WeeklyUpdates/2010-11-01

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Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 01 November

Tuesday, 02 November

Wednesday, 03 November Join us at 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC for our bi-weekly marketing call hosted from sunny Mountain View. Get your agenda items in here.

Thursday, 04 November

Friday, 05 November

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 4

• 10 bugs left for beta 7, and we really really mean it
  • Also, it really fixes a lot of stuff. Be excited.
  • Christian (clegnitto@mozilla.com) will be taking over the release from Beltzner
• Updated schedule in the wiki aims for RCs in early 2011

Firefox 3.6 and 3.5

• Released 3.5.15 and 3.6.12 chemspills on Tuesday for a 0day that was being exploited
  • Thanks everyone for the quick (<48 hours) turnaround! [more detailed times ]
  • There will be a post-mortem scheduled for next week
• 3.5.16 and 3.6.13 are scheduled for release early December
  • Will hopefully include the open type sanitizer, which should fix/prevent a class of security bugs
  • Please nominate bugs and fix the existing blockers if you have some

Mobile Firefox

• Beta 2 builds are in testing
• Beta 3 here we come!
• Thanks for feedback from everyone. Keep it coming!

Thunderbird

• Shipped quick turnaround 3.1.6 and 3.0.10 gecko "chemspill" release
• Account provisioner and pluggable mail store work ongoing

Drumbeat

•  First-ever Drumbeat Festival kicks off this week! Wed, Nov 3.
  

•  Sold out as of Sunday night. Over 400 registrants!
  

•  Last-minute registration still available for stragglers & the desperate here.
  

•  Follow along on the Festival blog.

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
Firefox 4 Demo Week	Laura Mesa	Introducing Firefox 4 Demos	N/A	N/A

Status Updates By Team

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Test Dev

Automation & Tools

• Lots of great things happening in automation and tools land.
  • Mozmill 1.5.1 RC2 released last week to pypi (set to land on Mozilla-Central this week, getting ever closer to going live on tbpl).
  • Getting a lot of progress on finalizing the UI design for War on Orange (WOO)
  • Prodcutizing Atul's bugzilla dashboard to do some useful team-wide blocker queries (still in progress, so be gentle)
  • Nightly Tester Tools 0.5 set to release this week
  • Tp4 issues resolved on Android, working with RelEng to roll those out into production now
  • More status here.

Engagement

PR

• Firefox 4 release slips to 2011
• Firefox 4 Delayed
• Mozilla delays Firefox 4 release until 2011

• Major security bug fixed in Firefox
• Mozilla quickly patches Firefox flaw
• Mozilla patches Firefox zero-day bug in 48 hours
• Mozilla Addresses Firefox Nobel Security Hole

• For Exposure, Universities Put Courses on the Web

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing