WeeklyUpdates/2013-04-01
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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 Release Engineering
- 2.1.7 QA
- 2.1.8 Automation & Tools
- 2.1.9 Security
- 2.1.10 Engagement
- 2.1.11 Support
- 2.1.12 Metrics
- 2.1.13 Evangelism
- 2.1.14 Labs
- 2.1.15 Apps
- 2.1.16 Developer Tools
- 2.1.17 Add-ons
- 2.1.18 Webdev
- 2.1.19 L10n
- 2.1.20 People Team
- 2.1.21 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
Lisa Gray and Shannon Clayton for an outstanding job of managing the move of two existing offices in Paris into the splendiferous new Mozilla Space on Boulevard Montmartre. (...and they did it without even being able to speak French).
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 01 April
Tuesday, 02 April
- HTML5 Developer Conference with Mozilla speakers today:
- 9:00 Christian Heilmann: "Setting disruptors to stun!"
- 11:40 Tantek Çelik: "microformats2 & HTML5: The Next Evolutionary Step For Web Data"
- 14:10 Diane Bisgeier: "You Can't Build a Movement Alone"
Wednesday, 03 April
Thursday, 04 April
- 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, 05 April
Saturday, 06 April
Sunday, 07 April
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)
- Release week! Tho' your hands in the air
- \o\
- /o/
- \o\
- /o/
- FF20 means per-window private browsing, new download manager, developer toolbox. Tell a friend!
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)
- Release week! Everybody dance!
- :D-<
- :D|-<
- :D/-<
- FF20 means private browsing tabs, homescreen customization, and broader ARMv6 reach. Tell a friend!
Thunderbird
Speaker Location:
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker Location: Brett Gaylor will present a short Lightening Talk later on this call
- This week's Webmaker update:
- April Fools web hacks. Use this X-Ray Goggles project to play an April Fool's joke on your friends
- Complete blog post update on what else is happening this week: Webmaker vs. Bowie. Popcorn + the Pope. Localization workflow.
Identity
Speaker Location:
Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox OS
Speaker Location:
Grow Mozilla
Speaker Location:
60 Seconds with Mozilla IT
Speaker Location: mrz in SF
- First of two firewall upgrades wrapped up on Saturday
- was intrusive but gets us to a version that won't require disruptions for future OS upgrades
- Sponsored first open source monitoring conference ~ http://monitorama.com/
- Laura Thompson & monitoring at (rolf) scale using crash-stats.mozilla.com as an example of the challenges of monitoring a complex distributed system at high scale, and how developers, IT/Operations, and QA can successfully work together to constantly improve things in a devops fashion.
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 | Name | Topic | Media | More Details |
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Mozilla Founder and Chief of People | Mitchell Baker and Debbie Cohen | Mozilla Summit 2013 | No media / slides | https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2013 https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2013/03/31/mozilla-summit/
https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2013/03/28/mozilla-summit-2013-the-word-is-out/ |
Sr. Director, Mozilla Webmaker | Brett Gaylor | Webmaker.org evolution for 2013 summer campaign | https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7968133/webmaker_evolutionv4.pdf | |
Product manager, community tools | William Reynolds | You can now have a public Mozillians profile | Blog post with details | Edit your profile and mark the fields you want as public. |
Manager Hacking | Mike Morgan, aka morgamic | Building a manager community at Mozilla, why it's important. | https://wiki.mozilla.org/Manager_Hacking | |
NetPolicy | Alex Fowler | Invite participation in Mozilla's Internet policy activities. | https://wiki.mozilla.org/Netpolicy |
Introducing New Hires
New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
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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? |
Gijsbert Kruibosch | Justin Dolske | Mountain View | Netherlands | Software Engineer |
Daniel Minor | Clint Talbert | Mountain View | Canada | Software Tools Developer, Mobile Platform |
Christiane Ruetten | Yvan Boily | Mountain View | Berlin | Mobile Application Malware Specialist |
Marc Schifer | Bob Moss | Mountain View | Mountain View | Senior Browser QA Manager |
Introducing New Interns
New Intern | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
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Who is the new intern? | 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? |
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
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
- Helped ship Input rewrite to production: https://input.mozilla.org
- Just helped ship about:healthreport (Firefox Health Report)
QA Community
Automation & Tools
- Edmorley and the sheriffs put together a build/test visibility page for how to get (and keep) items visible on TBPL.
- Ahal landed mozcrash into the b2g harnesses so we are now getting b2g crash reports from the b2g automation.
- We possibly have a fix for panda board intermittent reboots (turns out we need better power supplies)
- More news here
Security
Engagement
PR
- Superfast 3D gaming to land in Firefox, Chrome?
- Firefox Nightly Now Includes OdinMonkey, Brings JavaScript Closer To Running At Native Speeds
- Unreal Engine coming to Firefox
Events
Creative Team
Community Marketing
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Apps
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
- Shipped a brand new rewritten-from-the-ground-up version of Input (https://input.mozilla.org/) on March 27th. We had a full three minutes where all feedback on Input was happy.