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** Helped es-MX contributor.  See {{Bug|512553}}.
** Helped es-MX contributor.  See {{Bug|512553}}.
* Accessibility:  Reviewed of provided feedback on [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=512424%2C+513213%2C+506389%2C+509696%2C+512908%2C+504252%2C+513147&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= these bugs].  Provided ports and updates to patches for these: {{bug|499816}} and {{bug|504053}}.  Evaluated both the Yahoo! RichText editor and the [http://www.ckeditor.com CKEditor] WYSIWYG editors for web applications to advise on their accessibility.
* Accessibility:  Reviewed of provided feedback on [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=512424%2C+513213%2C+506389%2C+509696%2C+512908%2C+504252%2C+513147&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= these bugs].  Provided ports and updates to patches for these: {{bug|499816}} and {{bug|504053}}.  Evaluated both the Yahoo! RichText editor and the [http://www.ckeditor.com CKEditor] WYSIWYG editors for web applications to advise on their accessibility.
* Metrics:
** Filed a bug on the MAKE rules of security component {{Bug|512341}} to allow instrumenting the code base. Provided the solution as well!
** Mac OS Firefox instrumentation is a success.
** Investigating the mochitest-browser-chrome test harness hang issue. Seems to be caused by memory leak while switching between private browsing and regular browsing in the harness testing.


'''Test Development'''
'''Test Development'''

Revision as of 17:39, 31 August 2009

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Friends of the Tree Friends of the Tree

Development Updates

Firefox

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

Team News

Gecko

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

  • Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4
    • please work on your blockers
    • code freeze set for September 22 at 11:59pm
    • targeting mid-late October release

TB 3

Mobile

IT

Last Week

  • VeriSign EV cert for addons.mozilla.org (08/25/2009) bug 503040
  • Added Layer42 as a transit provider in San Jose.

This Week

  • The Amsterdam Reboot
    • Turned down sites last week. Did we break anything yet?
    • Derek & Arzhel in transit Tuesday, onsite Wednesday

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

  • Community:
  • Accessibility: Reviewed of provided feedback on these bugs. Provided ports and updates to patches for these: bug 499816 and bug 504053. Evaluated both the Yahoo! RichText editor and the CKEditor WYSIWYG editors for web applications to advise on their accessibility.
  • Metrics:
    • Filed a bug on the MAKE rules of security component bug 512341 to allow instrumenting the code base. Provided the solution as well!
    • Mac OS Firefox instrumentation is a success.
    • Investigating the mochitest-browser-chrome test harness hang issue. Seems to be caused by memory leak while switching between private browsing and regular browsing in the harness testing.

Test Development

Security

Marketing/PR

PR


Mozilla Service Week

Events

  • 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.
  • WordCamp Philippines September 19, 2009 in Makati City, Philippines - We are sponsoring this event.  Our mission is to help build up the Philippine community and build the Tagalog locale.
  • Philippine Blog Awards October 9, 2009 in Luzon, Philippines - We are sponsoring this event.  Our mission is to help build up the Philippine community and build the Tagalog locale.

Community

Support

  • One-day sprint to write crash articles for the knowledge base on Thursday September 3
    • Goal is to document the most common crash signatures in Firefox so that they all have a Knowledge Base article explaining the cause of the crash and the way to fix it (and any other info that is relevant).
    • See blog post and list of crash signatures (still being worked on) for more info

Metrics

Evangelism

  • Firefox 3.6 documentation is progressing. Don't forget to tag relevant bugs with the dev-doc-needed keyword so we can find them while looking for the next thing to write about!

Labs

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Foundation Updates

  • Mark posted extensively on Drumbeat, an initiative to engage huge numbers of people as promoters and stewards of the open web.
    • This is likely major MoFo priority for 2010. Feedback and involvement highly encouraged.
    • A wiki and google group have also been put up to support Drumbeat conversations.

Roundtable

Intern Show & Tell

This week we have the following interns presenting:

Other Business

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