WeeklyUpdates/2011-03-07

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Friends of the Tree

• Kris Maglione, Andreas Wagner, Nils Maier and Archaeopteryx, winners of the top 4 positions in the AMO Editor Competition, totaling a combined 2500 add-on reviews in the past 2 months.
• Henrik Skupin nominates pxbugs, Aleksej, and bytehead for their efforts in testing Firefox 4 RC1 during the add-ons testday last Friday.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 7 March

Tuesday, 8 March

Wednesday, 9 March

Thursday, 10 March

• Websites Task Force meeting on Thursday at 10 pacific (Mozilla web font, End of Life processes and more)

Friday, 11 March

• Firefox Test Day - focusing on Unconfirmed Bugs: See UNCO Bugs March 11 Test Day for more details.

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Mobile Firefox

• Code freeze TOMORROW
• Need feedback from everyone running the build

Thunderbird

• Miramar
  • tab re-ordering and undo close bug 468808 have landed
  • Alpha 3 may ship this week; depending on outstanding landing & Lanikai issues

• Lanikai stability releases
  • released 3.1.8 and 3.1.9 in quick succession last week to deal with updater problems
  • still have outstanding updater issues to work through, including bug 635161

Drumbeat

• The Hackasaurus team is here in Mountain View this week. Meet @openmatt, @toolness, and @iamjessklein to chat more about the project!

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
Hackasaurus	Atul Varma and Jessica Klein	We'll be giving an overview of Hackasaurus, a toolkit and curriculum to help kids/non-techies understand the Open Web and how to hack it.	Google Docs Presentation, Hackasaurus 15-second hack Ogg Theora (slide 9)	Hackasaurus
Field Report - Press tour update	Shappy	Quick update of how the FF4 press tour is progressing	n/a	n/a
Quick update on some automated crowd-source-y test tools for your nightly	Ctalbert	Check out the A-Team section of the wiki	JS Speed Tests	New Grafx Bot

Status Updates By Team

QA

General

• A Browser Automation Standard
  • Initial discussion can be found in this Etherpad
  • Simon Stewart (Google) checked in the initial WebDriver browser automation standard IDL (Announcement thread)

Test Execution

WebQA

• David Burns Keynoted Selenium Camp Blog Post

QA Automation

• Blog posts
  • Introducing Firefox Endurance Testing

QA Community

• Results of the Firefox 4 add-ons testday

Test Dev

Automation & Tools

• Firebug test runner code has now landed in mozilla-central, waiting on a reconfig to the slaves in order to run in buildbot
• First edition of cross-browser automated JS speed tests are live. Check your speed here
• Grafx Bot testing tool with ability to run webgl tests in addition to reftests is released. Try it out today!
• More news available here

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla challenges Apple, Google with 'open' app store
• Mozilla Demos Open Web App Store
• Mozilla Web Application Project Debuts
• Mozilla Shows Off Web App Product in Bits and Pieces

• With Pwn2Own looming, Mozilla and Google ship browser patches
• Mozilla Follows Google in Fixing Firefox Bugs Before Hacking Contest

Events

Creative Team

Contributor Engagement

• Firefox 4 Launch:
  • Our party page is live - please register if you'd like to host a party. Our team is "Team Firefox" to celebrate all the team work that has gone into Firefox 4 for desktop and mobile!
  • Our launch team is now over 200+ strong. If you'd like to join still please sign up at http://bit.ly/joinFxLaunch.
• ReMo:
  • Join Pierros Pappadeas and William Quivigier tomorrow March 8th at 1 p.m. PST for a brownbag on Remo.
  • This will be streamed over AirMoz + dial-in is 1-800-707-2533 (password 369) or 1-650-215-1282 (extension 92#), Conference number 8600#

Introducing New Hires

• Nicholas Hurley ~ Robert Sayre
• David Mason ~ Jay Sullivan
• Noah Meyerhans ~ Corey Shields
• Matej Novak ~ John Slater
• Valerie Ponell ~ Melissa Shapiro
• Pierros Papadeas ~ William Quiviger