WeeklyUpdates/2011-07-25
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Contents
- 1 Friends of the Tree
- 2 Upcoming Events
- 3 Product Status Updates
- 4 Speakers
- 5 Status Updates By Team
- 6 Introducing New Hires
- 7 Introducing A New Intern
- 8 Foundation Updates
- 9 Roundtable
Friends of the Tree 
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 25 July
Tuesday, 26 July
Brownbag, Tuesday, 26 July, 12:00 noon, 10-Forward (also on Air Mozilla)
The Belay project is co-designing user experience and system architecture to enable simple and secure interaction between components on the web and in the browser. Mark Lentcnzer, the Belay tech lead, will present their goals and demonstrate their secure web-app execution environment.
Wednesday, 27 July
Thursday, 28 July
- Websites Taskforce meeting -- a forum for discussing ways to improve Mozilla's web universe.
Friday, 29 July
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox Future (6, 7, 8)
Reminder week!
- Reminder: The next migration day (and hence target for the next Firefox release) is August 16th (3 weeks!)
- Reminder: Final beta / RC build is building next week
- Remember, we need to frontload some beta work to hit final release dates
- Reminder: We have a new release ready every 6 weeks, and I blogged about it.
- Reminder: Aurora meetings are Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm PDT, Beta meetings Mondays at 2pm PDT
- Announcements go to dev.planning
Firefox Current (3.6, 5.0)
Reminder week!
- Reminder: Non-blocking bug code freeze for 3.6.20 is today, 2011-07-25
- Reminder: Blocking bug code freeze is one week from today, 2011-08-01
- We hope to have builds available on 2011-08-02
- Reminder: Full schedule is on the wiki
If you are assigned a bug for 3.6.20, please get it in now.
Mobile Firefox
Thunderbird
- Thunderbird 6.0 Beta 1 was released last week. Please give it a try.
Drumbeat
- Hackasaurus Summer Sprint. Atul and other members of Hackasaurus team are in Toronto for work sprint to ship Hackasaurus Beta in September.
- Looking for your feedback on new Hackasaurus Roadmap. (Got some great feedback from Pascal Finette, Dan Mosedale and special guest star Mike Beltzner this morning.)
- Please add your feedback here. How can we make it clearer? Easier for developers to contribute?
- Prepping "Hack This Game" design challenge for Hackasaurus HTML5 games. Join Tuesday's Hackasaurus community call to get invovled.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boot To Gecko | Chris Jones | Boot to Gecko aims to create a complete, standalone operating system for the open web. | (no slides) | https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G |
| The Future of Firefox User Experience | Alex Limi | Part 1 of our two-part UX presentation series is happening at noon PST this Wednesday (July 27th). We'll be showing what the Firefox UX team has been up to since Firefox 4, a visual design direction, a better model for add-on integration, the 80/20/2 rule, Home tab / New tab, and Presence in the browser. The talk should be recorded if we can make it happen, and broadcast on Air Mozilla. (Date is tentative until I've gotten confirmation that it isn't conflicting with any other talks in Ten Forward) | N/A | N/A |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
- Fx6 Beta 3: Build candidates and updates have been checked. To be signed off Monday morning.
- Same for mobile
- Services Load Test environment will be fully functional
WebQA
- AMO 6.1.6
- SUMO: http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-07-19 release
- MDN 0.9.8.1
- Mozilla.com 3.2
QA Community
Automation Services
Automation & Tools
- We are continuing to work on creating bug correlations for War on Orange
- Working on creating User Responsiveness Talos Metrics
- Pulling together teams for the GoFaster project
- More Notes
Security
Engagement
PR
- Mozilla formulates enterprise user working group to address enterprise needs
- IT Poll: Do You Support Firefox in the Enterprise?
Contributor Engagement
Creative Team
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
People Team
Introducing New Hires
- Mary Trombley: joining the User Research team, managed by Jinghua Zhang, located in Mtn. View Office.
- Wesley Kocher: joining the Products team, managed by David Mason, located in Iowa.
- Gábor Krizsanits: joining the Jetpack team, managed by Dave Townsend, located in Budapest
- Jean-Marc Valin: joining the Platform team, managed by Robert O'Callahan, located in Montreal.
- Lucas Rocha: joining the Mobile team, managed by Mark Finkle, located in London.
Introducing A New Intern
- Tobias Markus, Web Testing ("Tobbi")
