WeeklyUpdates/2011-10-03
Video for today's meeting
Friends of the Tree 
- The entire Softvision team in Romania for helping QA qualify every Firefox release this quarter and their continued participation in every testday. They have enabled quick turnaround on releases/chemspills, and enabled us to extend typical testday hours from 8 hours to 20 hours -- they make 'awesome' possible. (ashughes)
- Amy Rich and Chris Cooper for keeping the Thunderbird releng infrastructure online during a difficult move to a new data center (John O'Duinn)
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, October 3
Tuesday, October 4
Wednesday, October 5
Thursday, October 6
- Brownbag at 12:30pm pacific: Agile coach Elisabeth Hendrickson will give her presentation "Lessons Learned from 100+ (simulated) Agile Transitions"
Friday, October 7
- (QA) Firefox for Android testday focusing on performance and the new tablet UI
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox Future (8, 9, 10)
Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0-7.0)
Mobile Firefox
Thunderbird
Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.
Older Branch Work
Drumbeat
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.
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
- Test Execution
- WebQA
- AMO 6.2.5 push
- SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-09-27
- Socorro 2.2.4, and a small security fix
- Mozilla.org Firefox 7 push
- QA Community
- Automation Services
Automation & Tools
Security
Security Reviews Scheduled for this week
| Presenter | Topic | Media | More Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aakash Desai | Mozillians.org 1.0 | Mozillians.org site | Mozillians Project Wiki |
| Michael Coates | Mozilla Web Bounty Update | Web Bounty Presentation | Mozilla Bounty Program Details |
| Date / Time | Item |
|---|---|
| Mon Oct 3 / 13:00 PST | Graphite Font Shaping 631479 |
| Mon Oct 3 / 15:00 PST | Full Screen API |
| Tue Oct 4 / 10:00 PST | XHR rewrites non-POST methods upon 301/302 redirects 598304, 676059, 676829 |
| Wed Oct 5 / 13:00 PST | Expose Add-On Performance |
| Thu Oct 6 / 10:00 AM PST | Safe Browsing Backend - Mobile |
Engagement
PR
- Firefox 7 arrives with reduced memory footprint
- Mozilla puts Firefox 7 on memory diet, patches 11 bugs
- Seven Good Reasons to Upgrade to Firefox 7
- Speedier Firefox 7 Uses Less Memory
- Firefox 8 beta brings Twitter search, tab controls
- Firefox 8.0 beta released, brings Twitter search, tab animations and more
Events
Creative Team
Community Marketing
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
Introducing New Hires
- Rail Aliiev: joining the Build & Release team, managed by Chris Atlee, located in the Toronto office.
- Michael Bebenita: joining the Research Engineering team, managed by Andreas Gal, located in the Mtn. View Office.
- Martin Best: joining the Engineering team, managed by Sheila Mooney, located in the Toronto office.
- Kartikaya Gupta: joining the Platform Engineering team, managed by Brad Lassey, located in the Toronto Office.
- John Jensen: joining the Market Insights team, managed by Patrick Finch, located in the Vancouver office.
- Nicholas Matsakis: joining the Java Script team, managed by Dave Mandelin, located in the Mtn. View office.
- Victor Ng: joining the Services team, managed by Mike Connor, located in Newmarket, ON.
- Gregor Wagner: joining the Content team, managed by Johnny Stenback, located in the Mtn. View office.
- Jeff Beatty: joining the l10n team, managed by Axel Hecht, working remotely in Utah.