WeeklyUpdates/2010-04-19

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Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 19 April

Tuesday, 20 April

• Seamonkey Bug Day hosted by Mozilla QA

Wednesday, 21 April

Thursday, 22 April

• Design Lunch at 12:30pm Pacific time: Alexander Limi talks about users' pet peeves with the Firefox interface.

Friday, 23 April

• Join us for a Weave Test Day hosted by Mozilla QA
  • If you can't make it, please start dog-fooding Weave, file bugs and give the Weave team your feedback

Next Week

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
Website Optimization	Blake Cutler	Website Optimization Results	PDFbackup	Blog of Metrics
SUMO 2.0	James Socol	The new SUMO: What and Why	Google presentation	coming
100 Paper Cuts	Alexander Limi	An overview of the issues causing the most day-to-day friction for Firefox users		Attend the Design Lunch talk on Thursday!

Status Updates By Team

Branch work: Firefox 3.5.x / Firefox 3.6.x / Thunderbird 3.0.x

• we shipped Firefox 3.6.4 release candidates as an opt-in update to users on the beta channel last Friday
  • contains out of process plugins code that shipped in "Lorentz" the week before
  • we know that we'll need a second release candidate before we ship wider
  • we appreciate all the testing our users have been doing

• still working on a schedule for Firefox 3.5.10, hope to ship it on the same day as Firefox 3.6.4 around mid-May

IT

Last Week

• Completed NetApp OS Upgrades on Saturday (bug 502151)
  • Manually failed a number of sites over sites to Phoenix
  • Ran into a couple "gotchas" in the process
  • Took advantage of this outage window to:
    • database maintenance (bug 550828
    • move people.mozilla.com:/home to a larger volume
• Mountain View Office Internet Connectivity issues (04/15/2010)
  • AT&T suffered an outage in their Sunnyvale POP that affected the office Internet connection. For reasons we understand now, the firewall didn't manually fail to our backup RF connection.
  • Talos machines at 650 Castro were offline until we were able to manually fail over and bring up additional bandwidth.
• http://developer.mozilla.org performance issues.
  • Have been having problems with the underlying DekiWiki software. Attempted to upgrade (bug 531977) to resolve but eventually had to rollback
  • Working with MindTouch on fixes

This Week

• LDAP Upgrades bug 556304

Ongoing

• SJC Zeus cluster & "Out of socket buffers"
  • This is mostly an annoyance to IT/Ops, not end user affecting (for the most part)
  • Working with Zeus on troubleshooting and getting a fix.
  • We are, however, holding off on moving more sites off the Netscaler until we understand and have a fix for this issue.

Release Engineering

• releng work week in Toronto this week
• unittests now running on 10.6 64-bit
• Releases:
  • 3.6.4 beta 1 last week
• Talos:
  • finished roll-out of new Dromaeo suite
• IT planned netapp downtime this past weekend
  • if any systems are missing, please let us know

QA

QA Highlites

• Desktop Firefox QA
  • Shipped Firefox 3.6.4 Beta opt-in
  • Shipped 3.7a4
• Mobile QA
  • QA signed off 1.1b1 testing on friday
  • Testday on friday. See below
• Automation
  • Mozmill 1.4.1 has been released (Blog post)
• Web QA
  • AMO 5.9 went live on 04/13
• QA Services
  • Community
    • Testday for Mobile Firefox 1.1 results here

Marketing/PR

PR

• Firefox, Bolt and NetFront don't plan to follow Opera to iPhone
• Firefox Lorentz Beta Isolates Plug-in Crashes for Uninterrupted Browsing

Events

• ROFLCon II April 30 - May  1, 2010; Boston, MA.  We have a join sponsorship with the Mozilla Foundation and will be live streaming and archiving the event with HTML5 open video.
  
• Processing.js Boston - April 10-11, 2010; Boston, MA.  Putting together an event with the Processing.js team.
• e27 echelon 2010 June 1-2, 2010; Singapore.  Gen will be participating in this event.
• LinuxTag 2010 June 9-12, 2010; funding from Mozilla Europe is secured; Mozilla staff and community will manage a 12m2 booth at Europe's largest Linux tech fair; Tristan Nitot, Paul Rouget and Brian King all confirmed to give keynote talks; Carsten Book and WQ leading community outreach and organization
• GUADEC 2010 - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands.  We are sponsoring at the bronze level.  No Mozilla talks scheduled.
  
• Open Video Conference 2010 - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.
• BlogHer '10 - August 6-7, 2010 - Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
• Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010 - September 11-12, 2010 - Looking into sponsorship opportunities.

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Metrics

• An update to the Menu Item Usage Study.
• An update to Mozilla's web analytics situation.

L10n

• Reviewed the open l10n request and we are likely to add some more languages to Firefox
• Gandalf working on waiting the Jetpack API and hacking on the Pontoon tool for l10n
• Stas coming to MV next week
• Launched an l20n Google Group and will be posting some of our first posts there to decide on final file formats for the new l20n way to localize code.
  • Hopeful Q2 goal, land l20n on tree