WeeklyUpdates/2009-08-10

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Development Updates

Firefox

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

Team News

Gecko

  • I know he's been with us for a while, but now he's officially with us full-time. Please welcome David Bolter, working on accessibility in Toronto!
  • Last week, at SIGGRAPH 2009, Khronos gave more details on the WebGL initiative.
    • Mozilla's leading the Khronos working group, with Arun Ranganathan being the working group's chair.
    • A lot of this work is based on Vladimir Vukicevic's work on Canvas3D; Mozilla's implementation of Web3D is based on canvas3d, with the work needed to update it to the new standard being done by Mark Steele.
    • Both Apple and Google have implementations of Web3D as well. Google showed their implementation at the Khronos OpenGL BoF at SIGGRAPH last week. Great response from the audience.
    • Our basic assumption is that JavaScript is fast enough, and in Mozilla's case, that's thanks to the Tracemonkey folks.

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

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

TB 3

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing

  • AMO5.0.8 was tested and shipped. Found and verified fix for XSS bugin less than 12 hrs!
  • Blogged about how to break down a site into areas for testing
  • SUMO 1.3: Verified 7 bugs
  • 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)
  • Labs website 2.0: Filed 9 bugs
  • Mozilla.org: Filed 5 bugs
  • 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

Security

  • No updates this week.

Marketing/PR

PR


Mozilla Service Week

  • Partner update: We announced a great set of partners last week. Our new "Friends" of the Mozilla Service Week program represent organizations in the non-profit technology, service and social entrepreneurship spaces.
  • Working to wrap up ES, DE & FR this 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 details.
  • Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre en Chile October 7 - 9, 2009, Santiago, Chile - Sponsoring event and bringing together the Mozilla Hispanic Community. + 2 day MozCamp Prior.

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 (Note: We're using the marketing channel)

Support

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.

Labs

Developer Tools

Add-ons

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.
  • Mozilla Service Week Partners and Friends released

L10n

Web

Tools

Foundation Updates

  • Based on Kathleen Wilson's recommendation, we approved a request from E-Tugra to have its root included in Mozilla (bug 443653).
  • Last call for www-stage.mozilla.org testing before going live (polish work will continue after relaunch)

Roundtable

Intern Show & Tell

This week we have the following interns presenting:

Other Business

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