WeeklyUpdates/2011-05-02
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Video for today's meeting
<video controls="controls">Friends of the Tree
David Boswell would like to thank George Fiotakis, Josh Matthews, Jay Garcia, Bogomil Shopov, tomcat, Juan Becerra, Jorge Villalobos and Paul Biggar for responding to over 1,600 people in April who contacted us through the Get Involved pages about wanting to contribute to Mozilla.
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 2 May
Tuesday, 3 May
Wednesday, 4 May
Thursday, 5 May
Friday, 6 May
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox 5
- About halfway through the first aurora train, the merge to beta happens 2011-05-17
- Beta meetings start this week, at 2pm PDT today
- The next mozilla-central → mozilla-aurora merge is on 2011-05-24 (6 weeks after the previous mozilla-central → mozilla-aurora merge, which happened on 2011-04-12)
Firefox 4, 3.6, 3.5
- New updates pushed out last week on all branches
Mobile Firefox
- Shipped Firefox 4.0.1 last week
- Continuing to test aurora builds, planning to go to beta at same time as desktop
Thunderbird
- Faster folder switching landed in Miramar nightly builds; please help us test and add any feedback onto bug 520272.
- Schedule and build mechanics details for Miramar posted to tb-planning.
- Released Thunderbird 3.1.10
Older Branch Work
Drumbeat
Knight-Mozilla News Project: "Unlocking Video" innovation challenge now underway
- Seeking designers and developers to submit ideas:
- How can new HTML5 web video tools transform news storytelling?
- Learn more or participate here: https://drumbeat.org/en-US/challenges/unlocking-video/
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mozilla Bootcamp | Julie Deroche | Stanford Open Source Bootcamp | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NO4M03OyGw | TBD |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
- Test Execution
- Fx.Next
- Aurora(5) -> Beta, May 17th
- Channel switcher should be all tested a week+ before then.
- Workspaces in development on Nightly(6)
- Aurora(5) -> Beta, May 17th
- WebQA
- Shipped last week:
- Web of Wonder
- MDN 0.9.4
- SUMO 2.8
- AMO 6.0.7
- Input 3.4
- QA Community
- Updated QMO for the London meetup event and the upcoming Selenium meetup
- Upcoming Test Day Friday, May 6: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/firefox-bugday-2011-05-06
- Test Dev
Automation & Tools
- Bughunter backend refactor nearing completion
- Fixes for addon testing service should be rolled out in downtime this week (affecting Talos Ts)
- Autolog is up and running - check out the crossweave data (sync testing)
- Other notes can always be found on our page
Security
Engagement
PR
Events
Creative Team
User Engagement
Channels:
- General Email list: 710,359 [+7.32%]
- Twitter Followers: 469,681 [+1.92%]
- Lifetime Facebook Likes: 4,124,491 [+1.57%]
- Join subscribers: 1,010 supporters
Campaigns / Programs:
- April Newsletter launched in EN-US [27% Open rate & 13% Click through rate]
- April Newsletter launched in DE [53% Open rate & 30.5% Click through rate]
- Join Mozilla Newsletter launched [39.1% Open rate & 10.7% Click through rate]
- Firefox 4 direct upgrade campaign in process
Contributor Engagement
- Firefox 4 launch: Awesome Firefox events continue around the world, including a series of events in Senegal, Kenya and Indonesia.
- Senegal: Check out event photos here, as well as a spotlight on Emmanuelle Bouiti who helped host the events.
- Indonesia: Photos, photos and more photos
- Kenya: Check out Dietrich Ayala's write up.
- Community Marketing Call:
- The next call is set for May 11th at 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET
- Notes from last week's call are here
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
- Kicked off working on elmo, the next iteration of the l10n dashboard. Moved the project to github, feel free to fix your papercuts and contribute, or grab a bug. We're using gitflow now, too. Join laura, peterbe, pike, stas.
L10n
Introducing New Hires
We have 4 new interns who started this week!
- Marc Jessome (RelEng)
- Owen Coutts (QA)
- William Chen (Content)
- Albert Noll (Research)
Foundation Updates
- Introducing Marilyn Wigglesworth, the new Director of Finance for the foundation