WeeklyUpdates/2014-09-22

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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 Mozilla Friends of Mozilla

  • "Grazie" to Sandro Della Giustina for localization work on the Italian version of Firefox activations directory. "Gracias" to Hernan Rodriguez Colmeiro for localization of the Argentinian activations directory. "Xie Xie" to Peter Chen and Eric Tsai for localization of the Taiwanese activations directory. "Arigatou", to Chiko Shimizu for localization of the Japanese activations directory.
  • Thanks to Mike Poessy and Melissa OConnor for their work to support the Belize Teach the Web event.
  • Thanks to Guillaume Demesy and Alexa Roman for their invaluable weekly work on [WebCompat.com] site.
  • Thanks to Knight Yoshi and MystMaker for their frequent and useful contributions to the Add-ons Forum.
  • Thanks to Craig Cook for being really awesome throughout the Get Involved redesign process!
  • Thanks to Clarissa Sorenson for putting community building into the onboarding process!

Upcoming Events

This Week

  • QE (Quality Engineering) is relaunching the Testdays program with a new focus on mentorship - activities are scheduled all week - please join us in the #qa channel on irc.mozilla.org

Monday, 22 September

Tuesday, 23 September

Wednesday, 24 September

Homebrew Website Club Meetup

  • Portland (@MozPDX) and San Francisco (@MozSF)! (CHI & MSP off this week)
  • 17:30-18:30 Writing Hour
  • 18:30-19:30 IndieWeb discussions and hack night

Are you creating your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy?

If so (or you want to!), come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

Any questions? See the wiki page for details or join IRC: http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/today


Mozillians Town Hall - Brand Initiatives

Supporting Cultural Heritage Open Source Software

  • Sept 24 and 25, happening in Atlanta, GA, USA and online
  • Mozillian Jennie Rose Halperin will be speaking

Thursday, 25 September

Friday, 26 September

PyCon India 2014

  • Sep 26-28 in Bangalore, India
  • Mozillian Abdul Rauf helping to organize

Saturday, 27 September

Accessibility Camp Toronto

  • Toronto, Canada
  • Mozillian David Bolter attending
  • Mozilla sponsorship

Sunday, 28 September

Next Week

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox

Speaker Location: SF (Eric)

Firefox For Android

Speaker Location: remote (mfinkle)

  • Guest browsing indicator in the System Notification area
  • File downloads are being added to the System Download Manager
    • Costs an Android permission
    • Interactions might to be improved

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: MTV (Asa Dotzler)

  • Firefox OS launched in Bangaladesh! Grameenphone (local Telenor operator/carrier) lauched the (Symphony manufactured) GoFox F15 for approximately $60 last week.
  • Mozilla is beginning transition to KitKat builds for the Flame. Will be posting a KitKat-based Firefox OS 2.0 "testing" build to the MDN Flame page this week.
  • This last week, about 100 people checked in just over 200 fixes to Firefox OS. First time contributors to Firefox OS this week included:
    • Zhenqing Liu <zhenqing.liu@spreadtrum.com> fixed bug 1021838 FX OS crash in nsWifiMonitor::Onready(unsigned int, nsIWifiScanResult**)
    • Phil Ringnalda [philor] <philringnalda@gmail.com> fixed bug 968645 Forms mochitests disabled on b2g desktop
    • Lars T Hansen [lth] <lhansen@mozilla.com> fixed bug 1068539 Gecko not booting anymore due to "bad serialized structured data (unhandled typed array element type)"
    • Goutam <goutamnair7@gmail.com> fixed bug 1023259 The contact number is shown incompletely in the contact detail screen of SMS conversion when the contact phone label is more than 19 characters.
    • gauravmittal <gauravmittal1995@gmail.com> fixed bug 1057795 Clean up MozL10n API use in Cost Control
    • Andreas Larsson <andreas3.larsson@sonymobile.com> fixed bug 1069810 Homescreen application does not handle basic authentication in icon urls.
  • Foxtrot applications evaluated. Results to be sent out to all applicants today or tomorrow. Phone shipments still TBD -- still waiting on builds.
  • Mozilla has received 500 VIA Vixen tablets for the Tablet Contribution Program. The TCP coordinators have just begun planning for the application process.

