WeeklyUpdates/2010-01-04

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Development Updates

Firefox

( Projects | Status | Goals | People )

Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka)

• waiting on a couple of final bugs before we build RCs sometime this week
  • one JavaScript bug, 1.9.2 patch exists, just needs review and to land
  • couple of layout bugs need evaluation

Firefox Future

• discussion in newsgroups about new plan for Firefox "Lorentz", which has been proposed as a short-cycle release off the 1.9.2 branch to deliver out of process plugins and improved updater
• rest of team is working on 1.9.3 targets (see projects, above)

Team News

• set [Firefox/Goals/2010Q1|team goals for this quarter] and published on the wiki

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

• Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7
  • Releases currently in Beta. Scheduled for final release tomorrow (1/5/2010).

SeaMonkey

• The 2.0.2 release will be on the same Gecko as Firefox 3.5.7 but a number of days later due to taking an additional SeaMonkey-specific fix (hang in address autocomplete on win32), builds are generated as we speak.

IT

Last Couple Weeks

• Rolled out geo-ip aware bouncer/download.mozilla.org - bug 459919
  • Still fine tuning
• San Jose Production ESX upgrades
  • Went from 4 ESX hosts to 3!
  • Increased cluster capacity from 32Ghz of CPU to 72Ghz (even with one less host)
  • It is fast.
• Completed NetApp OS upgrade
  • RelEng related (netapp-c/d) - Bug bug 502151
• Web stuff
  • Moved www.mozilla.com behind EdgeCast, a CDN
  • Staged getpersonas.com behind EdgeCast
  • Staged EU Browser Ballot download-eu.mozilla.org instance
• b01 Database Cluster work
  • Bug bug 535859
  • Bug bug 528573

Upcoming

• Final set of NetApp OS upgrades - TBD, but hopefully January
  • Ops related (netapp-a/b)- bug 531233
• Working on infrastructure to support deactivating Hg/SVN dormant accounts bug 524153
  • tentatively shooting for Jan 26.

• Phoenix!
  • We're building out our Phoenix data center

Release Engineering

• bug 531275 L10n *nightly* builds for WinCE deployed and fixing the last few blockers for full support in both branches and for releases. Expect the first full run tomorrow in the morning.

QA

Test Execution

• Shipped Fennec 1.0 RC! Lots of testing, with over a dozen bugs filed
• Testing of 3.5.7/3.0.17 in progress
• Testing of MU trial to 3.6b4 in progress.

Web Dev Testing

• No updates due to the holidays

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

Test Development

Marketing/PR

PR

• Firefox for Maemo RC 1 released

Five Years of Firefox

General

• Plugin Checker Dynamic Buttons are now available! You can find them at the bottom of the Plugin Checker Page. Please add one to your blog/website to help spread the word.
  • Read more here: http://livetolaugh85.blogspot.com/2009/12/plugins-check-page-new-milestone.html

Events

• Foundations of Open Media Software January 13 - 15, 2010; Wellington, New Zealand.  Perfect venue to promote open video.  We are currently sponsoring this - Matthew Gregan, Chris Double and Chris Pearce will be attending and representing Mozilla.
• Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) 2010 January 20-22, 2010; Madrid Spain.  We are sponsoring this event.
  
• Techkriti, GNUnify, Quark - February 2010; India.  Looking into participation and sponsorship at these events in India. 
• SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  Working on sponsorship opportunities and 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.
  

Metrics

• Metrics now has a working prototype Hadoop / HBase cluster that can store and retrieve Breakpad/Socorro crash reports. This is a major milestone for the Metrics team so they can begin coordinating with the Socorro team to integrate into their infrastructure the first half of this year.

Labs

• Last week we released Weave 1.0rc1. We are hoping to do the final public release of Weave 1.0 this week. Please help us by installing the release candidate and helping us stress-test it!
• The Test Pilot study, "A Week in the Life of a Browser", has completed its first round. We've released some analysis of the data on bookmark usage as well as aggregated data samples that anyone is free to use to do their own analysis.

Developer Tools

No updates for this week.

Webdev

• Launched mobile RC updates
• A few updates to plugincheck - added buttons, updated flash and java versions. Also, see what Les has been working on!
• Code freeze for Socorro 1.3 is tomorrow. Server updates (Lars' bugs) are being staged and are ready to roll.

Foundation Updates

• Drumbeat is moving into full gear this quarter. We need some new people to help make this happen. We're hiring two project leaders and a fundraising support person. Please contact Mark if you know people who would be good for these roles.