WeeklyUpdates/2012-05-14

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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

• Everyone who worked to get a live WebM stream up during this weekend's WebFWD Hack Day - https://twitter.com/airmozilla/status/201446072730656768
• All of IT/Operations for their hard work & effort over the last three months moving data centers. They worked odd hours, often over evenings and weekends to minimize disruption. Out of the hundreds of websites and services moved, few needed downtime!

Upcoming Events

This Week

• This week, mobile and Apps QA needs help in mobile web compatibility testing - find problems in top sites that do UA sniffing or use webkit prefixes in firefox mobile!
  • See here for how to get started

Thursday, 17 May

• Grow Mozilla meeting at 10 AM pacific
  • Topics include using Mozilla Spaces for community building and growing community building skills with Mozilla Brain Builders
  • Full agenda and dial-in information

Brownbag Title	Presenter	Time
How is UX different than UI?	Brandon Schauer	12:00pm PST

Friday, 18 May

• 10:00 AM PDT SecReview: Social API

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Some highlights from the Firefox work week:
  • Scratchpad backending to github gists
  • Jetpacks in scratchpad
  • Task-specific icons in Windows 7 jumplists
  • Finalized interactions and designs for the new downloads manager
  • Sync meet-up and discussion to evaluate how to move forward with a smaller core, by moving data handling to components and allowing the Sync team to concentrate on the real Sync functionality
  • Session Store meet-up and discussion on how to move forward with Speedy Session Restore as well as SS2 (rewriting SS).
  • Initial explorations of a Fennec reading mode (post-1.0)
  • Implemented Windows 8 appbar
  • Roll your own one-off, bespoke debuggers in the scratchpad.
  • Responsive Design tool for web developers
  • Honza made Firebug's HTTP Monitor a standalone component, and it can now remote-monitor fennec, too
  • Gavin gave a great talk about code review
  • Tim Abraldes demoed the Web App runtime
  • Margaret walked us through Hacking Fennec
  • Brian Bondy updated the status of our Windows 8 work
  • Felipe found and fixed memory leaks with about:cc
  • Dietrich walked through the state of the browser components team
  • David Dahl went meta, and talked about giving Firefox talks in our community

• Also, check out the MSU student project on in-content preferences for Firefox

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Going to beta this week!
• Why are you even looking for another bullet point, here?
• Going. To. Beta. This. Week!

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Summer Code Party

Speaker Location: Matt T in Toronto

• The Mozilla Summer Code Party = teaching the world the web this summer. With tools and projects that make it easy, social and fun.
• Kicking off June 23. Formal public announcement coming May 22.
• In the mean time: help beta test these new webmaker projects?
• The goal: learning by making. Starter projects and games that help people learn HTML & CSS by getting their hands dirty.
• Let us know what you think. Do they work? Are they clear? Fun?
  • Try them out here
  • Let us know what you think here

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

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
WebFWD Team Presentations	Cheerleader: Diane Bisgeier	We have the WebFWD teams in town - and today they will do a 30 sec elevator pitch presenting their projects	http://cl.ly/GbD6/WebFWD%20Teams.pdf	https://webfwd.org/portfolio/
Marketplace Mozillian Preview	Justin Scott	Reminder that we need your help testing our app Marketplace	https://marketplace.mozilla.org	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Mozillian_Preview
Reset Firefox is awesome magic!	Michael Verdi	Demo new Reset Firefox feature in Firefox 13	http://youtu.be/SSr2u1wMoFg	http://support.mozilla.org/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems
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?
Simon Bennetts	Yvan Boily	Mountain View	Security Automation
Rehan Dalal	James Socol	Toronto	SUMO Engineering
Vladimir Vukicevic	Damon Sicore	Toronto	Engineering Director
Andrew Overholt	Johnny Stenback	Mountain View	Engineering Manager
Marshall Culpepper	Faramarz Rashed	Mountain View	Software Engineer

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?
Benjamin Peterson	Dave Mandelin	Mountain View	Platform Team
Thaddée Tyl	Dave Camp or Rob Campbell	Mountain View	Platform Team
Lindsey Kuper-you may recognize Lindsey from such films as "I Missed The Nerd Cave" and "Back From the Future-The Prequel"	Dave Herman	Mountain View	Research Team
Eric Holk- you may recognize Eric from such indie pop hits as "I know Where You Were Last Summer" and "You'd Actually Do That Again?"	Dave Herman	Mountain View	Research Team
Devdatta Akhawe	Sid Stamm	Mountain View	Research/Privacy
David Zbarsky	Andreas Gal	Mountain View	Platform Team
Xiao Meng Wei (Eric)	Kevin Brosnan	Mountain View	QA Team
Zach Carter	Ben Adida	Mountain View	Labs Team
Andrew Hurle	Matthew Noorenberghe	Mountain View	Firefox Team

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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

• MDN migrated out of SJC1 to SCL3, virtually zero downtime
• many smaller/older services migrated out of SJC1, mostly to PHX1
• Sheeri Cabral and Pete Fritchman represented Mozilla IT at http://www.picconf.org/
  • Getting Started with a Podcast
  • Securing MySQL: More than just ACLs
  • Deep Application Monitoring using Statsd and more

QA

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • No updates
• AMO/Marketplace
  • [1] shipped last Thursday
• Firefox Flicks
  • Shipped the wrap-up page
• Mozilla.com
  • shipped 2.4 bugs
• Mozillians
  • Shipped a very minor release on 2012-05-09
• MDN
  • no release last week due to server migration
• Socorro
  • No release last week.
• SUMO
  • Continuous Deployment; no updates
• MozTrap
  • Working on WebDriver migration
• Webmaker
  • Started testing https://make-dev.mozillalabs.com
• Wiki

Security

• please note we are changing from whiteboard tags to keywords for security markings
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security_Severity_Ratings
  • Use both keyword and whitboard tag until Fri-May-18 as our transition period so we can verify searches work properly