WeeklyUpdates/2010-09-27
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Video for today's meeting
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Friends of the Tree 
- nominating Margaret Leibovic and Philipp von Weitershausen for climbing the learning curve in writing localization-friendly code with their b7 blockers (Axel).
- nominating Aleksej, Daniel, db48xOther, dickey, Fry-kun, gaby2300, Jan, kbrosnan, Mathnerd314 for contributing test cases as part of the multiple bugdays during the recent QA work week [ashughes]
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 27 September
Tuesday, 28 September
- Coffee/Brown Bag with Chris Jay Hoofnagle re Users' Views and Expectations on Privacy and Privacy Settings (10 Forward and Air Mozilla)--be there or be square! Contact Julie Martin if you have any questions.
Wednesday, 29 September
- We host the jQuery Mobile project team meeting in R2D2/C3PO. Swing by if you want to see what they are up to.
Thursday, 30 September
Friday, 1 October
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox 4
- Code freeze for Beta 7 marches on! Another bunch of big changes have landed:
- 64-bit builds for OSX
- GC Compartments (tracemonkey only right now)
- there are 30 blockers left which we hope to close out in the next couple of days
- The tree remains closed to all other bugs until we hit this milestone
Firefox 3.6 and 3.5
- Code freeze for 3.6.11 and 3.5.14 is tomorrow, 2010-09-28 @ 11:59 pm PDT
- Please email Christian if you have a blocker that won't be done by that time
- Post-mortem for 3.6.9/10 will be held on Thursday (see the wiki page for details)
Mobile Firefox
- Beta one is close!
- Please help test builds
Thunderbird
- Thunderbird trunk
- add-ons manager has been brought back to life in a tab
- now based on libxul
- Account provisioning work continues
Drumbeat
- Update on Transmediale Open Web Award Finalists - Henrik Moltke (present)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game On 2010 | Pascal Finette | Mozilla Labs' "Game On 2010" Open Web games competition update | tbd | http://gaming.mozillalabs.com |
| Seabird Concept Phone | Pascal Finette | Some background on the Concept Series Seabird mobile phone concept | http://mozillalabs.com/seabird | http://mozillalabs.com/seabird |
| One Mozilla Domain Name Strategy | David Boswell | Proposal for a coherent domain name plan | Proposal | Governance thread |
| Change to OSX universal builds | John O'Duinn | blog post |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
- QA Org Highlights
- Q4 Goals locked and loaded!
- WebQA
- AMO 5.12 is currently planned to go out on 09/28
- Certify/ship Input 1.8
- Browser Technologies
- Tested and shipped Jetpack 0.8
- Desktop Firefox
- Fx 4 Beta 7: Code freeze delay. Holding pattern for test execution.
- Community
- Testday for recent Sync changes last Friday with 13 bugs filed.
Automation & Tools
- Temporary android automation running, continuing to work on final automation with Bear and Aki.
- Android Talos is running within the buildbot framework
- Started War On Orange discussions with Metrics team and RelEng for a Hadoop centric build/test log storage
- Have Mozmill testing ready for production on buildbot for Mac and Linux, working through the last issues with Windows - bug 516984
- More information is always on our page
Security
Engagement
PR
- Mozilla dreams up conceptual Seabird phone
- Mozilla Seabird Concept Phone Boasts Projector, Wireless Charging (VIDEO)
- Forget Facebook: I Want a Mozilla Seabird Phone
- Mozilla updates Firefox Home for iPhone, iPod touch
- Firefox Home for IPhone Adds URL Field, More
- Mozilla Launches New Version of Firefox Home iPhone App
Participation
- Help us improve our participation channels by filling out short surveys if you are:
- A student rep.
- Have a website badge (Affiliate)
- Follow us on Twitter
- Are a member of the Firefox Facebook page.
Events
Creative Team
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
Introducing New Hires
- Jason Grlicky, Webdev
