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== Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] ==
== Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] ==
* The [https://wiki.mozilla.org/ContributorEngagement Contributor Engagement team] nominates [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/7bd45639c8 Hugo Acosta] and the [http://www.mozillabolivia.org/ team in Bolivia] for spreading Firefox and helping Firefox become the [http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-BO-monthly-201106-201208/ #1 browser there!]  Efforts have included a social media campaign that Mozilla Hispano contributed to as well.


== Upcoming Events ==
== Upcoming Events ==
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=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
* Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific -- a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla
** [[Grow/Meeting_08_09_12|Agenda and dial-in information]] (feel free to add items to the agenda)


=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
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=== Firefox Desktop ===
=== Firefox Desktop ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: MV (johnath)''
* Social: {{bug|764869}},  {{bug|764872}}, {{bug|773351}}, {{bug|770695}}: big pieces of the work that makes Social actually semi-usable have landed. That means that you can test social features using "MoTown" in Nightly builds, by setting social.enabled = true.
* navigator.id DOM and core landed last week, the beginnings of native Persona integration
* Taras' [https://blog.mozilla.org/tglek/2012/07/26/snappy-july-26-go-try-the-gecko-profiler/ weekly performance/snappy update]. Highlights include:
** JS profiling using the built in profiler
** Reducing the cache nuking hit that telemetry tells us we hit on 10-20% of pages
** Also starting to file performance bugs on popular addons
* OMGCDN!
** We are moving to a CDN for initial Firefox downloads. The extra speed improves download success & conversion by 10-20% in some locales!
** Software updates are still using the volunteer mirror network, for now.


=== Firefox Mobile ===
=== Firefox Mobile ===
''Speaker Location:''  
''Speaker Location: MV (johnath)''  
* Spinning a 14.0.2 to fix jellybean specific crashes
* More testing on ARMv6 to find stability gotchas and minimum requirements
* FF15 (with Tablet support) firming up!
** ''BUT'' has anyone had a lot of hangs with Firefox Beta on Asus Transformers? Let mfinkle/blassey know.
* Scott wrote an [http://jwir3.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/font-inflation-fennec-and-you/ excellent blog post about font inflation]


=== Thunderbird ===
=== Thunderbird ===
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=== Firefox OS ===
=== Firefox OS ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: Dietrich''
 
* Gaia: Working camera! And photo filters in the Gallery! Animated SVG analog clock and FM Radio dial landed. There are risks in email plumbing, calendar, 1st Run, and settings, some in visual design access and some in implementation. More visual design implementation is landing every day. [https://etherpad.mozilla.org/gaia-meeting-notes Weekly meeting notes].
* Platform: Security review for bluetooth is done. The media stream components of Camera back-end are in review. Cell broadcast was added to v1 requirements. Lots of software update pieces under development and discussion. Lots of E10s work ongoing. [https://etherpad.mozilla.org/b2g-meeting-notes Weekly meeting notes].
* Release: Technical Release Plan sign-offs held on Gecko base, branching, updates and testing. Blockers for internal dogfooding are now tracked with [B2GTest:Blocker].
* QA: Completed ~60% of the Gaia requirements deep dive and added more tests cases for additional feature coverage. Built a webapp on devices that tests battery, geolocation, vibration, fullscreen and orientation. Daily build smoke tests still show critical regressions.
* Triage is now daily. Details in the [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.planning/6j-bX_DOytU/JIW1DwiChmwJ weekly meeting schedule announcement].


== Speakers ==
== Speakers ==
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| Link to where audience can find out more information
| Link to where audience can find out more information
|-
|-
| Tour Guide
| David Boswell
| Community data
| [http://www.arewegrowingyet.com arewegrowingyet.com] and [https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2012/08/03/coding-contribution-dashboards/ coding contribution dashboards]
| [https://blog.mozilla.org/community/category/data/ Data posts on about:community blog]
|}
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| ''Brendan Colloran''
| ''Gilbert FitzGerald''
| ''Mountain View''
| ''Senior Data Analyst''
|-
| ''Sriharsha Chintalapani (Harsha)''
| ''Gilbert FitzGerald''
| ''Mountain View''
| ''Metrics Software Engineer''
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=== Automation & Tools ===
=== Automation & Tools ===
* Tegras are not rebooting randomly anymore, 39% failure rate on android tests dropped to 13% as of Friday evening. Big thanks to Jmaher, Wlach, and Callek
* [http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/autolog/?tree=b2g&source=autolog Web API and B2G mochitests running again] on new VMs supplied by releng
* Datazilla is alive on production hardware! [https://datazilla.mozilla.org/test https://datazilla.mozilla.org/test]
* Initial plan for a TBPL intermittent failure bug filer (try saying that three times fast... :P) {{bug|779529}}.
* Expect this thursday's Bugzilla.mozilla.org push to include a fix for interdiff {{bug|779862}}
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Meetings/2012-08-05 More Notes Here]


