WeeklyUpdates/2013-05-13
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- Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 8600
- People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 8600
- US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 8600
- US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 8600
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- CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 8600
- CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 8600
- UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 8600
- FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 8600
- Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
- SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
Contents
- 1 All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
- 2 <meta>
- 2.1 Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
- 2.1.1 Firefox
- 2.1.2 Platform
- 2.1.3 Services
- 2.1.4 Messaging
- 2.1.5 Mobile
- 2.1.6 IT
- 2.1.7 Release Engineering
- 2.1.8 QA
- 2.1.9 Automation & Tools
- 2.1.10 Security
- 2.1.11 Engagement
- 2.1.12 Support
- 2.1.13 Metrics
- 2.1.14 Evangelism
- 2.1.15 Labs
- 2.1.16 Apps
- 2.1.17 Developer Tools
- 2.1.18 Add-ons
- 2.1.19 Webdev
- 2.1.20 L10n
- 2.1.21 People Team
- 2.1.22 WebFWD
- 2.2 Foundation Updates
- 2.1 Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of the Tree 
- Thanks to all of the new contributors who helped with Firefox 21 and thanks to Josh and Seif for creating the report on activities for the release.
- Anthony Hughes would like to thank (hopefully I don't forget anyone) Simona Badau, Bhavana Bajaj, Juan Becerra, Carsten Book, Ioana Budnar, Raymond Etornam, Mike Hommey, Cornel Ionce, Michael Kaply, Alexandra Lucinet, Manuela Muntean, Phil Ringnalda, Gavin Sharp, Paul Silaghi, Hong Tang, Nick Thomas, Mihaela Velimiroviciu, Justin Wood, and Hector Zhao for working hard over the weekend to ensure we ship a top-quality Firefox 21 to all of our users on Tuesday.
Upcoming Events
This Week
- JavaScript team work week in Santa Cruz - AGENDA
Monday, 13 May
- 5:30-7:30 PM Mozilla SF / 6:00-7:00 PM on AirMozilla: SF Book Salon & Wine Reception for Susan Crawford. A decade ago, the US led the world in fast, cheap Internet. What happened? Signed books for those who arrive early.
Tuesday, 14 May
- 13:00 Security Champions
- "MTV-2J JK"; "SFO-7B The Warfield"; "TOR-5N Spadina"
- Vidyo: 2J
- Dial-in Info (phone):
- 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 95227
- IRC Backchannel: #security
Wednesday, 15 May
- Google I/O at Moscone Center
Thursday, 16 May
- Google I/O at Moscone Center
- Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific -- a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla
- Agenda and dial-in information (feel free to add items to the agenda)
Friday, 17 May
- Google I/O at Moscone Center
Saturday, 18 May
Sunday, 19 May
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop/Mobile
Speaker Location: Vancouver (johnath)
- Release week!
- Thanks for the last minute push, everyone
Thunderbird
Speaker Location:
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker Location: Ryan Merkley, Toronto
- This week: a sneak peek at Collusion 1.0. Releasing in June 2013. demo from Dethe Elza coming up in today's Lightning Presentation section. Watch a Popcorn version of his sneak peek demo here.
- Other ways to get involved with Webmaker this week:
- check out our new Webmaker blog
- the Webmaker community's 10 most awesome things on the web this week
- 12 ways to get involved with Webmaker
- Also: check out this photo of Mark Surman from the White House Science Fair Apr 22:
Identity
Speaker Location:
Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox OS
Speaker Location: No Audio. Yo.
- 1.0.1
- In IOT phase still: in-country testing of builds on devices in the target markets.
- 1.1
- Chipset vendor commercialization testing ending this week (except MMS).
- MMS: Merging back to master branch today, uplift to 1.1 at end of week. (Best tweet to describe this feature came from Robin Berjon, one of the W3C editors of HTML and DAP specs.)
- ZDNet: "Firefox OS puts a good $50 smartphone within reach"
Grow Mozilla
Speaker Location: San Francisco
Help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:
- September 23, 2002: Phoenix 0.1 is released, the first version of a browser that will be renamed to Firebird and then Firefox
60 Seconds with Mozilla IT
Speaker Location: mrz in SF
- Mozilla IT made some changes last week.
