WeeklyUpdates/2011-03-07
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Friends of the Tree 
- Kris Maglione, Andreas Wagner, Nils Maier and Archaeopteryx, winners of the top 4 positions in the AMO Editor Competition, totaling a combined 2500 add-on reviews in the past 2 months.
- Henrik Skupin nominates pxbugs, Aleksej, and bytehead for their efforts in testing Firefox 4 RC1 during the add-ons testday last Friday.
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 7 March
Tuesday, 8 March
Wednesday, 9 March
Thursday, 10 March
- Websites Task Force meeting on Thursday at 10 pacific (Mozilla web font, End of Life processes and more)
Friday, 11 March
- Firefox Test Day - focusing on Unconfirmed Bugs: See UNCO Bugs March 11 Test Day for more details.
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox 4
- Built RC1 last week, great work everyone!
- On the look out for any bugs that would require a RC2
- If you see one, please nominate it for blocking and/or email release-drivers
Firefox 3.6 and 3.5
- Shipped 3.6.14 and 3.5.17 on Tuesday
- Shipped 3.6.15 on Friday, fixing an issue where Firefox 3.6.14 would fail to load certain Java applets
- Bugs will be adjusted to reflect the current state of branch fixes
Mobile Firefox
- Code freeze TOMORROW
- Need feedback from everyone running the build
Thunderbird
- Miramar
- tab re-ordering and undo close bug 468808 have landed
- Alpha 3 may ship this week; depending on outstanding landing & Lanikai issues
- Lanikai stability releases
- released 3.1.8 and 3.1.9 in quick succession last week to deal with updater problems
- still have outstanding updater issues to work through, including bug 635161
Drumbeat
- The Hackasaurus team is here in Mountain View this week. Meet @openmatt, @toolness, and @iamjessklein to chat more about the project!
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hackasaurus | Atul Varma and Jessica Klein | We'll be giving an overview of Hackasaurus, a toolkit and curriculum to help kids/non-techies understand the Open Web and how to hack it. | Google Docs Presentation, Hackasaurus 15-second hack Ogg Theora (slide 9) | Hackasaurus |
| Field Report - Press tour update | Shappy | Quick update of how the FF4 press tour is progressing |
n/a | n/a |
| Quick update on some automated crowd-source-y test tools for your nightly | Ctalbert | Check out the A-Team section of the wiki | JS Speed Tests | New Grafx Bot |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
- General
- A Browser Automation Standard
- Initial discussion can be found in this Etherpad
- Simon Stewart (Google) checked in the initial WebDriver browser automation standard IDL (Announcement thread)
- Browser Technologies
- Tested and assisted deployment of Production servers: Python sreg, Account Portal, and Storage Server
- Tested and Shipped Jetpack SDK 1.0beta 3 rc3
- WebQA
- David Burns Keynoted Selenium Camp Blog Post
- QA Automation
- Blog posts
- QA Community
- Test Dev
Automation & Tools
- Firebug test runner code has now landed in mozilla-central, waiting on a reconfig to the slaves in order to run in buildbot
- First edition of cross-browser automated JS speed tests are live. Check your speed here
- Grafx Bot testing tool with ability to run webgl tests in addition to reftests is released. Try it out today!
- More news available here
Security
Engagement
PR
- Mozilla challenges Apple, Google with 'open' app store
- Mozilla Demos Open Web App Store
- Mozilla Web Application Project Debuts
- Mozilla Shows Off Web App Product in Bits and Pieces
- With Pwn2Own looming, Mozilla and Google ship browser patches
- Mozilla Follows Google in Fixing Firefox Bugs Before Hacking Contest
Events
Creative Team
Contributor Engagement
- Firefox 4 Launch:
- Our party page is live - please register if you'd like to host a party. Our team is "Team Firefox" to celebrate all the team work that has gone into Firefox 4 for desktop and mobile!
- Our launch team is now over 200+ strong. If you'd like to join still please sign up at http://bit.ly/joinFxLaunch.
- ReMo:
- Join Pierros Pappadeas and William Quivigier tomorrow March 8th at 1 p.m. PST for a brownbag on Remo.
- This will be streamed over AirMoz + dial-in is 1-800-707-2533 (password 369) or 1-650-215-1282 (extension 92#), Conference number 8600#
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- Have news for tomorrow's newsletter? Please add it here.
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
Introducing New Hires
- Nicholas Hurley ~ Robert Sayre
- David Mason ~ Jay Sullivan
- Noah Meyerhans ~ Corey Shields
- Matej Novak ~ John Slater
- Valerie Ponell ~ Melissa Shapiro
- Pierros Papadeas ~ William Quiviger
- Rowe Hoffer ~ Mitchell Baker
