WeeklyUpdates/2012-10-29
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Contents
- 1 All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
- 2 <meta>
- 2.1 Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
- 2.1.1 Firefox
- 2.1.2 Firefox OS
- 2.1.3 Platform
- 2.1.4 Services
- 2.1.5 Messaging
- 2.1.6 Mobile
- 2.1.7 IT
- 2.1.8 Release Engineering
- 2.1.9 QA
- 2.1.10 Automation & Tools
- 2.1.11 Security
- 2.1.12 Engagement
- 2.1.13 Support
- 2.1.14 Metrics
- 2.1.15 Evangelism
- 2.1.16 Labs
- 2.1.17 Apps
- 2.1.18 Developer Tools
- 2.1.19 Add-ons
- 2.1.20 Webdev
- 2.1.21 L10n
- 2.1.22 People Team
- 2.1.23 WebFWD
- 2.2 Foundation Updates
- 2.1 Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of the Tree 
- Dan Parsons & Greg Cox (Mozilla IT) for their relentless pursuit of a NetApp performance bug that had been impacting Hg & ftp.mozilla.org.
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 29 October
- SecReview: Mobile-APIs for Java Code in Addons - 13:00 PST
- Mozilla's Boston Mozilla Space is closed today due to the storm and will be closed until Boston's Mayor Menino lifts the state of emergency. (the actual space that Mozilla's office is in, is unstaffed today.
- Everyone on the East Coast of the US, stay safe! For those that work with folks in the US Northeast, beware that they may not be responsive at times Mon - Wed as Hurricane Sandy hits hard.
Tuesday, 30 October
Wednesday, 31 October
Thursday, 01 November
Friday, 02 November
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- Getting great feedback on social, thanks for that, keep it coming.
- Trying to figure out if flash issues related to social are happening on beta, or only on nightly/aurora. Can you help? bug 805331
- Accelerating update rates bug 803181
- Check out Dave's post, What is Jetpack here for?
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- Still feeling positive about ARMv6 in FF17
- Big improvements landing on Nightly
- Homescreen search widget
- Lightweight themes (née personas)
- Reflow on zoom
Thunderbird
Speaker Location:
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
No verbal updates today - will start regular weekly product updates after Sandy-ocalypse. See (way) below for meta updates. Hope to see you at MozFest!
Identity
Speaker Location:
Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox OS
Speaker Location:
- No audio - text update below in the non-audible section.
Grow Mozilla
Speaker Location: David in San Francisco
Three community building workshops will be run over the next two weeks:
- Designing projects for participation -- Thursday, 11/1 at 10 pacific -- 3G in Mountain View
- Identifying contributors -- Tuesday, 11/6 at 10 pacific -- Boardroom on 7th floor in San Francisco
- Measuring & evaluating -- Thursday, 11/8 at 10 pacific -- Bay Bridge in 3rd floor in San Francisco
All workshops accessible through Vidyo in David Boswell's vidyo room and will also be recorded and made available publicly.
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.
| Title | Presenter | Topic | Media | More Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capture Mozilla | Dino Anderson and Dia Bondi | Using video to capture and share knowledge (from know-how to cultural) across the Mozilla community. | https://wiki.mozilla.org/Grow/Viki |
Introducing New Hires
| New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new hire? | Who will be introducing that person? | From which office will that introduction be transmitted? | What will the new person be working on? |
| Andrea Zingerman | Mathew Caldwell | Mountain View, CA | University Programs Coordinator |
| Tyler Downer | David Tenser | San Francisco, CA | Support Analyst |
| Hannes Verschore | David Mandelin | Netherlands | Software Engineer |
Introducing New Interns
| New Intern | Introduced by | Speaker location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new intern? | Who will be introducing that person? | From which office will that introduction be transmitted? | What will the new person be working on? |
Roundtable
<meta>
Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.
Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
Firefox
Firefox OS
- Product, PM and Eng meeting with TEF in London last week. Common ground found, hurdles hurdled.
- Work week in San Francisco next week!
- Dogfooding devices shipping out to initial set of signer-uppers in the supported offices. Follow the comments by dogfooders here: https://b2gtestdrivers.allizom.org/comments_table.
- Engineering is busy driving down the final feature work for partner requirements and device certification.
Platform
Services
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
- Affiliates
- Last week's release withheld due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760631
- New target is next week after the Engagement team's work week
- Mozilla.com
- pushed redirect bug fixes
- MDN
- working on sitemap bug
- Socorro
- Small release today - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced;target_milestone=24;product=Socorro;list_id=4765891
- Django-rewrite (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788003) is going well; new bugs added frequently
- still behind VPN; needs to pass App/InfraSec review before we stage it properly
- MozTrap
- New features are in the pipeline to land that will support the B2G teams needs
- Manual & Automation opportunities for helping test these features
- B2G
- Moztrap birt reports
- Met (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Projects/B2G_Test_And_Performance) with the A-team to figure out on-device Gaia-test running: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=801898
- Smoke tests written for taking picture, video, making call, sending sms, adding contact. Overall stability not there but fundamentals are being built.
- Bouncer
- Release scheduled for this week - Sentry/Bouncer location availability improvements
QA Community
Automation & Tools
Security
Engagement
PR
- Firefox's Social API debuts with Facebook Messenger
- Mozilla Partners with Facebook for Social API
- Mozilla's New Social API Lets You Bring Facebook Along Wherever You Surf The Web
Events
Creative Team
Community Marketing
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Apps
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
People Team
WebFWD
Foundation Updates
Webmaker
MozFest is November 9-11 in London.
At MozFest, we are launching:
- Webmaker badges - get recognition for your learning and skill development while you make something awesome on the Web.
- Popcorn Maker - now its easy to build awesome Popcorn-ified videos and learn web literacy skills in the process.
Also exploring and scoping:
- Mobile for Webmaker
- Hackable Games
- Teaching javascript
- More!
