WeeklyUpdates/2012-12-10
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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 Platform
- 2.1.3 Services
- 2.1.4 Messaging
- 2.1.5 Mobile
- 2.1.6 IT
- 2.1.7 Release Engineering
- 2.1.8 QA
- 2.1.9 Automation & Tools
- 2.1.10 Security
- 2.1.11 Engagement
- 2.1.12 Support
- 2.1.13 Metrics
- 2.1.14 Evangelism
- 2.1.15 Labs
- 2.1.16 Apps
- 2.1.17 Developer Tools
- 2.1.18 Add-ons
- 2.1.19 Webdev
- 2.1.20 L10n
- 2.1.21 People Team
- 2.1.22 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 
- RyanVM for landing lots of patches on branches to help keep engineers sane.
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 10 December
Tuesday, 11 December
Wednesday, 12 December
- Mozilla SF will host the WebGL Developers Meetup featuring WebFWD team Sketchfab (http://sketchfab.com). Register at http://www.meetup.com/WebGL-Developers-Meetup/events/92089402/
- Mozilla MV will host Silicon Valley Hack and Tell, a series of lightning talks, 6:30pm. RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/silicon-valley-hack-and-tell/events/91548542/
Thursday, 13 December
Friday, 14 December
- We're hosting a Firefox OS Automation Testday this Friday. Come along and help to contribute some automated tests. You might want to prepare your machine in advance (guides can be found in the etherpad) if you don't have a device or emulator ready.
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location:
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location:
Thunderbird
Speaker Location:
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker Location:
Identity
Speaker Location:
Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox OS
Speaker Location: Dietrich
- First 100% passing smoketest, big sign of stability
- Performance improvements having huge impact - homescreen and app load time, keyboard responsiveness
- Dogfooding devices being sent out to first group of remote employees
- By the numbers: http://people.mozilla.com/~dietrich/basecamp/counts.html
Grow Mozilla
Speaker Location: San Francisco
Mozilla Greece and Mozilla Bangladesh both launched local community sites last week. See more than 50 other local Mozilla sites around the world.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MozCamp Asia 2012 | Kate Naszradi | Quick re-cap of MozCamp Asia for those who missed it last week. | MozCamp Asia Re-Cap Blog | |
| The New Mobile Support | James Socol | How to help test the new mobile support.mozilla.org. | slides | http://support.mozilla.org/ |
Introducing New Hires
| New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new hire? | Who will be introducing that person? | From which office will that introduction be transmitted? | Where will the new person be working from? | What will the new person be working on? |
| Justin Crawford | Chris More | Mountain View | Mountain View | Sr. Web Product Engineer |
| Michelle Cristobal | Alan Chang | Mountain View | Mountain View | Purchase Order Specialist |
| Elizabeth Henry | Clint Talbert | San Francisco | San Francisco | Bugmaster |
| Keith Larson | Corey Shields | Mountain View | Indiana, IN | Database Administrator |
| John Schneider (MoFo) | Chris McAvoy | Chicago, IL | Chicago, IL | DevOps Engineer |
| Michael Trinkala | Mark Mayo | Mountain View | Vancouver | Software Engineer - Metrics & Monitoring, Mozilla Services |
| Sylvie Veilleux | Todd Simpson | Mountain View | Mountain View | Vice President of Information Technology |
Introducing New Interns
| New Intern | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new intern? | Who will be introducing that person? | From which office will that introduction be transmitted? | Where will the new person be working from? | What will the new person be working on? |
Roundtable
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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.
Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
Firefox
Platform
Services
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
- we now have dummy tests jobs running on the b2g panda boards for the cedar branch
- these jobs test the piping and specifically the new b2g automatic imaging layer (boards get re-imaged with the latest b2g panda images)
- as soon as the tests can run on the boards we will add them
- for more details please read http://armenzg.blogspot.ca/2012/12/b2g-test-jobs-running-on-panda-boards.html
- or watch them running in https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Cedar&jobname=b2g_panda%20cedar%20opt%20test%20gaia-ui-test
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
- Mozillians (automation)
- Production deploys are now un-blocked by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=807351
- Mozilla.com
- MDN
- Socorro
- Milestone 29 successfully pushed to production:; 2012-12-05 @ 5pm PT https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced;target_milestone=29;product=Socorro;list_id=5135616
- Uplifted postgres to 9.2
- Add display "exploitability rating to the UI for logged-in admin users
- Wiki
- B2G
- Starting to work with tchung to establish process for new phone roll-outs - rbillings
QA Community
Automation & Tools
Security
Engagement
PR
Events
Creative Team
Community Marketing
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Apps
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
People Team
WebFWD
Deadline to apply to our next class is January 31st! More at http://webfwd.org/apply
