WeeklyUpdates/2010-11-08
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Video for today's meeting
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Friends of the Tree 
- Wanted to thank the following people for all their hard work during the Fx 4 Demos Work Week: Paul Rouget, Corban Riley, Al MacDonald, Charles Cliffe, Cedric Pinson, Geoffrey Dorne, Simon Luthi, Ilmari Heikkenen, Guillaume Lecollinet, Franck Lecollinet, Omar Noory, Chris Howse, Jason Grlicky, Austin King and Max Lanaman.
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 08 November
Tuesday, 09 November
Wednesday, 10 November
Thursday, 11 November
Friday, 12 November
- SUMO 2.3 Community Test Day
- But you can test it out right now!
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox 4
- Branched and built for FF4b7 last Thursday (2010-11-04)
- The tree is open again!
- QA is testing the builds for FF4b7. Please test it yourself by downloading it here
- Plan to ship to users this week (Wednesday) if no major issues are found
- We're investigating some possible issues that may cause a rebuild, though we do not have enough information to make a decision
- Beta 8 has 87 blockers
Firefox 3.6 & 3.5
- The schedules for 3.6.13 and 3.5.16 are now posted to the wiki
- Code freeze is scheduled for Thursday, November 18th @ 11:59 pm PST
- Final release is scheduled for Thursday, December 9th
Mobile Firefox
- Firefox 4 Beta 2 released.
- Firefox Home 1.0.4 going to app store shortly
- Beta 3 code freeze is November 23
Thunderbird
- Ramping up for 3.3alpha1 builds from the trunk in the next few weeks
- Note that we're not yet decided whether Tb.next will ship off of 1.9.2 or 2.0
- Account provisioning add-on should be ready for testing & feedback soon
- Shipping 3rd funnelcake build based on 3.1.6
Drumbeat
- Drumbeat festival was a big success! A more detailed report will be a lightning talk in next week's meeting. Have a look at the festival blog in the meantime to get a flavour of how the festival went: http://www.drumbeat.org/drumbeat_festival_2010
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trip Summary: Mid-East, Moscow, Drumbeat | Mitchell Baker | Lightning Talk version of recent travels | photos from Amman: http://picasaweb.google.com/ArabicMozilla/OpenWebGetInvolved#5532462205190656514 |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
- QA Test Automation
- Henrik spoke about Mozmill Crowd at the [Selenium meetup] in London
- This meetup included talks from David Burns on client performance testing and an overview of WebQA automation infrastructure by Stephen Donner
- This week we have the Test Automation work week happening in the headquarters. Stop by in Zombocom if you are interested.
- Henrik spoke about Mozmill Crowd at the [Selenium meetup] in London
- Desktop Firefox QA
- Currently testing Beta7 builds, looking for ship this week.
Automation & Tools
- Mozmill is going live in buildbot this week! Thanks to all the folks who have made this long standing goal a reality: jhammel, jhford, harth, whimboo, and joduinn.
- Orange Factor has moved to a more permanent home, and changed to a day by day calculation over time rather than a cumulative graph over time.
- Still experimenting with statistics, getting data uploaded into hBase for final database.
- Nightly Tester Tools 2.5 released.
- Bugzilla Team Dashboards version 1 are live.
- The A-Team will be in MV next week, hanging out in GIGO or BRB if you want to come say hi.
- More news...
Security
Engagement
PR
- Mozilla's New Firefox Beta for Android Improves Speed, Size
- Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 Beta 2 For Android, Maemo
- Firefox mobile browser gets new Android interface
- Firefox 4 for Android Gets Updated
Events
Creative Team
Community Marketing
