WeeklyUpdates/2011-02-28

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Friends of the Tree

• Andrew Sutherland, for fixing bug 635765 and thereby making hg pushlog pages load much faster. But wait, there's more! This may also have fixed bug 508863, making it impossible to wedge a repository by canceling a push midway through, requiring IT to fix it! (submitted by the guilty party who filed an IT blocker at 23:00 on a Saturday for this reason)

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 28 February

Tuesday, 1 March

• Brownbag, 12:15pm PST: The Marble Run Team (Winners of the Game On Contest) will be here and talk about Game On, how they came up with their concept and what it took to build the game.

Wednesday, 2 March

Thursday, 3 March

Friday, 4 March

• If you are an add-on author or an active tester please join our Add-ons and Add-ons Manager Testday

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 4

• Beta 12 went out on Friday. Feedback is positive...best beta yet!
• 15 blockers currently stand between us and RC

Firefox 3.6 and 3.5

• Firefox 3.6.14 and 3.5.17 will be released tomorrow, 2011-03-01
• Draft schedule for 3.6.15 and 3.5.18 will come out this week

Mobile Firefox

• Beta 5 shipped last week
• Code freeze for RC is March 8

Thunderbird

• Planning to ship Miramar Alpha 3 this week

Drumbeat

• Hackasaurus, School of Webcraft, WebMadeMovies at Digital Media & Learning Conference this week: http://mzl.la/h7wSf3
• Sneak peek at new WebMadeMovies platform (staging):
  • WebMademovies
  • Popcorn.js
  • Butter
• New weekly Drumbeat Dev calls starting this week (time TBD)

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
New wiki skin	David Boswell	Updating wiki design		Log in to wiki.mozilla.org > My preferences > Appearance > Select gmo > Save Post feedback
WOO and ElasticSearch	Anurag Phadke	Cloud based Real time search solution via REST API		ElasticSearch monitor console Fetch 500 results for given date BuildBot integration with ElastiSearch
Desktop Info	Henry Langi	Desktop Support Update		Survey Monkey Newsletter IRC CHANNEL #DESKTOP Desktop@mozilla.com

Status Updates By Team

QA

Browser Technologies

• Sync Extension 1.6.3 Sign-off
• Fennec Testday on Fri.

WebQA

• Releases last week
  • Mozilla.com 1.3 Release Tuesday 22nd February 2011
  • AMO 5.12.11, Thursday @4pm
  • Input 3.2 release
  • SUMO localization release 2/22

QA Automation

• Blog posts:
  • Streamlining Firefox Update Testing — Part 1: Background
  • Mozmill 1.5.2 and changes for running Firefox tests
  • David Burns: Selenium Camp - Slides and Thoughts

QA Services and Community

• Marco Zehe published a blog post about driving a respin of Firefox 4.0B11.

Desktop Firefox

• Tested and Shipped Beta12 in record time!
• addons testday next Fri, Mar 4

Automation & Tools

• Schedule for Bugzilla 4.0 Rollout is published, let us know if that timeline won't work for you.
• The War On Orange website is officially released. Happy Orange Busting!
• We now have mochitest, reftest, tp4 etc running on Android Tegras in production. We are continuing to work with RelEng and the Mobile developers to iron out issues with oranges (some are expected, some aren't etc).
• More news is always on our page

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs Talks Firefox 4, Competition With Google’s Chrome and More! (Video)

• Mozilla Plays With URL Bar Elimination Ideas
• Mozilla releases its final Firefox 4 Beta
• Mozilla: do-not-follow systems need to be tougher
• Firefox 4's last beta?
• Mozilla unfurls twelfth and last Firefox 4 beta

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Introducing New Hires

• Mobile UX: Brian Dils (Madhava Enros)