WeeklyUpdates/2010-03-15
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Friends of the Tree 
- Browser Choice screen
- Patrick Finch or driving Firefox's position and readiness & launch
- A big thanks to both Jenny Boriss and James Hopkins at Critical Research for helping us figure out what we felt we needed to cover.
- Huge thanks to all our community members who helped create
- A huge effort and thanks to all who took part:
- Basque: Julen Ruiz Aizpuru
- Bulgarian : Ognyan Kulev, Mihail Chilyashev, Pavel Peev
- Catalan: Toni Hermoso Pulido, Eduard Gamonal
- Croatian: Sasa Tekovic
- Czech: Pavel Cvrcek
- Danish: Jesper Kristensen, Søren Munk Skrøder
- Dutch: Tim Maks van den Broek, Wim Benes, Ton Kessen, Laurens Holst, Mark Heijl, Ben Branders
- Estonian: Merike Sell, Otto de Voogd, Sander Lepik
- Finnish: Jussi Bergström
- French: Cédric Corazza, Goofy, Jean-Bernard Marcon, Philippe Dessante, Nicosmos, Alexandre Lissy, Benoit Leseul, Céline Demange, Daniel Schroeter
- Frisian: Wim Benes (again)
- Gaelic: Kevin P. Scannell
- German: Archaeopteryx, Robert Kaiser, Michael ‘Coce’ Köhle, Kadir Topal (now a Mozilla employee – congratulations!)
- Greek: George Fiotakis, Kostas Papadima
- Hungarian: Kalman Kemenczy
- Icelandic: Kristján Bjarni Guðmundsson
- Italian: Francesco Lodolo, Giuliano Masseroni
- Latvian: Raivis Dejus
- Lithuanian: Rimas Kudelis
- Norwegian: Ronny Vårdal, Håvard Mork and Bjørn Ivar Svindseth for Nynorsk
- Polish: Leszek Zyczkowski, Hubert Gajewski, Marek Stępień, Staś Małolepszy, Stefan Plewako and Gandalf
- Romanian: Alexandru Szasz
- Russian: Alexander L. Slovesnik
- Slovak: Vlado Valastiak
- Slovene: Brian King, Matjaž Horvat, Vito Smolej
- Spanish: Ricardo Palomares, Nukeador, Guillermo López
- Swedish: Markus Amalthea Magnuson, Hasse Wallanger
- Turkish: Rail Aliev
- Welsh: Rhoslyn Prys
- Would also like to thank some of the other people behind the scenes at Mozilla that made this project happen:
- Staś Małolepszy is a geniune superstar and his incredible diligence
- Stephen Donner for being a testing guru
- Kev Needham for his ability to spin Firefox builds like turntables,
- John O’Duinn and Matthew Zeier and their teams for springing into action *** and Tomcat, well, just for being Tomcat.
- Open to Choice Campaign
- Jane Finette fearless leader pulling together a myriad of people and programs to launch
- Irina Sandu, Mary Colvig and William Quiviger for spearheading the charge together with the Mozilla community in Europe
- Barbara Hueppe for leading communications, and driving Open to Choice forward in media
- Patrick Finch, not only driving the Browser Choice screen preparations and readiness, but also his for his tireless work on Open to Choice
- Sean Martell who created the web design for the opentochoice.org website.
- Members of the Mozilla Marketing community who have already done so much to share and spread browser choice in Europe
- Our design community: Rhonda Spencer, Monique Johnson and Steven Garrity and the Silver Orange team
- Members of the Mozilla marketing team for their drive and overall support.
- Thank you to the QA Team, especially Stephen Donner for his patience, and rigor
- The Web Development, Metrics and IT teams for making all those behind the scenes things run smooth
- Big thanks to the Legal team for diligence on the written word regarding the Browser Choice screen
- Many friends and partners of Mozilla are also making this campaign possible
- Huge call out to all the l10n teams who worked tirelessly, burning much midnight oil to get the campaign site live in 15 locales. With special thanks also to Stas Malolepszy (Stas, I have no idea how you do it), Pascal Chevrel and Seth Bindernagel. Members of the l10n community who localized and prepared content:
- Alina Mierlus
- Guillermo López (:willyaranda)
- Tobbi
- Rubén Martín [:Nukeador]
- Michael 'Coce' Köhler
- Bogomil Shopov
- Marek Stępień
- Leszek Zyczkowski
- George Fiotakis
- Iacopo Benesperi
- Tobias Markus
- Besnik Bleta
- Wim Benes
- Vlado Valastiak
- Kerim Kalamujic
- Michael 'Coce' Köhler
- Giacomo Magnini
- Iacopo Benesperi
- Pavel Cvrcek
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 15 March
Tuesday, 16 March
Wednesday, 17 March
Thursday, 18 March
Friday, 19 March
- Testday on Improving the Quality of QMO!
Next Week
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
Firefox
You can always see the state of Firefox projects on our tracking page, and you can participate in those conversations at the weekly development meeting.
The merest sampling of highlights from the past week:
- Holy crap, the new app update prompt Rob Strong built is beautiful!
- Oh my word, Dave Townsend has (draft, work-in-progress, not-for-consumption-yet) addons installing without restart.
- Hot diggity, Alex Limi posted the UX team update #5
- Well I'll be, Johnath posted about developer tools in Firefox.
- and um, wow. Marco landed bug 542943 and might have gotten us a 90% reduction in shutdown time on heavily used profiles.
If you want an RSS feed full of Firefox awesomeness like this, check out planet firefox.
