WeeklyUpdates/2013-05-06

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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

• Gloria Meneses in Bogotá, CO, for her work & leadership in Mozilla Reps & her support of the FxOS launch in Colombia
• Sammy Tuman, our awesome Mountain View Shipping Wizard.

Upcoming Events

This Week

• Security Assurance team meet up in San Francisco office this week. Please stop by and say hello. "Open house" & demos on Thursday 2pm (SF 7th floor) w/ cupcakes & cookies!

Thursday, 09 May

• 2pm - San Francisco - 7th Floor: Meet the security assurance team, watch demos of tools & techniques, FAQ and discussion. Cookies & cupcakes will be provided. Open to all.
• 5:30pm - San Francisco - 7th Floor: we're hosting a patent reform party at Mozilla SF with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. More Info

Next Week

• 5/13, 5:30-7:30 PM >> SF Book Salon & Wine Reception for Susan Crawford. A decade ago, the US led the world in fast, cheap Internet. What happened? More info: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Captive-Audience-Book-Salon Signed books for those who arrive early!

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Mozilla Firefox pulls ahead of Google as Chrome market share slips
  • IE10 doubles marketshare as Firefox gains and Chrome loses

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Release is now four and a half stars!
  • I wrote a thing about the road to get here
• I thought I told you that we won't stop
  • Lucas and Ian each wrote about the UX hackathon last week, it's chock full o' delicious.
  • New tab counter, tab tray transition, tab increment animation
  • URL display in location bar
  • Dominant-colour backgrounding for favicons
  • Still setting records on stability

Thunderbird

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Older Branch Work

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Webmaker

Speaker Location: Ryan Merkley, Vancouver

Sunday is Mother's Day! Why not send Mom a hand-crafted web page to show her how much you care? Mozilla makes a tool that makes it easy to tell mom you love her -- Webmaker! We're working on a prototype this week that will help people make a page for Mom -- and learn a little HTML and CSS along the way. We'll share a sneak peek in today's lightning presentation from Jacob Caggiano.

• See Jacob's example
• Use this early Thimble prototype to make your own (more polished version coming later this week)
• Other ways to get involved with Webmaker this week:

1. Sign up for Maker Party 2013. Or invite your Mom! :) June 15 - Sep 15. Get together at thousands of big and small webmaking events around the world.
2. Join our new "Teach the Web" open online course. Boot camp for Maker Party. Growing a small army to teach the web: programmer mentors, techie grandmas, teachers, novelists, girl scout hackers and you. Meet them and check out highlights here.
3. 8 other fun ways to get involved with Webmaker this week.

Identity

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Services

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Firefox OS

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• 1.0.1: In certification testing with OEMs, trying to fix bugs turned up by that process as quickly as possible.
• 1.1.0: Entering first phase of chipset vendor testing next week, so focus there is getting any regressions and new features cleaned up before it begins.
  • MMS Workweek in Portland ongoing this week.
• Geeksphones seem to be flying off the virtual shelves as fast as they can restock them.

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

Help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:

• November 14, 2000: Netscape 6 released based on open source code

60 Seconds with Mozilla IT

Speaker Location: mrz in SF (on the couch)

• Mozilla IT, a Rubik's Cube & a classroom (and a video).

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. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week.

Presenter	Title	Topic	Location	Share?	Media	More Details
Who Are You?	What Do You Do?	What are you going to talk about?	Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space)	Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, other info)	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information
Diane Bisgeier	Program Manager, WebFWD	How you can get a WebFWD tshirt and hopefully MESSENGER BAG	Mozilla San Francisco	No screen share - just showing off the schwag you can get if you refer a team to our next class.	Here's the messenger bag :) > https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=361822707265407&set=pb.218655251582154.-2207520000.1367814592.&type=3&theater	Details on WebFWD at http://webfwd.org
Jacob Caggiano	Lead Makesmith, Webmaker.org	Our simple template for making your Mom proud on Mother's Day	My Aunt's apartment, New York, NY	Yes, screenshare indeed.	https://thimble.webmaker.org/p/lrxw/edit
Mike Morgan	Director, Web Development	Manager Hacking Session 2 in SF	Mountain View	No	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Manager_Hacking
Dia Bondi (IRC thejudge)	Head of Knowledge Cultivation	Capture Mozilla is Air.Mozilla too! + Badges	San Francisco	No	https://air.mozilla.org/channels/culture_and_context/ https://badges.mozilla.org/en-US/

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Who is the new hire?	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	Where will the new person be working from?	What will the new person be working on?
Meadhbh Hamrick	Sid Stamm	Mountain View	Mountain View	Security Engineer
Jannis Leidel	Laura Thomson	Mountain View	Germany	Web Developer
Justin O'Kelly	Mike Manning	Mountain View	San Francisco	Managing press relations and media strategy
Jason Weathersby	Mark Coggins	San Francisco	Inman, SC	Firefox OS Technical Evangelist
Marcos Cáceres	Andrew Overholt	San Francisco	Lisbon, Portugal	Platform API Designer/Engineer
Shyam Mani	mrz	San Francisco	Mountain View	IT Developer Services

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Who is the new intern?	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	Where will the new person be working from?	What will the new person be working on?

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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)

QA

WebQA

• Engagement
  • New ReMo release with some new features like events display, and auto-filtering on user's interests + bug fixes
  • New Flicks release with Early Award winner posted, plus winners, partners and awards pages added.
• Firefox OS
  • keep up-to-date with all the latest in a nice, digestible format, here:
    • https://github.com/mozilla/gaia-ui-tests/pulse
  • have Unagi commercial-RIL builds in our CI, with runs against them
  • apart from an annoying "ding"-on-notification issues (each restart), they look good
  • now we can troubleshoot the modem issue
  • Inaris requested from ServiceNow
  • have an engineering build on 1.0.1 for them
  • will soon set up a download job and run against them
  • 3 new tests (Marketplace, Settings)
  • Some good coverage re-enabled as devs repaired regressions
  • Full-steam ahead on Payments testing although no significant coverage in place yet
  • Dave Hunt made good gain in reliability by configuring device state before the testrun
  • mbrandt 1.1 manual testing and testcase creation
• Marketplace
  • Work continues on automating the app installation and payments flow using Marionette
• Mozillians
  • Several issues with the dev cluster - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=864422
  • Near continuous deployment - small bug fixes, multiple releases over the last week
  • Team is actively scoping the UI refresh work that will be accomplished this quarter. UI Mockups forthcoming in the next few weeks.
• Mozilla.com
• MDN
• Socorro
  • Milestone 43 successfully released on 04.24.2013

Automation & Tools

• New, less noisy metrics available from Autophone, measuring Firefox startup on real Android phones
• Working on getting gaia UI tests into parity with gecko tests, and so we have Gaia UI tests live on Cedar (look for U's)
• Stabilizing automated tests for x86 Android Firefox builds using emulators going well. Reftests work out of the box, hoping to have mochitests done soon. See bug 828571 for details.
• More Eideticker-with-camera work going on behind the scenes. Full dashboard support will arrive soon.
• More News here