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Friends of the Tree

Speaker Location: Mountain View

jdm nominates Andrew Quartey (drexler), a new contributor who has been active in a wide variety of bugs and submitting a flurry of patches to fix them all.

Upcoming Events

Speaker Location: Mountain View

This Week

Monday, 5 December

• Cross-Site Request Forgery - brownbag presentation by Frederik Braun, 12PM Noon PST
• The Webtools team is in Mountain View/San Francisco

Tuesday, 6 December

• Should Privacy Survive? - brownbag presentation by Dr. John Guelke, 12PM Noon PST
• Mobile Testdrivers Program - brownbag presentation by Alex Keybl, 1:30PM PST (moved to Friday)
• The Webtools team is in Mountain View/San Francisco

Wednesday, 7 December

• ZURB Design and rapid multi-platform prototyping - brownbag presentation by Jonathan Smiley and Matt Kelley, 12PM Noon PST
• The Webtools team is in Mountain View/San Francisco

Thursday, 8 December

• Contribute Group meeting
  • Meeting time: Thursday, December 8 at 10 AM Pacific (times around the world)
  • Audio: 1-800-707-2533, pin: 369, conf: 634
  • Back channel: irc://irc.mozilla.org#mozillians
  • Agenda: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla.org/Contribute/Group/12_08_11

• WebFWD Update - brownbag presentation by Pascal Finette & Diane Bisgeier, 12PM Noon PST

• How WebQA responds to, plans for, and executes on, new projects - Stephen Donner, 1:30PM PST

• The Webtools team is in Mountain View/San Francisco

Friday, 9 December

• WebGL Camp #4 - 10Forward - 8:30-5:00. Registration required. Mozillians, contact Havi (havi at mozilla dot com) for more info. [1]. Talks livestreamed on Air Mozilla.

• Knowing Where One's Towel Is (The Neurobiology of Decision Making) - brownbag presentation by Curtis Koenig, 12PM Noon PST

• Mobile Testdrivers Program - brownbag presentation by Alex Keybl, 1:30PM PST

• The Webtools team is in Mountain View/San Francisco

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox

Speaker Location: Toronto

• 2 weeks to migration day!
• Major update prompt to invite 3.6 users to (pleasepleaseprettyplease) migrate to 8.0 went out late last week, should have early numbers this week on its effect
• Firefox 8.0.1 post-mortem occurred on 12/2. Topics of discussion included add-on blocklisting, system restore runtime failure mitigation, and better tracking of pre-release 3rd party software.

Mobile Firefox

'Speaker Location:

• Don't have a phone? Not sure how to help out? Join the Mobile Test Drivers program

Thunderbird

Speaker Location: bwinton - Toronto

• Wednesday 7th December is the 7th Anniversary of Thunderbird 1.0.
• Daily builds now have default to compatible turned on for add-ons.

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

Speaker Location: No voice update this week. Presentation from Mark Surman to follow.

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.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Desktop Firefox

• Fx 3.6.x - 8.0.1 Major Update, tested and shipped
• Fx9 beta 4, tested and shipped
• Web compatibility run started (tests for compatibility issues)
• add-on, configuration compatibility test run starts (this week)
• graphics blocklisting (with refactored code on try-builds) starts this week

Mobile

• Deployed Fx9 beta 4 to market
• Read the weekly testing newsletter here
• Triaged 73 bugs from last week

BrowserID

• BrowserID workweek this week, also targeting test completion of Stage before going to prod this week thursday
• Production Deployment Plan

Open Web Apps

• First Open Web Apps last Friday
  • Feel Good Info:
    • We tested across multiple revisions of the extension / soup app
    • We continuously pushed changes to myapps.mozillalabs
    • We fixed / verified bugs across Windows / Linux / Mac OS X
  • Stats:
    • 32 filed / modified bugs
    • 18 Commits https://github.com/mozilla/openwebapps/
    • 4 Commits to Soup
    • At times over 60 people in #testday
    • 6-7 Contributors from Indonesia showed up at midnight (mdabbagh was online and managed to steer them in the right direction)

WebQA

• AMO 6.2.7: http://cl.ly/0i0I3d121f0o293k2p0t
• Mozillians 1.1 (continuing)
• SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-11-28

QA Community

Automation Services

• Selenium 2.14 released

Automation & Tools

• First run of b2g automation completed:
  • Build
  • Published build
  • Downloaded build on test machine
  • Installed build on emulator
  • Run Test
  • Published Results
  • The results will soon be appearing on autolog. Stay tuned.
• BugHunter is now tracking assertion messages both encountered during its test runs as well as our crash reproduction system.
• Peptest user responsiveness test harness landed in m-c.
  • Wrote some tests to show off how it works
  • Makefile target should land either today or tomorrow. Should be added as an option to try builds later this week or early next.
• More notes are here

Security

Calendar and Meeting details

General Meeting Details
* IRC Channel: #security
* Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/secreview
* Dial-in Info:
** In office or soft phone: extension 92
** US/INTL: 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 then extension 92
** Toronto: 416-848-3114 then extension 92
** Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369
** Conference num 624

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla's Catch-Up Strategy for Mobile
• Mozilla pushes Firefox fuddy-duddies toward the future
• amps up fight against anti-piracy and Internet protection bills
• Don't write off Mozilla-Google revenue deal as dead

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

Foundation Updates

Roundtable