WeeklyUpdates/2010-05-10
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Contents
- 1 Friends of the Tree
- 2 Upcoming Events
- 3 Speakers
- 4 Status Updates By Team
- 4.1 Gecko
- 4.2 Branch work: Firefox 3.5.x / Firefox 3.6.x / Thunderbird 3.0.x
- 4.3 Thunderbird
- 4.4 SeaMonkey
- 4.5 Mobile
- 4.6 IT
- 4.7 Release Engineering
- 4.8 QA
- 4.9 Automation & Tools
- 4.10 Security
- 4.11 Marketing/PR
- 4.12 Support
- 4.13 Metrics
- 4.14 Evangelism
- 4.15 Labs
- 4.16 Developer Tools
- 4.17 Add-ons
- 4.18 Webdev
- 4.19 L10n
- 5 Introducing New Hires
- 6 Foundation Updates
- 7 Roundtable
Friends of the Tree 
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 10 May
Tuesday, 11 May
Wednesday, 12 May
Thursday, 13 May
Friday, 14 May
- Testday on the next version of AMO! Hop on over to #testday via irc.mozilla.org to join us!
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.
| Title | Presenter | Topic | Media | More Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plugin Check: Cross Browser Functionality | Laura Mesa | Newest Release of Plugin Check now supports all modern browsers! | http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ | Try it out yourself! http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ |
| Student Reps: Introducing Office Hours | William Reynolds (remote, speaking via phone) | Reps and community members now have times during the week to help each other on IRC | http://bit.ly/repsOfficeHours | #studentreps on IRC |
Status Updates By Team
Gecko
Branch work: Firefox 3.5.x / Firefox 3.6.x / Thunderbird 3.0.x
- Found some issues in the last Firefox 3.6.4 build. Schedule is now TBD.
- 3 blockers in Firefox code
- 2 blockers with 3rd parties
- 7 possible issues we are tracking. Could become blockers, likely pushed to 3.6.5
- Firefox 3.5.10 went out out to beta audience, no issues to report yet
- Thunderbird 3.0.5 builds hoped to start this week
Thunderbird
- Thunderbird 3.1RC1 is scheduled to code freeze on Friday.
- Anyone interested in helping out, please ask in #maildev
SeaMonkey
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
- trees were closed all weekend and remain CLOSED
- Windows build slaves have been disconnecting after 3 minutes: bug 555794
- continue working with IT on a fix/workaround
QA
- QA Highlites
- New Hires
- Rebecca Billings starts in WebQA today, May 10
- Interns
- Ayan Shah, Browser Technologies, start today, May 10
- Tanay Gavankar, WebQA start next Monday, May 17
- Desktop Firefox QA
- 3.6.4 beta build 2 delayed to Monday. We will determine what testing will be conducted for release.
- Prepare for 3.5.10 release next week.
- Mobile QA
- Wrote plan for Waverly Software who will be performing testing of nightly fennec builds. Kick off meeting Tuesday May 11.
- Weave 1.3
- testing 1.3 build 5 client.
- load testing with uTest delayed until Monday this week.
- Web QA
- QA Services
- Community
- Working on promo video for QMO 2.0 launch
- Community
Automation & Tools
- Rolling out Bug Hunter crash & unit test failure system, gave demo to developers last week
- Working to iron out issues with Fennec + electrolysis unit tests this week
- Meeting about rolling Addon Performance into Talos this week
- Gave Design Lunch on Reviewboard/Splinter Bugzilla integration
- More items here
Security
Marketing/PR
General
- Plugin Check: Cross Browser Functionality
- Works with all recent versions of modern browsers
- Chrome
- Safari
- Opera
- IE
- Works with all recent versions of modern browsers
PR
- Hands-on: Mozilla's foxy Fennec prerelease build for Android
- Firefox Mobile gets started on Android
- Why Mozilla Wants the Fennec Browser on Android (and What It Looks Like)
- Firefox Wants to Be Your Online Identity Portal Too
- Firefox Steps Up to Challenge Facebook's Claim to Identity
- Account Manager for Firefox Graduates from Mozilla Labs
Events
- e27 echelon 2010 June 1-2, 2010; Singapore. Gen will be participating in this event.
- LinuxTag 2010 June 9-12, 2010; funding from Mozilla Europe is secured; Mozilla staff and community will manage a 12m2 booth at Europe's largest Linux tech fair; Tristan Nitot, Paul Rouget and Brian King all confirmed to give keynote talks; Carsten Book and WQ leading community outreach and organization
- Black Hat USA 2010 July 24-29, 2010; Las Vegas, NV - Look into putting together the "traditional" Mozilla milk & cookies party.
- GUADEC 2010 - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands. We are sponsoring at the bronze level. no Mozilla talks schedules.
- Open Video Conference 2010 - October 1-2, 2010; New York, NY - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.
- BlogHer '10 - August 6-7, 2010 - Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
- Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010 - September 11-12, 2010 - Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
- London Add-ons Challenge (name TBC): Exploring two consumer-focused events in SF & London.
Creative Team
Community Marketing
- Community Marketing Call: Join us on Wednesday for our bi-weekly call!
- May 12th @ 10 a.m. PST/17:00 UTC. Please send agenda items to mary at mozilla dot com.
- Labs overview w. Pascal Finette: Join us immediately overview of Labs. Including:
- An update on some new projects including Account Manager
- How to get involved
- Student Reps
- Now offering "office hours" for questions, catching up, etc. Details here.
- Getting ready for l10n of new website. Reps will help with translating.
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
- The new version of Bouncer has landed, now with Build integration!
L10n
Introducing New Hires
- Rebecca Billings Sr. QA Eng, WebQA
- Ayan Shah, QA Intern
