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QA Community Team Meeting

  • November 2, 2011
  • Attendees: mevans, al, marcia, james, henrik

Upcoming Testdays

Discussion Items

  • QA SIG document
  • Team slides for a General QA presentation
    • Team slides in progress. Still missing content from Automation Team (except WebAPI stuff)
  • Community Kit
    • Proposed by Anthony in thread re: Mozilla Hispano
    • Status?
  • Goals

Project Status

Community Building/Events (ideas and progress) [marcia/ashughes]

QA Videos [marcia]

  • Completed a Community video that will be shown at the beginning of MozCamp Berlin (and possibly Malaysia). Submitted a draft to William Q for review and feedback. Video is here: http://www.mediafire.com/?f92rw8bd5y06pko

QMO [abillings]

Roundtable

Meeting Notes/Action Items

Action items/Notes from (20111102) meeting

  • Q4 very busy - how does QA participate in community building and still do our job?
  • Test Days have not been well planned. Need to have them planned in advance.
    • Test Native Fennec for next Testday
    • Test Firefox Beta for this week's test day - juanb to set up
    • Get license for Mibbit and try it on QMO. - al. This might help ease barrier to entry for IRC
  • QA Vision
    • marcia suggests focusing on new contributors by trying event such as "Contribute to Mozilla" model.
    • Leverage off of Mozilla Summit events
    • Look at other events such as http://www.designjams.org/
    • We need support of event planners to help us to plan events
  • Action Items
    • Matt and Marcia - Develop a QA vision for 2012
    • QA staff: discuss how we balance our work and community building - matt to send out email.
    • juanb - Get Firefox beta test day set up for this Friday
    • tchung - Get Mobile test day posted on QMO soon

Action items/Notes from (20111019) meeting

  • QA SIG - are we comfortable in current state?
    • mevans suggests having this as a theme for the upcoming QA newsletter. We can announce it there and then refine over time.
    • Also discuss this with Vlad and Iona
  • Status of Team Slides
    • Goal have it for the Mozilla Festival
    • Include clearest path to contribution in the slides
  • How do want to present Mobile to the outside world?
    • Not easy to find on QMO - needs to be exposed more
    • Next steps: Team discussion how do we want to present
  • Engagement Kit - Goal for Q4
    • Should be structured as a simple task for a particular audience?
    • More experienced users?
    • Badging and how that relates to the tasks
    • Add feedback to etherpad that juan set up
  • Tracking new contributors into the project
    • Encourage new users to Sign up for QMO and add mozillians PB entry.
    • Have a sign in sheet available at the various events
  • QMO:
    • XML RPC we did not have, it has been fixed
    • Basically bringing all the plugins up to date

Action items:

  • Include SIG as a theme for newsletter [marcia]
  • Have team slides available in time for Mozilla Festival on November 4 [team leads]
  • Provide links for QA flyer to be used for Mozilla festival [team leads]
  • Set up a team discussion about how we want to present Mobile [ashughes?]
  • Talk to Dave Dash about enhancements for the mozillians phonebook [marlena]
  • Add Engagement kit project start to Q4 goals [juanb]

Action items/Notes from (20111005) meeting

Action Items

  • Team leads to come up with 2 slides to use as part of a general QA presentation
    • Target deadline is before MozCamp Malaysia event in mid November
  • Team leads to create a set of Q4 community goals (will be on a public wiki but link back to the intranet page)
  • Work to improve Services content on QMO [marcia and jbonacci]
  • Construct a user survey to post on QMO [abillings]
  • Set up a Browser ID Test Day for next Friday [jbonacci and ashughes]

Notes:

  • Test Days
    • Browser ID Test Day on the radar for next Friday
  • QA Sig
    • Consider Inviting our regular users to help us define the role and put up a blog post
  • QA Team Slide Preso
    • Team Leads
      • Advertise and evangelize what we do within each team
      • Charter at team level
      • Similar to what we did at the Summit
      • Summary slide
  • QA Team Goals
    • Break the community down into teams
    • Link to the Goals page - Q4 it should be on the public wiki
    • Each Team should have a set of Q4 community goals
  • QA Services Team
    • Advertise it on QMO. Marcia to work with James to get content updated on QMO.
    • Longer term goal
      • How do we prevent this in the future. Postmortem about how to avoid this in the future.
      • Education, fixing code, stopping
      • James to talk to Pete about load test that would have shown this. Making sure we test this in the future will be important
  • Events
    • Please see Mary Colvig's email regarding the MozCamps
  • QMO
    • Blocking issue - hard to know where QA wants to go with QMO and that drives the development decisions
    • User survey on QMO - Did not happen last quarter but Al will get some team feedback and work on it for this quarter.

