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= Roundtable =
* Welcome to William Lachance!
* Mdas gets awarded the "least time spent as the newbie on the team".

* New Quarter, New Template
* [[Auto-tools/Projects|Keep the Project Page Up To Date]]

* New Projects:
** Overseeing DXR
** Developing Test Harness for Rust

* Highlights:
** Grafx Bot is being retired
** Crossweave 2 is completed
** Autolog 1.0 is released
** Tp 5 is done
** War on Orange has been expanded over the last quarter
** In the MozBase area, MozProcess and MozManifest have been released.  MozInfo was deployed.
** Developers are helping with Special Powers, there is a good bit of work outside our team

* Lowlights:

= Goals =
* Work with release engineering to reduce overall end-to-end time from push to test result to an average of 2 hours. 
* Ensure all harnesses and tests are E10S ready
* Improve performance testing by finalizing user-activated addons performance system, xperf-enabled performance testing, and automating a user responsiveness performance test.

=== Automation ===
* '''Go Faster (P1)''' - ''jgriffin, ted, mdas, bc, ctalbert''
** Met last week to get a handle on strategy
** Need to take the review from ted
** ''' Go Faster Dashboards ''' - ''harth, samliu''
*** Started preliminary work
*** Looking into using webux

* '''Mobile Support (P1)''' - ''jmaher, bmoss, ctalbert''
** Had big meeting last week with devs
** Big push to get developers to test on their devices
** devicemanagerADB needs to work 
** landed make mochitestremote
** almost ready to land make reftestremote
** Removing sharedID requirement - should be landing this week.
** '''Tegra Pool Automation''' - ''jhammel, ??''
*** Not started

* '''Bug Hunter (P1)''' - ''bc''
** qm-xserve06 is down again - been ping ponging quite a bit
** working on getting the unittest machines up
** setting up sm-valgrind linux box and purify box.
** '''Bug Hunter UI''' - ''mcote, bc''
*** No updates.

* '''Mozmill 2.0/1.5.x (P1)''' - ''jhammel, harth, ctalbert''
** Getting down to just a few bugs. 
** Most should be done this week
** '''Mozmill E10S''' - ''jhammel''
*** Not started 

* '''Crossweave 2''' - ''jgriffin''
** Finished
** Still needs docs
** Looking into supporting Fennec for Crossweave.next

=== Performance ===
* '''Talos/User Responsiveness (P1)''' - ''anode, ted''
** Nailing down requirements with developers - issues getting concrete info from them
** Combination of ted's internal tool + alice's tool to fire events + changes to talos to tie it together
** Alice to follow up this week.

* '''Talos/Addon Testing Service (P1)''' - ''anode''
** Still creeping forward, bugs are up to date.
** have the VM it's up and running, but it's too restrictive to do any configuration on it - waiting on IT to open up the network for it.
** Will be following up this week.
** Vista machines are blocked waiting on activation keys - still haven't seen any movement from Releng on it.

* '''Talos/Xperf (P2)''' - ''jmaher''
** Running the patches in talos staging - found a handful of staging issues 
** Got a successful staging run, now need to add in the buildbot configs to add in the new test type
** Should be able to land this week

* '''SpeedTests (P2) ''' - ''mcote''
** Moved tests to internal server.  Results are stable again.  Will be blogging this week and giving a lightning talk.

* '''Eideticker (P2) ''' - ''mcote''
** Installed card, basic functionality under Linux. Need to experiment with ffpmeg or the like.
** Realized phone cannot normally do HDMI mirroring.  Need to look into rooting phone and installing a special app.

=== Web Tools ===
* '''War on Orange/Auto-log (P1)''' - ''jgriffin, mcote''
** Autolog 1.0 completed

* '''Bugzilla Improvements (P1)''' - ''dkl, glob''
** working on rolling a derivative of bugzilla tweaks' inline history to bmo
** working on making the UI for tracking flags slightly more manageable
** REST API extension undergoing first review
** Working with QMO team to add some API calls to Bugzilla for retrieving bug stats
** Taken on bug/task related to reorganizing localization products/components on BMO

* '''Regression Hunter (P1)''' - ''harth, samliu''
** Finished building the "commitbuilder" which is the building piece of it.
** It takes a script which is a custom python function that you could use to wrap any test.
** Jruderman is using it already

=== Tool Infrastructure ===
* '''SpecialPowers (P1)''' - ''jmaher, ted''
** Turned on for mochitest chrome and mochitest browser-chrome
*** this opens floodgates for developers to get busy fixing tests
** Mochitest logging should land this week

* '''MozBase (P2)''' - ''jmaher, jhammel, ted''
** Several of the pieces are now part of mozilla central - mozinfo/writemozinfo/manifest destiny.  They are functioning well.
** Started talking with bear and aki about what to do to make a clean integration into mozharness.  
*** going to put some stuff together to put a dummy harness together to start the browser and spit some logs out.
** jhammel wrote carton - a way to take a bunch of python packages and move them around.  It's essentially movable virtualenvs.
* '''Web UX Platform (P2)''' - ''mcote, harth''
** Should be finishing up package this week and helping samliu use it.