WeeklyUpdates/2009-11-09

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Friends of the Tree

• SethB wrote in, "Friend of the Tree nominations to Staś Małolepszy and the entire l10n community, including Francesco (Italian team), Coce (German team), Eduardo (Esperanto team), Timdream (Taiwanese team), Julen (Basque team) and many others (see Bug 525857) who stepped beyond the world of localization and provided web development and testing to make sure the 5 years website was working in 27 languages."

• Krupa wrote, "I'd like to nominate Truman Smith as a "Friend of the tree" for being our automation genie and helping MozwebQA beef up our automation test coverage."

Development Updates

Firefox

( Projects | Status | Goals | People )

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
  • short-cycle release
  • shipped on Thursday!

• Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6
  • patches still need to land (7 for 3.5.6, 4 for 3.0.16)
  • still lots of blockers needing patches (14 for 3.5.6, 5 for 3.0.16)
  • code freeze is tomorrow at 11:59pm PDT

IT

Last Week

• Whole lot 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
• Setup 3.6Br2 test plan, instructions and wiki
• Fennec b5 to ship today. Test results.

Web Dev Testing

• Tested and shipped Five Years of Firefox
• Tested and shipped SUMO 1.4.2 on Nov. 3
• Firefox 3.6 pages: Cleared First Run page. What's New page is almost ready to go
• AMO 5.3 - Testing of 5.3 is in progress. Started adding litmus testcases for AMO Stub Entries in Litmus

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
  • There will be a test day this Friday, November 13th for Fennec panning and Zooming.
• Accessibility: Firefox Five years post and New accessibility features in Firefox 3.6

CrashKill

• Worked on 21 crash bugs last week. See tracking page.
• First crash test checked into our mozmill repository! For bug 481775. (Props to henrik, catlee, and dwitte)

Test Development

• Mozmill 1.3 Beta is available
• Orodurin project (New Mobile Framework) code repo is announced.
• Test Dev team is onsite this week, cranking away on the second floor, stop by and say hi if you're in MV.

Security

• Attended security session at W3's 2009 Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee to discuss in-flight browser security work:
  • Strict-Transport-Security - Bug 495115
  • Content Security Policy - Bug 493857
  • CORS
  • Origin

Marketing/PR

PR

• Tons of great press around 5 years:
  • Mashable says happy birthday
  • CrunchGear says happy birthday
  • PC Mag says happy birthday
  • Lifehacker 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

Support

• No updates this week (except Happy Birthday, Firefox!!)

Metrics

• 25% Worldwide Market Share
  • On the same day Firefox turns 5, Firefox also surpasses 25% worldwide market share for the very first time (according to Net Applications... their weekly reports are subscriber only, so I don't have a link).

Developer Tools

• The first preview release of Bespin Embedded is due out this week.
• We're also planning to have generated API docs available to help people who are hacking on Bespin.

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.