ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) NYC meet-up a success Collections, Phase II goes live Thursday – collection ratings, collection stats, add-on recommendations — check it out on preview (also, public stats dashboard) Add-on Developer Hub mock-ups posted Coming Up for AMO! FIREFOX Firefox Front End Work review our list of active projects and this quarter’s goals as well, our team is blogging progress reports on Planet Mozilla which is hopefully helpful; eventually we’ll have a better way to do this roundup, but for now: Dietrich would like to talk to you about progress we’ve enjoyed on startup performance, as would Drew Boriss needs…
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ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) blog post from Fligtar on Add-on usage went out last week. 5.0.9 code freeze this week Bandwagon Phase II (stats and recommendations) Contributions update (now on category pages and front page) FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.13 -> 3.5.2 major update major update was on the wire since 3.5.2 shipped (users had to “check for updates”) “unthrottled” the offer on Thursday Firefox 3.0.13 users will now receive an offer to update automatically Firefox 3.0.14 code frozen qa is testing on track for early/mid September release Firefox 3.5.3 code frozen qa is testing on track for early/mid September release Firefox 3.6 all…
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) NYC Meetup on August 18th Extend Firefox 3.5 contest – Contest Site Add-on Verification Suite is on AMO FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.13 -> 3.5.2 major update planning to “push” a major update to users of Firefox 3.0.13 haven’t determined schedule yet, but either this week or next Firefox 3.0.14 code freeze tomorrow targeting early September release Firefox 3.5.3 code freeze tomorrow targeting early September release Firefox 3.6 Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 shipped on Friday, August 7th updated the plan to reflect what we’ve talked about for the past two months next milestone: Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 plan on branching…
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) 5.0.8 launches this week New profile pages Phase 1 of Add-on Validator Tool numerous bug fixes 5.0.9 Bandwagon Phase II Contributions updates aimed at making Contributions more visible without bad surprises Jetpack Gallery HTML mocks ready AMO and Fennec Wiki created to track changes FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.13 original Firefox 3.0.13 release is now Firefox 3.0.14 short cycle release to fix new issues announced at BlackHat and Defcon shipping today Firefox 3.0.14 code freeze is tomorrow at 11:59pm targeting early September ship date Firefox 3.5.2 release includes fixes for new issues announced at BlackHat and Defcon shipping today Firefox…
Note: Effective today the Mozilla Project Weekly Status Meetings will be held 2-hours earlier at 11:00 AM PDT. ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) AMO 5.0.7 freeze was 7/2 5.0.7 pushed to next Wednesday (7/15) (help us test!) Upcoming projects welcoming discussion Collections Phase II Removing the sandbox developer.AMO designs 365 pending updates and 268 nominated add-ons (graph) 90% of hosted add-ons compatible with 3.5.* FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.12 handed off to build a couple hours ago still targeting mid-late July for release Firefox 3.0.13 proposed schedule to become final this week will have a final list of blockers this week as well Firefox 3.5…
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) 13k Collections made since launch 81% Compatibility Extend Firefox Contest Nick Nguyen speaking this week FISL in Brazil FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.12 Missed blockers for code freeze a week ago Still trying to get in a couple more Pushing out release by one week due to blockers missing code freeze Firefox 3.5 first version of the RC went to 800,000 beta testers on Monday second version of the RC went live on Friday afternoon PDT will make ship/no-ship evaluation on Wednesday of this week still on target for last week of June Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka) moving on to TSnap…
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) Add-ons on ICHC! 5.0.6 launch date is 6/9, check out our preview Site redesign Collections Compatibility up to 67% Only major add-ons who haven’t moved are Java Console and Firebug Firebug with 3.5.* compatibility in alpha Java Console may be abandoned, we’re investigating Fligtar created an amazing bug status dashboard Add-ons meetup very well attended, around 70 attendees Photos from Alex Sirota of FoxyTunes Fill our our survey so we can decide how to make the meet-ups better FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.11 Shipping this week (targeting Wednesday or Thursday) Firefox 3.0.12 Targeting mid-July release Code freeze is set for…
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) New blog template, thanks to morgamic, Sean Martell, and the kubrick folks New policy around “no surprises” posted to blog New category pages and simple user profiles New developer agreement 3.5.* now active in AMO, sending out email today or tomorrow to extension developers, currently around 52% are compatible with 3.5.* and higher 5.0.6 release totally focused on reskin and Bandwagon, will ship May 28 AMO Presentation now up on Slideshare, will blog this week. Welcome Chris Howse AMO Design Intern! FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.11 schedule coming later this week likely a 6-week release to account for early-July holidays…
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) Compatibility Update 77% of add-ons now compatible with Fx3.1b3 and above Measuring was revised to exclude the Sun Java Console because of impact on user experience and they way they do updates. Measured the old way, 3.1b3 compatibility is now at 70.4%, still an increase. FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.9 On schedule to ship tomorrow Firefox 3.0.10 Code freeze is set for Wednesday at 11:59pm Aiming for mid-late May release Final major update for Firefox 2.0.0.x Planning a major update for mid-next week Firefox 3.5 Firefox Front End Work 9 blockers left for final release, none of which are complicated…
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) 3.1b3 compatibility up to 65% of total usage (+5%) Total 3.1.* compatibility up to 84%, working to close gap on b3 compatibility Starting with beta 4, 3.5.* version will be available on AMO. Continuing to work on improving AMO editor throughput, currently around 700 reviews/month, goal is to double this by end of Q2 and reduce review time. Meeting with MoMo this week to talk about improving AMO story for Thunderbird with better editor support and more frequent updates of recommended lists for TB. FIREFOX Firefox 3.0.8 On Wednesday, a critical vulnerability was posted to a public vulnerability…