Program Management/Weekly-Status-Reports/2012-08-14

Agenda

• PM offsite
  • Floated with Ashley
  • Speaking with Damon tomorrow
• B2G dashboards/burndown
  • Martin getting the review queues up and running.
  • Dietrich - using our fix rate of blockers, can we come up with some course projections for completion.
  • Worried about expectation management.
  • Take 2 slices of what we have right now and look at the trend.
  • The current scope of work doesn't include bug fixing.
  • Michael will need some help on the stoplight chart - Dietrich made some updates to the formula.
  • Martin/Lawrence - setup a meeting to discuss the prediction stuff.
• Adding something personal to these meetings
• Marketplace issue tracking
  • Using bugzilla but not tagging stuff as blocking specifically.
  • Who is managing triage? Wil and Krupa.
  • Caitlin will look into getting a list of blockers.

Lawrence

• Mobile Web compat
  • Preliminary results of aliasing Webkit CSS properties in Gecko analysis
  • Google is now serving better mobile content to Fennec
  • Still lots of discussion about B2G UA
  • Updated arewecompatibleyet.com report to include JS frameworks
  • Good progress on A-Team automation tool
• Snappy
  • Work week tentatively scheduled for Sept 10-14
• Telemetry
  • Focused on validation and back end functionality
• MozCamp EU
  • Acceptances sent out, working with presenters on content
  • My session Opening Up the Mobile Web for Firefox has been accepted

Martin

• Caught up on my huge email back log after vacation (2 days).
  • Met with Lawrence to figure out best path forward on Dashboard work.
• Created Dashboard for tracking current review queue size.
  • Available at https://metrics.mozilla.com/bugzilla-analysis/Review-Total_Open_Over_Time.html
• Synced up with Erin on Android about current work being done via the games team on focused on Firefox Android.
  • Driving investigation into compressed textures on mobile, making sure that the hardware support is being confirmed.
• Started outreach to game developers in advance of Fx15 release.
• Worked with Alon and Gregor to get BananaBread demos to shippable state, we are now code and content complete although minor tweaks are still in the works.
• Worked with Bobby Richter on BananaBread website.
• Worked with Alon to setup video for BananaBread demo as a fall back for those that can't support it.
• Worked with Ehsan to correct remaining bugs in Damon's special port project, yes I actually was deep in the code figuring out what was going wrong and we did and that is now ready to present to the partner!
• Worked with Marketing to figure out the FX15 release and how to advertise the BananaBread demo.
  • Notes on what is being done can be found here: https://games.etherpad.mozilla.org/44

Michael

• Weekly status reports picked up a new section - Release engineering. This week will add Legal and maybe Schedule.
• Changing the name from 'B2G' to 'FireFox OS' since the status covers the entire FireFox OS eco system.
• FireFox OS Phone order status is tracked here: https://intranet.mozilla.org/Program_Management/B2G/Device_Status - 80 ZTE phones were shipped from Shenzhen Monday.
• Working on a consolidated TEF / Mozilla status report based on the 'StopLight Status' tab in the B2G Milestone 5 Plan
• Waiting for Brazil visa

Sheila

• Social API
  • Many pieces landed in Fx16 but more work ongoing for Fx17.
  • Chat window is the big item for Fx17.
  • Starting to test out MoTown.
• PM offsite
  • Planning and approval.
• Stability
  • Working on a regular crash newsletter.
  • Jump start crash triage.
  • Talking with metrics about crash trending.
• Admin stuff
  • Reviews/Hiring