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Meeting Details

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Our regular team meeting occurs every Thursday @ 9am Pacific

• Vidyo: WebQA (8824)
• IRC: #mozwebqa
• Notes: Archive, Template

Lead / Scribe

• Lead:
  • Stephen
• Scribe:
  • Matt
  • Scribe is responsible for:
    • adding the action items and takeaways to the current meeting's minutes
    • creating the agenda for the next meeting and carrying the action items and takeaways over to it
    • sending out a notice of the availability of that agenda along with the meeting invite
    • completing all of the above by the end of the week during which the meeting occurred

Action Items / Takeaways from Last Week

• Takeaways:
  • Stephen to get Krupa flashed devices with 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3
    • Have a Flame, getting more soon, and should have the Hamachis done and sent by EOD today
  • Andrei to work with Dave setting up a plugin for jenkins (Plugin: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Throttle+Concurrent+Builds+Plugin)
    • didn't really had time for that, I'll take it tomorrow
• Action Items:
  • Andrei to set up Marketplace Firefox OS job
    • http://jenkins1.qa.scl3.mozilla.com/job/flame-kk-319.mozilla-central.ui.marketplace-tests/

Discussion Items / Updates

• [mbrandt] what do we have planned for the https://wiki.mozilla.org/Portland_coincidental_work_week
  • [stephend] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Portland_coincidental_work_week#Time_Blocks_.28subject_to_change.29 and its Google Doc for "Room Blocks" are the most-current information sources I have, however:
    • [stephend] Marc, Clint, and I will be scheduling a session around the Mozmill -> Marionette roadmap/changes
  • [justinpotts] Where is Web QA eating? Would like to join us.
• [stephend] we took an upgrade to both pytest-mozwebqa to 1.3 and requests 2.4.3 yesterday (thanks, Stupchiy!)
  • any Sauce Labs jobs which are using "--capabilities" should now use "--capability", per https://github.com/mozilla/pytest-mozwebqa/commit/4d9f7e6415595006ba91e4935ab811a9875e596d
• [stephend] two good things happening for the reliability of our Websites:
  • meeting with Stephanie Chan, new head of WebOps, went really well, and she and I will follow up next week
  • meeting tomorrow with some MOC and WebOps folks to discuss monitoring and SLAs (starting with production, but hopefully getting to dev/stage, too)
• [mbrandt] http://gitprime.com/ -- tkimmel has offered to play with our data to see if he can give us actionable insights into our github + bugzilla data
• [bsilverberg] http://jenkins1.qa.scl3.mozilla.com/job/flame-kk-319.mozilla-central.ui.marketplace-tests/ !!!

Testday Ideas

• https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webqa-testdays

Blog Ideas

If you have any ideas for blog posts, share them here.

• Stephen is almost done with "I am Mozilla Web QA" blog post; will send for review soon

Lightning talk / Show 'n Tell

Project Status / goals for next week (keep it brief)

• Affiliates
  • Expect renewed development of new features to begin in Q1 2015
  • mbrandt is currently working to create git issues to resolve technical debt in the test cases
• Bouncer
  • [stephend] there is now a bouncer.stage on https://ci.mozilla.org/
    • next steps: 1) get the IRC reporting resurrected from ci.mozilla.org jobs, and off for Web QA's Jenkins 2) cut over
• Engagement
• Firefox Health Report
• Marketplace / AMO
• Mozillians
  • /search/ is broken on stage, due to an ES upgrade - Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1090818 normal, REOPENED , Update settings/local.py in mozillians-dev.allizom.org
  • Q4 Roadmap https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozillians/RoadMap
    • Will be tracked separately https://mozillians.etherpad.mozilla.org/housekeeping-2014-09-04
  • Laura Thomson to meet with the PMs next week to discuss stage PII solutions
  • Bugs to watch
    • [tracker] Multiple emails in mozillians.org accounts - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699952
• Mozilla.com
  • automation will likely break on Monday, as the Fx-10th Anniversary changes land (currently in 4 dev branches)
  • Brand new site, brand new Get Involved sign up process, lots of new emails for Guides
  • Wednesday release of /en-US, will soon be followed by /pt-BR & /es-ES/AR/CL
  • New automation thanks to Stupchiy!
• Moztrap
  • PDX Docker Hack session
• MDN
  • Intern webdriver work is making good progress - https://github.com/m8ttyB/kuma/tree/master/tests/ui
    • davidwalsh is working on moving tests to the POM today - https://gist.github.com/darkwing/dbb5adf5618ccdf51b27
    • mbrandt prototyped running Intern tests on a local Jenkins instance against Sauce
      • will create a Job on web qa's Jenkins CI during a low use time to ensure DigDug's SauceConnect doesn't run on port :4444
• Socorro
  • Advanced Search tests will be sunset by end-of-quarter - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1093682

• SUMO
  • Continuous deployment, no updates
• Wiki
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1081976 issue led to changing the user permissions for webqatest across dev, stage & prod which stopped the automation from failing. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1082810 gives more details on the cause of why we were seeing inconsistent behavior with different user accounts.

CI Updates

If you've worked on Jenkins or Selenium Grid in the last week, add the necessary info in the Wiki

Community Update

• [mbrandt] Welcome Tarun

Time off / Out-of-office

Warning: This template is no longer in use. Please directly include the Web QA PTO page instead.

PTO and other time out of office for Firefox Test Engineering

• [davehunt] - October 26 - PTO
• [davehunt] - December 12-14 - Honolulu marathon

Takeaways and Action Items

• Takeways:
• Action Items:
  • [stephend] get Krupa FxOS devices, in progress and should be completed by eow [2014-11-08]
  • [Andreih] to work with Dave setting up a plugin for jenkins (Plugin: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Throttle+Concurrent+Builds+Plugin)
  • [mbrandt] Brainstorming etherpad for PDX workweek, send to webqa mailing list
  • all project leads — unpin pytest-mozwebqa across all projects [requirements.txt]

• Next owner / scribe:
  • bsilverberg / davehunt
• Next week's meeting notes: