QA/Team Meeting/QA Team Meeting-2015-12-16

Mozilla QA Meeting - Wednesday, December 16, 2015 @ 1:30pm PST

# Every other Weds @ 1:30p Pacific Time - Mozilla HQ, Room: QA
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Template available at: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Team_Meeting/2016_QA_Team_Template

Welcome

• Announcements:
  • Welcome back from Mozlando!
  • Stuart is feeling a bit under the weather; Karl will be facilitating the meeting.
  • Important company or team announcements
• Kudos:

• Events:
  • [stephend] - I'll presenting a 10-minute Lightning Talk at a Selenium Meetup on Wed, December 16th on the collaborative build/test/deploy pipeline work that the Mozilla.org/Web QA teams have made a reality!
• Deadlines:

Next Merge: November 10, 2025		Next Release: November 11, 2025
Trains
Central: 146	Aurora: 54	Beta: 145	Release: 144

Speaker

• 5 minute lightning talk, 5 minutes for questions
• Future schedule/wishlist: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Team_Meeting/Speakers
• This meeting's speaker is: Liz Henry, Release Engineeering

Team Updates

• Please limit to 2 to 3 items per team
• Updates may include:
  • How are you tracking towards your goals?
  • What are you working on right now?
  • What are some challenges you're facing?
  • What are you planning for the future?
• Each team is responsible for electing their own delegate (can be different each meeting or on-going)
• Goal tracking https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Goals/2015q4
• FxOS
  • Delegate:Pallavi Yaramada
  • Updates:
    • • Applications for Summer Internship are flowing in.
      • 2.5 branch - Testing of defect fixes uplifted to 2.5
      • 2.6 - Automation efforts will continue
• Services
  • Delegate: kthiessen
  • Updates:
    • Cloud Services QA Intern Cynthia Anyango (from Nairobi, Kenya) started on Mon 2015-12-07.
    • What we're working on: Recovery from Mozlando; 2016 planning.
• Web
  • Delegate: stephend
  • Updates:
    • Should nail all Q4 goals: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Execution/Web_Testing/Goals/2015/Q4
    • Blog posts coming for Bedrock (Mozilla.org) pipeline + 2015 Web QA Year in Review
    • Using Mozlando to tighten 2016 planning (as much as possible); key changes:
      • faster, (more) cloud, better visibility/team-workflow integration, and more
• Platform
  • Delegate:
  • Updates:
• Firefox
  • Delegate: RyanVM
  • Updates:
    • Search refactor test plan signoff sent. Postmortem scheduled for tomorrow.
    • Push 1.0 signoff should be coming soon.
    • Working on getting an environment set up for Telemetry experiment testing.
    • Testing Tab Group Migration tied to Panorama removal.

Open Floor

• have a question or topic you want to discuss?
  • Is sitting in on other small group meetings preferable to one big meeting?
• welcome a new team or community member?
• taking PTO?
• Should we do the first January QA meeting?
• How is the new format?
• I don't know where else to put this. :) :armenzg is making a series of videos about Mozilla's CI systems. Here's the first one: Introduction to CI behind Treeherder

Action Items From Last Meeting

• [stephend] - we should update this template to include a space for Action Items (putting them here, below, for now):
  • Action Item: Stephen to talk to Johnny Stenbeck about delegates from Platform team.
    • [stephend] - Talked to Johnny, and have been redirected to talk to :dougt and/or :lmandel - will follow up