WeeklyUpdates/2012-08-27

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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

• Apps/Mobile QA would like to thank to all those who attended, tested, and commented on last Friday's Web Apps in Firefox for Android test day. With your help over 25 bugs were filed!
• The Contributor Engagement team nominates Parth Mudgal for having coded a long-awaited feature - creating website shortcuts with favicons was something that users couldn't do for more than a decade, until now. More info here.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 28 August

Mozilla Gear Site Presentation: 3-4pm Pacific (UTC -8) in Ten Forward and on Air Mozilla

Thursday, 30 August

• Intern presentations from 11am-1:30pm in 10 Forward, TOR Commons and SF Commons.
  • Come see Daniel Thornton, Karthik Viswanathan, Elliott Slaughter, Jordan Lund, and Michael Comella present!

Friday, 31 August

• Intern presentations from 2pm-4pm in 10 Forward, TOR Commons and SF Commons.
  • Come see Thaddee Tyl, Stephen Crane, Liz Noonan, and Christoph Kerschbaumer present what they've been working on all summer!

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: Alex Keybl in MV

• Firefox 15.0 will be released tomorrow morning (8/28). Check out the beta notes here (release notes are being finalized).
  • Special thanks to Lukas Blakk for leading this release's beta convergence, and Lawrence Mandel for taking time out of his busy schedule to help with triaging.
• Today is the merge day. The central version bump and tree closures will happen shortly if they haven't already. Nightly=18, Aurora=17, and Beta=16.
• 16.0 beta 1 will be released Thursday, and 17.0a2 updates will be enabled Friday.

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: Alex again

• Similarly, Firefox for Android 15.0 will be released tomorrow. Check out the mobile beta notes here.
  • This is our first release since FF10 where Desktop/Mobile are releasing in sync!
  • Some of our most requested features made it in: find in page, copy/paste, tablet support, etc.
• We also expect Firefox 16 beta 1 to include ARMv6 support - if you have a friend who couldn't install Firefox for Android previously, give them a shout.

Thunderbird

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Older Branch Work

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Webmaker

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Identity

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Services

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Firefox OS

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• No voice update today
• Many of the team are in Sao Paulo, Brazil on-site at Telefonica/Vivo offices
• Regular meeting schedule this week is canceled, will resume normal schedule next week

Grow Mozilla

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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
Your Title Here	Your Name Here	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

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?
Ria Joy	David Slater	Mountain View, CA	Product Marketing Strategy for Apps/Marketplace

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?

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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/Operations & Services

• Working on the expansion of the Santa Clara data center in support of Mobile testing.
• Purchased more hardware to install in our Santa Clara data center that will add disaster recovery for our mail environment.
• Setup Datazilla in production for the Automation & Tools Engineering team. This new service will allow them to replace their current graph server and database.
• Team Meet-up held August 13-17
  • The week consisted of successful cross team meetings, presentations to kick off projects as well as information sessions.
• Developed a Chassis to house the Pandas for Android and b2g testing
• Working on a plan for proactive system updates and maintenance, draft can be found at https://wiki.mozilla.org/IT/Maintenance

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