WeeklyUpdates/2012-04-30

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  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
  • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of the Tree

• Belated shout-out to James Socol for his work on helping Air Mozilla stream MozCamp LATAM for registered Mozillians! (We gave James very little notice, like hours.)
• Thanks to the splendid volunteers who contributed during this weekend's MDN Doc Sprint: Cory Gackenheimer, Michael Beckwith, Anastasia Cheetham, Frederic Bourgeon, David Bruant, Jeremie Patonnier, Kevin Lim, Kathy Walrath, and Christian Sonne. Thanks also to Jeff Walden for working on SpiderMonkey docs!

Upcoming Events

Monday, 30 April

Privacy Friends Meeting, 1pm in San Francisco (7N) and Mountain View (Kung Fu) - Vidyo in to 7N. Contact Stacy Martin for more info.

Tuesday, 01 May

• Thor Muller, Author of "Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You" will be talking about his book.
  
  • noon-1pm PT 10FWD and air mozilla

Thursday, 03 May

• Grow Mozilla meeting at 10 pacific - a forum to discuss ideas and ask questions about community building.
• Steve Portigal - Rethink Your Research Approach & Synthesize Your Findings Faster - part of UX Lecture Series.
  
  • noon-1pm PT 10FWD and air mozilla

Friday, 04 May

• SecReview: Create API for content to keep the screensaver from turning on (or to prevent phone/tablet's screen from turning off)

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Future (12, 13, 14)

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Firefox Current

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Mobile Firefox

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Thunderbird

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Older Branch Work

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Drumbeat

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Identity

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Services

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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.

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Inside the Root Shell	Brandon Burton, via Vidyo	A new weekly interview series with Mozilla IT, starting May 7th.	N/A	Email insidetherootshell@mozilla.com with questions you'd like to know about Mozilla IT folks.
Mozilla Crafts Show and Tell	Janet Swisher, in SF	Mozilla logo crochet project		Previous project: Firefox hat

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Who is the new hire?	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	What will the new person be working on?
Diana Livits	Dave Slater	Mountain View	Partner Relationships for Mozilla Marketplace
Matt Grimes (blog)	David Tenser	Eskilstuna (via Vidyo)	Support Analytics for SUMO/Input/social media
Jedediah Parsons	Ben Adida	Mountain View	Software Engineer
Maria Sandberg	Bryan Clark	Mountain View	User Experience Designers
Dale Harvey	Faramarz Rashed	UK	Front-end, Boot to Gecko
Carl Meyer	Clint Talbert	Rapid City, SD	Software Tools Developer, Web Development
Scott Downe	Ryan Merkley	Toronto, ON	Developer
Leah Gilliam	Chris Lawrence	Brooklyn, NY	Hive NYC Portfolio Strategist

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Who is the new intern?	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	What will the new person be working on?
Kevin Ngo	Mike Morgan	Mountain View	Web Dev
Jacques Uber	Michael Coates?	Mountain View
Doug Sherk	Jeff Gilbert	Mountain View

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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)

IT

• More database work than you can shake a stick at
• developer.mozilla.org will be down on Tuesday, May 8th for a move to the new data center
• moved cvs.mozilla.org to SCL3 - file any issues under mozilla.org - Server Operations : Developer Services
• prep new product distribution environment in SCL3, plan to move this week
• work on moving MXR out of SJC1, see post to mozilla.dev.planning or Yammer for details and how to help test
• begin work on a multi-homed AMO/Marketplace environment by extending the db master to a M-M setup between Phoenix and Santa Clara
• dealt with more load balancer issues in Phoenix, came up with a combination of Zeus and Myricom 10g NICs that appears to work well
• moved our infra backup system last week from SJC1 to SCL3: the SpectraLogic tape library, HP server that has it attached and a 10 TB storage array used for faster backups and restores.

QA

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • No releases planned until after WebDev workweek
• AMO
  • New builds available for paypal tests
  • Audit of existing selenium tests for AMO underway
• Marketplace
  • Initial pull request for Marketplace test
• Jetpack Builder (aka FlightDeck)
• Mozilla.com
  • pushed Firefox 12 bugs
• Mozillians
  • Mozillians has moved to a new product in Bugzilla - Community Tools - file bugs here
  • Successful (and accidental) 2012-04-25 milestone release
• MDN
  • no push this week
• Socorro
  • Successful milestone 7 release 2012-04-26
• SUMO
  • Continuous deployment, no updates
• MozTrap
  • Planning for Selenium development

Security

Calendar and Meeting details

General Meeting Details 
* IRC Channel: #security 
* Etherpad: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/secreview 
* Vidyo: https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=5XEMsG1ApA4b (Room 9058)
* Dial-in Info (phone): 
** In office or soft phone: extension 92 
** US/INTL: 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 then extension 92 
** Toronto: 416-848-3114 then extension 92 
** Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369 
** Conference num 99058

For updates to meetings please see the Security Review Calendar

• HTML: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review.html
• .ics: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review

WebFWD

Learn more about our teams when they are in town in mid-May!

1) On Saturday May 12 we'll be having an "open workday" allowing anyone to contribute to our teams - in-person in Mountain View or remotely via AirMozilla & IRC. Details at http://webfwdopenworkday.eventbrite.com/

2) On Monday May 14 our teams will present brief lightning talks at the All-Hands Meeting.