WeeklyUpdates/2012-11-12

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All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of the Tree

• Ben Kero for setting up git.mozilla.org! Also Shyam Mani for laying the groundwork for it. :)

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 13 November

• Brown Bag, "New Security & Privacy Engineering Features", 12pm PST, 10 Forward + air.mozilla + Punch & Pie

Wednesday, 14 November

• Brown Bag, "Online Identity: What Users Care About", Mary Trombley, Lindsay Kenzig, and Dan Mills, 12pm PST, 10 Forward + air.mozilla

Thursday, 15 November

• SecReview: release kickoff system
• Brown Bag, "Architecture of the Mozilla Apps Ecosystem", Bill Walker, 12pm PST, 10 Forward + air.mozilla
• SUMO Write Help Articles Day, Write help articles on SUMO, the support wiki for Mozilla

Friday, 16 November

Mozcamp Asia kicks off in Singapore!

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Next week is merge week!
• Nice little perf win: Dao landed another Snappy fix to avoid doing unecessary work during startup bug 756313
• Also, Happy Birthday, Firefox!

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Beta creeping closer to 4.5 visible stars in the market
• Nice little perf win: Awesomescreen entries are very slow to appear bug 785945
• Check it out: Remote dev tools support for Android!

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location:

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox OS

Speaker Location:

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

• Video, slides and worksheet from 'Identifying contributors' community building workshop

• Workshop #3 about measuring & evaluating will be on Thursday, November 29 at 10 AM pacific.

• Note that we won't have the Grow Mozilla discussion this week due to conflicts with travel to MozCamp.

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
Security Engineer	Tanvi Vyas	Security & Privacy Features	https://air.mozilla.org/new-security-and-privacy-features-in-firefox/	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Roadmap, https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Roadmap

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?
James Hugman	Bill Walker	Mountain View, CA	Android Developer
Tasha Miller	Mathew Caldwell	Mountain View, CA	Recruiting Coordinator
Michael Shal	Chris Cooper	Toronto,ON	Build Config
Carsten Book (Tomcat)	Chris Cooper	Toronto,ON	Release Engineer

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?

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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.

Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)

IT

• Zeus RFC-5746 bug fixed! Applied to all public-facing, Mozilla-managed Zeus clusters... AMO, SUMO, etc
• AMO Addons being served by Akamai
• git.mozilla.org is live... B2G is hosted on it
• MDN "code sample" domain set up - unblocks many MDN bugs
• SSL CDNs set up for MDN, SUMO, and Getpersonas

QA

Web QA

• B2G
  • Results are now going to brasstacks via autolog
  • Progress on the touch support in Marionette:
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=809245
  • A few pending Marionette / Gaia bugs filed to help with test stability:
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=810376
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=810517
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=810935
• Mozillians
  • Load/capacity-testing the Mozillians Phonebook API
• Mozilla.com
  • http://scrumbu.gs/p/mozilla_org/
• MDN
  • http://scrumbu.gs/t/mdn/
• Socorro
  • Django rewrite is being sec-reviewed and bug fixes are landing

Security

• Reminder: Any bug filled after Fri, 15-Nov for security action will be prioritized for Q1-2013 unless there are special circumstances. If you must have Q4-2012 action get them in to be prioritized now.

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla Brings Real Time Video Remixing To The Masses With Popcorn Maker
• Mozilla Bigs Up ‘Digital Literacy’ at MozFest 2012
• Firefox turns 8 and gets a key security boost