WeeklyUpdates/2011-05-23
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Video for today's meeting
<video controls="controls">Friends of the Tree 
- Gaby and Aleksej for contributing and demonstrating their eagerness to test out the mobile Firefox beta during the testday last Friday. - (Aaron)
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 23 May
Tuesday, 24 May
- [WebQA] - WebQA Automation Test Day
Wednesday, 25 May
- Community Engagement Call, 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391# You can also join us on Air Mozilla and via irc in #mozillians or #marketing. Agenda can be found here.
- MDN Community meeting, 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET, in #devmo on irc.mozilla.org. Agenda/notes
Thursday, 26 May
- Contribute group meeting at 10 PDT -- forum to discuss ideas about how to help people get involved with Mozilla
Friday, 27 May
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox 6
- Tuesday, May 24th (TOMORROW) is the mozilla-central → mozilla-aurora source migration
- To make sure your fixes make the cut they need to be in the tree by 11:59 pm PDT
- There will be blog posts and comments in #developers announcing when the merge is starting and ending so fixes can be targeted for the proper version
- There will be a Mercurial "war room" tomorrow, as the source migration may be more complicated. Time TBD (most likely 10:00 am PDT)
- Please note the difference between source migration and updates being offered
Firefox 5
- Offered to the existing Firefox 4 beta audience on Friday (throttled)
- Will unthrottle this week
Firefox 4
Mobile Firefox
- Shipped Firefox 5 Beta 2 last week (same time as desktop) - rel notes
- Two important bug fixes may go into next Fx5 beta
- Upcoming features and releases: see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Mobile and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Flight_Tracking#Mobile
Thunderbird
- Tuesday, May 24th: Central -> Aurora merge for TB 6
- Wednesday May 25th: L10n freeze for TB 6
- Wednesday May 25th: start of TB 5 beta, build 1
Older Branch Work
Drumbeat
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
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
- Test Execution
- Fennec
- Shipped Fennec 5 to Beta Channel
- Already known blockers needed to land in next beta
- bug 655864 - Aurora: password field is not masked immediately and shows artifacts, when typing past the end of the field
- bug 655852 - Typing past the boundaries of the textbox will start clearing the beginning characters, instead of scrolling
- Testplan for Fennec 6 is up
- Aurora merge scheduled for 5/24.
- Services
- Scheduled to deploy Python Sreg/reg server today. bug 654148
- Sync Discovery feature is at-risk for aurora. bug 618913
- ID, Share projects on hold for services work
- WebQA
- AMO 6.0.10 on 5/18 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657459
- Input 3.5 on 5/16
- Mozilla.com 2.5 on 5/17
- SUMO 3.8.3 on 5/17
- QA Community
- Test Dev
Automation & Tools
- Working on moving tests into the chrome harness in the ongoing effort to get rid of enablePrivilege
- We need some help solving some toolkit event tests - see jmaher and bug 508710
- Improved Performance on the War On Orange site
- Talos with Xperf is going into staging this week
- More notes here
Security
Engagement
PR
- 10 New Firefox 5 Features You Should Be Excited About
- Mozilla delivers Firefox 5 beta on schedule
- Firefox 5 beta lands right on schedule
- Firefox 5 beta starts rapid release cycle for Mozilla
- What's Inside Mozilla's Firefox 5 Beta
Events
Creative Team
Contributor Engagement
- Check out our updates in yummy HTML: Week of May 16.
- Last week's about:mozilla newsletter. Please send story ideas, events and tips to about-mozilla[at]mozilla.com.
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Can we suggest updating facebook status in bangla through a toolbar on mozilla startup. The opportunity could be built for Bangladeshi browsers only as Opera has already co-branded with Grameenphone, the largest telecom in the country. if we can integrate www.aawaj.com on the mozilla startup, we might just get new consumers in the category.
FYI, aawaj.com is the only mobile platform that supports writing bangla on mobile.
Webdev
L10n
Introducing New Hires
We have 10 new (some of them are actually not that new to Mozilla) interns joining us this week:
John Karahalis -- Dev. Engagement
Eshwaran Kumar -- Research
Vitor Menezes -- Platform (Layout)
Brinda Gupta -- SUMO
Sully (Michael Sullivan) -- Research, past JS intern (2009)
Sam Liu -- Automation/Tools
Josh Cranmer -- Platform (dxr project)
Rezwana Karim -- Research
Paul Sawaya -- Services
Ryan Pearl -- Platform (JS)
Ian Melven -- Product Security
Total number of interns so far: 31. We're still 24 interns short to complete the program!
Joey Armstrong - Snr Release Engineer (not an intern!) 1797 makefiles and where does the time go when you build?
