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*[http://www.pcworld.com/article/169833/mozilla_weave_sync_brings_your_different_firefox_installations_together.html PC World] looks at Weave Synch | |||
* Mozilla and Madhava Enros in [http://www.wirelessweek.com/Article-User-Interface-Holy-Grail-080109.aspx Wireless Week] cover story on mobile UI | |||
* [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/03b12c08-82cd-11de-ab4a-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1 Financial Times] review of Firefox 3.5 | |||
* [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/10/firefox_3_6_alpha/ Firefox 3.6] [http://lifehacker.com/5333858/firefox-36-alpha-adds-tab-previews-boosts-startup-time?skyline=true&s=x alpha] [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351369,00.asp in] [http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3833846 the] [http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10306076-92.html press] | |||
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Revision as of 17:50, 10 August 2009
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Friends of the Tree 
Development Updates
Firefox
Firefox Front End Work
Team News
Gecko
- I know he's been with us for a while, but now he's officially with us full-time. Please welcome David Bolter, working on accessibility in Toronto!
Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x
- Firefox 3.0.14 / Firefox 3.5.3
- code freeze tomorrow
- targeting early September release
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.23
- making progress on release
- build is green!
- please test the nightlies thoroughly
TB 3
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
Web Dev Testing
- AMO5.0.8 was tested and shipped. Found and verified fix for XSS bugin less than 12 hrs!
- Blogged about how to break down a site into areas for testing
- SUMO 1.3: Verified 7 bugs
- Mozilla Creative Collective: Tested MCC1.0 release. Filed 19 bugs
- Mozilla Service Week: Shipped the Partners page + 3 other bug fixes
- Spread Firefox: Shipped the first part of 3.0.4 (we did this release in stages)
- Labs website 2.0: Filed 9 bugs
- Mozilla.org: Filed 5 bugs
- Selenium: Created a test case(AMO) for checking whether clicking on a button triggers the Install_trigger action.
- Process: Created a Google doc to track Manual/Automation testcase coverage for the major projects
Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community
- Metrics: created code coverage FAQ, component data over time for: percent coverage, number of files, and percent coverage charts. We also had discussions about the coverage and related projeft metrics with the Content and JS teams. Created one stop code coverage information wiki
Test Development
Security
Marketing/PR
PR
- PC World looks at Weave Synch
- Mozilla and Madhava Enros in Wireless Week cover story on mobile UI
- Financial Times review of Firefox 3.5
- Firefox 3.6 alpha in the press
Mozilla Service Week
Events
- Maker Faire Africa August 14 - 16, 2009, Accra, Ghana - We are sponsoring this event and will have a presence at MFA. Our mission is to help bring together the local L10n community. Check out the wiki for details.
- Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre en Chile October 7 - 9, 2009, Santiago, Chile - Sponsoring event and bringing together the Mozilla Hispanic Community. + 2 day MozCamp Prior.
Community
- Work on the Mozilla Creative Collective site is almost complete, and if all goes well we'll launch the beta version next week.
- Tara, Jeff & John will be hosting a brown bag tomorrow (August 11) at 12:30 Pacific to talk more about the details of the Creative Collective, plus the how's and why's of building our design community. Please join us if you're interested!
- Next Community Marketing call is Wednesday, August 12th, at 10am PDT. Details and Agenda
- Please join us to get a look at the results of community outreach around the Firefox 3.5 in person or via Air Mozilla (Note: We're using the marketing channel)
Support
Metrics
- We published additional insights from our Installer Feedback project. Click here to follow the discussion around upcoming changes to the Firefox installer.
- Just a heads up that both the Add-ons and Metrics teams will be publishing some key add-on metrics this week. We've attempted to answer the question, "how many Fx users use at least one add-on?"
Evangelism
- Mozilla Developer Center
- Documentation effort for Firefox 3.6 ramping up; don't forget to tag relevant bugs with the "dev-doc-needed" keyword!
- Interface Reference reorganization continues.
- Started work on designing a unit test plan for MDC.
- More back-end work
- Wrote and had deployed (thanks again, IT) a new MindTouch plugin to automatically find and replace tag strings; will be using this to fix some bad tag names as well as to work on organization cleanup.
- Assorted minor tweaks.
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
- James Socol starts today full-time in webdev. James is from Michigan State University and is passionate about web design, accessibility and standards. He will be working on support.mozilla.com with the SUMO team.
- AMO 5.0.8 launched last week, Wil wrote a blog post about the add-on verification suite RJ and Wil worked on, which is now live.
- Labs 2.0 site is nearing completion; hope to launch this week or next week.
- The Mozilla Creative Collective (MCC) team has been working on theMCC site and we are in the final stages of QA.
- Spread Firefox released fixes for some 3.0.4 bugs last thursday, including security updates, a new community spotlight, and Upgrade the Web plug-ins for Wordpress and Drupal.
- 3.0.3 was wrapped up in July.
L10n
Web
Tools
Foundation Updates
- Based on Kathleen Wilson's recommendation, we approved a request from E-Tugra to have its root included in Mozilla (bug 443653).
Roundtable
Intern Show & Tell
This week we have the following interns presenting: