WeeklyUpdates/2010-08-23

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Friends of the Tree

Mary Colvig wrote in, "I wanted to nominate the following people for pitching in on tours last week: Matthew Zeier, Daisuke, Jono, Dave Dash, Bret Reckard, Sara Yu, & Vineel Reddy."

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 23 August

Tuesday, 24 August

Wednesday, 25 August

• Web Universe brown bag on air.mozilla.org at 12:30 pacific

Thursday, 26 August

• Web site task force at 10 pacific

Friday, 27 August

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 3.6

• Will send the go for build #1 later today
• Investigating/watching a possible regression

Older Branch Work

Firefox 3.5.12

• Will send the go for build #1 later today

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
Understanding Private Browsing	Hamilton Ulmer	A handful of insights on how and when people switch into Private Browsing mode.	http://bit.ly/ciKc9J, http://bit.ly/bOd4sP
Mozilla Community Map	David Boswell	Demo and update on Community Map	http://www.mozilla.org/community

Status Updates By Team

IT

Last Week

• Half way through the San Jose router upgrades (going so well, no one even knew we started).

This Morning

• Faulty optic in a San Jose router caused some connectivity issues. Have that interface disabled and are en route to replace optics.

This Week

• Amsterdam datacenter move: after a number of slips, it's actually moving this week.
  • site will go offline during Tuesday local time while hardware is moved
  • users will be directed to US-based sites instead

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Test Dev

Automation & Tools

• Grafx bot UI updates are done, working on a small feature needed to restart the browser to switch between hardware & software rendering mode on Linux and Mac. Should be ready for Beta 5
• Bug Hunter VM rollout begins this week in Phoenix colo.
• Firebug test harness is now packaged python module - runFBTests
• The Automation & Tools staging buildbot staging environment should be online this week
• We're getting folks ready to help out with removing universal xp connect from mochitest a la bug 582472
• We also want to ensure that Debug CRT exceptions do not throw up modal dialogs on windows, so we are going to land a patch for bug 587982
• More information on our team page.

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing