WeeklyUpdates/2010-02-22

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Friends of the Tree Friends of the Tree


Upcoming Events


This Week



  •  Mozilla Corporation platform team employees gathering for a work week in Mountain View


Thursday, 25 February



  •  Labs Night at Wikimedia Foundation HQ in San Fransisco



Friday, 26 February 




  •  [/Labs/DesignLunch Design Lunch] Friday 12:30PST - Results of the Test Pilot menu item usage study: What menu items in Firefox are used the most, how are people using them, and what does this mean for the Firefox 4 menu redesign?


Next Week



  •  Mozilla Corporation Firefox team employees gathering for a work week in Mountain View

    •  purpose is to finish up our goals for this quarter
      • 

    •  also plan on doing some Jetpack hacking, general tools hacking, and meeting with other groups
      • 

    •  are looking into how we can use Air Mozilla to make it as open and interactive as possible


  •  Also visit us next week from March 2 - 6 at the CeBIT in Hannover/Germany! The Mozilla Booth will in be Hall 2 - F34!


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




 Overview of js-ctypes

 Dan Witte

 A new way to call native code from JavaScript.

 http://people.mozilla.com/~dwitte/ctypes-talk-20100222/ctypes.html

 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jsctypes/api




 Choice Campaign Update

 Jane Finette

 EU Browser Screen & Mozilla's Open Letter

 http://opentochoice.org

 http://opentochoice.org





Status Updates By Team


Firefox


  •  work continues on mozilla-central for our primary projects

    •  out of process plugins (destined for a 3.6.x update)
      • 

    •  new theme work (destined for next major Firefox release)
      • 

    •  tab matches in awesomebar (destined for next major Firefox release)
      • 

    •  come to the developer meeting on Tuesday to find out more!


Gecko


Branch work: Firefox 3.5.x / Firefox 3.6.x / Thunderbird 3.0.x


  •  Firefox 3.0.18 and 3.5.8 shipped last week.
    • 

  •  Working on schedule this week for 3.0.19/3.5.9/3.6.2.


Old Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x


  •  See above for Firefox 3.0.x
    • 

  •  Waiting for final check-ins for Thunderbird 2.0.0.24. No final schedule.


Thunderbird


  •  3.1b1 string/code freeze tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb 23) at 23:59 Pacific
    • 

  •  3.0.2 released to beta channel; final planned for Thursday


SeaMonkey


Mobile


IT


Release Engineering


  •  some new win32 hardware (as opposed to VM) builders joining the production slave pool today

    •  should mean faster (4x in some cases) win32 build turnaround
    • 

  •  EU ballot builds: many thanks to Kev for dealing with the repacks and shepherding them into the right places
    • 

  •  security releases for Firefox 3.0.18 and 3.5.8 were done by John Ford and Armen respectively. This was the first release for both team members.
    • 

  •  tracked down and helped fix a particularly nasty Windows bug that kept the tree closed for a week. See bug 543034 for the gory details.
    • 

  •  got rid of the Release Engineering:Future bugzilla component. Going to start tracking bugs like everyone else.
    • 

  •  talos rev3 machines seem to be running well. We will likely be pulling the plug on the rev2 machines this week.


QA


Test Execution


  •  First pass at firefox.next assignments done

    •  3.next test plan and assignments are here
    • 

  •  Out or Process Plugins

    •  2 weeks of testdays have been completed
      • 

    •  Digging through electrolysis spec to revamp the OOPP testplan
      • 

    •  Creating litmus tests



WebQA



QA Community


  •  Held the Mobile Firefox 1.1 Alpha Testday. Recap can be found here


Test Dev


  •  Creating patches to change localtest to mochi.test in all tests using the mochitest webserver bug 544097
    • 

  •  Proposing a session at the platform work week on getting rid of enable priviledge in mochitest-plain
    • 

  •  Working with mobile and build to get the maemo unit tests green
    • 

  •  More notes here.


Security


Marketing/PR


PR 




Events 



  • India University Tour - February 2010; India.  Seth, Arun and Ragavan are in India during February to participate in a number of university based events.
    • 

  • MAOW Lima 2010 - February 27, 2010; Lima, Peru.  Working with community members and Jorge Villalobos to put together a one-day add-ons workshop on XUL and Jetpack. 
    • 

  • SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  We have a small sponsorship and are hosting a Mozilla party on Saturday, March 13th from 6-8pm at the Cedar Door.  Sign-ups for our party are here.  Please continue to check our wiki page for information. 
     
    • 

  • ROFLCon II April 30 - May  1, 2010; Boston, MA.  We have a join sponsorship with the Mozilla Foundation and will be live streaming and archiving the event with HTML5 open video.
     
    • 

  • Processing.js Boston - April 10, 2010; Boston, MA.  Looking into putting together an event with the Processing.js team. 
    • 

  • JSConf.US April 17-18, 2010; Washington, DC.  We are sponsoring this event.  We will also have Mitcho, one of our Jetpack Ambassadors conducting a Jetpack talk and putting together Jetpack hacking session in the lounge.


Creative Team 




Community Marketing



  •  Open to Choice is live!

    •  This week's focus is getting the Open to Choice campaign off the ground.  We need your help.  Here's how:

      •  Write a blog post on your local community website and/or personal blog
        • 

      •  follow @opentochoice and retweet (if you haven't already)
        • 

      •  Write about open to choice on your favourite social networks
        • 

      •  comment on the open letter (either as a comment on opentochoice.org or on your blog sending a trackback to the campaign site)
        • 

      •  Write to bloggers, local media informing them about the open letter
        • 

      •  localize the open letter (if you haven't already; languages already  


covered: en, de, fr, sp, it, pl, ro)



      •  Start a thread in technology and FLOSS related forums and mailing  


lists about the browser choice screen



      •  do some research on future local events and the possibility of  


bringing Open to Choice there (doing a talk, having a booth, having a  
flyer distributed in the welcome pack, putting a banner on the event  
front page)



      •  Become a browser choice screen watcher: did you see the browser  


choice screen pop-up on your screen? Send us an email, post it on your  
blog, Tweet about it (use the #opentochoice tag). Give details (country, time of day, choice of browser).



Support


Metrics



Evangelism


  •  No updates.


Labs


Developer Tools



Add-ons


  •  Read about the upcoming plans for requiring Private Browsing compliance in Firefox extensions here.  Also, we need volunteers to create a tool for checking the compatibility of extensions with Private Browsing mode; more info here, and tool spec here.


Webdev


  •  SUMO 1.5.1 went out Thursday with a minor update Friday.  This release had all the EU ballot changes.


L10n


Introducing New Hires


  •  Please welcome Chris Leary, who is joining the Javascript team.


  •  Felipe Gomes, located in Brazil, has joined the Firefox team. blog, twitter


Foundation Updates



Roundtable








					

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