Program Management/Weekly-Status-Reports/2012-06-04

Meeting Topics

• Meet Mike
• Q2 goals
• Performance reviews
• Vacations/summer schedule

Dietrich

• Weekly status: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/b2g-status
• Still a big hole in visualization of progress
• Better systems for meetings, triage, progress updates
• Still no good system for syncing with TF eng/UX

Erin

• Big win for Fennec Native ship date: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/GACheckpoint
• Continued risk management, status, and x-functional facilitation
• Met with Karen: provided lot's of background info for her, discussed roles and responsibilities, product goals, etc.
• Met with Lawrence regarding web compat and getting mobile's ducks in a row
• Interviewed apps pm
• Finalized agenda for mobile work week in August
• See Last Week's for more details

Lawrence

• k9o
  • Continuing on triage. Focus is on basecamp but not everyone is involved.
  • Working to schedule Kilimanjaro education sessions led by product managers.
• Mobile Web compat
  • Gave lightning talk during this week's project meeting
  • Working on arewecompatibleyet report to track progress of individual site investigation and evangelism. Initial focus on Brazilian top sites.
• Snappy
  • Making progress on a number of sub-projects now. Better involvement from some teams. Others have dropped off. Seems like par for this course.
• Telemetry
  • Working on prioritized work list for metrics team.
  • Need to change structure of interaction to draft requirements and get sign-offs.
  • Current focus is on validation and verification of data.
• Silent update
  • Background updates currently preffed off on Aurora for Windows.
  • Tracking remaining work to reenable this feature for Fx15.
• mediawiki-bugzilla
  • Have WebDev engaged this week. Working to get a number of bug fixes and enhancements deployed.
• Interviewed another Apps PM candidate.

Martin

• Games
  • Partner Ports
    • Followed up with partner to get next steps started
    • Postmortem on partner work week
    • Private repo setup for code sharing with partner
    • Meet with stakeholders to demo results
    • Setup meeting with Dev Tools to review experiences with FF dev tools and large code bases
  • BananaBread
    • Secured contractor for level design, started this week (thanks Sheila for driving while I was away)
    • Planed out first level and work has started
    • First AI now working in port!
  • k9o
    • Watching status on iGC progress as pref on is a risk but necessary for 2D games viability
    • Started work to gather all FF15 pref status for new features
    • Reviewed progress on audio standardization conversation
    • Giving feedback on requirements to requestAnimationFrame
    • Organized new weekly games triage meeting starting this Wednesday at 1pm.
• Bugzilla Anthropology
  • Worked with Mark Reid on schema changes
  • Discussed current delays with stakeholders
  • Work with Release Engineering to determine charting needs
  • Meet with community engagement to discuss how metrics can help on boarding process
    • Requested to give presentation on the first 15 mins of games and why they are so important
  • Cleared University of Waterloo request for access to ES database with security
  • Drafted blog post, at long, long, last on current status
• Other
  • Interviewed Candidate for Apps PM role

Mike

Sheila

• Stability work week
  • Closing on schedule and logistics for next week's activities
  • Robert Kaiser in town this week - going over some stability related stuff
• Social API
  • Organizing engineering discussion to break up work into landable chunks
• Triage
  • Working with Damon and others to sort out right set of triage/requirements discussions
• Lots of interviewing
  • Apps PM
  • Marketing PM