Weekly Status Report, W33/2012

Here's a short summary of Mozilla-related work I've done in week 33/2012 (August 13 - 19, 2012):

• CSI:Mozilla / CrashKill:
  Followed Adobe ramp up the pace of 11.4 beta beta releases towards the final release of this version.
  Discussed bsmedberg's proposal to revamp hang reporting.
  Kept a closer eye on mobile stability while Naoki is away.
  Did some preliminary testing of a staged version of Socorro with rapid beta / by-build reporting support.
  Also there, tested additional fields appearing in UI for single crash reports.
  Replaced clunky handling of throttling in my explosiveness reports.
  Made some of the data gathering for my reports automatically know about new versions by just querying Socorro data and made crashes per build recognize ESR.
  As usual, watched new/rising crashes, caring that bugs are filed where needed, and made sure my custom reports keep working well.
• comm-central build system:
  Reviewed some ports of build system improvements.
• German L10n:
  Reviewed some L10n work on Mozilla-16-cycle builds of Thunderbird, Firefox for Android and Firefox for desktop.
• Themes:
  More work on the 2.12 versions of EarlyBlue and LCARStrek, matching the Mozilla 15 train.
• Various Discussions/Topics:
  BananaBread demo, Thunderbird crashes, DB sync issues, Google suggest on Android and privacy, etc.

If you have Flash 11.3 running, please update to the just-released 11.4 version as soon as possible (Adobe should send the update your way anyhow). We're trying to help Adobe on improving their plugin on the basis of the newest release, which is that one now - and they tell us there should be some improvements in this one already. Also, if you have reproducible cases of the plugin crashing or freezing/hanging, please file reports in Bugzilla against the Plugins product and "Flash (Adobe)" component and CC me or someone else from the stability team so we can track this!