WeeklyUpdates/2012-07-16

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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 the Mozilla Kenya Community for spreading the awesomeness of Mozilla in East Africa about 10,000 miles away from the Mozilla HQ in Mountain View, and especially Alex Wafula, Hezron Obuchele, Cliff Argwings and Viactor Karanja for their MozTour in Rwanda. More infos here.
• The Apps team nominates Gregory Szorc, Nick Desaulniers, Tracy Walker and Mike Connor for all the hard work over the weekend to land Apps in the Cloud in time for the Aurora merge.

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, 18 July

Startup Office Hours: run any questions about your startup project or idea by @pfinette or @dianeb on IRC > #webfwd from 11am - noon PST (7pm - 8pm UTC).

"The Future Will Be Made of Screens" by Rachel Binx

• How to create engaging content for different platforms, design products that span mobile, computer, and television.

Thursday, 19 July

• Security Review: navigator.pay
  • bug 767818

Saturday, 21 July

• 2012-07-21 Innovators of the Web Conference at San Francisco, California, United States with
  • Tantek Çelik - speaking on "HTML5 and microformats 2 – The Next Evolutionary Step For Web Data"

For more future events, see:

• Events

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: Mountain View (gavin)

• Release day-eve! Firefox 14.0.1 (.0.1 to sync up with Mobile) is scheduled to be out the door tomorrow morning (Pacific time)
• Merge day! mozilla-central will be Firefox 17 by end-of-day

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: Phone (mfinkle)

• Even though Fx14 for Android is already out, Fx14.0.1 will have a few mobile specific fixes in it.
• Preparing for the Tablet UI release in Fx15.
• Testing on ARMv6 devices continues.

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

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?
Silvio Chiba	Ron Piovesan	Mountain View, CA	Business Development Manager
Holly Habstritt (pronounced hab + street)	Chris More	Mountain View, CA	Information Architecture and UX design on Websites and Web Apps
Jared Hirsch	Ben Adida	Mountain View, CA	Software Engineer
Edward Lim	Justin Dow	Corvallis, OR	Systems Administrator
Bram Pitoyo	Bryan Clark	New Zealand	Web User Experience Designer

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
  • affiliates.mozilla.org - push to occur today for resolve bug 772882
  • Bug 772284 Facebook app scheduled for QA on 2012-08-17 - rshetty will be unable to lead this
• AMO
• Marketplace
• Mozillians
  • no releases scheduled
  • 2012-07-12 team meeting to discuss webdev's ability to provide resources for the project
• MDN
  • continued work on testing Kuma migration
• Socorro
  • Milestone 16 scheduled to ship on 2012-07-12 - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Socorro:Releases
  • Q3 goal of transitioning to a Django implementation - prep for Q4 goal of moving to continuous deployment
• SUMO
  • Continuous deployment, no updates
• MozTrap
  • v1.1 is up on stage, running a full test suite on it before pushing to prod
  • Automated tests are running & passing thanks to the team's hard work