Weekly Status Report, W44/2011

Here's a short summary of Mozilla-related work I've done in weeks 44/2011 (October 31 - November 6, 2011):

• Mozilla work / crash-stats:
  Added components reports for "native UI" Fennec builds, also added the possibility to generate 7-day components reports and enabled them for both Fennec nightly as well as the Fennec aurora branch.
  Added an "open" column to the weekly crash bug stats.
  Some more feedback on Socorro UI work.
  Tested some things when the Socorro team tried to push their 2.3.2 release, which they had to revert because of a bug with search.
  As usual, I also watched new/rising crashes closely and filed bugs for a number of those.
• Themes:
  Worked on getting both my LCARStrek and EarlyBlue themes ready for SeaMonkey 2.5 / Firefox 8 releases - this work should be done now and just needs some testing before going up on AMO. Meanwhile, the 2.4 versions have been reviewed and are now public.
• Various Discussions/Topics:
  Getting SeaMonkey machines back up, Callek being off for a few days due to American Northwest snow storms and power outages, "Native UI" for Firefox on Android, DST switches, status of releases, groups for mozillians.org, replacing my faulty tablet, N9 prices and availability, etc.

As my previous contract extension just expired this week and I'm working on a another one with the outlook of an officially more permanent employment situation, I realize that it's been 9 months now since I started working for Mozilla on crash analysis and coordinating between the Socorro team and other parts of the project.
From an experiment on how I would fit in and how the tasks would fit with me, this has grown into a position in which I think I'm contributing a lot to ultimately making Firefox more stable, and it turned out way more interesting than I would have imagined at the beginning. And the upcoming weekend, I'll be presenting about this work at EU MozCamp in Berlin, hoping to inspire the community to help in this area.
It's been an interesting ride in the last months, and I'm looking forward to many more!