Gecko
Branch work: Firefox 3.5.x / Firefox 3.6.x / Thunderbird 3.0.x
Old Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 to ship 3/16. - Final Release!
- Firefox 3.0.19 builds being created today. Testing starts tomorrow.
Thunderbird
- Shipped Thunderbird 3.1b1
- 3.1b2 underway; feature/string freeze for both 3.1b2 and 3.1 itself one week from tomorrow (Tuesday, March 23)
- 3.0.4 in progress; focus is support for conversion funnel work including a funnelcake build.
SeaMonkey
Mobile
IT
Last Week
- Oncall alert failures over the weekend
- SMS modem stopped working
- Took awhile before anyone noticed and reverted to email-based alerting
- Not nearly as good or timely as SMS
grapsh.mozilla.orgbug 551532- some sort of issues with the VM based
graphs.mozilla.org - moved to physical hardware to resolve
- some sort of issues with the VM based
- New Websites
mpl.mozilla.orgrockyourfirefox.com
Fx 3.6 MU & Personas
- Had scalability issues on Personas database
- Had scalability issues on front-end web servers
- Why?
- Saw a 7x increase in bandwidth to the Personas gallery.
Release Engineering
- Add-ons manager rewrite project branch open for business
- work on new OS X 10.6 ref platform
- releases kicking off this week:
- 3.0.19 (final 3.0 release ever)
- 3.5.9
- 3.6.2
QA
Planned this week
- QA General
- Leveling rollup on Weds 18th
- Meeting with uTest Tuesday to discuss Test Case Management (TCM) requirements
- Write draft of QA Q2 goals and QA mission/vision for rest of 2010
- Test Execution
- shipping 3.5.9 and 3.6.2
- Testing and validation of 3.7 Alpha 3 [3.7a3 Test Plan]
- Test Automation
- formalize Mozmill automation for Addons
- Web QA
- More automated test writing and execution
- Ship 0.6.0 version of Plugin Check
- Ship the 1.5.2 version of SUMO for mobile
- Start certifying AMO 5.8
- QA Community
- Friday - Test day to improve quality QMO
Accomplished last week
- Test Execution
- shipped beta Thunderbird 2.0.0.24
- Completed 3.0.19 critical and security bugs.
- Working through 3.5.9 and 3.6.2 bugs still
- Met with Jetpack team to determine Jetpack testing requirements
- Web QA
- revised test agreement with SmartWare from a task-based contract to hourly rate. Both for WebDev QA and Test Execution. This should simply planning of contractor work.
- Shipped SUMO 1.5.2
- Shipped a special emergency performance edition of GetPersonas.com (Not Planned)
- Crash Kill
- filed 7 Crash bugs details
- QA Community
- No Activity this week
Automation & Tools
- Welcome Jeffrey Hammel! He'll be jhammel on IRC and starts today!
- WinMo testing progress: xpcshell, mochitest, jsreftest, crashtest, reftest all run on the phones.
- Documenting setup, hand off to Release Engineering today.
- Continuing to work on bugs and polish as we work with Rel Eng to put into staging.
- Crash Automation
- Rolling out VMs into the colo for wider testing this week
- Will reuse and revamp many of the old under utilized qm* vms for this.
Security
Marketing/PR
PR
Events
- SXSW Interactive 2010 March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas. A HUGE HUGE HUGE thank you for everyone that came to our party on Saturday night and everyone involved in panels. Pictures and blog posts to follow soon!. Of course ou can still check out our wiki page for information on all of our events and sessions.
- ROFLCon II April 30 - May 1, 2010; Boston, MA. We have a join sponsorship with the Mozilla Foundation and will be live streaming and archiving the event with HTML5 open video.
- Processing.js Boston - April 10, 2010; Boston, MA. Looking into putting together an event with the Processing.js team.
- JSConf.US April 17-18, 2010; Washington, DC. We are sponsoring this event. We will also have Mitcho, one of our Jetpack Ambassadors conducting a Jetpack talk and putting together Jetpack hacking session in the lounge.
- e27 echelon 2010 June 1-2, 2010; Singapore. Gen will be participating in this event.
- GUADEC 2010 - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands. We are sponsoring at the bronze level. More information to come soon.
- Open Video Conference 2010 - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.
Creative Team
- Next step in our web universe re-org will be an IA review of our overall site structure...will share results and ask for public input as we go, of course. Here's the overall plan.
- Creative Collective design challenge: create the official Mozilla 2010 t-shirt.
- Still working with WebDev on plugins projects:
- Plugins Check: working on being cross functional with the latest releases of Chrome, Opera, Safari and *potentially* IE8 by the end of the month.
- We need help testing plugins.mozilla.org. Please file bugs and assign them to Les Orchard.
- Planning a brown bag for the next week/two weeks to talk about Plugins Check and how we can better collaborate with other teams working with Plugins ( ie OOPP).
Community Marketing
Developer Marketing
- The Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) has a new logo! Check out John Slater's post for a quick peek. Jay Patel will be blogging more about the logo and the MDN website project soon.
- Q42009 Developer Survey results are in (blog post coming soon)
- Q12010 Developer Survey is live. Please help spread the word to our developer communities.
Support
- Kadir working on social media support experiment to reach out to Twitter users in need of Firefox help. Look for more info about this shortly on the SUMO blog.
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
- Bespin 0.7, a developer preview, is planned to launch this week. Stay tuned to the bespin-core mailing list for the announcement.
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
Introducing New Hires
- Christian Legnitto - Engineering Project Manager / Firefox Launch Co-ordinator
- Jeffrey Hammel - Automation and Tools engineering hire