WeeklyUpdates/2010-09-27

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Friends of the Tree

• nominating Margaret Leibovic and Philipp von Weitershausen for climbing the learning curve in writing localization-friendly code with their b7 blockers (Axel).

• nominating Aleksej, Daniel, db48xOther, dickey, Fry-kun, gaby2300, Jan, kbrosnan, Mathnerd314 for contributing test cases as part of the multiple bugdays during the recent QA work week [ashughes]

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 27 September

Tuesday, 28 September

• Coffee/Brown Bag with Chris Jay Hoofnagle re Users' Views and Expectations on Privacy and Privacy Settings (10 Forward and Air Mozilla)--be there or be square! Contact Julie Martin if you have any questions.

Wednesday, 29 September

• We host the jQuery Mobile project team meeting in R2D2/C3PO. Swing by if you want to see what they are up to.

Thursday, 30 September

Friday, 1 October

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 3.6 and 3.5

• Code freeze for 3.6.11 and 3.5.14 is tomorrow, 2010-09-28 @ 11:59 pm PDT
  • Please email Christian if you have a blocker that won't be done by that time
• Post-mortem for 3.6.9/10 will be held on Thursday (see the wiki page for details)

Mobile Firefox

• Beta one is close!
• Please help test builds

Thunderbird

• Thunderbird trunk
  • add-ons manager has been brought back to life in a tab
  • now based on libxul
• Account provisioning work continues

Drumbeat

• Update on Transmediale Open Web Award Finalists - Henrik Moltke (present)

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
Game On 2010	Pascal Finette	Mozilla Labs' "Game On 2010" Open Web games competition update	tbd	http://gaming.mozillalabs.com
Seabird Concept Phone	Pascal Finette	Some background on the Concept Series Seabird mobile phone concept	http://mozillalabs.com/seabird	http://mozillalabs.com/seabird
One Mozilla Domain Name Strategy	David Boswell	Proposal for a coherent domain name plan	Proposal	Governance thread
Change to OSX universal builds	John O'Duinn			blog post

Status Updates By Team

QA

QA Org Highlights

• Q4 Goals locked and loaded!
• WebQA
  • AMO 5.12 is currently planned to go out on 09/28
  • Certify/ship Input 1.8
• Browser Technologies
  • Tested and shipped Jetpack 0.8
• Desktop Firefox
  • Fx 4 Beta 7: Code freeze delay. Holding pattern for test execution.
• Community
  • Testday for recent Sync changes last Friday with 13 bugs filed.

Automation & Tools

• Temporary android automation running, continuing to work on final automation with Bear and Aki.
  • Android Talos is running within the buildbot framework
• Started War On Orange discussions with Metrics team and RelEng for a Hadoop centric build/test log storage
• Have Mozmill testing ready for production on buildbot for Mac and Linux, working through the last issues with Windows - bug 516984
• More information is always on our page

Engagement

PR

• Firefox for Android is Growing Up Fast

• Mozilla dreams up conceptual Seabird phone
• Mozilla Seabird Concept Phone Boasts Projector, Wireless Charging (VIDEO)
• Forget Facebook: I Want a Mozilla Seabird Phone

• Mozilla updates Firefox Home for iPhone, iPod touch
• Firefox Home for IPhone Adds URL Field, More
• Mozilla Launches New Version of Firefox Home iPhone App

• Mozilla becomes Open Invention Network licensee

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Introducing New Hires

• Jason Grlicky, Webdev