WeeklyUpdates/2012-04-09

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All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Future (9, 10, 11)

Speaker Location:

Firefox Current (3.6, 8)

Speaker Location:

Mobile Firefox

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Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

Speaker Location:

Identity

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Services

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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

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?

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)

IT

• We are in the middle of a massive data center move from one of our original data centers, SJC1 to our other data centers. Contractually, this move has to be completed in the middle of the quarter and comprises roughly 1300 servers and virtual machines. While migration work has been going on for a year now to get websites and services out of there in advance of this move, some services are hanging on to the end and may require downtime to get them physically moved (or virtually migrated) to their new home. Please be patient with us as this move takes our resources away from other projects, and as some of these services incur downtime for their move.
• Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation email accounts are on a new Zimbra infrastructure (and the migration happened with no impact to you!). See http://blog.mozilla.com/it/2012/04/06/re-imagining-zimbra-email-at-mozilla/
• This week we setup bedrock (the new site behind www.mozilla.org) to be multi-hosted between Phoenix and Santa Clara. In addition it is also cached for europe out of Amsterdam. We will be making more use of CDNs in the next step.
• This week we turned up hundreds of new systems (more than I can collectively count amongst all teams in IT). For example, 128 nodes with new Sandy Bridge Xeon procs have been deployed to the SCL3 data center, and 64 to the PHX1 data center.
• We replaced the NIC cards in our PHX1 load balancers this week with new vendor-recommended cards to overcome problems that have plagued us for months. So far, we have not had any lb-related problems in PHX1. However, part of this success is due to moving the load of Addons version checking and about:home snippets to a new set of Netscaler load balancers which handle the heavy-loaded sites better but don't provide some of the features we enjoy out of our Stingray load balancers.
• A lot of work was wrapped up in prepping a new environment for hg.mozilla.org in our new data center. We should be announcing downtime soon to make the switch this week.
• Speaking of hg, this is a public service announcement reminding you not to ctrl-c a push to try once it has begun. Due to the added pushlog in commit hooks, it causes hg to break and requires manual intervention to fix.
• This week we stood up a cluster (admin, dev, stage, and prod) along with global caching for the mozilla-hosted Firefox 3.6 start page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Websites/Firefox_3.6_Start_Page
• Data center migration in China for Mozilla Online continued this week, with Shyam on site finishing the load balancer and vm hosting, and working on moving key sites. Mail should take another week and we will start wrapping up and heading home.