WeeklyUpdates/2009-05-18

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Friends of the Tree

Suneel Gupta writes in, "I'd like to nominate Toby Elliott and Donna Macomber (a personas community member) for their hard work in diligently filtering through submitted designs to the approval gallery and approving those that meet the community guidelines. thanks to Toby and Donna, Mozilla has welcomed over 10,000 pieces of art to the Personas gallery and over 7,000 new artists to the Mozilla community."

Cheng Wang writes in to nominate "Laura Thompson, Stephen Donner, Trevor Hardcastle, and Eric Cooper for staying up past 3:30 (at least for Laura) working on pushing SUMO 1.0.2 to production. I know they didn't get all the kinks ironed out but staying up 'till then and then dragging yourself into work the next day is MAD PROPS worthy if I've ever seen it."

Development Updates

Gecko 1.9.1

• RC freeze this week. We're planning for Wed of this week as the freeze date, and will be discussing actual date during tomorrow's dev meeting.
• Julian Seward, creator of Valgrind and bzip2 joins the Javascript team today. From his home in Stuttgart, Germany, he'll be working on nanojit and making the tracing engine even faster.
• Blocker Status:
  • 5 final blocker bugs left in content.
  • 1 GFX final blockers.
  • 2 Layout final blockers.
  • JS with 13 blockers, 4 w/ patch. (Last week: 18)
• 35 noms needing triage.
• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• 33 total 1.9.1 blockers (last week: 57!).

Firefox 3.5

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

Mobile

• Fennec Windows Mobile Alpha 1 released

IT

• Lots of infrastructure work
  • major iSCSI storage firmware upgrades
  • kernel upgrades
  • crash-stats.mozilla.com database migration
• Datacenter clean-up trip

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Top Site Testing: Filed a number of [Bug+creation&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= new crasher bugs]
• Community:
  • Lead aMunich Meet-up on Thusday, May 14th.
  • Held a Mountain View QA meetup on Wed, May 13th. Clint Talbert, QA Testdev lead, performed reftest demos!

Test Development

• Pushed a bunch of crashtests to Mozilla 1.9.1
• [And filed several more :)]
• Held the QA Meetup and demo'd Reftests. During the demo, managed to reproduce 465489, evidently it just needs an audience.

Marketing/PR

Firefox 3.5 Launch

• Firefox 3.5 Launch Workshops:
  • May 20th:
    • 9 a.m. PDT/16:00 UTC - Video

Mozilla Service Week

• June 22 - 29, 2009
• Building out staging site & reaching out to partners.

Mozilla Service Week

• New timing! We'll soft launch on June 16th with the en-US site and build out the program and partners over the course of the summer. The actual service week will take place in mid-Sept.

Community Marketing Call"

• Next Community Marketing call is Wednesday, May 20th, 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 Labs launches new Design Challenge
• Fennec alpha 1 for WM released. Highlights include ZDNet, Pocketlint, Lifehacker, InformationWeek and CNET
• Firefox 3.5 timing in ComputerWorld, Internet News and PC Pro

Events

• Mozilla Party JP 10th Anniversary, May 30th, Tokyo, Japan: The Japanese Mozilla community, Mozillagumi, is celebrating it's 10th anniversary this May 30th in Tokyo at Belle Salle Nishi Shinjuku. Guest speakers include Asa Dotzler from Mozilla and Bob Chao from Mozilla's Taiwan community.
• The 2009 MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference, May 31 - June 4, 2009, Kuala Lumpur: Gen Kanai of Mozilla's Evangelism team will be on a panel discussion on breakthrough innovations via open source software. Gen will also present on the upcoming Firefox 3.5 release as well as other Mozilla efforts.
• eLiberatica Open Source and Free Software Conference (Bucharest, Romania) - May 22-23:
  • Gandalf and William to present
  • Special "Mozilla Community Booth" will be set up for presentations and contributor sign-ups
  • Full details here
• Mozilla-Maemo Danish Weekend (Copenhagen, Denmark) - May 30-31:
  • 2-day workshops focusing on Mozilla, Maemo and Mozilla-Maemo projects
  • Details

