WeeklyUpdates/2010-02-08

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Friends of the Tree

Cheng Wang wrote in saying "Thanks to Drew Ruderman and David Naylor who really stepped up and answered TONS of questions during the 3.6 launch"

Anthony Hughes (:ashughes) wrote in "I'd like to nominate adifire as a Friend of the Tree this week. She showed up to QAs AMO testday not knowing much about testing; only that she wanted to help. By the end of the day she had contributed many test results and asked many questions resulting in a couple of bug reports being filed against AMO. She seemed eager to learn and excited to return for future testdays."

Upcoming Events

Put upcoming events here, with dates if possible. Are there any brown bags scheduled for this week? Software releases scheduled for this month?

Previously on "Mozilla"...

Monday, Feb 8

• Jetpack Ambassadors meetup is Monday through Wednesday in Mountain View office.

Tuesday, Feb 9

Wednesday, Feb 10

• A Weave 1.0 Meetup will be happening in the Mountain View office from 6:30 - 8pm on Wednesday.

Thursday, Feb 11

• Design Lunch presented by Aakash Desai, on the update of reporter.mozilla.org

Friday, Feb 12

Coming up on "Mozilla"...

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Your title here	Your name here	About your topic	Link to any media you want shown on the screen while you talk	Link for interested people to get more information
	John O'Duinn	Mobile devices in the wireless room	coming soon
Choice Campaign - Europe	Jane Finette	Intro to new Mozilla campaign surrounding EU Browser Ballot	Choice Campaign Slides	Sign up for more info at: browserchoice@mozilla.org
Updating JavaScript: ES5	Jeff Walden	Brief rundown of ES5 (the next edition of the JavaScript spec) with overview of Mozilla support	Slides	See last slide
Jetpack Ambassadors - World-Wide	Aza Raskin	Scaling community, evangelism, and Jetpack	Coming Soon	Agenda
Weave APIs and Developer Resources	Ragavan Srinivasan	APIs, libraries, resources and sample code to extend Weave	Demo video	Blog post
Weave Meetup Weds Eve	Marcia Knous	Community feature focus (Technical Education, QA, Community involvement)	annoucement

Status Updates By Team

Gecko

• Froze for 1.9.3 alpha 1 last week. Builds happening today.
• Out of process plugins disabled by default for this alpha, but as soon as the specific blockers to enabled by default are resolved, we'll spin another alpha.

Thunderbird

• 3.1b1/3.1 planning to be done by tomorrow
• 3.0.2
  • Code Freeze: Friday, Feb 12 23:59 PST
  • L10n Freeze: Monday, Feb 15 23:59 PST
  • Final Release: Wednesday, Feb 25

IT

Last Week

• Phoenix! Status
  • Building out 80 servers this week

This Week

• 2 additional ISC hosted download mirrors
• 50 1u RelEng builders

Upcoming

• Production services in Phoenix
  • download.mozilla.org
  • aus2.mozilla.org

Release Engineering

• WinCE builds have been disabled. blog post

QA

Test Execution

• Firefox 3.0.18 and 3.5.8
  • Coordinated and setup testing (litmus, etc.) with Tracy, Henrik, and AravindM (Smartware)
  • stuff left todo
    • l10n testing
    • Update testing on betatest and beta for beta release
• WinMo Alpha4 testing started today.

WebQA

• Shipped [ AMO 5.6]
• Shipped [ GetPersonas.com 2.4] (security fixes)
• Shipped [ Funnelcake 10]
• Team began converting Selenium IDE tests (written in Selenese/JavaScript) over to Python, in anticipation of integrating with AMO's Hudson install

QA Community

• 2 presentations @ FOSDEM Tomcat's open source meetup howto and Henrik's presentation on Mozmill test automation.
• Lots of Coordination for CeBIT and preparing of CeBIT is underway - only 3 weeks left
• Testdays
  • Held the 2 Weeks of OOPP Testing TestDays. Recap can be found here

Test Dev

• 2 patches landed for WinMo Talos! We have only 1 patch remaining to get full WinMo Ts (many thanks to alice!)
• Beginning to dig into Litmus 2 work
• Revived the old reftest extension for crowd sourcing hardware acceleration testing automation. Created an xpcom component to get hardware information out of a running computer
• More information is always on our page.

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

• Techkriti, GNUnify, Quark, MozCamp Bangalore - February 2010; India.  Seth, Arun and Ragavan will be in India during February to participate in a number of university based events.
  
• Processing.js Boston March 10, 2010; Boston, MA - Looking into organizing this even with the Processing.js team. 
• MAOW Lima 2010 - February 27, 2010; Lima, Peru.  Working with community members and Jorge Villalobos to put together a one-day add-ons workshop on XUL and Jetpack.
• SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  We have a small sponsorship and are hosting a Mozilla party on Saturday, March 13th from 6-8pm at the Cedar Door.  Sign-ups for our party are here.  Please continue to check our wiki page for information.
  
• ROFLCon April 30 - May  1, 2010; Boston, MA.  We have a join sponsorship with the Mozilla Foundation and will be live streaming and archiving the event with HTML5 open video.
  

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Evangelism

• The 2nd issue of about:hacks is out, check it out and give feedback!
• New demo: an HTML5 offline image editor and uploader application
• We're looking for web developer feedback on Firefox 3.6 and Firebug 1.5

Developer Tools

• We'll be presenting Bespin this week at the Mountain View JavaScript Meetup. Wednesday at 7pm.
• The new syntax highlighting engine has landed in the tree. We're doing some refinements before releasing Bespin Embedded 0.6.1 which will include this.