WeeklyUpdates/2009-08-24

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Development Updates

Firefox

Firefox Front End Work

• review our list of active projects and this quarter's goals
• as well, our team is blogging progress reports on Planet Mozilla which is hopefully helpful; eventually we'll have a better way to do this roundup, but for now:
  • Dietrich would like to talk to you about progress we've enjoyed on startup performance, as would Drew
  • Boriss needs your input on animating the Firefox UI
  • Curtis has an update on nicer 404 error pages
  • Felipe excites and amazes with a demonstration of multitouch UI in webpages
  • Blair is working on a bunch of things, such as alerting users about outdated plugins, getting Taskfox review-ready, and looking at JetPack integration
  • Dave is thinking about how to let users know when other software has installed Add-ons in their Firefox, which is important
  • Dao has some information to share about work towards integrating Personas into Firefox

Namoroka

• next milestone: Firefox 3.6 Beta 1
• still working through triage, waiting on some l10n estimates in order to get a timeline fleshed out, looking at mid-to-late September for a beta
• goals are startup time, responsiveness, Windows 7 readiness and polish
• stretch goals include things like determining if Personas can be included as well as some changes to how the updater works to include plugin updates

Team News

• this is Matthew Noorenberghe's last week with us as a Firefox intern, he'll be finishing up work on the new notification UI project this week
• the whole team is in Mountain View this week, hanging out in "Very Strong, Very Mighty"

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.14 / Firefox 3.5.3
  • builds started today
  • targeting early-mid September release

• Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4
  • schedule, queries available on the wiki
  • targeting mid-late October release
  • code freeze is September 22 at 11:59pm

• Thunderbird 2.0.0.23
  • shipped last week
  • tracking an issue with some mail servers which don't work properly over SSL (bug 511921)

IT

• The Amsterdam Reboot
• New log processing box for metrics, im-log03
• hg issues
• VeriSign EV cert for addons.mozilla.org (08/25/2009) bug 503040
• Layer42

QA

Test Execution

• Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 - Finished BFTs, l10n testing, and Releasetest and Release update testing
• Working on bug fix verification for Firefox 3.0.14 and 3.5.3

Web Dev Testing

• Mozilla Creative Collective and Mozilla Service Week releases were shipped this week.
• Testing AMO 5.0.9 features. Added 4 Litus test cases for login section. Also wrote 6 automated Selenium test cases.

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Community:
  • Held a Fennec 1.0 Beta Testday. Results can be found here
    • Verified over 300 bugs last week! (thanks to aakash and joel)
  • Help a Code Coverage QA meet-up last Wednesday. We had a good discussion about what works and wha tto watch out for. See Preso.
• Coordinating with Florian from OpenOffice about the next Opensource Meetup on September 25

Test Development

Marketing/PR

PR

• Fennec beta 3 for Maemo released. Highlights in CNET, The H, Pocketnow
• Information Week's "Which Browser and Why?"
• Mozilla's response to MSFT's EU proposal in Computerworld, BetaNews and the Seattle PI
• Mozilla Service Week in the InformationWeek, Heise online, and PC World and Jolie O'Dell's blog

Mozilla Service Week

Events

Community

Evangelism

• Mozilla Developer Center
  • As always, make sure your bugs are tagged with the dev-doc-needed keyword if they will need explaining to developers or web developers.
  • Fixed at least most of the problems left over after the server glitch last week. Still sorting out the outlying cases.
  • Can now sort tables on MDC, which will make many things nicer.
  • Preparing to upgrade MDC to the just-about-to-release MindTouch 9.08 release.

Labs

• Labs Night this Thursday, 6-8pm in Ten Forward. Guest speakers will be Li Gong from Mozilla Online in Beijing, and a mystery guest speaker
• The new Labs website is live.
• We have a new beta of Jetpack 0.5, with improved security and audio support.
• We also announced a contest to write the coolest Jetpack extension (Deadline October 15).
• Weave 0.6pre, with the final Weave 0.6 release hopefully this week. It includes better Fennec UI, better error handling, and about:weave, a new web-based UI for logging in and creating accounts.

Webdev

• AMO 5.0.9 launching on Thursday. ~100 bugs fixed
• mozilla.com now shares Firefox download stats. read about it or see how awesome
• Mozilla Service Week
  • Launched 4 new locales and several new partners
  • ko and sq coming soon
• Mozilla Creative Collective Launch: http://creative.mozilla.org
• Labs 2.0 website launch: http://labs.mozilla.org

Foundation Updates

• The first Mozilla Service Week action template is up: The Internet Health Check
• The mozilla.org site relaunches tomorrow

Roundtable

Intern Show & Tell

This week we have the following interns presenting: