WeeklyUpdates/2009-09-28

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Friends of the Tree

Jane wrote in last Tuesday: "Please can I nominate Mary Colvig for all her tremendous work on Mozilla Service Week this week (its only Tuesday and she's already done so much!). She's work tirelessly to get the project off its feet, brought incredible partners on board and encouraged our community on a global level to participate to do even more good in the world. Also big shout outs to: Austin - "King of the Mozserve website", Krupa & Stephen "Prince & Princess of QA" Donner."

Ludovic wrote: "The thunderbird QA team would like to nominate the following people to be friends of the tree, Christoph Grether, Jens Müller, and Thomas D., or the very good feedback, and bugs they reported against the new search feature of Thunderbird."

Gozer wrote in: "I wish to nominate Henry Nester for friend of the tree. He is our #1 thunderbird 3 tester by far and a key part of the push to Thunderbird 3, primo tester of .de locale build, an awesome spot check tester of localized builds, and also a great bug reporter."

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

• Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4

• Thunderbird 2.0.0.23

Thunderbird

• Shipped 3.0b4
• Hard at work on patches for the 3.0 string freeze, which is tomorrow (Tuesday, September 29, 23:59 Pacific)

QA

Test Execution

• Fennec: Verified 76 Bugs; Filed 21 bugs; Triaged 112 bugs; and Submitted QA B4 Blocker List; Also Vetted 39 Litmus Test Reports from the Fennec 1.0 Test Run
• Continued work on Firefox 3.5.4 and 3.0.15 bug fix verifications

Web Dev Testing

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

Test Development

Marketing/PR

PR

Mozilla Service Week

Events

Community

Mozilla.com

• Plan for the 3.6 version of the site is up: check it out

Evangelism

• Mozilla Developer Center
  • Lots of progress on Firefox 3.6 documentation last week, lots more to come this week.
  • As always, don't forget to add the dev-doc-needed keyword to bugs that may impact developer documentation. You don't even have to wait until there's a patch.
  • IT updated MDC to MindTouch 9.08.
    • See this blog post for more information.
    • A bug in 9.08 has broken the language selector pop-up menu; we're pressing MindTouch for a fix.
  • A massive, seemingly botted, spam attack led us to disable new user account registration last week until we figure out how they're bypassing the captcha. We're working on this. See this blog post for details.

Foundation Updates

• Bugzilla HTTP API deploying this week. Send any comments (and offers of testing) to Gerv.
• Latest mockup for redesigned Getting Involved page has been posted. Comment on the blog post and let us know what you think.