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== Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] ==
== Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] ==
* Everyone who participated in the AMO Automation Test Day, including: Yusuf Moshinally, Feelback, Chris McMahon, Alex Lakatos,  Teodosia Pop, Florin Strugariu, Vlad Maniac and the rest of the WebQA team.


== Upcoming Events ==
== Upcoming Events ==
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=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
* Yvan Boily presents CEF Logging Brownbag
** 12 noon Pacific
** CEF logging for applications deployed by Mozilla.
* Interns Show & Tell
** 1pm Pacific


=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
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** Approx 75 security experts attending
** Approx 75 security experts attending
** Talks on Enabling Browser Security in Web Applications & BlackHat SEO Spam
** Talks on Enabling Browser Security in Web Applications & BlackHat SEO Spam
* Interns Show & Tell
** 1pm Pacific


=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
* QA is organizing a Firefox 7 Beta testday
** we need help testing the newly minted Beta and triaging UNCONFIRMED graphics bugs (link posted soon)
* Interns Show & Tell
** 1pm Pacific


=== Next Week ===
=== Next Week ===
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=== Firefox Future (7, 8, 9) ===
=== Firefox Future (7, 8, 9) ===
* Migration week happened without significant incident last week
* Beta users are now running v7, Aurora users are now running v8, Nightly is now v9


=== Firefox Current (3.6, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0) ===
=== Firefox Current (3.6, 6.0) ===
* We released Firefox 6 last week!
** These trains run on time.


=== Mobile Firefox ===
=== Mobile Firefox ===


=== Thunderbird ===
=== Thunderbird ===
* We released Thunderbird 6, and 3.1.12!
* The first beta of Thunderbird 7 should be out this week.


=== Older Branch Work ===
=== Older Branch Work ===


=== Drumbeat ===
=== Drumbeat ===
* No update this week.


== Speakers ==
== 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.
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.  


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| What are you going to talk about?
| Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen
| Link to where audience can find out more information
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| SEO At Mozilla
|
Laura Forrest
Anurag Phadke<br>
| SEO@Mozilla Group
| [http://youtu.be/dLr7d0jsU3Y Intro Video] &nbsp;
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https://wiki.mozilla.org/SEO
Next Meeting:&nbsp;Tomorrow at 9:30 AM PST
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==== Test Execution ====
==== Test Execution ====
* Firefox 3.6.20, 6.0, and 7.0b1 released last week
* Firefox 8 and 9 merged into Aurora and Nightly, respectively
* Email [mailto:ahughes@mozilla.com Anthony Hughes] if you want to help out with testing Firefox 7, 8, or 9
** Firefox/Platform developers should email me too if you have bug fixes which are untested and not tracked in feature pages
** You can also ping me (ashughes) on IRC in #qa


==== WebQA ====
==== WebQA ====
* Thanks to all who participated and made Friday's [http://quality.mozilla.org/qmo-news/2011/08/22/amo-automation-testday-results/ AMO Automation testday] a great success!
* Mozilla.com [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664012 3.6 release]
* MDN [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677995 0.9.9.1]
* SUMO [http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-08-16 2011-08-16 release]
* AMO [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679511 6.2]


==== QA Community ====
==== QA Community ====
* New newsletter started on [http://quality.mozilla.org/qmo-news/2011/08/20/aboutquality-first-edition/ QMO]
** evangelize what is going on and how people can get involved in testing
** expect it every 2 weeks starting Monday, August 29th


==== Automation Services ====
==== Automation Services ====
* Blog posts:
** [http://blargon7.com/2011/08/goodbye-micro-iterations-hello-entities/ Endurance tests have entities instead of micro-iterations now]
** [http://www.hskupin.info/2011/08/22/mozmill-1-5-4-has-been-released/ Mozmill 1.5.4 has been released]


=== Automation & Tools ===
=== Automation & Tools ===
* Jonathan Eads (jeads) is joining the A-team!  Welcome!
* [http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/gofaster/# GoFaster Dashboards are live]
** Use these to keep track of how long our end to end checkin to test result time takes.
* Bugzilla inline history will be in BMO this week (uplifted from the bugzilla tweaks addon)
* Changes to fix {{bug|662936}} (Fennec silently fails while running talos) have landed, should see more reliability in Fennec Talos as a result - many thanks to everyone on the broad effort to figure this one out
* Other notes can be [[Auto-tools/Meetings/2011-08-22|found here]]


=== Security ===
=== Security ===
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==== PR ====
==== PR ====
[https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2011-08-22 First Firefox 7 Beta Promises Dramatically Lower Memory Use]
[http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219321/Firefox_7_reaches_beta_promises_faster_browsing Firefox 7 reaches beta, promises faster browsing]
[http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20093511-501465.html Mozilla Firefox 6, what people are saying]
[http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20093070-12/new-firefox-6-belies-rapid-release-complaints/ New Firefox 6 belies rapid-release complaints]
[http://9to5mac.com/2011/08/19/mozilla-wants-web-apps-to-compete-with-native-ios-apps/ Mozilla wants web apps to compete with native iOS apps]


==== Events ====
==== Events ====
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* Vivien Jin: Joining the College Recruiting team, managed by Julie Deroche, located in Mtn. View.
* Vivien Jin: Joining the College Recruiting team, managed by Julie Deroche, located in Mtn. View.
* Sylvie Brossard: Joining the People department, managed by Debbie Cohn, located in Mtn. View.
* Sylvie Brossard: Joining the People department(Director, Total Rewards), managed by Debbie Cohen, located in Mtn. View.
* Diane Branson: Joining the People department(Director, Learning & Development), managed by Debbie Cohen, remote but visiting Mtn. View regularly.
* Jonathan Eads: Joining the Dev Tools & Automation team, managed by Clint Talbert, located in San Diego, CA.
* Jonathan Eads: Joining the Dev Tools & Automation team, managed by Clint Talbert, located in San Diego, CA.
* Sriram Ramasubramanian: Joining the Firefox team, managed by Mark Finkle, located in Mtn. View.
* Sriram Ramasubramanian: Joining the Firefox team, managed by Mark Finkle, located in Mtn. View.
* Shirine Mitchell, joining the Products team (EA to Jay and the team), located in San Francisco


== Introducing New Interns ==
== Introducing New Interns ==


Doug Sherk - Platform
* Doug Sherk - Platform


== Foundation Updates ==
== Foundation Updates ==


== Roundtable ==
== Roundtable ==
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