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10. Juli 2012
Weekly Status Report, W27/2012
Here's a short summary of Mozilla-related work I've done in week 27/2012 (July 2 - 8, 2012):
A lot of things are moving at Mozilla. While the rewritten Firefox for Android has been released now and is getting awesome reviews (most people are calling it the "best browser for Android" phones now - note that the tablet version is only going to release in a few weeks), we are working hard to push the next big product to become market-ready. The phone operating system code-named "Boot to Gecko" (B2G) is now being branded as "Firefox OS" and won a number of additional supporters. Until actual devices can be shipped around the turn of the year, a lot of work on the OS and the ecosystem of web apps still needs to be done and we are fully behind that (while at the same time continuing to improve desktop and Android Firefox, of course). Interesting times are upon us!
- CSI:Mozilla / CrashKill:
I visually reviewed a few Socorro UI changes for rapid betas.
Followed the missing links to make WebRT support in Socorro complete.
Noticed some versions missing on Socorro and filed a bug for that.
Also filed a bug on adjusting FTP scraping for build changes.
Followed up on some Stability Work Week discussions.
Did some more triage of old crash bugs, e.g. there's no open crash bugs left in "Graveyard" products now.
Continued discussions of Flash 11.3 instabilities with protected mode.
Just like every week, watched new/rising crashes, caring that bugs are filed where needed. - SeaMonkey:
Helped out a bit with some beta release problems and figuring out how a recent change in buildbot tooling has caused those.
Reviewed a Data Manager improvement. - German L10n:
Updated core and SeaMonkey L10n to recent trunk changes. - Themes:
Uploaded new 2.10 versions of EarlyBlue and LCARStrek, which meanwhile also have reviews on AMO. - Various Discussions/Topics:
SeaMonkey infrastructure, Thunderbird management changes, B2G and Gecko/low-level-OS L10n, key pinning, etc.
A lot of things are moving at Mozilla. While the rewritten Firefox for Android has been released now and is getting awesome reviews (most people are calling it the "best browser for Android" phones now - note that the tablet version is only going to release in a few weeks), we are working hard to push the next big product to become market-ready. The phone operating system code-named "Boot to Gecko" (B2G) is now being branded as "Firefox OS" and won a number of additional supporters. Until actual devices can be shipped around the turn of the year, a lot of work on the OS and the ecosystem of web apps still needs to be done and we are fully behind that (while at the same time continuing to improve desktop and Android Firefox, of course). Interesting times are upon us!
Von KaiRo, um 19:49 | Tags: L10n, Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Status | keine Kommentare | TrackBack: 0
Weekly Status Report, W23-24/2012
Here's a short summary of Mozilla-related work I've done in weeks 23-24/2012 (June 4 - 17, 2012):
Both doing some work out of the Mountain View offices and the Stability Work Week were extremely welcome to me due to the amount of productive discussions as well as casual chats I could have with people there. The latter is completely absent from work as a remotee, but can have a lot of positive effects on work as well as personal feelings. The stability discussions gave us a good view of where problems lie and how we can improve things in the future. Some of this needs followup discussions, some only concrete work to be done - in all cases we improved mutual understanding of how things work or where we run into certain problems. All in all, a heavily successful two weeks in MV.
The following two weeks (June 18 - July 1), I took some time off to go on vacation in Northern California (and a bit of Southern Oregon, actually).
- CSI:Mozilla / CrashKill:
Updated forced Firefox versions for correlation reports once again.
Together with Sheila, did some triage of old crash bugs.
Commented on the first pieces of Socorro UI work for rapid betas.
Had some discussions with relevant teams on crash reporting for desktop Webapp Runtime and for B2G.
I was also involved in a lot of discussions about the new Flash 11.3 version crashing and hanging a lot more than older versions, mostly with their "Protected Mode" feature. We're continuing to track that.
Had a ton of discussions on all kinds of different angles on Firefox stability Worked on some stats around Socorro bugs and crash signatures that I wanted to have around for Stability Work Week. One result of that is a list of bugs I filed due to our discussions.
I also held a brown bag presentation on the life cycle of Firefox crashes. - German Localization:
Reviewed patches for Thunderbird 14 and Firefox 14 L10n.
I also synched core and SeaMonkey to changes in the Mozilla 15 cycle, and merged trunk to aurora with that state.
Both doing some work out of the Mountain View offices and the Stability Work Week were extremely welcome to me due to the amount of productive discussions as well as casual chats I could have with people there. The latter is completely absent from work as a remotee, but can have a lot of positive effects on work as well as personal feelings. The stability discussions gave us a good view of where problems lie and how we can improve things in the future. Some of this needs followup discussions, some only concrete work to be done - in all cases we improved mutual understanding of how things work or where we run into certain problems. All in all, a heavily successful two weeks in MV.
The following two weeks (June 18 - July 1), I took some time off to go on vacation in Northern California (and a bit of Southern Oregon, actually).
Von KaiRo, um 18:58 | Tags: L10n, Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Status | keine Kommentare | TrackBack: 0
