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QA Services Team Meeting
- August 25, 2010
- Attendees: Matt, Marco, Marcia, Henrik, Tomcat, Anthony
Discussion Items
Project Status
CrashKill [tomcat/marcia]
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/2010-08-24 was held yesterday.
- Continued effort to catch crashes early on the trunk.
- Awaiting the shipping of Beta 4 to start getting Beta 4 crashes on file.
- was the first time it was annoucent on planning and got feedback from others! (Tomcat)
Accessibility Status Update [marco]
- Serious regressions were fixed shortly after last week's staff meeting, but still remaining bug 580464 and bug 580535, which both depend on bug 570275, which received a breakthrough information last night and can commence.
- Am going to be involved in HTML5 forms enhancements now that they have landed. Need to make sure these are all accessible.
- Also evaluating the initial MozMill a11y/l10n API work.
- Firefox 3.6.9/Thunderbird 3.1.3 are good to go from the a11y side. Two important fixes landed in the 1.9.2.9 platform which have a positive impact on user experience on both supported platforms.
Community Building (ideas and progress) [marcia/tomcat]
- Tomcat
- Announced my role as QA L10n Coordinator in the l10n newsgroup
- Nightly Tester list is up and running - subscribe (so far only a few people from the QA Team are on the list)
- Sent email to Matt about some interesting events in Berlin and SE Asia
- Community Events [marcia]
- Resent mail to Mark Surman asking if we can leverage some of the Drumbeat events.
- Adding a session to the QA Work Week to talk about Community Event Planning for the remainder of this year and into 2011.
- Three different sources for events:
- William Quiviger - European Events
- Gen Kanai - Asia events
- Sarah Doherty - US/South America events
- Three different sources for events:
QA Videos [marcia]
- Rollup of videos we need to shoot during Work Week
- Reshoot Tomcat, Martijn and Henrik with soccer ball.
- Henrik MozMill video
- Marco video
- Need to figure out when we will do this during work week
- Matt had an idea to do a QA Science Fair video
- We would use the robot to connect Dave, and then follow the robot around as various QAers do demos.
QMO [aakashd]
- Al and I are working on mock-ups for QMO 3.0
- We'll have a PRD finished by the end of this week
- Development time should start either next week or the week after
Roundtable
- QMO Newsletter
- Mozilla is switching to a new system
- Only change we would have to make on QMO would be a link to the sign-up form
- Quesition is what we want to ask on the sign up form beside emailadress and newsletter format (html/text). We could also ask in what QA Area are interested in.
- Planning in-litmus? Bugday during QA work week [ashughes]
- Toying with idea of a week-long "bugday" to clean up in-litmus? queue
- Call it something like "Mozilla's September Bugzilla Challenge Week"
- Will be looking for internal signups in different roles (leaders, triagers, educators, etc)
- Opportunity to learn about triaging, good bug language, and test case writing
- Prizes for tiers of contribution with a grand prize for the top contributor(s)
- Finalized Bugday to be posted by end-of-week
- Any suggestions/ideas/thoughts/questions from the team?
- QMO Community Leaderboard [ashughes]
- I'd like to propose adding a leaderboard to QMO
- Different categories: Overall, Triage, Test Case writer, etc
- Have a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prize on a quarterly basis for top contributor(s)
- Makes contributing a bit competitive and more fun
- I'd like to draft up a proposal for the QA work week
- Any suggestions/ideas/thoughts/questions from the team?
- Post-crash User Engagement
Action Items/Takeaways
Notes and Action Items:
- Matt: Reminder for all of QA to Sign up for the nightly tester list
- Meetups
- Berlin event - end of September - good event to target
*Videos:
- What is the difference between the video Matt proposed and what Henrik is doing for MozMill?
- Introduction of the teams - team leads say who they are
- Any instructional types of videos that you want to put - outside community members would benefit from
- Example could be Henrik's talk from the Summit or "What is Brasstacks?"
- We should take advantage of the fact we are together for work week
- Rainer can show people how to put a good screencast together
- All hands in December would be a good time to do new videos
- What is the difference between the video Matt proposed and what Henrik is doing for MozMill?
*QMO.next session at Work Week
*QMO newsletter
- Still in development phase
- QA needs to figure out:
- Review what it is our parameters.
- What is available to us - content management system would it use and who would be responsible for designing it - copy edit.
- Marcia to set a Meeting for this during the Work Week.
- Some ideas about what the newsletter could contain:
- Bug Section
- Community Member of the Month
- Conferences
- First iteration sent it out to nightly and beta testers, types of advertisements that we do - make a link on Facebook - advertise that we do this monthly newsletter. Define what kind of content - what kinds of articles
ashughes - Bug Week and Leadership Board
- Offering prizes for top contributors
- Matt - Get it published and advertise - how do they get involved
- Define what tasks need owners - ownership question.
- Over the next week or two gets defined.
- Targeting proposal by Thursday of Friday
- Separate email - participation will be mandatory and also asking for ideas
- Leadership Board
- Achievements plugin for wordpress plugin for Buddypress
- What is the value of these badges - what do they represent -
- Automated ways to get tallies - otherwise overhead on admin side
- Be Careful about how we implementation
- What are the maintenance requirements to ensure its proper operation over time.
- Definition of currency
- Anthony to create the working document and present to team
- marcia to follow up with David Tenser re: post-crash User Engagement Goal. We need to clarify QA's role and see what can be done in B5 timeframe.