WeeklyUpdates/2009-07-27

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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
  • shipped on Tuesday!
  • amount of crashes is much lower
• Firefox 3.0.13
  • targeting early September release
  • code freeze set for August 4 at 11:59pm
  • please work on your blockers
• Firefox 3.5.2
  • targeting release for first week of August
• Firefox 3.5.3
  • targeting release for early September
  • in par with Firefox 3.0.13 release

QA

Introducing Vishal Kamdar - Web testing contractor

Test Execution

• Shipped Fx3.0.12
• Ran trial tests against signing server improvements on Fx3.0.12 and Fx3.5.1
• Build out QA lab images for Vista, XP, ubuntu, and PPC
• Increasing Execution coverage on mobile devices and tegra testing
• Analysis of testcase coverage on manual BFTs versus automated components

Web Dev Testing

• AMO: Created test cases for AMO, helped lead the AMO 5.0.8 testday, and verified bug fixes.
• SUMO 1.2.1: Verified bugs fixes and wrote test cases.
• Mozilla.com: Verified bugs fixes
• Personas: Verified bug fixes and help ship GetPersonas.com 1.7
• Lots of projects in the queue: Mozilla Serviceweek, Mozilla creative Collective (MCC), SUMO, AMO, Spread Firefox
• Next up: Add testcases for AMO. Test MCC phase-2 features. Test SUMO 1.2.1,AMO 5.0.8 releases
• Wrote Volunteer document, which seeks to engage and inform potential community members

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Community:
  • We had a very successful joint OpenOffice/Mozilla Project open source meeting-up in Munich last Friday. ~38 people attended!
  • MozQA Campus Reps Poster has been finished
  • Had the AMO 5.0.8 Testday. Summary can be found here
• Metrics: Presented the manual BFT code coverage versus automated code coverage data analysis in QA meeting. Will publish more publicly shortly! Preparing a spreadsheet that contains source file name, autocov%, manulacov%, GenBug fixes, Regression bug fixes, Sec bug fixes, auto functional cov, manual functional cov for each file. Should be ready Thursday.

Test Development

• Clint and Joel gave a presentation at OSCON
• Got Mochitests running on Windows Mobile by using a [remote server to host] the tests. Now working to see if that is really the best way to run Mochi* on winmo.
• Continue to plug away at the HTML5 parser test suite; particularly the tokenizer and tree builder tests.
• Heather and Aaron presented the QAC at Thursday's Design Lunch. We got a bunch of feedback, and are finishing up addressing that this week.
• Finishing the Site Compare tool and beginning to get the Fennec Results Server off the ground

Marketing/PR

Firefox 3.5 Launch

PR

• Mozilla featured in the NYT
• John Lilly on NBC's Press Here
• Microsoft's proposal to EU and reactions in ComputerWorld, The NYT, CNET, WSJ, AP

Mozilla Service Week

Events

• Maker Faire Africa August 14 - 16, 2009, Accra, Ghana - We are sponsoring this event and will have a presence at MFA. Our mission is to help bring together the local L10n community. Check out the wiki for early details.
• Shaastra 2009 September 30 - October 3, 2009 at Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai - Will be sponsoring and our Campus Rep SathishKumar Kandasamy will be representing Mozilla at the festival.

General

Support

• Ran 24 hour Kampyle survey on the SUMO start page last week.

Metrics

• The 9th edition of Funnelcake ships tonight at midnight
  • Installer Feedback form will be included
• Published some data around Fx3.5 adoption
  • Which region is #1?
• Implemented the first-ever pop-up on one of Mozilla’s top web pages (SUMO homepage), allowing users to leave us feedback about their experience on the site
  • What was by far the #1 comment left by users?
• Published Reporter (Help -> Report Broken Web Site) analysis for the first time
  • Thanks to Eric Hergenrader
  • More than 1,000 users leave us feedback every day
  • More analysis to follow

Developer Tools

no updates this week.

Add-ons

• AMO 5.0.8 code freeze this Wednesday, see bugzilla
• Jetpack gallery implementation starts this week
• Jetpack Roadmap draft created

L10n

Firefox 3.5

Web

Tools

Foundation Updates

• Foundation team participated in Mozilla presence at OSCON, including:
  • Friday morning 'I heart the open web' keynote by Mark. Video here.
  • FLOSSFoundations meeting on two days before OSCON.
  • Open video talk by Mark and Arun.
• Agreed to participate in Open Source for America, launched at OSCON.
  • http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/mozilla-joins-open-source-for-america/
• Bi-monthly update on Mozilla Foundation activities posted on Mark's blog:
  • http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/whats-up-w-mozfdn-july-update/
• Silverorange is helping on www.mozilla.org relaunch and we're planning to go live in August. More specific timeline to come soon.
• Dave Humphrey (of Seneca College and Mozilla Education) and Chris Tyler (also from Seneca) held a great workshop (sponsored by Red Hat) teaching professors how to teach open source software and practices, with examples drawn from Mozilla and Fedora.

Roundtable

Intern Show & Tell

This week we have the following interns presenting:

• RJ Walsh (WebDev)
• Jeremy Hiatt (L10N)
• Shannon Prior (Marketing)
• Eric Hergenrader (Metrics)
• Felipe Gomes (Firefox)