Cloud Services

Speaker Location:

Content Services

Speaker Location: NYC (Sean Bohan)

  • Tiles
    • Tiles continues in Beta
    • Tiles Delivery Service testing GeoIP support for per country Tiles
    • The l10n team has done an amazing job getting Mozilla tiles translated, with 34 countries completed in less than 2 weeks. Thanks to CHoffman, Pike, MatJaz, the l10n team and the contributors who all helped

Webmaker

Speaker Location:

Mozilla Communities

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. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week.

Presenter Title Topic Location Share? Media More Details
Who Are You? What Do You Do? What are you going to talk about? Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space) Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, other info) Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information
William Reynolds Product manager for Community Tools Get vouched, vouch others on Mozillians.org Mozilla SF No Display this blog post Wiki with FAQ, Original announcement about vouching changes
Michelle Thorne Webmaker Mentor Team Maker Party 2014. Party don't stop! Mozilla Toronto Yes File:Makerparty 2014 recap.pdf 127K Webmakers host over 2513 Maker Parties
Anthony Duignan-Cabrera The Open Standard The Open Standard Mozilla NYC No No https://wiki.mozilla.org/The_Open_Standard

Roundtable

Do you have a question about a Mozilla Project or initiative? Let us know by Friday- we'll do our best to get you an answer.

Please note that we may not always be able to get to every item on this list, but we will try!

Who are you? Area of question Question
What's your name? What do you work on? Is your question about policy, a product, a Foundation initiative, etc. What would you like to know?

Welcome!

Let's say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer(s) Introduced by Speaker location New Volunteer location Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer(s)? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where is the new person based? What will the new person be doing?

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? Where is the introducer? Where will the new person be working from? What will the new person be working on?
Johan Lorenzo Tony Chung Mountain View Paris Mobile QA
Francisco Picolini Robyn Chau Mozilla Las Vegas Madrid Community Events

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Who is the new intern? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where will the new person be working from? 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)

Firefox

Platform

Cloud Services

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Vidyo has released Vidyo Desktop v3.3.0 (27) with the below added features and fixes. This release has already been tested within IT and is ready for a second round of testing and feedback. If you would like to help test, please use the download links below to install the client and add your feedback to the feedback doc also linked below. Please update us as we would like to release the client to all of Mozilla by Monday 9/28 or 10/6 depending on feedback received.

Note: after upgrading, a pop-up will appear saying that you do not have a current version. Please select “Not Now” and the do not remind me checkbox.

Features Join a conference with camera, mic and/or speakers muted Join a conference with your full screen shared and camera, mic, speakers muted Easier access to your rooms public link via client UI Many bug fixes for Windows, Mac and Linux

Download Links
OS X: https://mozilla.box.com/s/8ap0iclutieqrnh5kq2j
Windows: https://mozilla.box.com/s/exlu99fpm07h0r4xkpqc
Ubuntu: https://mozilla.box.com/s/bmf2ukxe1avjq6a2bdz5
Ubuntu64: https://mozilla.box.com/s/yzjf3dnes6grn6dz470c
RPM: https://mozilla.box.com/s/92in19khtgr1yb7qitmo
RPM64: https://mozilla.box.com/s/wza4c8nzz3k01n5cnf6j

Feedback Doc https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjyYWLVB7bEcdEYxaldFYXVqcGpxdW02dGNYUDN5QVE&usp=sharing

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Automation & Tools

bugzilla.mozilla.org

Notable changes to bugzilla.mozilla.org during the last week:

  • bug 1021902 You can now see a history of a review's requests (time taken, etc). Look for the "Review History" link on their profile page.
  • bug 1052851 It's now possible to search for bugs where the assignee hasn't logged in to Bugzilla for a while (eg. http://mzl.la/1AQRMd7)

All changes.

Security

Engagement

PR

Events

Social Support

Web Compatibility

Web Compat Summary

  • closed 104 Desktop issues, 7 Mobile issues
  • opened 4, Desktop issues, 5 Mobile issues
  • Started a discussion about our future plans for 2015, and quarter goals in 2014.
  • We had a temporary issues with GitHub which closed all the Webcompat repos for a couple of hours, but came back on after we contacted them.
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