WeeklyUpdates/2009-12-21

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Development Updates

Firefox

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Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka)

• done with all blockers

Firefox Future

• expect tab matching in awesomebar on trunk shortly
• will be hitting the new year running with plans for implementing new theme work
• sdwilsh has been doing analysis of how we can further reduce I/O on the main thread
• also hoping to provide a revised roadmap, which will likely look like
  • out-of-process plugins in Q1 2010 shipped on 1.9.2 branch
  • beta of Firefox 4 in summer 2010 (shipped on 1.9.3 branch?)
  • Firefox 4 aimed at late 2010 or early 2011

Team News

• added 2010 first quarter team goals to the wiki (see above)
• many of us will be vanishing on holiday over the next few weeks, but there should always be someone monitoring dev-apps-firefox and the #fx-team channel other than weekends and holidays

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

• Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.6
• short-turn release targeted at early January 2010, only contains three bugs:
  • fix to updater
  • networking regression for users with NTLM authenticating proxies
  • a topcrash fix that's been baking on branch for over two months
• currently waiting on one last patch to land on release branches
• all other bugs that had been targeted at 3.0.7/3.0.17 are now targeted at 3.0.18/3.5.8 which will work to pretty much the same schedule as originally planned for 3.0.17/3.5.7

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 your 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

Release Engineering

• releases last week for 3.0.16, 3.5.6, and 3.6b5
• Aki setup a release framework for Fennec builds

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 3.5.7/3.0.17: 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

• 3.6 beta 5 available now!
• Firefox is the most widely used browser on the web!

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

Add-ons

• Firefox 3.6 compatibility at 71%

Webdev

• AMO now has hudson set up for continuous integration (booya!)
• Bouncer now supports GeoIP (bug {{{1}}})

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.