QA/StaffMeetings/QA-Staff-08-27-2014

Mozilla QA Meeting August 27, 2014 (Video Replay)

# Every Weds @ 1:30p Pacific Time - Mozilla HQ, Room: QA
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# Phone:  +1 650 903 0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 9245 (US/INTL)
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# IRC:    irc://irc.mozilla.org:6697/#qa

Discussion Zone

• The Aurora Experiment:
  • Try to get more users on Aurora doing exploratory testing
  • We will try directing people to specific one and done areas for testing specific features each week.
  • We will measure the number of folks that get involved and report back.
  • This could be replicateable to other areas...
• The QA wiki Restructure sounds like a go...
• New QA template
  • would suggest having an Upcoming Events section as a reminder for Bug Bashes, http://weekendtesting.com/archives/3717etc [marcia]
• [mbrandt] Web QA tea time signup -- https://etherpad.mozilla.org/WebQA-1-on-1
• [mbrandt] Moztrap update -- resource constrained for Q3
  • Pivotal tracker https://www.pivotaltracker.com/s/projects/280483
  • Meta tracker bug - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=993695
  • FxOS backlog - http://mzl.la/1piDNvR

Updates, Milestones, Deadlines (2min each call to action)

• [TAKE ACTION] Please help test E10S on Nightly: flip the "browser.tabs.remote.autostart" pref to true and restart Nightly For more information contact: juanb
• [FYI] We rolled out a new Marketplace with version 1 of Feed, our new discovery mechanism
  • https://marketplace.firefox.com/ - it looks great! [stephend]
• [TAKE ACTION] Please add tasks to one and done for Aurora features For more information contact: lizzard (for 34), tag them with "aurora" keyword.
  • https://oneanddone.mozilla.org/en-US/tasks/available/?keyword=aurora
• [FYI] 2.1 merging to Aurora on next Tuesday - see https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Roadmap#Key_2.1_Focus_Areas for features in the release

• Samples:
  • A call to action: [TAKE ACTION] <Information> For more information contact: <Contact Person>
  • A notice of information (will be read only so make it complete, but don't write a novel): [FYI] <Information>

Community

• QA Champions
  • Notes from Last meeting
  • Link above has some of the discussion relating to the postponement of the community events for the rest of this year.
    • More info here as well: https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2014/08/20/quality-and-impact-and-the-future-of-the-grow-program/

• QMO Redesign
  • Last meeting Tiger Team Meeting Aug 21, 2014
  • Look for Documentation sprints on Friday mornings + afternoons in order to transfer Docs from QMO to MDN, in which QA will have its own zone
  • Documentation Plan of Chris Mills of MDN
  • tracking/meta bug 1054344 for this project
  • Main Tracking wiki

• One and Done(readonly)
  • New tests added for Aurora (by Francesca)
  • good progress on task importing from bugzilla

• Baloo (readonly)
  • Waiting on Pierros to add one and done schema bug 1049696
• Grow Mozilla Meeting
  • Notes from 8-21 meeting
  • Next meeting is 9-4

Contributor Spotlight

These are new contributors, if you see them around, say hello

• sylvanica , amitverma12, & tessie are pretty new & have been submitting PRs in WebQA repo's

Contributor Honor Roll

For those that went above and beyond this week, we salute you here.

• sylvanica fixed our wiki tests (due to the recent theme update): https://github.com/mozilla/wiki-tests/pull/60 - awesome! - [stephend]
  • he's also now helping resurrect mdn-tests coverage
• Francesca's last week as an intern! Thank you for all your work on bug verification, One and Done, and community & test days! Hope you will stick around MadameZou :)
• Johan's last week as an intern!

Quarter Goals

• Monthly Review: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Goals/2014q3
  • In-meeting review first meeting of every month

For Further Information

All of these meetings listed below are open to the public. You're encouraged to join.

Firefox QE

• Who we are: Individuals focused on Firefox Desktop, Firefox Android, and Gecko Platform Quality
• Meetings held weekly on Wednesdays at 8:30AM Pacific Time
• To Join:
  • Vidyo:
    • Room: QA-Desktop
    • Vidyo Guest URL
  • Phone (use any of these):
    • 1-650-903-0800 or 1-650-215-1282 US/INTL
    • 1-800-707-2533 Toll Free US/Skype
    • If using a 650 number, use Extension: 92
    • If using the 1-800 number, use PIN: 369
    • Conference Number: 99779
• Meeting Notes Archive
• Next Agenda: No published agenda

