WeeklyUpdates/2013-06-03

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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

• Jérémie Patonnier and David Bruant for hosting meetups during the MDN sprint this past weekend, along with everybody who contributed to MDN during the sprint. (See this ether pad for details)

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 04 June

WebFWD Community Mixer

5pm - 7pm, Mozilla San Francisco 7th Floor

This is a time to meet our teams the day before they pitch to the world in Mountain View. Come have a beverage, snack and get to know them before they start sweating ;).

RSVP at http://webfwdiiimixer.eventbrite.com

User Experience Research Talk

12PM PST, 10FWD: MTV

Simulcast on Air Mozilla

Topic: Firefox Desktop User Types in North America

Presenter: Bill Selman

Have you ever wondered who is using Firefox on the desktop and how they are using it? Do you want to know which facets of our user base are enthusiastic about new features vs. users who are reluctant to see any changes at all? Are you interested to learn which category of Firefox user type you fit into and how representative you are of a larger Firefox population?

The User Experience Research team has collected a great deal of data to answer these questions and is eager to share it with you. Bill Selman, Senior UX Researcher, will present findings from a three part qualitative and quantitative study of Firefox users in North America. He will present how those users fit into six specific categories of user types based on their behaviors, motivations, beliefs, and attitudes.

Wednesday, 05 June

WebFWD Graduation Test Run: Noon - 1pm PST, Mozilla Mountain View 10 Forward + Air Mozilla

Open Demos: 6pm - 8pm PST, Mozilla Mountain View 10 Forward + Air Mozilla

This is THE day: our teams will pitch to you - investors, professionals, developers, entrepreneurs all committed to making the web better! Feel free to invite others with similar interests.

RSVP for the evening event at http://webfwdiii.eventbrite.com

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location:

Firefox Mobile

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Thunderbird

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Older Branch Work

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Webmaker

Speaker Location: no verbal update this week

• Maker Party 2013 kicks off June 15! Thousands of people getting together at events around the world to make and share stuff on the web
• This post gives an update on plans, next steps, and what partners are bringing to the party:
• A partner effort launched in the UK yesterday. Mitchell Baker and the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, helped launch the UK "Make Things, Do Stuff" campaign. Learn more here

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

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Firefox OS

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Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

Help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:

• June 9, 2004: Firefox downloads surge after US government warns of security exploits in Internet Explorer

• September 14, 2004: Mozilla makes first payments to security researchers as part of its new Bug Bounty program

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. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week.

Presenter	Title	Topic	Location	Share?	Media	More Details
William Reynolds	Community Tools	Yammer forum for Firefox OS launch activities	Mozilla San Francisco	No		Firefox OS launch activities Yammer
Didem Ersoz	Program Manager, WebFWD Program	June 5: Graduation + Deadline to apply for next class	Mozilla San Francisco	No		WebFWD Application
Kate Naszradi and John Bernard	Community Engagement and Product Marketing	Firefox OS Launch Camp: Re-Cap	Mozilla San Francisco	Yes		Firefox OS Camp Wiki Page
Mitchell Baker	Executive Chair	Chris Beard	Home office in Barcelona	Not sharing screen	No links

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Who is the new hire?	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	Where will the new person be working from?	What will the new person be working on?
Mathieu Pillard	Wil Clouser	PDX	Paris	Marketplace
Dominik Strohmeier	Cori Schauer	MTV	Berlin	FFOS
Marina Samuel	Mark Finkle	Toronto/Remote	Toronto	Firefox for Metro

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Aaron Todd	Brian Anderson	MV	MV	Research
Ashish Dubey	CVAN	MV	MV	Web Dev
Eston Schweickart	Dave Herman	MV	MV	Research
Ganesh Ghosh	James Lal	MV	MV	FFX OS
Leon Zhang	Potch	MV	MV	Web Dev
John Wong	Dan Veditz and Gary Kwong	MV	MV	Web Security
Shawn Nguyen	Jake Watkins	MV	MV	Release Eng Ops
Stella Zubeck	Bill and Mary	MV	MV	User Research
Samvedana Gohil	Anthony Hughes and Juan Becerra	MV	MV	Desktop QA
Swaroopa Vantipalli	John Hammink	MV	MV	Mobile QA
Vaidik Kapoor	Stephen Donner	MV	MV	Web QA
Amanda Ko	Cameron Dawson	MV	SF	Automation and Tools
Joseph Kelly	Christina Choi	MV	SF	Metrics
Michael Sullivan	Dave Herman	MV	SF	Research
Nikhil Kumar	Saptarshi Guha	MV	SF	Metrics
Hannah Quay-del la Vallee	Ben Adida	MV	SF	Identity
Jez Ng	Alon Zakai	MV	SF	Research
Tanay Delima	Diane Bisgeier	SF	SF	WebFWD
Ben Blum	Dave Herman	MV	MV	Research
Dhaval Giani	Vladan Djeric	TOR	TOR	Platform
Guillaume Abadie	Benoit Jacob	TOR	TOR	Platform
Jason Shun	Armen Zambrano Gasparnian	TOR	TOR	Release Eng

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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

• Firefox Health Report
  • Test harness coming soon - bug 872094
  • Updates - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/FHRMeeting
• Firefox OS
  • B2G/Gaia testing:
    • Added another Inari running v1.0.1 to the mix, so now have 6 running tests (and 3 Unagis, still, running v1-train)
  • bugs are marked as blocking https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=801898 - Get GaiaTest UI smoke tests running reliably in Jenkins CI, and we're working with the A-team on them
  • new contributor 'sleepr' running b2g desktop ui tests
• Mozillians
  • Small release slated for today
• Socorro
  • Milestone 48 released Thursday

Automation & Tools

• Gaia-UI endurance tests are running daily on Inari b2g18 v1.0.1, with results being posted to DataZilla. For more information see rwood's Gaia-UI Endurance Tests blog post.
• Just about done converting mozillapulse from using carrot to kombu bug 623305.
• mozbase unit tests now running on m-c!
• fleshing out notes on design / implementation of machine-readable logging: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/structured-logging-notes
• More news here

Webdev

Brought http://dxr.mozilla.org/ up to date, at long last!

New things we can enjoy:

• Indexing and search
  • Better usability on mobile and WebKit
  • Much faster (indexed vs. not) performance on many types of queries
  • Add ability to find callers of constructors
  • Differentiate between a const and a non-const function of the same name.
  • Add finding of callers and callees.
  • Add recognition of typedefs.
  • Link macro references.
  • Link class declarations to class definitions.
  • Sort folder listings.
  • Improve regex that delimits JS symbols.

• Infrastructure
  • Several thousand fewer lines of code
  • Slim down builds to emit only data, not Python code, making development much faster.
  • Replace ad hoc implementation of process pooling with concurrent.futures.
  • Reworked old-school CGI as a Flask WSGI app.
  • Redesign URLs for MXR parity and future extensibility
  • Tests! CI! Vagrant!

• Bug fixes
  • No more crashing when doing negated phrase matching
  • Fix URL- and HTML-escaping screwups, including XSSes.
  • Don't duplicate lines in results under some types of queries
  • Many others

Coming soon: continuously deployment, log/blame integration, full parity with MXR