WeeklyUpdates/2012-10-29

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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

• Dan Parsons & Greg Cox (Mozilla IT) for their relentless pursuit of a NetApp performance bug that had been impacting Hg & ftp.mozilla.org.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 29 October

• SecReview: Mobile-APIs for Java Code in Addons - 13:00 PST

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Getting great feedback on social, thanks for that, keep it coming.
  • Trying to figure out if flash issues related to social are happening on beta, or only on nightly/aurora. Can you help? bug 805331
• Accelerating update rates bug 803181
• Check out Dave's post, What is Jetpack here for?

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Still feeling positive about ARMv6 in FF17
• Big improvements landing on Nightly
  • Homescreen search widget
  • Lightweight themes (née personas)
  • Reflow on zoom

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

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Webmaker

No verbal updates today - will start regular weekly product updates after Sandy-ocalypse. See (way) below for meta updates. Hope to see you at MozFest!

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

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Firefox OS

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Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: David in San Francisco

Three community building workshops will be run over the next two weeks:

• Designing projects for participation -- Thursday, 11/1 at 10 pacific -- 3G in Mountain View
• Identifying contributors -- Tuesday, 11/6 at 10 pacific -- Boardroom on 7th floor in San Francisco
• Measuring & evaluating -- Thursday, 11/8 at 10 pacific -- Bay Bridge in 3rd floor in San Francisco

All workshops accessible through Vidyo in David Boswell's vidyo room and will also be recorded and made available publicly.

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
Capture Mozilla	Dino Anderson and Dia Bondi	Using video to capture and share knowledge (from know-how to cultural) across the Mozilla community.	Get Involved video 1 Get Involved video 2 Get Involved video 3	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Grow/Viki

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?
Andrea Zingerman	Mathew Caldwell	Mountain View, CA	University Programs Coordinator
Tyler Downer	David Tenser	San Francisco, CA	Support Analyst
Hannes Verschore	David Mandelin	Netherlands	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?

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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)

QA

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • Last week's release withheld due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760631
  • New target is next week after the Engagement team's work week
• Mozilla.com
  • pushed redirect bug fixes
• MDN
  • working on sitemap bug
• Socorro
  • Small release today - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced;target_milestone=24;product=Socorro;list_id=4765891
  • Django-rewrite (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788003) is going well; new bugs added frequently
    • still behind VPN; needs to pass App/InfraSec review before we stage it properly
• MozTrap
  • New features are in the pipeline to land that will support the B2G teams needs
  • Manual & Automation opportunities for helping test these features
• B2G
  • Moztrap birt reports
  • Met (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Projects/B2G_Test_And_Performance) with the A-team to figure out on-device Gaia-test running: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=801898
  • Smoke tests written for taking picture, video, making call, sending sms, adding contact. Overall stability not there but fundamentals are being built.
• Bouncer
  • Release scheduled for this week - Sentry/Bouncer location availability improvements
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=804347

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla sends Microsoft a cake for shipping IE10

• Firefox's Social API debuts with Facebook Messenger
• Mozilla Partners with Facebook for Social API
• Mozilla's New Social API Lets You Bring Facebook Along Wherever You Surf The Web

Foundation Updates

Webmaker

MozFest is November 9-11 in London.

At MozFest, we are launching:

• Webmaker badges - get recognition for your learning and skill development while you make something awesome on the Web.
• Popcorn Maker - now its easy to build awesome Popcorn-ified videos and learn web literacy skills in the process.

Also exploring and scoping:

• Mobile for Webmaker
• Hackable Games
• Teaching javascript
• More!