Action items/Notes from (20110907) meeting

Action Items:

  • Get communications out as soon as possible for upcoming Test Day(entire team)
  • Make timezone a dropdown instead of free form text field in TestDay questionnaire [ashughes]
  • marcia to contact Mary about status of Firefox 4 tshirts.
  • marcia and matt to sync up offline re: blurb for GTAC meetup
  • matt to clarify if the next mtg will be during QA work week
  • waverly to organize a Test Day event for the 16th and 23rd.
  • ashughes needs team feedback on https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmkRt0ylPb8zdEFaWGtlbjdNNXowR210S2NVb0sxVnc&hl=en_US
  • marcia needs to get a vidyo URL to post

Whiteboard Status thread

  • Identify how we are going to proceed
  • Dedicated time within the work week to get things assigned.
  • Goal of the work week that we have done a lot of triage - clearly Firefox 8-9-10

Move forward with plans to get Devs involved in QA test events

  • Push forward invite to a Webcast -
  • Get Something planned for dev.planning - request help from devs that are interested
  • Target Friday of the QA work week - possibly the 23rd
  • Doesn't have to be a developer that hosts the test event. Could be someone like Asa or Mitchell

Meetups in Klug

  • Matt suggested that the Waverly team set one up and then go from there.
  • Next meeting
  • Unclear whether the next Community meeting will fall during the QA Work week

Action items/Notes from (20110824) meeting

  • GTAC
    • Consensus around the theme
    • Perhaps Involve Bob's group
    • Advertise in GTAC forums, Linked in, Lightning talks
    • What is the goal of having the meetup?
      • I think we want to keep the notion of talks to lightning talks - social interaction should be emphasized
  • Adding others to this meeting:
    • Increase the visibility of our involvement into community - advertising blitz to this meeting. Call into this meeting.
    • Focal point of our community involvement. Call to our community - Adding others to this meeting -> Broader community -> Focal point - wider participation in this meeting.
    • Key is to Advertise as much as we possibly can - Better communication - Every Two weeks
  • QA Ambassadors
    • Building a more global community - have people involved in more places around the world
    • We should think of anything we could ask of them - owen
    • What do we want them to do?
    • Draft Document is on Google documents -> Will send out in notes
  • Test Days
    • Testday Drivers/Topics for September
    • Matt recommends not doing something on 9/2
    • Can we use vidyo - record a webcast of the screen sharing video itself - planning to do for this test day on Friday. AI - Advertise it - Trial run with Joe Drew this Friday
    • Recorded session versus webcast - what we can do with it.
    • Combination would be good - screencast

Action Items/Notes from (20110713) meeting

  • GTAC - Matt will register team. Something around test automation - demo hot tools in automation. October 26-27, 2011 in Mt. View
  • Firefox Testday Cadence
    • Best time for Beta test day is one week after the merge
    • Best time for Aurora test day is 4 weeks after the merge
    • ashughes to create public page to suggest topics
  • QMO
    • http://quality.mozilla.org/teams/qmo-community/ - do we really need it? owen is confused and other people may be confused.
    • File a bug to remove the QA Community Team Page
    • How we do our org chart internally-and how we present to community does not have to be a 1:1 correlation.

Action items from (20110615) meeting

  • marcia and owen to meet to talk about badging rewards

Action items from (20110601) meeting

Action Items from (20110518) meeting

  • [DONE] ashughes to add TestDay checklist info to https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/QA_Community/Meetings/2011-05-18 and also make the schedule a static link
  • 'Marcia to add a Brainstorming scrumpad to Community page where suggestions can be made such as improvements to QMO, video ideas, etc.'
  • Marcia to follow up with Rainer to get the video of the QA team at Whistler
  • Marcia to Dig deeper with Mary about events after Friday meeting
  • Tracy owes Tony a video for sync - Introduction to Sync - Tips and Tricks on how to test
  • Al to get TwoPress URL - maybe look at it once it is up on QMO staging site
  • Expansion of testdays into the European and Asian

timezones. Softvision can help us here. Henrik sees this as very impt. to the expansion of our community

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