WeeklyUpdates/2010-08-30

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Friends of the Tree

• Huge thanks to the Fx 4 Beta Website release team for an amazing turn around last week, staying up long hours and putting in tons of extra effort to make sure everything launched on time--thanks to Steven Garrity, Stephen Donner, Rhonda Spencer, Pascal Chevrel, Shannon Prior, Erica Jostedt and Rainer Cvillink for all their hard work.
• Thanks to Kohei Yoshino for filing bugs and submitting a patch on the Plugin Check project
• Thanks to wenzel, oremj, fox2mike, stephend, and krupa for working late to get the MDN site live last week... nice teamwork on IRC! - Jay

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 30 August

Tuesday, 31 August

Wednesday, 1 September

Thursday, 2 September

• Discussion for fans of Getting Things Done and anyone interested in improving workflow. Do you modify GTD to make it work more effectively in the Mozilla environment? Can our webtools and processes be improved to work better with GTD or even steer people toward healthy workflows? (12:30 Pacific, organized by Luis Villa and Jesse Ruderman.)

Friday, 3 September

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
ProfileManager	Jeff Hammel	The old profile manager is going out; meet the new profile manager (bug 539524)	Demo	info: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Projects/ProfileManager builds: http://people.mozilla.org/~jgriffin/profilemanager/
New MDN website	Jay Patel	Announcing the new pages, forums and plans for the coming months.	Site: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ Forums: https://developer.mozilla.org/forums/	Provide feedback: http://mdn.uservoice.com/forums/51389-mdn-website-feedback-http-developer-mozilla-org

Status Updates By Team

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Test Dev

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Developer Tools

• HTTP requests ("network" messages) that are logged in the Web Console can now be inspected (view request and response headers, cookies, etc). Take a look in Firefox nightlies or the next beta update.
• Quite a bit of progress has been made on the Inspector. We expect this to land on mozilla-central this week.

Introducing New Hires

• Syed Albiz (intern with Release Engineering)