WeeklyUpdates/2009-08-10

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Development Updates

Firefox

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

Team News

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.14 / Firefox 3.5.3
  • code freeze tomorrow
  • targeting early September release

• Thunderbird 2.0.0.23
  • making progress on release
  • build is green!
  • please test the nightlies thoroughly

QA

Test Execution

• Web Dev Testing
  • AMO5.0.8 was tested and shipped.
  • Mozilla Creative Collective: Tested MCC1.0 release. Filed 19 bugs
  • Mozilla Service Week: Shipped the Partners page + 3 other bug fixes
  • Spread Firefox: Shipped the first part of 3.0.4 (we did this release in stages)
  • Selenium: Created a test case(AMO) for checking whether clicking on a button triggers the Install_trigger action.
  • Process: Created a Google doc to track Manual/Automation testcase coverage for the major projects

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

Test Development

Marketing/PR

PR

Mozilla Service Week

Events No updates.

Community

• Work on the Mozilla Creative Collective site is almost complete, and if all goes well we'll launch the beta version next week.
• Tara, Jeff & John will be hosting a brown bag tomorrow (August 11) at 12:30 Pacific to talk more about the details of the Creative Collective, plus the how's and why's of building our design community. Please join us if you're interested!
• Next Community Marketing call is Wednesday, August 12th, at 10am PDT. Details and Agenda
  • Please join us to get a look at the results of community outreach around the Firefox 3.5 in person or via Air Mozilla

Metrics

• We published additional insights from our Installer Feedback project. Click here to follow the discussion around upcoming changes to the Firefox installer.
• Just a heads up that both the Add-ons and Metrics teams will be publishing some key add-on metrics this week. We've attempted to answer the question, "how many Fx users use at least one add-on?"

Evangelism

• Mozilla Developer Center
  • Documentation effort for Firefox 3.6 ramping up; don't forget to tag relevant bugs with the "dev-doc-needed" keyword!
  • Interface Reference reorganization continues.
  • Started work on designing a unit test plan for MDC.
  • More back-end work
    • Wrote and had deployed (thanks again, IT) a new MindTouch plugin to automatically find and replace tag strings; will be using this to fix some bad tag names as well as to work on organization cleanup.
    • Assorted minor tweaks.

Webdev

• James Socol starts today full-time in webdev. James is from Michigan State University and is passionate about web design, accessibility and standards. He will be working on support.mozilla.com with the SUMO team.
• AMO 5.0.8 launched last week, Wil wrote a blog post about the add-on verification suite RJ and Wil worked on, which is now live.
• Labs 2.0 site is nearing completion; hope to launch this week or next week.
• The Mozilla Creative Collective (MCC) team has been working on theMCC site and we are in the final stages of QA.
• Spread Firefox released fixes for some 3.0.4 bugs last thursday, including security updates, a new community spotlight, and Upgrade the Web plug-ins for Wordpress and Drupal.
  • 3.0.3 was wrapped up in July.

L10n

Web

Tools

Roundtable

Intern Show & Tell

This week we have the following interns presenting: