WeeklyUpdates/2009-05-04

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Friends of the Tree

Bret Reckard wrote in to nominate Amie Tyrrel for all the work she put in getting visas sorted out for the Mozilla Summer Intern Program. "It's a huge undertaking with Mozilla's ever-growing and diverse program. Amie's kept the entire process moving throughout the spring and it's going to start paying off when the interns arrive beginning of May."

Development Updates

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

• Firefox 3.0.9
  • Shipped just shy of two weeks ago
• Firefox 3.0.10
  • Shortly after shipping 3.0.9, noticed that a major stability regression had been introduced
  • Firedrilled 3.0.10 with a fix for the stability issue
  • Shipped last Monday, April 27
• Firefox 3.0.11
  • New schedule on the wiki
  • Aiming for early June release
• Firefox 2.0.0.20 MU 2
  • Initially scrapped due to 3.0.10 firedrill
  • Planning a release in two to three weeks

Mobile

• Mozilla/Nokia developer camp

Release Engineering

• Tshutdown tests enabled in talos last week, details here
• expecting this week to be busy week, pent up demand after FF3.5beta4 lockdown and allhands. Watching the wait times posted to mozilla.dev.tree-management.
• Welcome to John Ford (jhford on irc)

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

Test Development

Marketing/PR

General

• Next Community Marketing call is Wednesday, May 6th, 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.
• New Spread Firefox design live! Thanks to all the amazing hardwork - especially Alex Buchanan, Krupa Raj and Stephen Donner!

Firefox 3.5 Launch

• Marketing is hosting a series of online workshops via Air Mozilla to prep for the Firefox launch. This week's lineup includes:
  • May 5th: PR workshop, 9 a.m. PDT/16:00 UTC.
  • May 7th: Creative workshop, 9 a.m. PDT/16:00 UTC.

Mozilla Service Week"

• June 22 - 29, 2009
• A week to provide technology & Web-related service to organizations in need.
• Looking for localization help with the "Mozilla Service Week" name.

PR

Events

L10n

• Web localization for Firefox 3.5 started tracking bug: #490884

* New in-product page for localization compared to 3.0: Geolocation. Will be ready for localization by end of the week
* Mozilla Service Week promotional website to be localized too, English copy being prepared now, should be ready for l10n by end of the week, early next week
* More locales this year but less pages per locale, focusing on high visibility pages as well as marketing related localization for launch

• Community: Cédric Corazza (French localizer) is helping the Kompozer project (nvu-Fork) led by Fabien Cazenave to have a coordinated product localization

Foundation Updates

• James Boston is our new Mozilla Education intern, working on the Mozilla Education site and related activities. Please welcome James!
• The Open|Web|Content|Education course continues this week with a week 6 seminar on open learning and pedagogy.
• As noted in David's blog post, we have a third round of designs for www.mozilla.org available for review.
• We blogged about Mozilla as a hybrid organization (Mark's original post and Frank's follow-up)
• We talked about Mozilla, openness and participation to 150+ Government of Ontario communications professionals at the Reach Out conference (Mark's slides).
• Based on Kathleen Wilson's recommendations, we approved CA requests from ComSign and StartCom to include ComSign's root certificate in Mozilla (bug 420705) and enable StartCom's root for EV and trust it for code signing (bug 451298).
• For more information on what we're working on, see Mark's blog post on Mozilla Foundation team priorities for the coming months.

Roundtable

Our first 8 interns started today:
Arzhel Younsi - IT
Chris Howse - AMO
John Ford - Build
Matt Noorenberghe - FFx
Reed Loden - IT
Anthony Hughes - QA
Aaron Train - QA
Nino D'Aversa - Mobile

A warn welcome to all of them!