WeeklyUpdates/2012-08-06

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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

• The Contributor Engagement team nominates Hugo Acosta and the team in Bolivia for spreading Firefox and helping Firefox become the #1 browser there! Efforts have included a social media campaign that Mozilla Hispano contributed to as well.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, 09 August

• Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific -- a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla
  • Agenda and dial-in information (feel free to add items to the agenda)

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: MV (johnath)

• Social: bug 764869, bug 764872, bug 773351, bug 770695: big pieces of the work that makes Social actually semi-usable have landed. That means that you can test social features using "MoTown" in Nightly builds, by setting social.enabled = true.
• navigator.id DOM and core landed last week, the beginnings of native Persona integration
• Taras' weekly performance/snappy update. Highlights include:
  • JS profiling using the built in profiler
  • Reducing the cache nuking hit that telemetry tells us we hit on 10-20% of pages
  • Also starting to file performance bugs on popular addons

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: MV (johnath)

• Spinning a 14.0.2 to fix jellybean specific crashes
• More testing on ARMv6 to find stability gotchas and minimum requirements
• FF15 (with Tablet support) firming up!
  • BUT has anyone had a lot of hangs with Firefox Beta on Asus Transformers? Let mfinkle/blassey know.
• Scott wrote an excellent blog post about font inflation

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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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
Tour Guide	David Boswell	Community data	arewegrowingyet.com and coding contribution dashboards	Data posts on about:community blog

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?
Brendan Colloran	Gilbert FitzGerald	Mountain View	Senior Data Analyst
Sriharsha Chintalapani (Harsha)	Gilbert FitzGerald	Mountain View	Metrics Software Engineer

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Leo Yeykelis	Mary Trombley	Mountain View	User Research
Valentin Gosu	Nick Hurley	Mountain View	Platform

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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)

Automation & Tools

• Tegras are not rebooting randomly anymore, 39% failure rate on android tests dropped to 13% as of Friday evening. Big thanks to Jmaher, Wlach, and Callek
• Web API and B2G mochitests running again on new VMs supplied by releng
• Datazilla is alive on production hardware! https://datazilla.mozilla.org/test
• Initial plan for a TBPL intermittent failure bug filer (try saying that three times fast... :P) bug 779529.
• Expect this thursday's Bugzilla.mozilla.org push to include a fix for interdiff bug 779862
• More Notes Here

Engagement

PR

Quiz Of The Week: The Fiery Fox

Smartphone OS makers eye developing markets

State of the Web: Which vision of an ‘open Internet’ would you fight for?

Firefox’s most popular add-ons from 3 billion downloads

New Photos of Mozilla's Mobile OS Have Arrived Online

Mozilla Confirms It Will Join Berlin’s New ‘Factory’ Campus
Mozilla Will Nearly Double SF Office, Add 125 People In Early 2013
Mozilla expands in Berlin and US