Mozilla QA Meeting August 20, 2014

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Actions From Last Week

• Find Documentation Shepherd

Discussion Zone

• [ctalbert] - New Meeting format Proposal: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Ctalbert/Test_QA_Mtg_Format
• Community Call Report from maker party
  • Proposing 8AM time for it: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140820T08&p1=224
  • Is there a good means to poll the community on this and see if that works?
• [mbrandt] dropping the gauntlet - http://weekendtesting.com/ - A platform for software testers to collaborate, test various kinds of software, foster hope, gain peer recognition, and be of value to the community.
• [mbrandt] Moztrap updates - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/moztrap-meeting-2014-08-14
• [ctalbert] - There will be a moztrap downtime at 6pm Pacific this Friday. Expected outage window is 5 minutes. (Making Moztrap more failure resistant)
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1035951

QA Show and Tell

https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Show-and-Tell#Schedule

• This week:
  • Johan showing off the b2g smoketest dashboard
    • http://mozilla-b2g.github.io/b2g-dashboard/
    • What was previously discussed in this meeting: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/StaffMeetings/QA-Staff-06-25-2014#QA_Show_and_Tell
    • What next?
      • See version in both charts
      • Filter by status
      • Include Moztrap data
    • Any late comment, feedback or bug? https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/b2g-dashboard/issues
• Next week:

Milestones and Calls for Action

Achievements

Upcoming Events/Conferences

Community

• Interesting Blog posts
  • http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/quality-over-quantity/
• Grow Mozilla/Tunisia Update
  • Communication received from Larissa that this event as well as all future events for the rest of the year have been postponed (Tunisia and Buenos Aires)
    • The plan is to re-work the strategy and content.
    • There is a mention of activities, campaigns and distributed events taking the place of these events, but there is no detail beyond that.
      • Attend the Champions meeting this Friday if you are interested in discussing this topic further
• QA Champions
  • Next meeting this Friday August 22: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/community-champions-20140822
• Baloo
  • one and done data import in progress.
• One and Done (readonly)
  • New tests added for Aurora (by Francesca)
  • good progress on task importing from bugzilla
• QMO Redesign Meeting
  • started looking into Google Analytics/usage metrics, but trying to figure out how to filter out automation traffic from the metrics - [stephend]
  • Next meeting is Thursday, August 21 -> 11 AM Pacific
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/QMO#2014_Re-design
  • Met with Chris Mills last week
    • Notes from that meeting: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/QMO-Docs-ChrisMills
    • His Documentation Plan: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Plans/QA_documentation_plan

Contributor Welcome

These are new contributors, if you see them around, say hello

• Marcela, a Romanian contributor with her new Flame device: https://twitter.com/ioana_cis/status/502159273129164801

Contributor Honor Roll

For those that went above and beyond this week, we salute you here.

Updates

How To Find Us

Internal Goals

• Monthly Review: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Goals/2014q3
  • In-meeting review first meeting of every month

Detailed Updates

Below follows detailed updates on what each team is working on and toward. The leads highlighted in each section are the people you want to find if you're interested in helping out.

Firefox (Juanb)

• Firefox
• ESR (mwobensmith)
• Stability (KaiRo)
  • Beta numbers are improving
  • Aurora getting patches for OMTC instabilities
  • Plans for switching to more reliable ADI (blocklist ping) servers are moving forward
• Automation (ashughes)
• Security (mwobensmith)
  • Preliminary key pinning going into Fx32: https://wiki.mozilla.org/SecurityEngineering/Public_Key_Pinning#Implementation_status
  • We are rolling back remote lookups for safe browsing in Fx32 due to concerns over false positives and lack of UI: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1055670

Firefox for Android (Kbrosnan/AaronMT)

• Firefox
  • Stability (kbrosnan)

Firefox OS (Tchung)

• Product (Jason/Naoki)
• Stability (nhirata)

Platform (sydpolk)

Services (Edwong)

* Loop/Push load testing

Web (Stephend)

• Affiliates
  • Project has been de-prioritized and will be reviewed in 2015 for prioritization
• Bouncer
  • taking several small fixes/tweaks to the automated tests; backend fix to bouncer staging failures worked
• Engagement Projects
• Firefox Health Report
• Firefox Marketplace
• Mozilla.com
• Mozillians
  • working to create a solution that prevents repaving of stage testing accounts while protecting PII
• Socorro
  • no updates - continuous delivery

Firefox Automation (Whimboo)

• General
• Projects
  • Mozmill

Travel / PTO

• kthiessen on PTO Fri 2014-08-22

Action Items