WeeklyUpdates/2009-08-17

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Development Updates

Firefox

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

Team News

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

• Firefox 3.0.14 / Firefox 3.5.3
  • code frozen
  • qa is testing
  • on track for early/mid September release

• Firefox 3.0.13 -> 3.5.2 major update
  • major update was on the wire since 3.5.2 shipped (users had to "check for updates")
  • "unthrottled" the offer on Thursday
  • Firefox 3.0.13 users will now receive an offer to update automatically

• Thunderbird 2.0.0.23
  • in beta
  • hoping to ship this week

IT

Bad weekend for databases:

• AMO replication failure (Friday & Monday morning).
• developer.mozilla.org (Saturday morning)

Miscellaneous

• Starting to plan an Amsterdam Reboot ~ Sept 01/2009
• Catching up on downtime events

QA

Test Execution

• Tested TB2.0.0.23 to beta. Coordinated testing with Mozilla Messaging Test team.
• QAlab now has a test-generating EVCert server running. Details here. Thanks to Anthony Hughes and Juan Becerra for a half year of work to get this up!
• Firefox 3.6alpha litmus testrun published. Firefox Tegra testrun too.

Web Dev Testing

• Tested Mozilla Creative Collective and Labs website 2.0 for release early this week. Labs website 2.0: Verified fixes to 10 bugs crucial to shipping the site
• AMO: Verified fixes to 33 bugs for 5.0.8. Added Litmus test cases for button states along with Selenium automated test cases for button_states.
• SUMO 1.3: Verified bug fixes and files new bugs
• Created a public spreadsheet to track development of manual and automated test cases for all major projects.
• Landed 5 new SFx testcases (Selenium) from twsmith. Thanks twsmith!!
• Stephend finished up the 2nd part of his two-part " how test test web sites" blog

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Community:
  • Fennec 1.0 Beta Testday this Friday, 8/21!
  • If you have a project/idea that would like to have a Testday planned for it, contact aakashd
  • QA Community Outreach Guide pushed for review
• Project Metrics (AKA: Firefly):
  • Murali generated bug metrics for for 1.9.2 Blocking and Nominated bugs. These graphs are by assignee, priority, severity, product and component. These are automated (src) and will be kept up to date.
  • We also have more reliable automated code coverage results coming from the build infrastructure. Serialized mochitest runs and automated javascript testing are in place. Thanks joduinn and catlee!
  • We are pursuing code coverage for Electrolysis. See bug 510232.

Test Development

Marketing/PR

PR

• Test Pilot in Heise, CNET and Geek.com last week
• Firefox upgrade to 3.5 in Internet News, CNET, Heise and PC Pro
• Bespin collaboration services featured in ReadWriteWeb, The Register

Mozilla Service Week

Events

Community

L10n

1. AMO strings have been converted to normal gettext strings, with lingering fixes needed to complete the conversion
2. L20n development: investigating other implementations including the YAML format. Post from jhiatt is forthcoming
3. Google snippets are updated
4. Documentation inventory is mostly completed and rewriting primary l10n docs is underway
5. Productization dashboard development progressing. We hope to have an implementation ready for viewing by the end of August
6. Sign-off app demo-ed for IT, preparing to stage the entire application on a server in San Jose to test

Foundation Updates

• mozilla.org relaunch scheduled for next Tuesday, August 25.

Roundtable

Intern Show & Tell

This week we have the following interns presenting: