WeeklyUpdates/2010-02-22

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Upcoming Events

This Week

• Mozilla Corporation platform team employees gathering for a work week in Mountain View

Thursday, 25 February

• Labs Night at Wikimedia Foundation HQ in San Fransisco
  • 6pm - 9pm
  • Guest speaker Michael Fertik, CEO of Reputation Defender
  • See this post for more information.

Friday, 26 February

• Open-Source-Meetup in Munich/Germany
  • Special Guests : Chris Hofmann and Kev Needham
    • RSVP to this Event via email to tomcat

• Also visit us next week from March 2 - 6 at the CeBIT in Hannover/Germany! The Mozilla Booth will in be Hall 2 - F34!

Next Week

• Mozilla Corporation Firefox team employees gathering for a work week in Mountain View
  • purpose is to finish up our goals for this quarter
  • also plan on doing some Jetpack hacking, general tools hacking, and meeting with other groups
  • are looking into how we can use Air Mozilla to make it as open and interactive as possible

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Overview of js-ctypes	Dan Witte	A new way to call native code from JavaScript.	http://people.mozilla.com/~dwitte/ctypes-talk-20100222/ctypes.html	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jsctypes/api
Choice Campaign Update	Jane Finette	EU Browser Screen & Mozilla's Open Letter	tbd	http://opentochoice.org

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

• work continues on mozilla-central for our primary projects
  • out of process plugins (destined for a 3.6.x update)
  • new theme work (destined for next major Firefox release)
  • tab matches in awesomebar (destined for next major Firefox release)
  • come to the developer meeting on Tuesday to find out more!

Release Engineering

• some new win32 hardware (as opposed to VM) builders joining the production slave pool today
  • should mean faster (4x in some cases) win32 build turnaround
• EU ballot builds: many thanks to Kev for dealing with the repacks and shepherding them into the right places
• security releases for Firefox 3.0.18 and 3.5.8 were done by John Ford and Armen respectively. This was the first release for both team members.
• tracked down and helped fix a particularly nasty Windows bug that kept the tree closed for a week. See bug 543034 for the gory details.
• got rid of the Release Engineering:Future bugzilla component. Going to start tracking bugs like everyone else.
• talos rev3 machines seem to be running well. We will likely be pulling the plug on the rev2 machines this week.

QA

Test Execution

• First pass at firefox.next assignments done
  • 3.next test plan and assignments are here
• Out or Process Plugins
  • 2 weeks of testdays have been completed
  • Digging through electrolysis spec to revamp the OOPP testplan
  • Creating litmus tests
    • 9907
    • 9908

WebQA

• Testing of MCC 1.1 is in progress.
• Release has been postponed to Thursday(2/23) as Marketing content was not ready.
• AMO 5.7
  • Tested a the new Email a friend feature on 5.7
• EU Ballot / Choice Campaign:
  • Browser Ballot: created and sent out the test plan
  • Choice Campaign: created and sent out the test plan

QA Community

• Held the Mobile Firefox 1.1 Alpha Testday. Recap can be found here

Test Execution

Test Dev

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Developer Tools

• Bespin Embedded 0.6.1 released with a new syntax highlighting engine

Add-ons

• Read about the upcoming plans for requiring Private Browsing compliance in Firefox extensions here. Also, we need volunteers to create a tool for checking the compatibility of extensions with Private Browsing mode; more info here, and tool spec here.