WeeklyUpdates/2012-06-04

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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

• Anthony Hughes nominates Otilia Anica, Juan Becerra, Matt Brandt, Kevin Brosnan, Ioana Budnar, Tony Chung, Vlad Ghetiu, Naoki Hirata, and Mihaela Velimiroviciu for helping test Firefox 13 and 10.0.5esr release candidates over the weekend
• Bill Walker nominates Gregory Szorc and Mike Connor for working through the weekend to help Anant Narayanan land Apps in the Cloud client code
• Anant Narayanan nominates Johnny Stenbäck, Eric Rescorla, Maire Reavy, Randell Jesup and Fabrice Desré for staying up and working late hours over the weekend to land getUserMedia in time for Firefox 15

Upcoming Events

Monday, 04 June

• 1300 PDT - SecReview: Web Telephony
• Town Hall #1: meet potential new Mozilla Foundation board member, Cathy Davidson
  • June 4 @ 1630 PDT / 2330 UTC / June 5 @ 0830 JST
  • Chat w. Mitchell Baker and Cathy Davidson (more on Cathy + Mozilla)
  • Dial-in: same as for this call
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    • http://air.mozilla.org/ to watch and listen
    • join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion

Wednesday, 06 June

June 6 @ 1800 CET / 1600 UTC / 1200 EDT

• Town Hall #2: meet potential new Mozilla Foundation board member, Cathy Davidson
  • Chat w. Mitchell Baker and Cathy Davidson (more on Cathy + Mozilla)
  • Dial-in: same as for this call
    • (see above)

Thursday, 07 June

• Tentative BrownBag - Leading Change

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

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Firefox Mobile

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Thunderbird

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Older Branch Work

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Mozilla Webmaker

Speaker Location: Matt in Toronto + Ben Simon in MV

• Mozilla Webmaker launched! TOOLS + PROJECTS + EVENTS for making cool stuff on the web.
  • Mozilla blog post
  • Press coverage
  • Web site (major site update coming soon)
• Kicking off with Summer Code Party: launches June 23 & 24, runs all summer long. Events around the world.
  • Find an event
  • Start your own event
  • Volunteer
  • Learn more

Identity

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Services

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Boot2Gecko

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Participate and follow along: All the links you need to know are in the B2G Bootstrap document.

Summary

• WebAPI: Big push for the platform API deadline. Some big pieces still not landed, and lots of patches in review, but not landed. Expect another two weeks of heavy development of platform APIs. Major bug cleanup in all platform areas related to final phone requirements, and application of the new blocking-basecamp flag. Porting work is ongoing to support the device that'll ship.
• Gaia Apps: Tabs and Awesomescreen landed in the browser. Can import contacts from sim card. More music player functionality. Communication apps coming together with TF designs and devs. Movement to re-orient everyone to final screen size and resolution (desktop options, default theme change). Gaia try-server set up via pull-request on Github, for easy testing of UI patches.
• UX/Design: Final wireframes are in for most core apps. A draft of system design patterns is now available (PDF).

Other Updates

• Builds: Automated builds chugging along for all supported phones/platforms. Focus now on b2g-desktop builds for easy desktop dev and testing.
• Testing: Gaia try-server via Github pull requests. Work ongoing to get xpcshell testing available.
• QA: Weekly build certification process is now in place, and reports being sent to both dev lists.
• L10n: UX spec incoming. Gaia devs and L10n group working together on system/API that meets Gaia needs while leveraging the existing processes/teams in L10n.
• Security/Privacy: Security reviews ongoing. Completed: Settings, sensors, web activities, browser, usb, tcpsocket.
• Software Updates: Nothing new.
• Crash reporting: Nothing new.
• Support: User support draft from Michelle, they're working with TF now.
• PM: Triage is now weekly. Both status meetings re-oriented around projects instead of people, to better highlight progress and gaps.

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
Collusion, Now With Site-Blocking	Jono	Getting close to a Collusion 1.0 release which will have the ability to block sites and many other features too. I'm looking for feedback and also looking for anyone interested in contributing to Collusion development.	I'll hook up my laptop to demo	https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/collusion/
Mobile Web Compatibility	Lawrence Mandel	Mobile Web Compatibility effort for Fennec and B2G	slides	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Evangelism

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?
Greg Cox	Brian Hourigan	Mountain View	IT/Ops (Storage & Virtualization)
Michael Treese	Sheila Mooney	Mountain View	Program/Project Management - B2G
Andrew Halberstadt	Clint Talbert	Mountain View/Toronto	Automation & Tools
Paxton Cooper	David Slater	Mountain View	Product Management
Eugene Wood	Jeff Vier	Mountain View	Mozilla Services, Operations
Chen William	Johnny Stenback	Toronto	Platform Engineer
Christopher McDonald	Wil Clouser	Remote	Web Developer
Peter Ratcliffe	Phong Tran	Mountain View	Site Reliability Engineer
Jonathan Coppeard	David Mandelin	Remote	Software Engineer

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Wilson Guaraca	Jaclyn Fu	San Francisco	Engagement
Diyang Tang	Gilbert Fitzgerald	MTV/San Francisco	Metrics
Joseph Kelly	Gilbert Fitzgerald	MTV/San Francisco	Metrics
Chris Lee	Alex Limi	MTV/San Francisco	UX
Sam Liu	Clint Talbert	Mountain View	Tools and Automation
Alex Crichton	Dave Mandelin	Mountain View	Platform
Brian Groudan	Mary Trombley or Diane Loviglio	Mountain View	User Research
Matthew Fuller	Eric Parker	Mountain View	Web Security
Xiaowei Li	Eric Parker	Mountain View	Security Reseach
Sawyer Hollenshead	Mike Morgan	Mountain View	UX
Timothy Mickel	Mike Morgan	Mountain View	Web Dev
Nathan Malkin	Ben Adida	Mountain View	Labs
Nicholas Desaulniers	Ed Lee	Mountain View	Labs
Benjamin Blum	Dave Herman	Mountain View	Research
Jonathan Wilde	Frank Yan	Mountain View	FFX

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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

• IPv6
  • Helping measure percentage of participating websites currently reachable over IPv6 from the US (ASN53371) ~ http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/
• Sheeri Cabral, MySQL DBA, spoke at Harmony Finland, about MySQL Security and Optimizing MySQL JOINs and Subqueries ~ http://www.ougf.fi/

QA

WebQA

• Mozilla.com
  • pushed a release last Thursday
• Mozillians
  • The TaskBoard has been de-prioritized as a goal for this quarter
  • The Phonebook: Basecamp goals
    • allow users to add geographic location data to their profiles
    • enhanced search/filter capabilities: Group, Skill, and Location
    • an API for the Phonebook
    • the tree is open for commits - the 06-06-2012 train leaves this morning
• MDN
  • pushed on last Tuesday
• Socorro
  • [upcoming] June 11th Stability Workweek - wkwk agenda - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/StabilityWorkWeek
  • Milestone 10 and milestone 10.1 released last week
  • Milestone 11 released yesterday
• MozTrap
  • Still working on the WebDriver migration; hope to be finished soon