Firefox OS

• Who we are: Individuals focused on Firefox OS Quality
• Meetings held weekly on Wednesdays at 5:00PM Pacific Time
• To Join:
  • Vidyo
    • Room: QA Vidyo Room (same as this meeting)
    • Guest URL
  • Phone (use any of these):
    • 1-650-903-0800 or 1-650-215-1282 US/INTL
    • 1-800-707-2533 Toll Free US/Skype
    • If using a 650 number, use Extension: 92
    • If using the 1-800 number, use PIN: 369
    • Conference Number: 9245
  • IRC: irc://irc.mozilla.org:6697/#fxosqa
• Meeting Notes Archive
• Next Agenda

Services QA

• Who we are: Individuals focused on Quality of the services that power features of all products
• Meetings held weekly on Mondays at 3:30PM Pacfic Time
• To Join:
  • Vidyo
    • Room: QA (same as this meeting)
    • Guest URL
  • Phone (use any of these):
    • 1-650-903-0800 or 1-650-215-1282 US/INTL
    • 1-800-707-2533 Toll Free US/Skype
    • If using a 650 number, use Extension: 92
    • If using the 1-800 number, use PIN: 369
    • Conference Number: 9245
  • IRC: irc://irc.mozilla.org:6697/#qa
• Meeting Notes Archive: No archive
• Next Agenda: No published agenda

Web QA

• Who we are: Individuals focused on maintaining the Quality of Mozilla's web properties, and improving the core QA websites we all use.
• Meetings held weekly on Thursdays at 9:00AM Pacific Time
• To Join:
  • Vidyo
    • Room: Stephen Donner
    • Guest URL
  • Phone (use any of these):
    • 1-650-903-0800 or 1-650-215-1282 US/INTL
    • 1-800-707-2533 Toll Free US/Skype
    • If using a 650 number, use Extension: 92
    • If using the 1-800 number, use PIN: 369
    • Conference Number: 9303
  • IRC: irc://irc.mozilla.org:6697/#mozwebqa
• Meeting Notes Archive
• Next Agenda: No published Agenda

Platform QA

• Who we are: Individuals focused on investigating and increasing Quality in the Gecko platform that underlies all our products
• Meetings
  • This team runs in two week sprints, so the meetings are a combination of planning and standups. First time contributors to this team are encouraged to attend the next sprint planning meeting.
  • Sprint Planning every other Tuesdays 1:00PM-2:00PM Pacific
  • Sprint Standups every other Tuesday 1:30PM-2:00PM Pacific PDT and every Friday 10:00AM-10:30AM Pacific
• To Join:
  • Vidyo
    • Room: Platform-QA
    • Guest URL: <TBD>
  • Phone:
    • 1-650-903-0800 or 1-650-215-1282 US/INTL
    • 1-800-707-2533 Toll Free US/Skype
    • If using a 650 number, use Extension: 92
    • If using the 1-800 number, use PIN: 369
    • Conference Number: 98613
  • IRC: irc://irc.mozilla.org:6697/#qa
• Instead of agenda, follow along on the Pivotal Tracker board

Community Champions

• Who we are: Individuals from every aspect of QA focused on improving all aspects of our community involvement
• Meetings held every other Friday 1:00PM Pacific
• To Join:
  • Vidyo
    • Room: Marcia Knous
    • Guest URL
  • Phone:
    • 1-650-903-0800 or 1-650-215-1282 US/INTL
    • 1-800-707-2533 Toll Free US/Skype
    • If using a 650 number, use Extension: 92
    • If using the 1-800 number, use PIN: 369
    • Conference Number: 9214
• Meeting Notes Archive
• Next Agenda: No Published Agenda

Crashkill

• Who we are: Individuals focused on monitoring and ensuring that reported crashes in our products get addressed
• Meetings held weekly on Mondays at 10:00AM Pacific
• To Join:
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    • Room: Stability
    • Guest URL
  • Phone:
    • 1-650-903-0800 or 1-650-215-1282 US/INTL
    • 1-800-707-2533 Toll Free US/Skype
    • If using a 650 number, use Extension: 92
    • If using the 1-800 number, use PIN: 369
    • Conference Number: 98200
  • IRC: irc://irc.mozilla.org:6697/#crashkill
• Meeting Notes Archive
• Next Agenda: No Published Agenda

Travel / PTO

• kthiessen out from Mon 2014-09-15 through Fri 2014-09-19.
• jsmith out 2nd half of the day on August 29th, 2014
• stephend out from August 28th - September 5th
• mschifer out Aug 29th - Sept 2nd.

Action Items

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