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Development Updates

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

Gecko 1.9.1

  • Sustained zero blockers over the weekend; however, there's at least one that has popped up today. Looks like a rebuild of the RC might occur. There's also one blocker nomination the JS team is looking into right now; however, it doesn't look like a blocker so far.
  • In parallel to the Firefox 3.5 effort, we've been working on a multi-process implementation. Chris Jones just sent a great update to the dev list, and we will be having a brown bag to discuss the Chromium Security Sandbox.
  • New interns this week:
    • Justin Lebar, Stanford, working in the Content group with Jonas Sicking
    • Matin Movassate, Stanford, working in Content with Blake Kaplan
    • Ryo Kawaguchi, CMU, working in Layout with Daniel Holbert.

Firefox 3.5

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

TB 3

Mobile

IT

  • Fx 3.0.11 went out unthrottled!
    • That's four for four!
    • Bouncer logging still needs a re-architect (bug 464778)

Release Engineering

  • FF3.5rc1 handed to QA Friday+Sunday.
  • TB2.0.0.22 beta delayed Friday because of bug 497956
    • builds, mars are fine. html snippets regen'd using older sha1.
    • going to beta today
  • did two *non*downtimes last week
    • lots of backlogged changes after long code freeze, more this week depending on rc1.
    • pooled talos machines on mozilla-central, 3.0; still need to convert 1.9.1 and tracemonkey.
  • Lukas in MV this week; stop by and say hi.

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

Test Development

  • Working our way through running external CSS tests for 3.5 to checkpoint ourselves. (Thanks Aaron & Clint!)
  • Making great progress on JS Ref Tests - have browser based tests, shell tests should land this week
  • Running Reftest on Windows Mobile
  • Running FennecMark for TPanning & Tzoom for performance testing on Fennec maemo.
  • Continued tracking down crashtests and other reported bugs for 3.5.

Security

Marketing/PR

Firefox 3.5 Launch

Community Marketing Call

PR

Events

New Team Members

  • Welcome Sarah Doherty, Community Marketing Manager and Shannon Prior, PR Intern!

Support

  • Support is doing a Support Firefox Day next Thursday to gear up for 3.5. Blog post coming. We'd love to see you all there.

Metrics

  • Our 8th edition of Funnelcake ships this Thursday
  • Firefox.com download button test
    • launched the test last Monday
    • testing three new colors of the Fx download button to see if we can improve our conversion rate
    • orange/yellowish color seems like a clear loser (from early analysis)
  • Firefox Uninstall Survey
  • Introducing Eric Hergenrader, our analytics intern
    • Eric will be working on analytics projects related to SUMO, l10n, and AMO (among other projects)

Evangelism

  • Mozilla Developer Center
    • Continuing to work on back-end stuff; we should have some more new features and skin fixes up very soon.
    • Firefox 3.5 documentation cleanup continues, but there's not much happening there anymore. Starting to gear up for some content reorganization. Expect to see blog posts on this soon.
  • 35 days week 1 is done!
    • Posted 7 features and 7 demos
    • More than 500 followers on twitter now
    • 200 comments in the various posts
    • Today featured first demo written by someone who found us instead of us reaching out to someone else

Labs

  • Working on pulling together a Weave 0.4 release in the next two weeks.
  • Personas 1.2.1 released, fixes Thunderbird regression in Personas 1.2.

Developer Tools

  • Integration is complete. Thunderhead 2 and Bespin have collided and the new UI has been created
  • Next, we polish

Add-ons

  • Compatibility up to almost 80% for 3.5.*
    • Most of the remaining add-ons are in the long tail, we're now approaching developers directly to see if they'll upgrade
  • AMO 5.0.6 launched!
    • launch post
    • Still waiting on overall web metrics but
    • over 9000 collections created since Wednesday
    • 36,000 downloads of the Add-on Collector
    • 116,000 add-on downloads from collections
  • Nick will be at FISL next week in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Webdev

L10n

Firefox 3.5

Web

Tools

Foundation Updates

  • We'll be hosting the hybrid organization summit this week; for more information see the agenda.
  • We continue to prepare for the relaunch of www.mozilla.org:
  • We've started requirements gathering for the Bugzilla project:
  • We're continuing to look for new Mozilla Education partners and projects:
    • On last week's call we discussed possible new ideas for online courses; for more information see the call notes.
    • Frank attended a workshop last week on teaching open source and blogged about it.

Roundtable

The interns group has just exploded this week! Please give a warm welcome to our new 9 recruits:

  • David Tran -- IT/Ops
  • Jeremy Hiatt -- l10n
  • Shannon Prior -- PR/Marketing
  • Eric Hergenrader -- Metrics
  • Matin Movassate -- Content
  • Justin Lebar -- Content
  • Roy Frostig -- Mobile
  • Ryo Kawaguchi -- Layout
  • RJ Walsh -- Web Dev

Other Business

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