WeeklyUpdates/2009-11-09

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Development Updates

Firefox

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Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka)

Firefox Future

Team News

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

• Firefox 3.5.5

• Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

IT

Last Week

• Did a release
• Whole log of staging work and production pushes
  • Staged Mozilla CRM
  • Staged MDC (prep work for MDC upgrade bug 525241)
  • Pushed Five Years of Firefox
  • Pushed support.mozilla.com
  • Pushed getpersonas.com
• Repladed kubla.mozilla.com CMS hardware
• The Amsterdam Reboot
  • Now serving www.mozilla-europe.org!

Bugzilla Update

• Current status
  • Still working through several Known Issues
  • 43/64 patches working
• Up in stage @ https://bugzilla-stage-tip.mozilla.org
  • Please play with it and report problems *before* it goes to production. :)

QA

Test Execution

• Tested and released a short-cycle Firefox 3.5.5

Web Dev Testing

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Community:
  • Presented to the Electronics Academy at Independence High School on How Mozilla is an Opportunity. Recap can be found here

Test Development

Marketing/PR

PR

• Tons of great press around 5 years:
  • Mashable says happy birthday
  • CrunchGear says happy birthday
  • PC Mag says happy birthday
  • Tristan interviewed for sky news, then article got picked up by fox news
  • Ars Technica on 5 years of web liberation
  • CNET on 5 years, new challenges
  • The Register says happy birthday
  • CNET pulled together this nifty gallery with Firefox images over time
  • Great piece from WIRED as well
  • Internetnews.com

Five Years of Firefox

General

Events

• 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 will have 3 sessions:  Taking Flights with JetPack (Aza), Mobile Firefox Add-on Development (Mark Finkle), Future of Add-on Ecosystem (Justin, Nick, add-on developer community member).
  
• 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.
• Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) 2010 January 20-22, 2010; Madrid Spain.  We are sponsoring this event.
  
• 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.
  
• Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2010) June 10, 2010; Toronto, Canada.  We are sponsoring this event.
  

Community

L10n

Fennec Product l10n

Firefox 3.6

Foundation Updates

• Mark blogged about a One Mozilla strategy to use a unified Mozilla brand across all of our public communication. This doesn't change the fact that Mozilla is made up of distinct legal organizations, but focuses on what we're all doing instead of how we're organized.

• Early mock-ups for the upcoming Drumbeat web site have been posted. These are early iterations and still rapidly evolving, but would greatly benefit from your notes, comments and suggestions at this point. Please share your thoughts and ideas.