WeeklyUpdates/2010-12-06

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Friends of the Tree

• Henrik Skupin nominates B.J. Herbison, Aleksej, Tobbi, variable, and auscompgeek, who helped us running a successful Add-ons Manager test day last Friday.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 6 December

Tuesday, 7 December

Wednesday, 8 December:

• Add-On Con and Add-On Con Social Event (Computer History Museum)
• Sign Up for Add-On Con and Add-on Con Social Event
  

Thursday, 9 December: 

• Add-On Con (Computer History Museum)

Friday, 10 December

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 3.6 and 3.5

• Created 3.6.13 build #3 due to a regression on Friday
• Released 3.6.13 build #3 to the beta audience this morning
• Still intend to release 3.6.13 and 3.5.16 on Thursday, December 9th

Mobile Firefox

• Beta 3 holding for JPAKE work
• Beta 4 work is underway

Thunderbird

• 3.1.7 and 3.0.11 beta releases live, final targeted for Wednesday, Dec 9th.

Drumbeat

• School of Webcraft: January semester call for courses now open
  • Propose your course ideas here

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
Your Title Here	Your Name Here	What are you going to talk about?	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information

Status Updates By Team

Messaging

• New version of F1 coming this week: Google Apps, Yahoo support, & a keybinding
• bwinton has started iterating on some review & commit checklists, probably useful to both Firefox & Thunderbird developers

QA

QA Org Highlights

• Desktop Firefox
  • Still waiting for Beta8 builds to land. Should be this week.
• Browser Technologies
  • Awaiting Fennec beta 3 to land. This week.
  • Awaiting Firefox 1.1 final to land. This week.
  • Jetpack 1.0b1 release 12/7
• Web QA
  • SUMO KB 2.3 release 11/30
  • Shipped Mobile Add-ons Cup
  • Shipped Red Panda / Firefox Live
• QA Services
  • Community
    • Meetup in Munich to introduce Gary Kovacs to the community was a big success. Thanks to Tomcat for arranging this.
    • A successful Add-ons Manager test day was held last Friday.

Automation & Tools

• First results from Addons performance testing are landing in AMO Db via the changes to Buildbot and Graph Server - huge milestone for that team
• Nightly Tester Tools Version 3.0 is released!
• Bughunter crash reproduction system running, sent list of reproduced crashes to developers
• More information here

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla adopts two Firefox cubs
• Mozilla adopts two real-life baby firefoxes
• Firefox Launches Cub Cam
• Cutest marketing tactic ever: Mozilla Firefox streams round-the-clock videos of baby firefoxes
• Firefox Debuts Baby Firefox Webcam

• Open This Story in a New Tab

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing