WeeklyUpdates/2012-10-01
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Contents
- 1 All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
- 2 <meta>
- 2.1 Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
- 2.1.1 Firefox
- 2.1.2 Platform
- 2.1.3 Services
- 2.1.4 Messaging
- 2.1.5 Mobile
- 2.1.6 IT
- 2.1.7 Release Engineering
- 2.1.8 QA
- 2.1.9 Automation & Tools
- 2.1.10 Security
- 2.1.11 Engagement
- 2.1.12 Support
- 2.1.13 Metrics
- 2.1.14 Evangelism
- 2.1.15 Labs
- 2.1.16 Apps
- 2.1.17 Developer Tools
- 2.1.18 Add-ons
- 2.1.19 Webdev
- 2.1.20 L10n
- 2.1.21 People Team
- 2.1.22 WebFWD
- 2.2 Foundation Updates
- 2.1 Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of the Tree
Potch would like to thank Ben Adida and everyone involved in the Persona Beta launch for nailing it and getting the broader Web community excited about Identity!
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 01 October
Tuesday, 02 October
Wednesday, 03 October
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mobile-meet-2012-03-10 - 2:30pm pst in Michelle Lunas room about firefox for mobile support - satdav
Thursday, 04 October
Grow Meeting 10 AM Pacific https://wiki.mozilla.org/Grow/Meeting_10_04_12 - satdav
Friday, 05 October
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: Mountain View (johnath)
- Next week is release week!
- FF16 becomes release
- FF17 becomes beta (remember, this is ESR17, too)
- FF18 becomes Aurora
- Nightly becomes FF19
- Stub installer has landed
- Working with *lots* of people about roll out
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location: Mountain View (johnath)
- Next week is release week!
- Making the call on ARMv6 this week for FF16
Thunderbird
Speaker Location:
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Mozilla Festival
Speaker Location: OpenMatt in Toronto
- Don't forget to register this week!
- Schedule of design challenges taking shape here
- Register here
If you're Mozilla staff and would like to attend:
- Get approval from your managers to cover travel & accommodation
- Sign up here when you know you're coming
- Let us know how you'd like to plug in (run a session, volunteer, etc)
- We're especially looking for: UX designers, Javascript developers, and Firefox OS / mobile hackers
Identity
Speaker Location:
Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox OS
Speaker Location: Dietrich
- Freezing feature work. Some pieces remaining, will straggle in over the next couple of weeks. Most development turning to bug fixes, polish and performance.
- Stabilization period policy
- Gaia issues moving over to Bugzilla for the remaining portion of the release cycle.
- Open Gaia blockers - Need web developers to help out with any of these bugs that aren't labeled "feature".
- Dogfooding - Device arrival is imminent, expect communication once initial flashing procedures are worked out.
Grow Mozilla
Speaker Location:
MozCamp Asia Call for Participation was sent out to Paid-staff this morning. All participation proposals are due by October 15th. If you have any questions about your proposal, please do not hesitate to reach out to mozcamp@mozilla.com. More information on how to submit a proposal can be found here
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
New Business Ideas | Christopher Arnold | New Wiki Link for submitting business concepts | https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:IdeaEvaluation.jpg | https://wiki.mozilla.org/Legal/New_Business_Ideas |
Firefox for Android - Expanding to ARMv6 | Karen Rudnitski | Call to Action: testing Firefox for Android on ARMv6 phones | https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2012/09/07/firefox-for-android-beta-is-expanding-support-to-new-devices-help-us-test/ | https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2012/09/07/firefox-for-android-beta-is-expanding-support-to-new-devices-help-us-test/ |
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? |
Massimo Gervasini [:mgerva] | Chris AtLee | Vidyo (if possible) | Making Release Engineering even more awesome |
Justin Wood [:Callek] | Chris Cooper | Remote (Phone) | Tegras and Pandas and testing (oh my) |
Eric Pang [:epang] | Ian Barlow | Toronto | Production Design on Firefox for Android and Firefox OS |
William Chen | Johnny Stenback | San Francisco | |
Nikhil Marathe | Johnny Stenback | Mountain View | |
Matthew Wobensmith | Bob Moss | Mountain View | |
John Bernard | David Slater | London | Carrier and OEM Marketing for Firefox OS |
Erv Thomas | Mathew Caldwell | Mountain View | College Recruiting |
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? |
Roundtable
<meta>
Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.
Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
Firefox
Platform
- JavaScript Team work week in Mountain View October 22nd through October 26th. Stop by 10 Forward and say 'hi.'
Services
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
- Affiliates
- AMO
- Marketplace
- Mozillians (automation)
- rbillings, stephend, and mbrandt met with cmore to discuss coverage
- Mozilla.com
- shipped milestone on 09/24
- MDN
- shipped milestone on 09/24
- Socorro
- shipped milestone 20 on 2012-09-26 - small change-set
- SUMO
- First iteration of new SUMO UI went out to all users successfully - yay!
- Upcoming roll outs are based on a few bugs here and there, Ricky confirmed that the team would not need concentrated QA on any of the releases.
- MozTrap
- Planning October development, and discussing B2G needs
- Wiki
- B2G
- Test case writing bonanza
QA Community
Automation & Tools
- Bugzilla Per-comment tagging patch ready this week (will land upstream first, then in BMO). Follow along in bug 793963
- Intermittent Orange work:
- Disabling tests for some top oranges where no one seems willing to fix them: https://bugzil.la/782196,767215,752786,677841,780863,708927,691580
- Closed out intermittent orange bugs as WORKSFORME if they hadn't been seen for > 6 months and the tests weren't disabled (approx 550 bugs closed).
- Patched over an issue with the newer tegras and reftest bug 792212 should allow us to turn on some new tegras for android tests.
- Got a subset of Reftests green on B2G!! Layout team is helping pick off reftest issues coming up in that testing.
- More details here
Security
Engagement
PR
Events
Creative Team
Community Marketing
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Apps
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
People Team
WebFWD
As we're kicking off our 2nd class ("WebFWD II") this week, we will be featuring each of our teams on our blog in the next week or two - please get to know them! http://blog.webfwd.org