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. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week.
| Presenter | Title | Topic | Location | Share? | Media | More Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who Are You? | What Do You Do? | What are you going to talk about? | Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space) | Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, other info) | Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen | Link to where audience can find out more information |
| Diane Bisgeier | Program Manager, WebFWD | Help us recruit the next cohort for WebFWD - deadline is June 5! http://webfwd.org | Mozilla San Francisco | No screen share - just showing off the schwag you can get if you refer a team to our next class. | Here's the messenger bag :) > https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=361822707265407&set=pb.218655251582154.-2207520000.1367814592.&type=3&theater | Details on WebFWD at http://webfwd.org |
| Dethe Elza | Lead Developer, Collusion | Sneak peek at Collusion 1.0 | Pre-recorded demo video | Yes, playing video from Toronto | Popcorn demo video version | learn more about Collusion |
| Dia Bondi (IRC thejudge) | Head of Knowledge Cultivation | Capture Mozilla is Air.Mozilla too! + Badges | San Francisco | No | https://air.mozilla.org/channels/culture_and_context/ https://badges.mozilla.org/en-US/ https://air.mozilla.org/channels/ |
Introducing New Hires
| New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new hire? | Who will be introducing that person? | From which office will that introduction be transmitted? | Where will the new person be working from? | What will the new person be working on? |
| Travis Choma | Bill Walker | Mountain View | San Francisco | Software Architect, Apps |
| Peiying Mo | Chris Hofmann | Mountain View | Mountain View | Senior Localization Program Manager |
| Sole Penades | Frederic Wenzel | Mountain View | London, UK | Senior Web Developer, Developer Ecosystem |
| Candice Serran | Sheila Mooney | Mountain View | San Francisco | FirefoxOS |
Introducing New Interns
| New Intern | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Zbarsky | Fabrice | MV | MV | FFX OS |
| Mohammed Almeshekah | Camilo Viecco | MV | MV | Security Engineering |
| Subhadeep Paul | David Zeber | SF | SF | Metrics |
Roundtable
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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)
Firefox
Platform
Services
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
- Driving hard to qualify Firefox 21 release candidates ahead of this week's release [testplan]
WebQA
- B2G/Gaia testing:
- Have our Inari commercial-RIL build up and running in Jenkins
- we were waiting for the fix from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=840612 - Marionette turns off NetworkManager's control of offline state too aggressively, to land on 1.0.1
- ...and looks like we're hitting a commercial-RIL issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=869066
- we were waiting for the fix from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=840612 - Marionette turns off NetworkManager's control of offline state too aggressively, to land on 1.0.1
- Will soon branch and port tests over to 1.0.1
- Unfurling Marketplace/Payments blockers as we work through automation
- Standing the BIRT reports up
- Have our Inari commercial-RIL build up and running in Jenkins
- Engagement Projects
- Flicks: new promos, blog posts, partners and copy
- Reps: More of the new voting system has been implemented
- FHR
- Release scheduled for Tuesday, 2013-05-14 @ 6am
- https://etherpad.mozilla.org/FHRMeeting
- Working w/ the devs to get automation in place
- Firefox Marketplace
- http://mzl.la/10bLndx shipped Thursday
- Fireplace is being tested and is scheduled to go live this week
- Mozilla.org
- Mozillians
- UI redesign work is beginning - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozillians/Milestones/Phase3
- mozillians-dev.allizom.org is currently tracking the homepageredux developer branch
- The mozillians.dev job has been disabled in Jenkins
- A new Jenkins job called mozillians.homepageredux.dev has been created
- homepageredux branch created on https://github.com/mozilla/mozillians-tests to track new UX feature work
- Socorro
- Milestone 46 slated to release today - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&target_milestone=45&product=Socorro&list_id=6493476
QA Community
Automation & Tools
- New tracking-flags extension (bug 750742) and native REST API (bug 866927) are in the review phase.
- Orange Factor is finally making the switch to the IT ElasticSearch cluster - bug 870559
- Eideticker for b2g is now live
- Working on making b2g automation engine (aka Marionette) more stable and more available in user/nightly builds. More information soon on this.
- For now, the rest of the news is here
