Weekly Status Report, W47/2011

Here's a short summary of Mozilla-related work I've done in weeks 47/2011 (November 21 - 27, 2011):

• Mozilla work / crash-stats:
  Followed the 8.0.1 release that worked around or prevented some crash issues.
  Again provided some feedback on ongoing Socorro work.
  Preliminarily contacted the B2G team about crash reporting.
  Filed bugs for blocking Flash 10.0 and for getting symbols for Android Flash.
  As usual, I also watched new/rising crashes closely and filed bugs for a number of those.
• Themes:
  2.5 versions of EarlyBlue and LCARStrek have been reviewed on AMO now!
  Applied some small fixes to the 2.6 versions I have in development, based on testing and review feedback.
• German L10n:
  Finally applied the central->aurora uplift from last time to the de repo, adding all L10n needed for Aurora in core and SeaMonkey before that.
  Localized all outstanding strings in -central for core and SeaMonkey as well, so that SeaMonkey turned green on all trees.
  Updated DOM Inspector for the German L10n to be in sync with the originals strings.
  Fixed some typos in the German L10n, as well as SeaMonkey addressbook accesskeys once again.
• Various Discussions/Topics:
  L20n patches moving forward, more work on SeaMonkey machines, Fennec native UI project and its fallout, MXR maintenance, ESR plans, getting acquainted with my cool new Nokia N9, etc.

I took a lot of time off work this week, as I'm following US holidays and Thursdays was Thanksgiving. It was good to recharge for a couple of days, given that I started going to bad phrasing again in expressing concerns over some parts of the native UI project for Fennec, but I hope those waters have calmed as much as I myself have now. I'm seeing that the base concerns are shared by others and are seriously being discussed, and that's a good sign. We'll end up with a good offer for Android phone users that represents Mozilla as much as possible given the constraints of the platform, and hopefully will make us credible in the mobile market. If we want complete success on mobile, I still think that B2G is even more compelling, but I think both offers will come out positioned well in their respective space.