WeeklyUpdates/2009-06-15

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Development Updates

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

• Firefox 3.0.11
• Firefox 3.0.12
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 / Gecko 1.8.1.22

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

• 3.0b3 work continues
  • The folder display refactoring (part 2 of the Great Gloda Landing bug 474701) made it into the tree on Friday. If you encounter a bug in the nightlies which may be related, please check the regression tracker dependency tree], filing and adding a new bug if appropriate.
  • After part 3 (the search UI and backend changes) lands, we'll set some new dates for beta 3.
• We're planning to ship jQuery, parts of jQuery UI, and Protovis with Thunderbird 3.

IT

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

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!)
• 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.

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.

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.

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

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:
  • June 30th is the tentative launch date.
  • The new Causes section is now live.
  • We're interested in working with others to make a Community dashboard on the site
• We've started requirements gathering for the Bugzilla project:
  • See Gerv's blog post for an introduction.
  • The newsgroup thread has lots of interesting discussions.
  • There's a new wiki page to collect and summarize feedback.
• 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.