This week was a pretty incredible week for web stuff. The Labs people kicked off their Ubiquity prototype, letting the world get a taste for some of what will be possible through natural language processing and the browser. I also discovered a new feed reading add-on for Firefox called Feedly which does some very cool [...]
Now that we’re on the verge of shipping Firefox 3 to hundreds of millions of users around the planet, and getting ready to move our development efforts into new territory on a new repository, it’s a good time to talk about the tireless robots that have diligently checked every source change for nearly a year and a half. They’ve worked hard, been yelled at, called names and had tense discussions with developers and IT personnel during that entire period. Some have passed on, retired to the quieter pastures of staging or have been melted down for scrap. A couple of die-hards survived relatively unscathed and are looking forward for more action, their scars worn like badges of honor…
Mozilla’s evangelist and resident all-around-good-guy Chris Blizzard wrote an excellent piece yesterday on the dangers of hand-picking patches in a linux distribution, at least as they pertain to Mozilla and Firefox. I don’t need to say more on that as he covers it pretty well. I will just say that it’s a hard problem and [...]
Awhile back, we made a slight organizational change. Alice Nodelman, Mikeal Rogers, Chris Cooper and myself made a lateral shift to join forces with John O’Duinn, Rob Helmer, Ben Hearsum, Nick Thomas and Chris Cooper on the Build & Release team to create a larger, many-limbed crime-fighting robot. (Astute readers will note that Coop is [...]
It was a fun work week in Mountain View. Despite the large number of toys available in the main area of Building K, there was a tremendous amount of work getting done on Firefox 3. Beta 3 freeze occurred (and continues) through stalwart sheriffing and sheer force of will, pushing a steady stream of patches [...]
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