WeeklyUpdates/2012-10-15

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All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of the Tree

• KAREN!

Upcoming Events

Monday, 15 October

• SecReview: 13:00 PST-B2G Updates

Wednesday, 17 October

• SecReview: 13:00 PST - Campaign management / product announcements for Firefox for Android aka. snippets

Thursday, 18 October

• SecReview/Threat Model: 10:00 PST - Payment Flow Threat Model

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Flagrant abuse of the bully pulpit
• Dig that crazy Social API on beta
• Holy crap WebRTC!
• And click to play plugin blocklisting
• And did I mention remote debugging b2g from desktop?

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Reader mode in 16 is making people happy
• And we're seeing 4x input traffic and increased review volume
• Aurora has safe browsing, holy wow!
• Aurora also has reflow on zoom, and needs your help
• Oh and Aurora fixes our top 5 crashers
• Private browsing is landed in nightly, UI hidden behind a pref

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

No voice update this week

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• We're especially looking for: UX designers, Javascript developers, and Firefox OS / mobile hackers

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

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Firefox OS

Speaker Location: No audible, carry on.

• Focusing on bugs, performance and stability. And gently refocusing those who aren't.
  • Blocker burndown charts: http://people.mozilla.org/~lmandel/basecamp/
• Dogfooding blocked by owner a few final bugs. Ensuring updates are bulletproof is important.

Grow Mozilla

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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
Webtools	Laura Thomson	New Bouncer! New Air Mozilla! New Socorro!		http://www.laurathomson.com/2012/10/ship-it-a-big-week-in-webtools/
One Mozilla Style Guide	John Slater	It's live...feel the awesomeness!		http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/

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?
Jim Chen	Doug Turner	Toronto	Software Engineer
Aaron Klotz	Taras Glek	Toronto	Platform Engineer
Florian Queze	JB Piacentino	France	Software Engineer
Maureen Hanratty	Maria Sandberg	Mountain View	User Experience Designer
Bill Maggs	Paxton Cooper	Mountain View	Director of Product Management App Marketplace Developer Platform
Samantha Nguyen	Mathew Caldwell	Mountain View	Recruiting Coordinator	_

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?

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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)

QA

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • Affiliates FB app released 9/5
  • Chief release last week
• B2G
  • We are moving all of our tests into Moztrap
  • camd will be implementing the needed features in Moztrap during the month of October
• Bouncer
  • Shipped Bouncer 2.0, with support for serving up the Firefox stub installer
• Mozilla.com
  • shipped Style Guide, new About page and SMS pages
• MDN
  • shipping release this week
• Socorro
  • Milestone 18 successfully released 2012-09-13 -- this is the MoBeta release .. lot's of new functionality.
• SUMO
  • SUMO UI revamp testing underway

Automation & Tools

• Eideticker ran its first B2G test last week - the simple clock test to verify that all the necessary plumbing is working
• B2G Emulator tests will show up on Cedar this week to be followed quickly by mochitest once bug 798580 is resolved.
• Best practices for integration with Bugzilla have been published, please take a look if you own anything that polls bugzilla.
• Integration testing of "Black Mobile Magic" -- our libraries and systems to automatically flash panda boards with OS's -- was successful. This was flashing with Android OS. As bug 778248 is resolved we will do the same testing and complete more error handling code to enable us to automatically flash Panda boards with B2G.
• The Datazilla JSON APIs are live! You can see all our performance statistics that we are tracking and read about these web services here
• More information here

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla wants social media integrated into Firefox 17
• Mozilla Wants to Put Social Networks in the Browser
• Mozilla And Facebook Testing Social API In Firefox Beta

• Mozilla praised for pulling flawed Firefox 16

• Mozilla Adds Click-to-Play Plugin Security Feature to Firefox Beta