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QA Services Team Meeting

• April 20, 2010
• Attendees: mevans, tomcat, whimboo, aakashd, marcia, tchung, marco, martijn

Discussion Items

Project Status

QMO2 Update [aakashd]

• QMO2 - Tentative Release Date 6/1
  • QA/QMO
  • Day to stuff will not move off wiki to QMO
  • How to create QMO.next wiki - posted as a document
  • Bootstrapped to a local server - staging server. Wednesday of this week?

• QMO 2 - professional look and feel
  • Communication in and around - what we expect community members would want
  • Around 2-3 minute video QA promo video should be ready by launch
  • QA team videos will follow after the Summit

CrashKill [tomcat/marcia

• Continuing to monitor trunk crashes
• Are we getting Recognition for these efforts?
  • marcia gives a summary via weekly status report
  • Recognized chris hofmann and damon

• CritSmash
• Objective: Quarterly goal - bring down the # of security bugs
• tomcat and marcia attending weekly meetings

Accessibility Status Update [marco]

• concentrating on trunk with some fixes we deem interesting to 3.6 and
• on trunk checked on huge performance boost that made certain sites
  • faster to load into a Windows screen reader by a factor of 10-12.
• HTML Form element work, tel #, date address
• Performance - talos tests goal for this quarter
  • Basically reorganize some event code in the early part of the 3.next

cycle - does not affect 3.6. this was a regression in 3.7a1. In the process we made pages like Facebook - even faster in 3.7.

Community Events [marcia]

• Germany Meetups - monthly basis and continuing to progress well - Munich - Mozilla will be at the Berlin event
  • Tomcat presenting at Drumbeat event in Berlin
  • Presentation about meetups in Munich. Get new community members involved

• Mountain View Meetups
  • Weave Meetup - June?
    • AI: Tchung to coordinate this meetup and get it advertised well in advance of the event. Target date should be June 17.
  • Fennec Meetup - Continue to expose the projects were working on, have developers show up and talk about it
  • Hosting Selenium Meetup on May 19. Coordinated by stephend and raymond.

• Tomcat's approach
  • Tomcat uses email - follow up with people after the event - audience

is mixed

• • A number of companies why to use open source, people working for other open

source projects. Regularly get 30-40 participants - 8 months - 50

• • Hosting a May 22 workshop on the weekend where they do live testing.

• Advertising ideas for meetups- Linked in,
  • Hold a Contest -> Tshirt will be offered?

• Matt raised the idea that we might not be getting enough of a ROI on our meetups.
  • May not be offering enough value
  • Need concrete goals - what is the value presented and are we promoting properly.

• Reporter [aakashd]
  • Getting some headway - UI elements - figure out how we can make funneling this feedback into something usable. Talk to Tomcat and Marcia about funneling feedback - new broken website reporter.

Agenda items for next week [marcia]

• Community mixer at the Summit
• How do we take advantage of working with our community while we are there?

Action Items

• AI: Bring video camera to tape and provide QA Perspective on the Summit?
• AI: Create a Weekly status report that can be included in the report at the Firefox/Platform Team meeting