Support

• We're now using the new Sphinx search engine on SUMO!
  • Automatically searches in both native language and English (example)
  • Automatically searches both Knowledge Base articles and solved forum threads (example)
  • See blog post Rolling out with a new search engine (SUMO 1.0.2)
• Working on the upcoming about:SUMO newsletter
  • People can already subscribe using the online subscription form
  • See blog post Subscribe to the SUMO newsletter
• Currently surveying Live Chat and Forum contributors to get a better understanding of what's working well and what needs improvements to make helping users on SUMO easier and more fun
  • See blog post Firefox support wants your feedback… it’s survey time!

Evangelism

• Documentation
  • Mouse gesture events are now documented.
  • Continuing to prepare to upgrade to MindTouch 2009, hopefully next week.
  • Added a new template, embed_text that lets you embed a text file attached to the article into the body, with optional syntax highlighting. This can be used to let the same code appear in the body and be downloadable without having to maintain both separately.
  • As usual, final updates for Firefox 3.5 are ongoing.

Developer Tools

No update

Webdev

• SUMO 1.0.2 pushed last week. 56 bugs fixed total plus a new search solution was deployed! Thanks to IT and the SUMO team for making this possible. See the SUMO blog for more info.
• Socorro hardware migration was a success - thanks to Aravind, Josh Berkus and Lars for making this happen.
• Frederic worked on the mozilla.com survey and geolocation pages

L10n

Firefox 3.5

• Opt-in thread now open, please opt-in by Wednesday, May 20th, noon UTC.
  • 43 green locales so far, and counting
  • 9 opt-ins so far. Localizers: please opt in.
• 9 new strings to translate since beta4
  • 6 strings landed after beta4
  • 1 more string to translate mass-landed by Stas on Thursday, May 14 in toolkit/chrome/global/videocontrols.dtd: <!ENTITY scrubberScale.nameFormat "#1 of #2 elapsed">
  • 2 strings landed on Friday, May 15 in browser/locales/en-US/chrome/browser/browser.properties (diff, newsgroups message)

Web

• Firefox 3.5 on the web dashboard
  • Pascal updated the dashboard to indicate which bugs are release blockers

• Mozilla Service Week (see Mary's blog)
  • first step: translate the headline: bug 493006

• Mozilla IT survey: bug 493096
  • Mozilla's IT team is investigating the need for a data center in South America and in Asia-Pacific.
  • Locales: pt-BR (done), es-CL, es-AR, ms, ta-IN, ta-LK, th, jp, hi-IN, id

Tools

• Silme 0.5 released
  • Available through easy_install too.
  • Gandalf laid out Silme 0.7 release plan

Foundation Updates

• The www.mozilla.org redesign is now transitioning to implementation, as David reviewed the redesign effort and started working with others on deployment issues; for more information see the planning meeting notes.
• The revamp of education.mozilla.org is also well underway, including a new front page; for more information see James's blog post on EDMO changes.
• We continued the discussion on Mozilla as a hybrid organization, this time with Mark posting on the question of "why do hybrids organizations matter?", with a followup from Frank about how hybrid organizations might maximize public benefit.
• Based on Kathleen Wilson's recommendations, we approved CA requests from Verizon and DigiNotar to include a new Verizon EV root (bug 430700) and enable an existing DigiNotar root for EV (bug 369357).

Roundtable

Please join me in welcoming 2 new interns who just started today:

- Simon Krueger will be working in the Metrics group
- Mark Hahnenberg will be joining the Web Dev team

Other Business

• Moving Weekly Update meeting to 11 AM Pacific?
  • Please add your thoughts to the news group: mozilla.dev.planning "Moving WeeklyUpdate meeting to 11 AM Pacific?" or the respective google group