WeeklyUpdates/2011-08-15
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Contents
- 1 Video for today's meeting
- 2 Friends of the Tree
- 3 Upcoming Events
- 4 Speakers
- 5 Status Updates By Team
- 5.1 Firefox
- 5.2 Gecko
- 5.3 Branch work: Firefox 3.5.x / Firefox 3.6.x / Thunderbird 3.0.x
- 5.4 Thunderbird
- 5.5 Drumbeat
- 5.6 SeaMonkey
- 5.7 Mobile
- 5.8 IT
- 5.9 Release Engineering
- 5.10 QA
- 5.11 Security
- 5.12 Marketing/PR
- 5.13 Support
- 5.14 Metrics
- 5.15 Developer Engagement / Evangelism
- 5.16 Labs
- 5.17 Developer Tools
- 5.18 Add-ons
- 5.19 Webdev
- 5.20 L10n
- 6 Introducing New Hires
- 7 Foundation Updates
- 8 Roundtable
Video for today's meeting
Friends of the Tree 
- Everyone who participated in the MDN doc sprint this past Friday and Saturday, including: Eric Bidelman, David Bruant, Ernest Chiang, Colin Clark, Ben Combee, Ernest Delgado, Trevor Hobson, Kevin Lim, Daniel Lopretto, Kenny Lu, Peter Lubbers, Mike McNally, Bradley Meck, Jeremie Patonnier, Kassandra Perch, Florian Scholz, Tom Schuster, Manuel Strehl, Art Thompson, and Jonathan Wilsson.
- Everyone who worked through the last two weekends to ship Socorro 2.2 in time for Firefox 6: Rob Helmer, Lonnen, Brandon Savage, Lars Lohn, Justin Dow, Matt Brandt, Josh Berkus, Daniel Einspanjer
Upcoming Events
Thursday
- Mozillians Community Phonebook brownbag -- Learn about what it is, how you can use it and how you can get involved. Thursday at 12 noon pacific on Air Mozilla
Friday
- Friday, August 19th is the test day for AMO Automation. If you would like to write some selenium tests, please join us!
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Director, Creative Lead, Engagement |
John Slater C Brodigan |
One Mozilla Website Project |
mozilla.com/new |
http://bit.ly/qWC6wO |
| Brownbag - SQL Injection |
Michael Coates |
Security Learning Center |
|
Course Schedule |
| Webify Me campaign |
William R Grace Jimenez |
Visualize your Web |
slides |
Webify Me (currently password protected) |
| Engagement Wiki! | Aakash | The Engagement team has a full-on wiki; it outlines the who's/what's/how's! | |
Check out the wiki! |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
- Investigating some late-breaking issues but Firefox Beta should be released as final tomorrow
- Firefox 3.6.20 will be released at the same time as there are no outstanding issues
Gecko
Branch work: Firefox 3.5.x / Firefox 3.6.x / Thunderbird 3.0.x
Thunderbird
- Thunderbird 6, and 3.1.12 will be released tomorrow
- Trunk -> Aurora
- Aurora -> Beta (TB 7)
Drumbeat
(no voice update this week)
- Wrapped up successful Hackasaurus game sprintlast week. Worked with kids + Dan Mosedale, David Humphrey, others on ideas & protoypes
- X-Ray Goggle training missions / "hacker parcours"
- Hackable comics
- Hack mazes / "Portal for the Web." Potential X-Ray Goggles / Tilt 3D mash-up.
- Taking what we learned and using as fodder for Q4 game design & developer challenges
- Next up: shipping Hackasaurus beta in September
SeaMonkey
Mobile
Getting ready to publish Firefox 6 as official release and Firefox 7 as "Firefox Beta" to the Android Market, simultaneously with desktop shipment (yay).
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Automation Services
- New Mailing List available
- Selenium 2.4 was released with Firefox 6 support
Desktop
- Firefox 6.0 RC signed off for Beta audience last week
- Firefox 3.6.20 signed off for Beta audience last week
- Preparing for Firefox 3.6.20, 6.0 releases; Firefox 7, 8, 9 merges this week
WebQA
- AMO 6.1.9
- Socorro 2.2
- SUMO: http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-08-09
Security
Marketing/PR
PR
Mozilla on track to ship Firefox 6
Mozilla to Improve Firefox Memory Performance by 30%
Mozilla shrinks Firefox's memory appetite by 20%-30%
Firefox 8 With New Add-On Compatibility Checks
The Mozilla Interview: Why Firefox Matters
Mozilla's New Vision: A Platform For Your Internet Life
Events
Creative Team
Community Marketing
Support
Metrics
Developer Engagement / Evangelism
Help spread the word about our August Dev Derby! We're looking for cool History API demos.
Past Derbies
- Currently voting on the July HTML5 video Dev Derby submissions
- Congrats to our June CSS3 Animations Dev Derby winners!
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
- Socorro 2.2 - separate reports for each beta release
L10n
Introducing New Hires
- James Bennett, Web Developer, MDN
- Tim Watts, Web Developer, SUMO
- Jason Thomas, Web Operations Engineer, IT Systems team
- Zac Campbell, WebQA, working on Jetpack Builder (FlightDeck) + other Selenium/automation goodness
- Elika Etemad (fantasai), Platform/Layout, working on CSS standards and on layout code
- Nicolas Pierron, JavaScript engine, working on IonMonkey
- Adam Newman - NetOps
- Christian Holler (in-person this Time) - Security Research
- Bill Walker, Engineering Manager, Labs projects
