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Video for today's meeting

Friends of the Tree

Speaker Location: Mountain View

Mihai nominates Sonny Piers a new contributor to devtools for doing much needed code cleanup of the Web Console.

Jono nominates Blair McBride for his work to make addons default to "compatible" -- http://theunfocused.net/2011/11/19/solving-firefoxs-add-on-compatibility-problem/

Jeff Walden nominates RyanVM for triaging a bunch of old, mostly ancient-history JS bug reports last week. Good stuff!

Upcoming Events

Speaker Location: Mountain View

This Week

Monday, 21 November Amit Swab Drive noon-2pm PT - 3rd fl, MV

Tuesday, 22 November Early Stage Apps Research Presentation - 11-noon PT 10Forward

Wednesday, 23 November

Thursday, 24 November

US Thanksgiving

Friday, 25 November

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Future (9, 10, 11)

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

• Getting closer to add-ons being compatible by default, check out Blair's blog post
• Taras, Dietrich & co are running weekly Project Snappy meetings to tackle responsiveness issues
• The style editor developer tool just landed on nightly. bug 583041

Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0 - 8.0)

Speaker Location: MV

Mobile Firefox

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

• Moving Nightly users over the native UI later this week (thread on dev.planning)
• Finkle blogged about add-ons in a Native UI world

Thunderbird

Speaker Location: (no voice update)

• There were a couple of great talks about Thunderbird at MozCamp Asia.
  • Videos to come later, hopefully.
  • For now, here's the wiki page for one of them.
  • And the wiki page for the other.
• Other than that, it's been a quiet week.

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

Speaker Location: No voice update this week

Great recent press on two of our projects:

• Mozilla Open Badges in the New York Times
• Mozilla Popcorn on the BBC

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.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

• 8.0.1 Chemspill testing gallore, all weekend/week last week, shipping today.
• Firefox 9.0b2 released last week.
• Firefox 9.0b3 due out this week; needs a lot of attention on bug fix verifications.
• Add-ons Manager Testday last week: https://quality.mozilla.org/2011/11/results-of-add-on-manager-testday/
• DevTools Testday this week: https://quality.mozilla.org/2011/11/devtools-aurora-testday-nov-25th/

WebQA

• AMO 6.2.7: http://cl.ly/0i0I3d121f0o293k2p0t
• SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-11-15

QA Community

Automation Services

Automation & Tools

• Landed talos code for responsiveness testing on mac and windows, should be enabled today on mozilla-central by a buildbot reconfigure
  • Still tracking down a linux crash when we enable responsiveness there.
• Cross browser mobile startup automation is reporting numbers from a few different phones.
  • Click on the names in the legend to toggle lines on and off
  • This visualization could use some help, if you want to exercise your JS skillz, contact wlach or ctalbert on IRC to get involved.
• B2G battery API test using Marionette and QEMU emulators is running, automating this week.
• Eideticker project has made great progress
• The native implementation of the Bugzilla REST API (implementing as part of Bugzilla itself) is almost ready for beta.
• More updates here

Security

• no reviews scheduled this week

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

• Working towards launch of app documentation on MDN
• Go to market plan being finalized
• More soon next week.

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

Foundation Updates

Roundtable