hours.
    • But we think it means our add-on compatibility story will get a lot better (and maybe our user experience, too, for many users!)
    • Firefox 3.6.24 is going out the door tomorrow as well
    • Firefox 3.6.x → Firefox 8 advertised update is currently planned for 2011-11-17

Firefox Android

Speaker Location: Phone (toronto)

  • Holy crap the birch builds of Native UI for Android are getting excellent.
    • Tabbed browsing
    • awesome bar
    • preferences
    • save as PDF
    • a new panning/zooming patch landing soon
    • and all of it needs your help testing

 

Thunderbird

Speaker Location: (No voice update)

  • It's migration week for us, just like Firefox!
  • Crowd testing event during next week - details are on the tb-testers mailing list. if you want to participate - shout an email to ludovic@mozilla.com
  • Lightning 1.0 being released tomorrow!

Drumbeat

Speaker Location:

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.

Presenter Topic Media More Details Location
Aakash Desai Mozillians.org and "Groups" A brief demo on how to add groups onto your profile and why its important! Release Blogpost Mountain View
Jason Haas The Mozilla Student Reps Program is back! Preso slides-PDF A brief overview of the program: where it's been, where it is now, and where it's going. San Francisco
William R Firefox Live returns Slides - use right arrow to advance Firefox Live launches 11/9 San Francisco
Alex Keybl (Release Management) Mobile Dogfood Program Announcement Coming Soon San Francisco
Dave Dash (Webdev) Webdev Bootcamp http://mozweb.rtfd.org/ Mountain View

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution
  • Fennec 8 RC testing signed off
  • Testday for Fennec Native planned this friday, 11/11
WebQA

AMO 6.2.7: http://cl.ly/0i0I3d121f0o293k2p0t
SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-11-01
Mozilla.com 4.3

QA Community
Automation Services

Automation & Tools

  • Mobile automation up to 97% reliable now. Back out any unexplained oranges you see on mobile.
  • Peptest is a new test harness designed for testing responsiveness of individual actions
    • Work coming along, but would like feedback on the kinds of features you'd like to see in such a harness - ping ahal (ahalberstadt@mozilla.com)
    • See bug 674606 and bug 692091
    • Blog post
  • Working on bugzilla performance monitoring and improvements (see more notes for graphs
  • New bughunter UI is coming along, see this link for screenshots
  • As always more notes here

Security

Date / Time Item
Wed Nov 09 / 13:00 PST Navigation Timing API
Thu Nov 10 / 10:00 PST bug 661877 Enable storing files in IndexedDB

Calendar and Meeting details 

General Meeting Details
* IRC Channel: #security
* Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/secreview
* Dial-in Info:
** In office or soft phone: extension 92
** US/INTL: 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 then extension 92
** Toronto: 416-848-3114 then extension 92
** Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369
** Conference num 624

SecTeam Conferences

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location Will be working on
New person's name here Who will be introducing that person? From which office will that introduction be transmitted? What will the new person be working on?
Eric Parker Michael Coates Mountain View Infrastructure Security - Intrusion Detection
John Morrison Tony Chung Mountain View Services QA
Celia Liang Zandr Milewski Mountain View
Irakli Gozalishvili Dave Townsend San Francisco Jetpack

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

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