WeeklyUpdates/2012-01-30

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• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 8600
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 8600
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 8600
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
  • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
• http://air.mozilla.org/ to watch and listen
• join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion

Friends of the Tree

Felipe nominates:

- Sergio Campos: for actively working on bug 704125 (crash caused by an add-on), finding the right authors and keeping in touch with them through the whole process of getting the problem resolved

- Reuben Moraes, Clauber Stipkovic and Marcelo Araldi (possibly more people that I'm forgetting) for getting the community organized to reach people in Brazil who were experiencing the crash and explain the problem and workaround

Upcoming Events

Monday, 30 January

• Fuzzing brownbag, 1pm

Thursday, 02 February

Thursday is Answer user questions on SUMO Day

Friday, 03 February

• [QA] Firefox 11.0 Beta 1 Testday: QMO

Product Status Updates

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: Toronto

• Release week!
  • FF10
  • ESR
  • Migration day is tomorrow
• FF11's scheduled release in March coincides with patch Tuesday, we might do something about that. Watch r-d/dev-planning if that's exciting to you.

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: Toronto

• Checkpointing daily on beta status
  • Wrote a blog post to that effect: Don't worry. It's cool.
• No more features, focusing on fundamentals: performance, stability, compatibility.

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

Speaker Location: Matt in Toronto

Teaching the Fourth 'R': Webmaking as a vital 21st century skill

• Wed, Feb 1 at 9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm UTC
• Blog post with details and background is here

Is teaching kids the web now as important as teaching other basic literacies like reading and math? Join an online "fireside chat" with author and academic Cathy Davidson, hosted by Mozilla's Mark Surman.

Identity

Speaker Location:

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Your Title Here	Your Name Here	What are you going to talk about?	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information
	Alex Fowler	ACTA

Status Updates By Team

QA

Test Execution

• Actively testing Firefox 10, ESR, and 3.6.26 as we drive to release this week
• Ongoing and active investigation of issues related to GC/CC timings (contact Juan Becerra or Anthony Hughes if you want to help)
• Also have eyes on Firefox 11, 12, and 13 for merge to beta, aurora, and nightly, respectively this week
• Actively testing split APK solution for Android Marketplace

WebQA

• AMO
  • AMO 6.3.9 is going live today
  • paypal test is in the pull request queue
  • set of tests are in jenkins for apps-preview-dev
• Mozilla.com
  • Shipped 1.2 and parts of 1.3 milestone
• Mozillians
  • waiting for 1.3 milestone code freeze, qa to begin shortly
  • on-boarding a new community member
• MDN
  • working on 2.1 milestone
• Socorro
  • 2.4.1 milestone slated for release on 2.8.12
• SUMO
  • 1/24 release went out
  • 1/31 release in progress
• Case Conductor
  • 2/3 is the upcoming .8 release
• mozwebqa-templates
  • Overhauled and converted to WD by Zac and Sergey (contributor)
  • Looking for a couple of people to review it for us

QA Community

• Working on a community action plan to grow our community through 2012 and beyond; please help us by taking part in the discussion on the dev-quality newsgroup

Automation Services

• Blog post: Mozmill 1.5.8 has been released
• Blog post: Automating Web Performance Data Collection

Automation & Tools

• Dkl added X-headers to bugmail to indicate when a "new to bugzilla" contributor attached his or her first patch bug 719526
• Eideticker checkerboarding tests are now more reliable. Setting up an automated machine in mountain view for them this week
• Robocop is running in staging today (mobile UX automation)
• B2G test and build automation is live!
• Default to Compatible automation is nearly ready to go - waiting on VMs from IT. See bug 718403 for status. This is a joint project between QA, A*team, and AMO.
• More updates here

Security

Security Reviews Scheduled for this week

Date / Time	Item
Mon Jan 30 / 13:00 PST	No Review, please attend Fuzzing Brownbag
Wed Feb 1 / 13:00 PST	bug 718066 - [meta] Add feature to submit anonymous product metrics to Mozilla
THU Feb 2 / 10:00 PST	Instant Messenger in Thunderbird
Fri Feb 3/ 10:00 AM PST	AVAILABLE SLOT

Calendar and Meeting details

General Meeting Details 
* IRC Channel: #security 
* Etherpad: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/secreview 
* Vidyo: https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=5XEMsG1ApA4b (Room 9058)
* Dial-in Info (phone): 
** In office or soft phone: extension 92 
** US/INTL: 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 then extension 92 
** Toronto: 416-848-3114 then extension 92 
** Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369 
** Conference num 99058

For updates to meetings please see the Security Review Calendar

• HTML: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review.html
• .ics: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review

Security Review Needed but Unscheduled

• Review Needed

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla releases Rust 0.1, the language that will eventually usurp Firefox’s C++

• Mozilla 'crowdsourcing' State of the Union address

• Mozilla OKs Firefox 10 launch this week

WebFWD

We've begun partnering with local accelerators: Rockstart in Amsterdam and MuckerLab in Los Angeles. Please let us know if you have contacts in the startup community in either location!

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Who is the new hire?	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	What will the new person be working on?
Pete Scanlon	Chris Beard	Mt. View	Sr. Director, Brand Engagement
Paul Theriault	Dan Veditz	Mt. View	Security Researcher
Michelle Marovich	Bret Reckard	Mt. View	Recruiting Lead
Kym Lee	Bret Reckard	Mt. View	Staffing Associate
Brandon Burton	Corey Shields	Torrance, CA	Web Operations Engineer
Rosana Biela	David Tenser	Germany	Community Support Program Manager
Trevor Norris	Gilbert FitzGerald	Mt. View	Metrics Engineer
Peter O'Neill	Tim Fairfield	Mountain View	Desktop Support
Vinh Hua	Tim Fairfield	Mountain View	Desktop Support

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Who is the new intern?	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	What will the new person be working on?
Darwin Derosans	Tim Fairfield	Mountain View	Desktop Support
Ashlee Chavez	Tim Fairfield	Mountain View	Desktop Support
Sal Espinoza	Tim Fairfield	Mountain View	Network Operations