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Friends of the Tree

1. I nominate Tobias Markus for his work on the Mozmill project by updating all existing tests to new API calling conventions. -- Henrik Skupin

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 29 March

Tuesday, 30 March

Wednesday, 31 March

Thursday, 1 April

Friday, 2 April

• Testday on Tab Matches Awesomebar! For more information, take a look at our event details page.

Next Week

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.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

You only get one this week - for more details watch planet firefox.

• OMG - Tab Matches in awesomebar!
  

Gecko

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

• Firefox 3.6.3 shipping on Friday, 4/2/2010 as a chemspill security update.

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

Thunderbird

• 3.1b2/3.1 feature/string freeze intended for last Tuesday slipped
• next steps:
  • get migration assistant and filter bar changes ready for feedback
  • have tb2 -> tb3 test day for feedback (thursday, we hope)
  • set the new freeze date

SeaMonkey

Mobile

IT

• graphs.mozilla.org issues bug 553590 memory exhaustion issues
  • Pushed bug 554023 to fix issues.
• NetApp OS Upgrades - April 17
  • See bug 502151 for details

Release Engineering

• releases:
  • 3.6.2 short-cycled last week
  • 3.5.9, 3.0.19 on track for tomorrow
• nightly updates now generated on build slaves for m-c: bug 511967
  • l10n builds now get nightly updates up to 12 hours sooner
  • facilitates offering updates for project branches

QA

Planned this week

QA All

• Complete and lock down team and individual Q2 Goals
• More interviews (phone and onsite)

Test Execution

• Prioritize and assign for testing the following releases
  • 3.6.3plugin2(Lorentz)
  • 3.6.3 security update
  • 3.7alpha4
• Test planning for Mobile 1.1 Release.

Web QA

• AMO 5.9 planning in progress. Planning doc is here

QA Community

• Setup for Bug Day, Apr 6

Accomplished last week

Test Execution

• Tested and shipped 3.6.2 one week early
• Spent Friday with rushed testing of Lorentz build (3.6.3plugin1).

Web QA

• AMO 5.8 went live on Tuesday
• Certified SUMO 1.5.2 for Mobile and 1.5.3 for Desktop; will push those on 3/30

QA Community

• very sucessfull meetup in Munich with ~ 40 People - gave Talk and Demos
• I would like to nominate Tobbi as friend of the tree. He did a great job last week on updating all of our Mozmill tests to the new assertJS calling convention.
• Hosted Mt.View QA meetup and presented the new features for 3.7
• Marco Zehe was able to attend the CSUN conference in San Diego even with the BA airline strikes. The conference was a hit, see Marco's blog for a recap.
• Review of new QMO mockup pages

Development Infrastructure and Automation

• We have a Purify machine for inclusion into our valgrind/purify unitesting setup. We will be attempting to integrate it this week
• HAL Reftest is now named Grafx Bot, thanks to some awesome brainstorming with our Marketing folks.
• We are working out our next set of tasks and sprints for Q2 this week
• More information is always here.

Security

Marketing/PR

PR

• Which Browser Should I Use? Firefox or Chrome?

• Firefox Update Addresses Critical Security Flaw
• Firefox releases security patch

• Firefox Mobile: Where it Stands Now
• Firefox Mobile at CTIA

• New Mozilla Labs Project Wants to Give You Total Control Over Your Address Book
• Mozilla Contacts Imports and Auto-Fills Email Addresses in Firefox
• Mozilla Labs Seeks to Tame Your Address Book With ‘Contacts’
• Mozilla Labs builds add-on to bring address book to Firefox
• Mozilla Labs releases new Firefox Contacts add-on for web contact & browser integration

Events

• Developer Summit - Caching - April 5, 2010; Mountain View, CA.  We will have a meeting at Mozilla HQ to discuss caching in the browsers.
• 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.
• e27 echelon 2010 June 1-2, 2010; Singapore.  Gen will be participating in this event.
• GUADEC 2010 - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands.  We are sponsoring at the bronze level.  More information to come soon.
  
• Open Video Conference 2010 - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.

Creative Team

• Mozilla t-shirt design challenge is still ongoing.
• Want to follow Firefox in the world of social media? Meet the new "stay connected" page.
• Implemented new and improved Firefox download page for IE users.
• Stay tuned for ways you can get involved with an upcoming World Cup-related project.

Community Marketing

• Spread Firefox Education Toolkit: Today we launched the Firefox Education Toolkit so anyone can go out and teach people about Mozilla and Firefox.
  • The toolkit contains everything you'll need - including a set of print pieces, videos and presentations - to conduct events, presentations, Firefox booths and more!
  • The print and presentation materials are currently localized in three languages; English, Spanish and Portuguese (Brasil).
  • Information on how to localize these materials will be coming soon.
    • If you'd like to host an event with the new kit, please register it here. Be sure to select "Firefox Education."
    • Swag requests can also be made here for your events.

• Community Marketing Call: Next call is Wednesday March 31st at 10 a.m. PST/17:00 UTC. Please send agenda items to sarah@mozilla.com.
• Community Spotlight/Best Practices: Please help us collect case studies on all the great stuff you've done from events to marketing campaigns to design work. Please submit it here.

Support

• Sign up for the support weekly newsletter: Sign up here!
• Experiment to reach out to more Firefox users by helping on Twitter starting this week.

Metrics

• Firefox Adoption
  • Millions of additional Firefox downloads attributable to a recent experiment at mozilla.com
  • Discussion around the Firefox adoption & conversion funnel. More details to come!

Evangelism

Labs

• Released Jetpack SDK 0.2.

Developer Tools

• Bespin Embedded 0.6.3 was released on March 26th. Notably, it fixes a bug in the "Customizable" package's dryice tool that prevented dryice from producing functional builds of Bespin.

Add-ons

• Jetpack SDK 0.2 released!

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

• Mayumi Matsuno joins the Marketing team and will work as Senior Product Marketing Manager Mozilla Labs
• Michael Verdi joins the SUMO team as Support Content Manager!
  • Say hello to him in #sumo -- his IRC nickname is michaelverdi :)
• Chris Jung joins the Metrics team. Chris is a recent Stanford grad joining us as a full-time contractor dedicated to Test Pilot analysis. Check out Chris' initial blog posts.

Foundation Updates

• Extensive Mozilla Foundation status update posted as slidecast on Mark's blog:
  • http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/march-2010-status/

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