WeeklyUpdates/2009-10-26
Friends of the Tree 
Development Updates
Firefox
( Projects | Status | Goals | People )
Firefox Future
Team News
Gecko
- In our CrashKill meetings we are still digging through top crashers and reaching out to vendors. We still need contacts for vendors who produce top crashing add-ons. If you have contacts at one of these that you can share, please comment in the bug. Also, if you want to keep the contact info confidential, you can mark your comment as private as well.
- Thanks to BitDefender who is pushing out fixes to their toolbar in response to our outreach. It's still early, but we're watching crash reports to make sure we see those crash numbers drop.
- Blockers:
- Team blocker numbers:
Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x
Thunderbird
SeaMonkey
- KaiRo not here today - party on the eve of the 2.0 release (in cooperation with local organization here in Vienna)
- And that's also the main news: SeaMonkey 2.0 release is on track for an early morning (Pacific Time) release tomorrow!
- Any fans of the suite on this meeting, please spread the word - and party like it's 2.0! ;-)
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
Web Dev Testing
- Tested Jetpack, Personas,
- Tested AMO 5.2 for release last week
- Tested SUMO 1.4.1 for release last week
- Automating test cases: Landed Truman's breadcrumb testcase along with Milos' testcases for SUMO
Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community
- Community
- Unconference-style QA meetup this wednesday, 10/28!
- MozMill Testscripting Workshop and 2-Day Testday this week!
- There will be a Thunderbird opensource meetup. We are expecting 20 (or more people) and also we hope some to get some press people signed up!
Test Development
Security
Marketing/PR
PR
General
Mozilla Service Week
Events
- Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) October 29 - 30, 2009; Toronto, Canada. We are sponsoring this event. We currently have representation from both Mozilla Foundation and Corporation speaking.
- Music Hack Day November 21-22, 200; Boston, MA. We are sponsoring this event.
- Add-on-Con December 2009, Mountain View, CA. We are sponsoring this event and starting to build sessions around the event theme.
- Internet Identity Workshop November 3-5, 2009. We are sponsoring this conference.
- OWASP AppSec DC 2009 November 10-13, 2009; Washington, DC. Web application security conference - we are currently looking into sponsoring this.
- Foundations of Open Media Software January 13 - 15, 2010; Wellington, New Zealand. Perfect venue to promote open video. We are currently looking into sponsoring this.
- SXSW Interactive 2010 March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas. Working on putting together a Firefox party. Please continue to check our wiki page for information.
Community
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
Fennec
Foundation Updates
- A dormant accounts policy is being implemented; if you haven't used a particular SCM account for more than six months, it will be deactivated for security reasons. You can file a bug to get it reactivated - this should be a simple and quick process. Let us know if it's not.
Roundtable
- Daylight savings time ends in North America this weekend