WeeklyUpdates/2010-10-04

« previous week | index | next week »

Video for today's meeting

<video controls="controls">

</video>

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 04 October

Tuesday, 05 October

Wednesday, 06 October Join us at 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC for our bi-weekly marketing call hosted from Mountain View. Agenda items here. Call hosted on the marketing channel on Air Mozilla.

Thursday, 07 October

Friday, 08 October

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 4

• Code freeze for Beta 7 imminent
  • GC compartments passing tests now, landing on m-c soon
  • resolved a bunch of issues around updating users to 64-bit builds on OSX
  • most blockers have patches and are ready to land

• Tree will be metered when it re-opens
  • 54 bugs are waiting - add [can land] or [waiting to checkin] to your bug to put it in queue

Firefox 3.6 and 3.5

• Have builds, QA is testing and qualifying
• Releasing 3.6.11 to beta (throttled) today
• Releasing 3.5.14 to beta (throttled) tomorrow
• Intend to release the advertised update for 3.0/3.5→3.6.10 this week, tentatively on Wednesday

Mobile Firefox

• Beta 1 RC is being tested
• Beta 1 expected to be released this week

Thunderbird

• Account provisioning work continuing
• 3.0.9 and 3.1.5 maintenance release builds started, going to the beta channel shortly.
• Started surveying Thunderbird contributors about their contribution experience & motivations

Drumbeat

• This weekend's Open Video Conference now wrapping up. Big success. Kudos to Ben Moskowitz and the Mozilla team. Sessions on everything from real-time coding of HTML5 video players, to Stanford and Yale law school lectures on copyright, to Karaoke Crime.
• Interesting discussions now underway with big names in documentary production and public media
• Question: Now that we've had successful events two years running, what should be done in the months between? What should OVA be doing? Mozilla? Stay what it is? Grow?

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	What are you going to talk about?	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information

Status Updates By Team

QA

QA Org Highlights

• recruiting
  • Career Fair and Tech Talk on Oct 4-7 at Florida Inst Tech (melbourne, FL)
• WebQA
  • Shipped AMO 5.12
  • Shipped 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
  • Good blog post regarding future of bugdays by Anthony H.
  • TCM project
    • Finish mock-ups creation

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla Getting Up Close and Personal

• Mozilla Bumps Firefox Mobile To Version 4.0

• Mobilize 2010: Native Mobile Apps Will Be With Us For Some Time
• Mobilize 2010: 5 Apps to Watch

• Coming soon: Hardware-accelerated Firefox on Mac
• Firefox 4.0 For Mac Might Get Hardware Acceleration

Participation

• Community Marketing Call: Join us this Wednesday, Oct. 7th at 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC for our bi-weekly marketing call hosted from Mountain View. There are sure to be surprises in store.
  • Please put agenda items + questions here.
  • How to join:
    • Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#
    • Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. If you're outside the US, use Skype to call in with our toll-free number.
    • You can also watch the meeting live in Open Video at air mozilla
    • For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on IRC (irc.mozilla.org).

Events

Creative Team

Labs

• Game On 2010 launched! https://gaming.mozillalabs.com

Foundation Updates

• Anant Narayanan is back! (@Labs)