WeeklyUpdates/2013-02-04
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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
- Asa Dotzler would like to recognize contributor ithinc for the great contributions to desktop Firefox's tabbed browsing.
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 04 February
- Passwords Brownbag by Joseph Bonneau: 2pm PST (2200) UTC, SF 7forward and Air Mozilla
Dr. Joseph Bonneau is an expert in passwords: how people choose them, how websites use them, and how attackers abuse them. He'll be talking about his research, including a recent study which safely analyzed 70 million passwords at Yahoo, and how authentication methods are likely to change in the near future.
Tuesday, 05 February
2:30PM PST we have got a Mozillians meeting
Wednesday, 06 February
- 13:00 PST - SecReview:App Review Process (FFOS)
Thursday, 07 February
- Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific -- a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla
- Agenda and dial-in information (feel free to add items to the agenda)
Friday, 08 February
Saturday, 09 February
- MDN Documentation Sprint, in Montréal and online. Remote participation welcome! Help write and translate developer docs. Lots to do before MWC!
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- Desktop front end team had a work week last week
- Dust is still settling, but a ton of great work being written up as we speak
- One teaser highlight: the team triaged outstanding front end security bugs, and closed half of them!
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- Please bang on about:home customization support in nightly (yes, there is customization support!)
Thunderbird
Speaker Location:
Older Branch Work
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Webmaker
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Identity
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Services
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Firefox OS
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Grow Mozilla
Speaker Location: San Francisco
- Help us design badges for the Webdev team to use to recognize contributors who help with Mozilla's web sites. Please submit designs to flickr using the webdevbadges tag by February 11.
- More about the Webdev badge pilot and plans for badges for Mozilla contributors at Grow Mozilla discussion this Thursday at 10 am pacific.
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 |
Web Productions Manager | Chris More (Mountain View) | Improving the Firefox Desktop Download Experience | Google Doc Presentation | Tracking Bug or chat in #www on IRC |
Director, Integrated Marketing | Kristin Baird (SF) | Firefox Flicks | firefoxflicks.org |
Introducing New Hires
New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
---|---|---|---|---|
Who is the new hire? | Who will be introducing that person? | From which office will that introduction be transmitted? | Where will the new person be working from? | What will the new person be working on? |
Stuart Colville | Wil Clouser | Oregon | UK | Web Developer, Front-End |
Bertrand Neveux | Rick Fant | Mountain View | London | Director of Content Management |
André Reinald | Robert Strong | Mountain View | Mountain View (works from the Paris office) | Platform Integration Engineer |
Introducing New Interns
New Intern | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
---|---|---|---|---|
Luqman Aden | Geo Mealer | Mountain View | Mountain View | Mobile QA |
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
Services
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
- Affiliates
- Firefox OS
- Progress
- New tests and test fixes here, while we await a new, working build:
- Set up our Jenkins to pull from pvtbuilds, rather than releases.mozilla.com
- Set up a 4th Unagi w/SIM, attached to a Mac Mini running a Jenkins slave, as part of our Marionette-running infrastructure for the Gaia UI smoketests
- Issues
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=834293 - Video app persists when we kill it with window_manager's kill() is still unresolved, and Malini will revisit it on Monday
- Consistently broken builds due to the following bugs (!):
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836103 - Enable/disable ADB when changing the "remote debugging" setting in the Settings Ap
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836770 - Don't change persist.sys.usb.config if it already had the correct value (ADB)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=837001 - Disable remote debugger by default
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=837175 - Clean builds broken with make: *** No rule to make target `/data/jenkins/jobs/build-unagi-eng/workspace/gaia/profile.tar.gz'
- Progress
- Marketplace / AMO
- Mozillians
- The team met for our 1st time and discussed the infrastruture and process around how deployments occur
- We're building a risk assment model and will apply CD principles to the testing strategy
- statsd/graphite
- waffle
- developer unit tests and webdriver tests where appropriate
- QA and dev are auditing our current automation and looking for coverage gaps as well as areas of overalap
- Mozilla.com
- MDN
- Socorro
- No deployment today - milestone 35 on hold until the week of 2013-02-13
- issues with crontabber (releasing the beast) - bug 814647
- waiting on privacy review for the new email feature - bug 814647
- SUMO
- Continuous deployment, no updates
- MozTrap
- 1.4 Final release went out
- Wiki
- no updates
QA Community
Automation & Tools
Security
Engagement
PR
- Google, Mozilla, Opera team to develop common WebRTC platform
- Mozilla Kicks Off 'Firefox Flicks' Video Competition
- Mozilla's Firefox Jumps Into The Smartphone Wars
- Firefox Maker Mozilla Named ‘Most Trusted Internet Company For Privacy’ In 2012