WeeklyUpdates/2010-03-01

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Friends of the Tree

• I'd like to nominate Staś, for his above-and-beyond work driving many aspects of the Open To Choice campaign - stephend

Upcoming Events

This Week

The Firefox team is having an on-site work-week in Mountain View.

Monday, 1 March

Tuesday, 2 March

Wednesday, 3 March

Thursday, 4 March

Design Lunch - Test Pilot menu study results presented by Blake, Jono, and Jinghua. What menu items in Firefox are used most, which are hardest for people to find, and what could this mean for redesigning menus in Firefox.next? 12:30pm

Friday, 5 March

QA is holding a testday on Learning How to Testscript your Add-ons with Mozmill! For more information, take a look at our event page.

Next Week

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
	Chris AtLee	Faster build machines, end-to-end-cycle times
Mochitests on Mobile	Clint Talbert	Getting our test infrastructure to run on Windows Mobile Phones	MochiRemote Slides
Qa Work Week and uTest Demo	Matt Evans	What's happening this week with QA and uTest background		uTest Presentation 10a Weds Qa work schedule
Firefox Developer Preview	Benjamin Smedberg (bsmedberg)	Firefox Developer Preview: 2010-March-2 edition	?	candidate builds
Drumbeat	Mark Surman

Status Updates By Team

Release Engineering

• faster end-to-end-cycle times. catlee will talk about this, but for those just reading the notes:
  • Windows: new hardware build machines -> PGO builds in 1/4 the time it took on VMs
  • Mac: builds are now done preferentially on xserves, tests on minis
  • Linux: still awesome
• Linux x64 debug builds are now available - blog
• Talos:
  • disconnected rev2 minis last week. Will start recycling them into other applications this week.

QA

Planned this week

Test Execution

• planned work week QA Workweek Schedule
• test and sign off for FF 3.7a2 FF 3.7a2 TestPlan
• test final release of Thunderbird 2.0.0.24

Web QA

• Work on AMO 5.8
• Continue working on and shipping the remaining work for the EU Ballot, as localized pages come in
• Certify SUMO 1.5.2

QA Community

• As part of QA week, the crowd sourcing company uTest will give Mozilla and testing community a presentation on air.mozilla Weds Mar 3, 10am

Accomplished last week

Test Execution

• Mobile
  • release test of Fennec RC3 results
• Firefox 3.0.18 and 3.5.8
  • Release update testing
  • Major update testing on beta and release

Web QA

• test and released AMO 5.7
• test and released MCC 1.1

QA Community

• Marco Reached out to community in English and German regarding the new Freedom Of Choice browser selection screen and its accessibility implications for screen reader users and those of other assistive technologies.

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

• 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 II 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.
  
• Processing.js Boston - April 10, 2010; Boston, MA.  Looking into putting together an event with the Processing.js team.
• JSConf.US April 17-18, 2010; Washington, DC.  We are sponsoring this event.  We will also have Mitcho, one of our Jetpack Ambassadors conducting a Jetpack talk and putting together Jetpack hacking session in the lounge.
• e27 echelon 2010 June 1-2, 2010; Singapore.  Looking into participation.
• GUADEC 2010 - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands Looking over sponsorship opportunities
• Open Video Conference 2010 - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Metrics

• No updates this week

Labs

• Jetpack
  • released the first candidate for the Jetpack SDK initial release
  • ongoing discussions about API design in the discussion forum
  • moving Hg repository for new codebase

Developer Tools

• No updates this week.

Introducing New Hires

• Support: please welcome Kadir Topal, our new SUMO community manager!
• RelEng: please welcome Mike "Bear" Taylor