WeeklyUpdates/2012-02-06

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- 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

Friends of the Tree

Aleksej, gaby2300, lcamacho, Swarnava for triaging the most Firefox 11 bugs during QA's Firefox 11.0b1 testday last Friday
Ed Morley for all around awesomeness.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 06 February

Tuesday, 07 February

Wednesday, 08 February

Thursday, 09 February

Friday, 10 February

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

Firefox 10 went out last week, with addons compatible by default
Dig Lawrence's blog post about silent updates, most of which has already landed
Then check out Jared's performance work week recap
And then try out the Firefox/Features/New_Tab_Page new tab page (bug 455553) on nightly.
Oh, and gcp just replaced the safebrowsing database with a flat file (bug 673470), resulting in better IO performance and reducing the DB from 60MB to 6MB.
I thought I told you that we won't stop.

Firefox Android

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

Beta build with Native UI should happen this week
- It'll be en-US only while we figure out the best way to package/distribute multiple locales

Thunderbird

Speaker Location: Toronto (bwinton)

Thunderbird team is having a meet-up in the Toronto office this week.
- Come and say Hi if you're in the area.
Thunderbird 10 and Thunderbird 10 ESR released last week
3.1.x end of life announced for 24th April.

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

No voice update this week
Check out Chris Heilmann's awesome post & presentation on Mozilla Popcorn and the future of web-enabled video. From London's news:rewired.

Identity

Speaker Location:

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
SCL3	IT/Infra & Ops (no intro needed, video speaks for itself)	Mozilla's Santa Clara data center	The Video	Project: SCL3 blog

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

Affiliates
- Successful push, bug 722478
- Rajeev [:rshetty] led the release. Transitioning in as the QA lead on the project.
AMO
- AMO 6.4.0 is going live on 02/03
- Paypal Contribution test is merged
- MPL2 license is merged
Engagement
- Careers is blocked on one bug, waiting for ckoehler
- DTPT Phase II is complete
Mozilla.com
- shipped bugs for Firefox 10.0 release on 01/31
MDN
- shipped milestone 2.1
Socorro
- Successful 2.4.1 milestone released - bug 723185
SUMO
- 1/31 release went out, 25% of users are currently on Elastic search
- 2/7 release in process
Case Conductor
- Working towards feature parity with new django build, aiming for early February

QA Community

Automation Services

Blog post: Mozmill Crowd 0.1.5 released
Blog post: Case Conductor: I guess we could document it…
Blog post: Automating BrowserID with Selenium
Blog post: FOSDEM 2012, Add-on SDK, and slides for Mozmill CI

Automation & Tools

Worked with QA team to bring up automated testing of top 100 addons for default to compatible. Results are here. Still looking through failures, nothing unexpected at this time.
Much closer to working fennec arm v6 build
Marionette-gaia tests (b2g) are now running green
First pass of Talos + Jetpack (jetperf) is moving into its beta stage.
More news here

Security

security team Work Week in Santa Cruz, no reviews this week.

Engagement

PR

As Firefox 11 Hits Beta, Work Begins on Push Notifications for the Web

Events

A call for participation from paid staff will be sent out on February 10th. Volunteer invitations will also be sent out on this day. Please email knaszradi@mozilla.com if you have any questions.

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Demo Apps lining up for MWC
Apps Showcase launched Friday at noon in MV see Apps/ShowAndTells

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

We just launched our Affiliates Program > become one (we're listed under "Mozilla" at http://blog.webfwd.org/post/17155951369/become-a-webfwd-affiliate)!

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?
Joel Aguilera	Jill Van De Ven	Mt. View	Payroll Administrator
Bonnie Surender	Johnny Stenback	Mt. View	WebAPI team
Cody Brocious	Faramarz Rashed	New York	System Engineer B2G
Wesley Kocher	David Mason	Dakota City, IA	Bug Master/Release Engineer
Trevor Norris	Gilbert FitzGerald	Mt. View	Metrics Engineer

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?

Foundation Updates

Roundtable