WeeklyUpdates/2011-02-07

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Friends of the Tree

Alice "Alice0775" White has been a tremendous contributor for several years. Without Alice's tireless efforts testing, filing bugs and writing patches, Firefox 4 would not be the great browser that it is.

(via robcee, joedrew, tn, etc.)

Aleksej for helping to moderate the Firefox 4 FIXED bugday and for helping out before the event went live. Also, Steve Scott (:pxbugz) for verifying 45 fixes.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 7 February

Tuesday, 8 February

Please join one of our contributor town halls:

• Asia Contributor Town Hall, 4 p.m. UTC/GMT.
• EMEA Contributor Town Hall, 9 p.m CET.

Wednesday, 9 February

Thursday, 10 February

Friday, 11 February

Saturday, 12 February

Dare2BeDigital conference, Tech Museum: Mozilla will be running a video booth at the Dare2BDigital conference for young women (13-16) teaching girls how HTML5 and open video lets you run your own show - no YouTube or Flash needed! The key component of this tutorial will be demonstrating the Universal Subtitles project and we need localizers to show them how it works in realtime. Sign up to help in-person or online here.

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 4

• Beta 11 is being qualified by QA, expect signoff today and likely shipping tomorrow
• 19 betaN hardblockers (down from 35 last week)
• 30 final hardblockers (down from 32 last week)

Firefox 3.6 and 3.5

3.6.14 and 3.5.17

• Found what looks like to be a new crash regression during the beta period (bug 631105)
• We will not be releasing the security updates tomorrow
• We will be rebuilding today and plan to ship next Monday (2011-02-14)

Mobile Firefox

• Beta 4 shipped

Heartbeat of Engineering with Damon

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Planning/2011-02-02/top (damon's out today, check out the link and don't forget to read the weekly Engineering Newsletter in dev.planning)

Thunderbird

• 3.1.8 expected to go final this week

Drumbeat

• New rebooted version of Drumbeat web platform launching later today.
  • In staging here: http://batucada.mozillalabs.com/ (staging only -- no live data, please)

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 release of F1 upcoming after some bugfixing

QA

Deskop Firefox

• Fx4 Beta 11: Testing. Anticipated shipping Beta 11 this Tues
• Anthony Hughes organized an extremely successful bugday for Firefox 4 FIXED bugs

WebQA

• Shipped AMO 5.12.8

QA Services

• Marcia participated in Drumbeat San Diego Festival on Saturday
• Close look at crash reports from beta and currentl releases

Browser Technologies

• Signed off Firefox Home 1.1.1. awaiting App store deployment
• Signed off Sync 1.6.3 extension. awaiting AMO push
• Signed off Fennec 4 beta 4 to maemo and Android
• Completed Fennec 4 beta 4 startup/page load performance sheet. This will be automated in the future by an extension that mobiledev's are working on

QA Automation

• Henrik talked about crowd testing at FOSDEM 2011 (slides here)

Automation & Tools

• Android Talos is LIVE.
  • Many thanks to jmaher, bear, and aki!
• Splinter extension is up and available for you to play with on staging (need LDAP access, sorry)
• Final War on Orange site is LIVE and is now integrated with TBPL.
• Taking steps to perform user responsiveness measurements in order to gauge the effects of E10S.
• More exciting information is here

Engagement

PR

Events

• Dare2BeDigital conference, Tech Museum: Mozilla will be running a video booth at the Dare2BDigital conference for young women (13-16) teaching girls how HTML5 and open video lets you run your own show - no YouTube or Flash needed! The key component of this tutorial will be demonstrating the Universal Subtitles project and we need localizers to show them how it works in realtime. Sign up to help in-person or online here.

Creative Team

Contributor Engagement

• If you missed last week's contributor engagement call, you can catch the video https://videos.mozilla.org/serv/air_mozilla/020311townhall.ogg here] or join one of the above mentioned sessions.
• Please send tips for the about:mozilla newsletter as soon as possible to: about-mozilla[at]mozilla.com. You can also subscribe here.

Developer Tools

• Patrick Walton has created a new JavaScript Deminifier add-on that plugs into View Source
• The latest version of Rob Campbell's Workspace add-on is up on AMO and has been reviewed