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QA Staff Meeting Notes February 1, 2012

Meeting Details

 # Every other Weds @ 1:30p Pacific Time - Mozilla HQ, Warp Core 
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 #         +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 95312 (Canada)
 # IRC:    irc://irc.mozilla.org:6697/#qa

QA Org Items

• New Hires & Interviews
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• Upcoming Events
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• PTOs

Discussion Items

• Several items from the last meeting were not discussed: See
• Mozilla Privacy Lead role needs to be filled: - any volunteers?
• No more All Hands meetings?
• How does QA get more connected to and represented at some of the work weeks that are going on?
  • Snappy
  • Firefox

QA Team Updates

Desktop Firefox (Juan)

• Fx.Next
  • Firefox 11 (ashughes)
    • moving to Beta Wedneday
  • Firefox 12 (juanb)
    • moving to Aurora Wednesday
    • includes Silent Update UAC Service (suppression of UAC dialog on update)
  • Firefox 13 (ashughes)
    • moving to Nightly Tuesday
• Crash Investigation
  • RRRT page created for Firefox 10 release
  • Stability Report for this week
• Maintenance and Security (ashughes)
  • Firefox 3.6.*
    • Released 3.6.26 with unadvertised major update to 10.0, decision to advertise will come after unthrottling 10.0
  • Firefox 10 ESR
    • Released 10.0 (first ESR), 10.1 timeline TBD
  • Sign up for the new Security Triage team if you want to help verify security fixes in the Beta releases

Browser Technologies (Tony)

• (Please fix this section of the template!)
  • Anyone can edit, feel free!
  • Yay! where is the template?

• Issues
• Fennec (AaronMT/KBrosnan)
  • Crash Report:
    • Skia fix in 1/31/2012 (top crash); should be in today's build.
    • Socorro should be fixed to report Java Crashes in a new field today as well
  • Performance :
    • Locale Testing (TBD)
• Sync (Tracy)
• Test pilot (tracy)
• Sync Server (jbonacci/jrgm)
  • Change/Maintenance Windows
    • https://intranet.mozilla.org/Services/Ops/ChangeWindow_20120124
    • https://intranet.mozilla.org/Services/Ops/ChangeWindow_20120125
    • https://intranet.mozilla.org/Services/Ops/ChangeWindow_20120126
    • https://intranet.mozilla.org/Services/Ops/ChangeWindow_20120130
    • https://intranet.mozilla.org/Services/Ops/ChangeWindow_20120201
    • https://intranet.mozilla.org/Services/Ops/ChangeWindow_20120205
  • Focus
    • Upcoming Change/Maintenance windows: Sanity testing of Prod, as needed
    • Upcoming Deployments: Stage and Prod testing, as needed
• BrowserID (jbonacci/jrgm)
  • Current Release: Train 19: Bug 719243 - QA and deploy BrowserID train-2012.01.18 to production
    • This train has been signed off
  • Upcoming Release: Train 20
    • Focus for this release will be on continued test of primary support and initial support for localization
    • First-round language support: en-US and about 39 others (!)
  • Student to help QA this Semester
    • Zak Valteau from Fort Lewis College in CO will be working with us as part of his project requirements for his Open Source Development class.
• Jetpack(?)
• Pancake (nhirata)
  • Pancake Work Week - Next Week
    • More Brainstorming of ideas
  • 2nd Draft of UI Designs are in
  • Pancake Blog Out

WebQA (Stephen)

• AMO
  • Paypal test is merged
  • MPL2 License is merged
  • Marlena helped with apps testing for MWC most of this week.
• Engagement Projects
  • Careers is on hold from one bug, release TBD
• Input
• Mozilla.com
• MDN
• Socorro
• SUMO
  • 1/31 release went out - users are at 25% for Elastic search
  • 2/7 release in process

Community (Marcia)

• Events
  • FOSDEM?
  • MozCamp Latin America
    • Community Invite list has been created and will be sent out on 2/10 by Katherine. Katherine forwarded the list and it will need edits by 2/6.
    • Katherine will send out a request for Participation on the 10th to all paid staff
      • The deadline for employees to complete this Google form is February 24th
      • By March 1st, all employees will be notified if they have been chosen to attend/give a talk/help with on-site logistics
  • Marcia giving a tech talk at Brown University on 2/22
  • Dare2bDigital?
• Upcoming Testdays/BugDays/Meetups
  • Thursday, February 2nd: SUMO Questions Day (rbillings)
  • Friday, February 3rd: Firefox 11b1 (ashughes)
  • Friday, February 10th: OPEN, who wants to take it? contact ashughes
• Video Work
• QMO.next (retornam):
  • Work to replace the video on the front page of QMO?

• Action Plan (ashughes)
  • Burst of activity last week has stopped
  • Good initial discussion, what are the next steps? goals, roadmap?
    • We have had only two meetings so far to discuss community strategy (one with David Boswell and one QA team community meeting)
    • We should develop a roadmap like this https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Goals/Roadmap2012 but one missing piece is the headcount and how much time QA staff can spend on some of these projects.
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/QA_Community/Meetings/2012-01-25#Action_items.2FNotes_from_.2820120125.29_meeting
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Stewards/QA
      • These buckets have been identified as potential focus areas:
        • QMO
        • Events
        • Core Contributors and Active Contributors
        • Existing channels and legacy channels
        • Work with Academia

QA Automation Service (Henrik, David)

• General
• Mozmill

Project updates

Prototype of a Fennec Driver (DavidB)

New Members and Mentors Pages

CI system for daily and l10n Firefox Builds (Henrik)

Selenium Grid (DavidB)

Case Conductor

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