QA/Community/Dev Day

Mozilla has a rich history of hosting "Developer Days' which allowed community members to gather to meet and talk about what they are doing in the Mozilla project. To this end, the Mozilla QA team would like to host a QA Developer Day event(s) in 2008. We want to target having an event in both the U.S. and abroad, as our community reaches far and wide. Here are some preliminary thoughts after a meeting held with Mary Colvig, marcia and ctalbert on February 22, 2008. Those notes are can be found below:

March 2008: Current Plan for Possible Developer Days

OSCON, July 2008 [QA contact: marcia]

• Proposed BOF Session, Tomcat
  • "How to use Leak Gauge/How to File Memory Leak Bugs/Test Firefox with your Favorite Extension for Memory Leaks"
• A room will be available for this Session: http://zak.greant.com/coaching-the-next-generation-of-foss-developers
  • QA team needs to propose some sessions that we are interested doing

EU Mozilla Camp (Date TBD, most likely Late October) [QA contact: marcia]

• As of July 9th, a proposal V1 has been generated for the event. Most likely will be held in late October. Location TBD. Events has a new hire coming on that will be in charge of putting together this event.

Seneca Automated Test Workshop [QA contact: ctalbert]

• Dave Humphrey of Seneca University has offered to help organize a test writing workshop that will focus on the philosophy and how-to specifics of automated test creation for the Mozilla platform. Its aim is to bring the community together around automated and regression testing and to capture the very best of what occurs at those sessions on film. We hope to make an engaging and informative resource that can be used to help teach and popularize automated test writing as a means of introduction into the Mozilla World. More information is available on its wiki page.

Possible Developer Day in Asia?

• What do people think?

• Idea 1: Piggyback off existing Engineering Developer Days Planned for 2008

This idea was discussed. Currently Mary is waiting for a list of planned events from shaver. The earliest event we could target would be the European Developer Day which is planned for early June 2008, location TBD

• Idea 2: Have our own Developer Day Event

We would have to identify the location of community members and figure out a location that works well.

• Idea 3: Try to meet up community members at a conference (Birds of a Feather)

We could target conferences where we can meet up with QA community members and talk about testing (more informal) Possible ideas offered by Mary:

• Special session at OSCON in July (San Diego, CA)
• SQE conferences. There might be folks interested in testing. They could apply for a community grant and then attend the conference. We could have 1-2 QA folks from our end meet up with them at the conference location. StarEast is held in May and StarWest is held in October.

The consensus from the Mozilla QA team is that we should target Ideas 2 and 3 for this year. The best to time to target an event would be after we ship FF 3.

• Ideas for Sessions (from Mozilla QA Team)

• • Live Testing Session
  • Test Development
  • How to write a reduced testcase (mw22?)
  • Leak testing (also for extensions) for the ages (tomcat)
  • Litmus/Localization Testing
  • Performance testing automation
  • Buildbot related stuff
  • security/js testing
  • QMO community building

• Reference Documents
  • Mozilla Developer Day events held in 2007 - http://wiki.mozilla.org/DeveloperDays

Rough 2008 Event Calendar (events Mozilla is participating in, from the Events Team)

• http://www.spreadfirefox.com/event (Events Cal on Spreadfirefox)

May

Influencer:

• D, May 27 – 29: Mitchell invited to speak

Developer/community focused:

• @Media SF, May 22 – 23: Brendan speaking
• @Media London, May 29 – 30: John Resig speaking
• Firefox Summit, Mountain View: TBD

July:

Developer/community focused:

• Guadec, July 7 – 12: Possible sponsorship.

• OSCON, July 21 – 25: Consider potential sponsorship and joint efforts with O’Reilly or other FOSS organizations to celebrate our respective anniversaries.