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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 the [https://reps.mozilla.org/people/council Provisional ReMo Council] for having guided the ReMo project, including all of the 270 representatives, for more than a year. More infos [https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2012/07/23/spotlight-on-the-remo-council/ here].


== Upcoming Events ==
== Upcoming Events ==
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=== Monday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}} ===
=== Monday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}} ===
July Privacy Friends Meeting, 1pm PST in SF Boardroom (Vidyo) and Kung Fu


=== Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===
=== Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===
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=== Firefox Desktop ===
=== Firefox Desktop ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: Mountain View (johnath)''
* SocialAPI still moving fast, more to say soon
* Stub Installer is on track for August, and starting to look ''lovely''
* Dig it: <tt>about:config -> plugins.click_to_play</tt>


=== Firefox Mobile ===
=== Firefox Mobile ===
''Speaker Location:''  
''Speaker Location: Mountain View (johnath)''
* Holy crap - [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox_beta Fennec Beta] has (''gorgeous!'') tablet support
* Holy crap, we're also continuing to grow our ARMv6 reach to include Aurora!
* Getting onto the trains, but don't be surprised by some out-of-train maneuvering for the next few releases


=== Thunderbird ===
=== Thunderbird ===
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=== Firefox OS ===
=== Firefox OS ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: Mountain View (Dietrich)''
 
* Feature-complete deadline was on Friday, 7/20. Many UI features and fixes landed, as well as large system parts of Gaia such as Web Activities.
* Platform team landed large pieces of the new permissions model, voicemail APIs, major pan/zoom improvements, and out-of-process support across a bunch of components.
* Members of the Security, Privacy and WebAPI teams met last week in Mountain View to sprint on implementing the permissions and packaging model.
* Members of the Gaia team are in Mountain View from 7/23 - 7/27 to finish some front-end work and sprint on UI polish.


== Speakers ==
== Speakers ==
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!  More Details
!  More Details
|-
|-
| Your Title Here
| Director of Creative
| Your Name Here
| John Slater
| What are you going to talk about?
| Attention Photographers: Firefox OS Needs Your Help!
| Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen
| (no slides)
| Link to where audience can find out more information
| http://www.intothefuzz.com/attention-photographers-firefox-os-needs-your-help/
|-
| It's me again
| John Slater
| One Mozilla style guide
| (no slides)
| tbd
|-
| User Experience Research
| Gregg Lind
| Test Pilot Studies:  Now Free With Every Release!
| http://people.mozilla.com/~glind/all/testpilot_everyrelease.pdf
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776569
|-
|-
| Recruiting
| Michelle Marovich
| We're Hiring!
| http://tinyurl.com/c6ma933
| https://intranet.mozilla.org/Recruiting
|}
|}


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| ''Sid Stamm''
| ''Sid Stamm''
| ''Mountain View''
| ''Mountain View''
| ''Lead Privacy Engineer''
| Giving users control over their data!
|-
|-
| ''Tauni Oxborrow''
| ''Tauni Oxborrow''
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|-
|-
| ''Robert Wood''
| ''Robert Wood''
| ''Clint Talbert''
| ''Malini Das''
| ''Toronto,ON''
| ''Toronto,ON''
| ''Automation Developer Mobile Platform''
| ''Automation Developer Mobile Platform''
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==== WebQA ====
==== WebQA ====
*Affiliates
** [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Websites/Affiliates/Release/2012/7 2012-07-17 small release] to fix a few issues in the admin area
*AMO
** Got rid of Redis -- using memcached directly
*Marketplace
** Got rd of Redis -- using memcached directly
*Input
** Per a meeting this morning with multiple stakeholders, it was decided that James Socol's team will rewrite the app
* Jetpack
* Mozilla.org
** shipped Firefox 14 webpage updates
*Mozillians
** Working on TaskBoard requirements
* MDN
** QA for Kuma launch
*Socorro
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&target_milestone=16&product=Socorro Milestone 16 released] on 2012-07-18
*SUMO
** Continuous deployment, no updates


==== QA Community ====
==== QA Community ====


=== Automation & Tools ===
=== Automation & Tools ===
* Deployment of Bugzilla 4.2 to [[BMO]] being delayed because of issues with search functionality--the magic in some of the advanced searches was removed in 4.2, which actually means that some searches are no longer possible.
** The BMO team is fixing the 4.2 search to allow all the old functionality and make it explicit rather than with some implicit magic.
** HTML mail and a limit on search results are being backported to 4.0 in the mean time.
* xpcshell tests on otoro.
* Three [[Project_Eideticker|Eideticker]] machines set up in Toronto for B2G and Fennec testing.
* Try/infra load has been exceptionally high the last few weeks - please cancel unwanted/busted test runs to reduce the load ([https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.platform/iengKcyD504/discussion dev.platform post]).
* Discussions ongoing about switching off QT & RPM builds. If you have a reason why they shouldn't be - please comment in {{bug|772419}} or [https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.planning/yMwsSHPPkCs/discussion dev.planning] asap.
* The DB for TBPL has been trimmed by a massive 76GB \o/ ({{bug|703967}}).
* More notes [[Auto-tools/Meetings/2012-07-23|here]].