=== Security ===
=== Security ===
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==== PR ====
==== PR ====
[http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/firefox-quiz-88264 Quiz Of The Week: The Fiery Fox] <br>
[http://www.zdnet.com/smartphone-os-makers-eye-developing-markets-7000001874/ Smartphone OS makers eye developing markets] <br>
[http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/state-of-the-web-which-vision-of-an-open-internet-would-you-fight-for/ State of the Web: Which vision of an ‘open Internet’ would you fight for?] <br>
[http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/43185-firefoxs-popular-add-ons-3-billion-downloads/ Firefox’s most popular add-ons from 3 billion downloads] <br>
[http://ostatic.com/blog/new-photos-of-mozillas-mobile-os-have-arrived-online New Photos of Mozilla's Mobile OS Have Arrived Online] <br>
[http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/mozilla-confirms-it-will-join-berlins-new-factory-campus/ Mozilla Confirms It Will Join Berlin’s New ‘Factory’ Campus] <br>
[http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/31/mozilla-will-nearly-double-sf-office-add-125-people-in-early-2013/ Mozilla Will Nearly Double SF Office, Add 125 People In Early 2013] <br>
[http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Mozilla-expands-in-Berlin-and-US-1659629.html Mozilla expands in Berlin and US] <br>


==== Events ====
==== Events ====
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== Foundation Updates ==
== Foundation Updates ==
[[Category:Weekly Updates]]
[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

Latest revision as of 17:34, 1 October 2014

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All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of the Tree Friends of the Tree

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 06 August

Tuesday, 07 August

Wednesday, 08 August

Thursday, 09 August

  • Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific -- a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla

Friday, 10 August

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: MV (johnath)

  • Social: bug 764869, bug 764872, bug 773351, bug 770695: big pieces of the work that makes Social actually semi-usable have landed. That means that you can test social features using "MoTown" in Nightly builds, by setting social.enabled = true.
  • navigator.id DOM and core landed last week, the beginnings of native Persona integration
  • Taras' weekly performance/snappy update. Highlights include:
    • JS profiling using the built in profiler
    • Reducing the cache nuking hit that telemetry tells us we hit on 10-20% of pages
    • Also starting to file performance bugs on popular addons
  • OMGCDN!
    • We are moving to a CDN for initial Firefox downloads. The extra speed improves download success & conversion by 10-20% in some locales!
    • Software updates are still using the volunteer mirror network, for now.

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: MV (johnath)

  • Spinning a 14.0.2 to fix jellybean specific crashes
  • More testing on ARMv6 to find stability gotchas and minimum requirements
  • FF15 (with Tablet support) firming up!
    • BUT has anyone had a lot of hangs with Firefox Beta on Asus Transformers? Let mfinkle/blassey know.
  • Scott wrote an excellent blog post about font inflation

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location:

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Dietrich

  • Gaia: Working camera! And photo filters in the Gallery! Animated SVG analog clock and FM Radio dial landed. There are risks in email plumbing, calendar, 1st Run, and settings, some in visual design access and some in implementation. More visual design implementation is landing every day. Weekly meeting notes.
  • Platform: Security review for bluetooth is done. The media stream components of Camera back-end are in review. Cell broadcast was added to v1 requirements. Lots of software update pieces under development and discussion. Lots of E10s work ongoing. Weekly meeting notes.
  • Release: Technical Release Plan sign-offs held on Gecko base, branching, updates and testing. Blockers for internal dogfooding are now tracked with [B2GTest:Blocker].
  • QA: Completed ~60% of the Gaia requirements deep dive and added more tests cases for additional feature coverage. Built a webapp on devices that tests battery, geolocation, vibration, fullscreen and orientation. Daily build smoke tests still show critical regressions.
  • Triage is now daily. Details in the weekly meeting schedule announcement.

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
Your Title Here Your Name Here What are you going to talk about? Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information
Tour Guide David Boswell Community data arewegrowingyet.com and coding contribution dashboards Data posts on about:community blog

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?
Brendan Colloran Gilbert FitzGerald Mountain View Senior Data Analyst
Sriharsha Chintalapani (Harsha) Gilbert FitzGerald Mountain View Metrics Software Engineer

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location Will be working on
Leo Yeykelis Mary Trombley Mountain View User Research
Valentin Gosu Nick Hurley Mountain View Platform

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

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Automation & Tools

Security

Engagement

PR

Quiz Of The Week: The Fiery Fox

Smartphone OS makers eye developing markets

State of the Web: Which vision of an ‘open Internet’ would you fight for?

Firefox’s most popular add-ons from 3 billion downloads

New Photos of Mozilla's Mobile OS Have Arrived Online

Mozilla Confirms It Will Join Berlin’s New ‘Factory’ Campus
Mozilla Will Nearly Double SF Office, Add 125 People In Early 2013
Mozilla expands in Berlin and US

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

Foundation Updates

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