WeeklyUpdates/2009-07-20

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Development Updates

Firefox

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

Team News

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

• Firefox 3.0.12
  • no blocking issues yet reported during beta period
  • intending to ship tomorrow
• Firefox 3.0.13
  • code freeze is August 4 at 11:59pm
  • aiming for early September release

QA

Test Execution

• Shipped Fx3.0.12 to beta on 7/14
• Shipped Fx3.5.1 to world on 7/16

Web Dev Testing

• Shipped AMO 5.0.7 with contributions and tagging support
• Checked in Krupa's AMO Selnium testcases
• Checked in Mark Wong's cleaned up SUMO Selenium testcases (original author is Krupa)

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Community:
  • A good Bug triage bug day was held last Tuesday. Along with a good Mountain View Mozilla crash reporting and analysis Meet-up on Wednseday.
  • There is an upcoming Mozilla and Openoffice Meetup in Munich on Friday, July 24th!
• Accessiblity:
  • Some key bugs worked on, reviewed, etc. Also provided some review of patches for Thunderbird and Seamonkey.
  • Wrote a blog post on the Firebug 1.4 release. It highlights the UI accessibility features and what implications this has for blind web devs or those who think of becoming one.
• Metrics
  • Working with Simon on and talked to Blezner about short term metrics to put in place. We should have some new public metrics regarding bugs marked blocking within about a week.
  • Completed a first round of JSCoverage tool modifications and coverage collection. So we have a good set of code coverage for both C/C++ and JS. Worked with catlee and joduinn to make mochitest code coverage collection more reliable.

Test Development

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

• MozCamp Mumbai: Thanks to community members Aamod Nerurkar and Sanjay Bhangar for pulling together a MozCamp with a week's notice. Talks included a pre-recorded standards talk with Arun Ranganathan and a marketing Mozilla & Firefox talk by Aamod. Aamod and Sanjay will post the recorded talks shortly.

General

• Welcome Caitlin Looney! Caitlin will be heading up product marketing for Fennec, based out of Mountain View.

Support

• The Firefox Manual has been updated for 3.5! Big thanks to the SUMO community for making this happen, and especially xtz and TMZ who signed up for chapter updates on the update tracking page.

Webdev

• AMO 5.0.7 launched last week!
• Socorro - refreshing UI for OSCON - update today or tomorrow (Austin, Lars are at OSCON this week as well giving a talk on Socorro).
• AUS - made some changes to AUS last week to accommodate channel exceptions for throttling.
• Scores from Full-time vs. Interns:
  • Game 1: FT 21, Interns 8
  • Game 2: FT 21, Interns 16

L10n

Firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.5.1 shipped with Macedonian and Serbian.

Foundation Updates

• The full Mozilla Foundation team met in Toronto last week to map out the rest of 2009 and start 2010 planning.
  • Blog and wiki postings coming soon with updated priorities and ideas for new initiatives.

Roundtable

Intern Show & Tell

No Show and Tell this week... We'll resume next week. Also, we'll start the interns' brownbags in a couple of weeks, during which the interns will be able to share their projects in greater details. Times/dates/topic will be posted on the regular brownbags page, and we'll have between 2 and 4 presentations per session.