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'''Firefox 3.5 Launch''' | '''Firefox 3.5 Launch''' | ||
*Firefox 3.5 Launch Parties: We now have 205 requests for swag packs for 3.5 launch parties (up from 106 requests last week). Some of the new requests this week have come from India, Macedonia, Spain and Mexico. | *Firefox 3.5 Launch Parties: We now have 205 requests for swag packs for 3.5 launch parties (up from 106 requests last week). Some of the new requests this week have come from India, Macedonia, Spain and Mexico. | ||
'''PR''' | '''PR''' | ||
* Press coverage highlights - 96 original articles: [ABC News | |||
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7974979], [http://bit.ly/a1Ts1 MTV], [http://digg.com/software/How_Mozilla_Deploys_Volunteer_Developers_BusinessWeek BusinessWeek], [http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10275863-2.html CNET], [http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2009/06/new_firefox_released.html NPR], [http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/30/firefox-35-soars-past-a-million-downloads-approaching-100-downloads-a-second/ TechCrunch], [http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/firefox-35-downloaded-5-million-times-in-first-24-hours.ars Ars Technica] | |||
* Mark Surman in the [http://blog.estadao.com.br/blog/link/?title=no_novo_firefox_videos_interagem_com_sit&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Brazilian press] | |||
* [http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10278933-16.html CNET] takes a look at open source | |||
* John Lilly talks with [http://www.h-online.com/open/Mozilla-CEO-The-browser-has-a-long-way-to-go--/features/113681/0 The H] | |||
'''Mozilla Service Week''' | '''Mozilla Service Week''' |
Revision as of 17:52, 6 July 2009
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Friends of the Tree 
Development Updates
Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x
- Firefox 3.0.12
- handed off to build a couple hours ago
- still targeting mid-late July for release
- Firefox 3.0.13
- proposed schedule to become final this week
- will have a final list of blockers this week as well
Gecko
Firefox
Firefox Front End Work
Team News
TB 3
Mobile
IT
- @mozdashboard Experiment & Data
- Peaks as seen from the ZXTM Load Balancer:
- addons.mozilla.org: 6127 hits/second, 210Mbps
- versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org: 4175 hits/second, 30Mbps
- fxfeeds.mozilla.org: 7628 hits/second, 38Mbps
- Peaks as seen from the ZXTM Load Balancer:
- Old builds & ftp.mozilla.org
- Still working with Metrics on usage analysis
- moz.dev.builds discussion
Release Engineering
- New Talos TP4 pageset enabled on mozilla-central bug 473821
- faster then tp3, beginning of the end for fast talos.
- Graph Server migration bug 487329
QA
Test Execution
Web Dev Testing
Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community
Test Development
Security
Fuzz-testers Martijn Wargers and Paul Nickerson are visiting Mountain View this week. We'll be scheduling meetings with lots of groups, such as the people working on the HTML5 parser.
There might be areas that need fuzzing that we're not aware of. If you need something fuzzed, find us near the QA area this week!
Marketing/PR
Firefox 3.5 Launch
- Firefox 3.5 Launch Parties: We now have 205 requests for swag packs for 3.5 launch parties (up from 106 requests last week). Some of the new requests this week have come from India, Macedonia, Spain and Mexico.
PR
- Press coverage highlights - 96 original articles: [ABC News
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7974979], MTV, BusinessWeek, CNET, NPR, TechCrunch, Ars Technica
- Mark Surman in the Brazilian press
- CNET takes a look at open source
- John Lilly talks with The H
Mozilla Service Week
Events
- Renegade Craft Festival, July 18 - 19, 2009, San Francisco - Opportunity to garner awareness for Personas and to get new ones created. Also a great place to expose add-ons. Sign-ups to work at the festival are on the wiki.
- Maker Faire Africa August 14 - 16, 2009, Accra, Ghana - Looking to sponsor the event and bring together the local L10n community. Check out the wiki for early details.
General
- New Spread Firefox Affiliate Reward program: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/affiliates/rewards
Support
Metrics
- Fx3.5 stats
- In less than a week, we've seen 16 million downloads (thanks to Daniel for the cool visualization and live counter)
- A couple different sources for real-time market share data (here's one example) show Fx3.5 at nearly 4% worldwide market share
- June market share – Net Applications is still working through some issues. Almost all data has been temporarily removed from their site and a note states, "Browser and O/S June stats under review. We are investigating some significant variations in browser and operating system statistics. The reports will not be available until we complete our review."
Evangelism
(Update from Arun in Blizzard's absence)
- hacks.mozilla.org awesomeness continues
- Recently: XS-XHR, Video, etc.
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
- 5.0.7 pushed to next Wednesday (7/15) (help us test!)
- Upcoming projects welcoming discussion
- 365 pending updates and 268 nominated add-ons (graph)
- 90% of hosted add-ons compatible with 3.5.*
Webdev
- AMO 5.0.7 freeze was 7/2
- 3.5 launch stuff
- Cesium alpha almost done, which is really exciting!
L10n
Firefox 3.5
Web
Tools
Foundation Updates
- Chelsea Novak joins the Mozilla Foundation this week as fundraising manager, working out of the Toronto office; please join us in extending a warm welcome to Chelsea!
- We continue to prepare for the relaunch of www.mozilla.org:
- Our launch date has been delayed slightly
- If you are interested in helping us embed Bespin as a site editor, please let us know
- If you own any documentation on the site, please review the open documentation migration bugs
- See our site roadmap for our plans for after relaunch
- The Hacking page on www.mozilla.org has been migrated to the Mozilla Developer Center, and the original URL redirected.
- We're continuing work on improving Bugzilla, with meetings of an advisory group to discuss overall issues and Gerv reaching out to major Bugzilla users; for more information see the wiki page.
- Gerv updated the Firefox Language coverage data for Firefox 3.5 and reblogged it.
- In grant news, the Mozilla Corporation made a $10,000 grant to the Software Freedom Conservancy to help the Conservancy expand its activities in support of free and open source software projects.
Roundtable
New Interns
Show & Tell
This week we have the following interns presenting: