WeeklyUpdates/2009-09-14

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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

• Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4

• Thunderbird 2.0.0.23

SeaMonkey

• Released 2.0 Beta 2 on Saturday, feature-complete for 2.0 (based on 1.9.1)
• Freeze for RCs in early October, final release later that month

IT

Last Week

• The Amsterdam Reboot
  • Already serving www.mozilla.org!
  • addons.mozilla.org staged and waiting QA (bug 514994)
  • Waiting on a ~80GB rsync to finish for download-mirror.nl.mozilla.com
• Disconnected GNi (transit provider)

This Week

• Building up infrastructure to support Personas feature in 3.6

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing

• Shipped 1.3, fixing 84 bugs
• Shipping/launching the final phase of Mozilla Service Week

Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Community
  • Already have a great testday schedule for September - December!!
  • Pushed out QMO 1.1. New features: search users, all projects list, pagination highlighting on the qmo blog, cron (performs maintenance tasks for now), mollom (stopping spam). Total of 95 high priority bugs fixed! Big thanks to Paul, Aakash, Raymond and Tomcat for getting this done!!
• Accessibility: Blogged about recent fixes to make tables more accessible.

Test Development

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. Invitations have been sent out and we will have around 40 people attending including 6 MoCo representatives.
• 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

Developer Tools

• Shipped Bespin 0.4.3 "Chuck Finley" with new "deploy" command, SVN commands, named cursors, and more!

• Preparing for two more releases this month

• Aiming to ship an update to the memory tool experiment this week

Foundation Updates

• A first mockup of a new Getting Involved page has been posted. Let us know what you think.

• Notes and detailed proposal posted on Conga, the ground game component of Drumbeat. Looking for feedback.

• Dormant Accounts Policy now finalized; if you don't checkin for N months, your SCM accounts may be disabled and Bugzilla security bug access turned off. (The value of N is still to be determined, by experimentation.) You can, of course, come back and ask for them to be turned back on.

• Gerv working on an experimental RESTful Bugzilla HTTP API to allow people to more easily innovate with clients and new task-specific UIs. Hope to have something testable in two weeks. API design comments and use cases are most welcome.

• Community contributed One Web Day poster candidates on Mark's blog. Voting today, with full 'picture and poster' campaign starting mid-week. Will need everyone's help.

• Mozilla Foundation September Updated posted. Provides overview on progress towards Mozilla Foundation team goals for 2009.

• A new version of the Internet Health Check will be available later today or early tomorrow. It is now even easier to do. Please have a look here and promote this during Mozilla Service Week and on OneWebDay.

• Google Summer of Code has now wrapped up, with six of our ten projects being completed successfully.

• Based on Kathleen Wilson's recommendation, we approved inclusion of new root CA certificates from VeriSign (bugs 409235, 484901, and 490895).

• Kathleen Wilson is now a peer for the CA certificate module.

Roundtable

• Discussion of the purpose of this meeting (following on from newsgroup discussions)

Intern Show & Tell

This week we have the following interns presenting: