WeeklyUpdates/2012-07-30
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- Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
- SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
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- The Contributor Engagement team nominates Vineel Reddy Pindi for spreading Firefox in India and for creating this awesome video, which shows Mozillians from all over the world talking about Firefox in their native language to thousands of Firefox users on about:home. More info here.
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Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- Dev tools landed the source maps library, which means we're on the way to being able to hack on minified code.
- Incremental GC made the cutoff for Aurora 16, which should be a very nice performance improvement.
- Taras on the the kind of things we're learning from telemetry (and why our startup got better when we removed an optimization)
- Mary Meeker's 2-month old D10 talk about the state of the web is still worth reading, or even re-reading.
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- Flash support on honeycomb!
- Native text selection handles!
- Testing ARMv6 builds on Aurora as we speak!
- Go retweet Brad
- Clicking on things has gotten better in nightly with bug 770659, bug 773427 and bug 773431
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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- Kicking off milestone 5. Platform team focusing on finalizing WebAPIs, and improving performance. Gaia team applying the final visual designs, implementing Web Activities for app-to-app interactions. Check out these slides from Josh Carpenter of the visual design work that's currently being implemented.
- Lots of work to get the dogfooding program ready - platform and build fixes, software update, tester feedback loops, device availability, etc.
- Watch Christian Heilmann and John Hammink rock the stage in Recife, with their keynote covering the history of Firefox OS and a high-level overview of some of the APIs.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director of Creative | John Slater | One Mozilla style guide | first draft: http://mozilla.seanmartell.com/guide/index.php?directory=. | more background: http://www.intothefuzz.com/for-your-review-one-mozilla-style-guide-v1/ |
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 | Daniel Einspanjer | Mountain View | Metrics Software Engineer |
| Salvador Espinoza | Derek Moore | Mountain View | DataCenter Operations Technician |
| Ashlee Chavez (Seasonal) | Derek Moore | Mountain View | DataCenter Operations Technician |
| Sam Mott (Seasonal) | David Slater | San Francisco | Product Marketing Manager |
| Christopher Arnold | Susan Chen | Berlin | Strategic Development Principal |
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? |
| Glen Durmas Jr. | Tim Fairfield | Mountain View | Desktop Support |
| Joshua Labian | Tim Fairfield | Mountain View | Desktop Support |
| Adreena Winnfield | Tim Fairfield | Mountain View | Desktop Support |
Roundtable
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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)
Firefox
Platform
Services
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
- Affiliates
- Small release - Localize Affiliates news item (Help us out) - bug 706216
- Mozillians
- No updates
- MDN
- Working on bugs for Kuma launch
- Socorro
- Milestone 17 shipped 2012-07-25
- hi-risk release due to the stage env being broken - bug 771218 - specifically the crontabber work - bug 767165
- Milestone 17.1 shipped to resolve bug 777545, bug 777010, and bug 777533
- Another point release last Thursday -- bug 777670