WeeklyUpdates/2009-12-21

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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 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

Thunderbird

• Thunderbird 3.1 and Thunderbird 3.0.1 schedules drafted
• Automated test policy changes for the mail/, mailnews/, editor/ and directory/ pieces of comm-central proposed to go into effect January 4.
• The [Lightning 1.0b1 release candidate] works with Thunderbird 3 and is available for testing and very much desiring of feedback.

IT

Last Week

• Rolled out geo-ip aware bouncer/download.mozilla.org - bug 459919
  • Still fine tuning

Upcoming

• NetApp firmware upgrades - 01/04/2010
  • RelEng related (netapp-c/d) - Bug bug 502151
  • Ops related (netapp-a/b)- Bug bug 531233

QA

Test Execution

• Firefox 3.6: Tested and shipped beta 5 on 12/17
  • Plans to test through MU scenarios for 3.5.5 and 3.0.15 -> 3.6b4.
• Firefox 3.5.5/3.0.17: awaiting a short-cycle release when bugs land
• Fennec Testing: lots of dogfooding as the rc is close. List of 9 QA blockers for RC here.

Web Dev Testing

• Verified bug fixes on Mozilla.com
• Continued work on Automation of AMO and the Selenium Grid infrastructure

Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Added firefox.mobile newsgroups to Hendrix
• Testdays:
  • Held the Destroy Fx 3.6 Testday. Recap can be found here
  • Next testday kicks off in Jan 8th, 2010: Test Mobile Firefox RC

Test Development

Security

• No updates.

Marketing/PR

PR

Five Years of Firefox

General

Events

Metrics

• No updates this week.

Labs

• No Design Lunch this week
• Weave 1.0 Beta released last week; a 1.0 Release Candidate will be going out this week.
• Test Pilot Accounts and Passwords study released.
• We're now analyzing the data coming in from the Test Pilot Week in the Life of a Browser study, with detailed results and aggregated data samples to be published this week.

Developer Tools

• No updates this week

Foundation Updates

• Support Namoroka is Live! Help us celebrate Firefox 3.6 by raising money for lemurs in Madagascar. Please blog, tweet, tell people about it while running down the street. Here's a link to the donate page as well!
• Please give us your thoughts on the One Mozilla domain name policy proposal.