WeeklyUpdates/2008-11-17

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 8, 2009)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
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Friends of the Tree

Please send FotT nominations to asa@mozilla.org. This is a great opportunity for the community to recognize those who go above and beyond, so please tell me when you see that happening. Thanks.

Development Updates

QA

Firefox 3.1

• Finished beta 2 testplan [tchung]
• Maintained Beta 1 QA/Topcrashes#Current_topcrashes_being_tracked_3.1b1 page [ss]
• Feature testing
  • Addons Updates: completed 10% more test cases. Now at 80% complete. [tchung]
  • Overall Feature testing status:
    • Testplan completion: 86%
    • Testcases planned: 748
    • Testcase completion: 59%

WebDev testing

• AMO: Lots of testing of Bandwagon/Collections. Verified 12 bugs
• Community Store: Lots of testing. Filed 10 bugs. Verified 13 bugs
• SUMO 0.7.2: Verified 7 bugs. Shipped it Thursday night!

Marketing/PR

Impact Mozilla

PR

Events

First of all, a big "THANK YOU" to all of you who helped out with Green Festival! It was a great success!

A couple of events are taking place this week:

• Nonprofit Software Development Summit, Nov. 17 - 19, Oakland, CA: Please check it out if you are local!
• Mashup Camp, Mountain View, Nov. 17 - 19: Dave Camp is participating in a session on persistence.

Coming up:

• FOSSCamp, Mountain View, Dec. 5 - 6: Organized by Ubuntu folks. Please check it out if you are local!
• Add-ons conference, Mountain View, Dec. 11th

Events triage call is this Wednesday, November 19th, at 10am PST. Please call 650-903-0800, ext 92, id 248 if you're interested in joining us.

Spread Firefox

Logos

• Firefox 3.1 logos are now available at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.1/Logos. More details at http://www.intothefuzz.com/2008/11/17/firefox-31-logos-get-em-while-theyre-hot/.

Metrics

Funnelcake

• funnelcake03 ships tomorrow!
• The purpose is to better understand the experience of new Fx users when they download, install, and use Fx for the very first time
• Last year's Funnelcake experiment was documented and analyzed here, here and here.
• Thanks to Justin, Kev, the build team, stephend, oremj, tomcat (and others) for pulling this off.

Evangelism

• Documented in the past week: private browsing, plus additional work on web workers (which are now on hold pending possible spec changes). Additional writing work done on an assortment of topics.

L10n

• Final count: 54 localizations participated in FF 3.1 beta 2
• Thunderbird 3 beta 1 code freeze is on Tuesday 18th November at 23:59 Pacific time
• Localizers are also translating "about:rights" that will be included in Firefox 3.0.5
  • The past few weeks have been very high work-load for localizers. The localization community and the l10n-drivers team appreciates everyone's efforts to give advance notice of any localization needs so we can best coordinate our efforts and not overwhelm anyone. Planning a few weeks in advance really helps as we have seen with the about:rights work. Thanks to Beltzner, Harvey, Kev and Dolske for really setting the schedule on this.
• Special thanks to Pascalc who worked late last Wednesday to quickly process a request from the SUMO team last week to get a number of localized snippets into the Firefox start page for the upcoming Support Day.

Foundation Updates

• Frank restarted public discussion on the root CA inclusion request from WISeKey.
• Kathleen Wilson and Frank wrote up a draft guide for CAs applying to have their root CA certificates included in Mozilla.
• Mark posted a report on recent Mozilla Foundation activities.
• Mark announced availability of the video from the Mozilla Foundation brown-bag presentation in Mountain View on October 29.