=== Security ===
=== Security ===
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==== PR ====
==== PR ====
[http://www.pcworld.com/article/259567/curious_about_firefox_os_run_it_on_your_desktop.html Curious About Firefox OS? Run It on Your Desktop] <br>
[http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/test-firefox-os-on-a-desktop-computer-with-new-b2g-nightly-builds/ Test Firefox OS on a desktop computer with new B2G nightly builds]
[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/internet-defense-league/ Kapow! The Net Gets a Bat Signal for Fighting Government and Hollywood Bad Guys] <br>
[http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57474176-1/look-in-the-sky-its-a-cat-signal-for-net-freedom/ Look in the sky! It's a 'cat signal' for Net freedom]
[http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57473460-92/google-goes-private-in-new-firefox/ Google goes private in new Firefox]
[http://www.geek.com/articles/news/firefox-14-arrives-with-click-to-play-20120717/ Firefox 14 arrives with click-to-play]
[http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/07/firefox-15-beta-plugs-memory-leaks/ Firefox 15 Beta Plugs Memory Leaks]


==== Events ====
==== Events ====
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== Foundation Updates ==
== Foundation Updates ==
[[Category:Weekly Updates]]
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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, 23 July

July Privacy Friends Meeting, 1pm PST in SF Boardroom (Vidyo) and Kung Fu

Tuesday, 24 July

Wednesday, 25 July

Thursday, 26 July

  • Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific -- a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla
  • Please submit your participation proposals for MozCamp Europe by this Thursday.

Friday, 27 July

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: Mountain View (johnath)

  • SocialAPI still moving fast, more to say soon
  • Stub Installer is on track for August, and starting to look lovely
  • Dig it: about:config -> plugins.click_to_play

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: Mountain View (johnath)

  • Holy crap - Fennec Beta has (gorgeous!) tablet support
  • Holy crap, we're also continuing to grow our ARMv6 reach to include Aurora!
  • Getting onto the trains, but don't be surprised by some out-of-train maneuvering for the next few releases

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location:

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Mountain View (Dietrich)

  • Feature-complete deadline was on Friday, 7/20. Many UI features and fixes landed, as well as large system parts of Gaia such as Web Activities.
  • Platform team landed large pieces of the new permissions model, voicemail APIs, major pan/zoom improvements, and out-of-process support across a bunch of components.
  • Members of the Security, Privacy and WebAPI teams met last week in Mountain View to sprint on implementing the permissions and packaging model.
  • Members of the Gaia team are in Mountain View from 7/23 - 7/27 to finish some front-end work and sprint on UI polish.

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
Director of Creative John Slater Attention Photographers: Firefox OS Needs Your Help! (no slides) http://www.intothefuzz.com/attention-photographers-firefox-os-needs-your-help/
It's me again John Slater One Mozilla style guide (no slides) tbd
User Experience Research Gregg Lind Test Pilot Studies: Now Free With Every Release! http://people.mozilla.com/~glind/all/testpilot_everyrelease.pdf https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776569
Recruiting Michelle Marovich We're Hiring! http://tinyurl.com/c6ma933 https://intranet.mozilla.org/Recruiting

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?
Monica Chew Sid Stamm Mountain View Giving users control over their data!
Tauni Oxborrow Ben Adida Mountain View Project Manager, Identity
Paul Sawaya Ben Adida Mountain View Software Engineer
David Scravaglieri Faramarz Rashed Mountain View Engineering Manager
Robert Wood Malini Das Toronto,ON Automation Developer Mobile Platform

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

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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

  • Affiliates
  • AMO
    • Got rid of Redis -- using memcached directly
  • Marketplace
    • Got rd of Redis -- using memcached directly
  • Input
    • Per a meeting this morning with multiple stakeholders, it was decided that James Socol's team will rewrite the app
  • Jetpack
  • Mozilla.org
    • shipped Firefox 14 webpage updates
  • Mozillians
    • Working on TaskBoard requirements
  • MDN
    • QA for Kuma launch
  • Socorro
  • SUMO
    • Continuous deployment, no updates

QA Community

Automation & Tools

  • Deployment of Bugzilla 4.2 to BMO being delayed because of issues with search functionality--the magic in some of the advanced searches was removed in 4.2, which actually means that some searches are no longer possible.
    • The BMO team is fixing the 4.2 search to allow all the old functionality and make it explicit rather than with some implicit magic.
    • HTML mail and a limit on search results are being backported to 4.0 in the mean time.
  • xpcshell tests on otoro.
  • Three Eideticker machines set up in Toronto for B2G and Fennec testing.
  • Try/infra load has been exceptionally high the last few weeks - please cancel unwanted/busted test runs to reduce the load (dev.platform post).
  • Discussions ongoing about switching off QT & RPM builds. If you have a reason why they shouldn't be - please comment in bug 772419 or dev.planning asap.
  • The DB for TBPL has been trimmed by a massive 76GB \o/ (bug 703967).
  • More notes here.

Security

Engagement

PR

Curious About Firefox OS? Run It on Your Desktop
Test Firefox OS on a desktop computer with new B2G nightly builds

Kapow! The Net Gets a Bat Signal for Fighting Government and Hollywood Bad Guys
Look in the sky! It's a 'cat signal' for Net freedom

Google goes private in new Firefox Firefox 14 arrives with click-to-play

Firefox 15 Beta Plugs Memory Leaks

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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