WeeklyUpdates/2012-02-13
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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
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Contents
- 1 Friends of the Tree
- 2 Upcoming Events
- 3 Product Status Updates
- 4 Speakers
- 5 Status Updates By Team
- 6 Introducing New Hires
- 7 Introducing New Interns
- 8 Foundation Updates
- 9 Roundtable
Friends of the Tree
Jan, Leo, Debloper, Lucy, Santiago, Baptiste, Pierros, Corey and more for the launch of Mozilla Antarctica
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 13 February
Tuesday, 14 February
Wednesday, 15 February
Thursday, 16 February
Interview 101 Brownbag in 10-Fwd 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Friday, 17 February
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)
- Desktop 2012 Roadmap published.
- 4 weeks until migration day
- Dietrich presented Developing Firefox in 2012 at FOSDEM, and you should check it out.
Mobile Firefox
Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)
- We're going to make panning amazingly amazing
- Stay tuned for beta schedule updates - stick with nightly/aurora for the mo'
Thunderbird
Speaker Location: (no voice update this week)
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Drumbeat
Speaker Location:
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Director, Mozilla Creative | John Slater | Tabzilla & One Mozilla | Tabzilla in action & mozilla.org redesign | Redesigning as One Mozilla blog |
Your Title Here | Your Name Here | What are you going to talk about? | Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen | Link to where audience can find out more information |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
- Engagement projects
- Affiliate
- 2/08 release yesterday, bug 725245
- AMO
- Native marks are in
- Engagement
- Careers released
- DTPT patch release went out 2/8
- Input
- Project hand-off from mbrandt to zac
- Mozilla.com
- shipped 1.5 this week
- Mozillians
- 1.3 milestone is blocked by bug 725403
- MDN
- Socorro
- 2.4.2 milestone is being staged today for a 2/15 release
- stephend is providing coverage for next week's release
- SUMO
- 2/7 release went out, 50% of users are currently on Elastic search
- 2/14 release in process
- Questions day February 2nd- went really well, answered 80% of new questions for the day [over 250], which was great as it was right after FF10 went out
- Some work will be done on sumo-tests to bring up to standard
- Case Conductor
- Working towards feature parity with new django build, aiming for early February
QA Community
- Blog post: Desktop and Android Web Apps Test Day
Automation Services
- Blog post: How I fixed a Mozmill freeze by bisecting Python
- Blog post: Mozmill 1.5.9 released
- Blog post: MemChaser – An extension to track Firefox’s memory activities
- Spike in memory usage detected in Mozmill Endurance tests when leaving PB mode in 64bit Nightly builds on Mac OS X (bug 724553)
Automation & Tools
- Memory was added to BMO's Servers, should improve responsiveness
- Implemented AutoLand BMO extension for Lukas Blakk for integrating with Auto Try system (under review)
- Wrote a bunch of docs on Marionette in preparation for our security review today
- Got Fennec ARMv6 builds building - bug 697205
- Robocop (UI Automation for Native Fennec) Is live and landed on TBPL (it's the "U" on the android build line, we need a better letter).
- JetPerf is moving to the next phase of deployment - integration with buildbot and graphserver.
- Our Complete Status is Here
Security
Security Reviews Scheduled for this week
Date / Time | Item |
---|---|
Mon Feb 13 / 13:00 PST | Marionette |
Wed Feb 15 / 13:00 PST | AVAILABLE |
THU Feb 16 / 10:00 PST | AVAILABLE |
Fri Feb 17 / 10:00 AM PST | AVAILABLE |
General Meeting Details * IRC Channel: #security * Etherpad: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/secreview * Vidyo: https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=5XEMsG1ApA4b (Room 9058) * 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 99058
For updates to meetings please see the Security Review Calendar
- HTML: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review.html
- .ics: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review
Security Review Needed but Unscheduled
Engagement
PR
- Mozilla's plan for 2012: Break the ecosystem lock
- Mozilla Crafting Metro-Style Firefox for Windows 8
- Mozilla unveils 2012 roadmap: Windows 8 Metro Firefox, Home Tab, add-on improvements
Events
Creative Team
Community Marketing
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Apps
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
People Team
WebFWD
WebFWD Fellow (and also non-profit) CASH Music just launched a Kickstarter campaign on Friday. Please support their efforts to give web tools directly into the hands of musicians, who have yet to significantly benefit from web music technology to date. And pass it on :) http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cashmusic/cash-music-platform
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? |
Rosana Ardila | David Tenser | Berlin | SUMO |
Madalina Ana | David Tenser | Berlin | SUMO |
Zac Campbell | Stephen Donner | Mountain View | All things Selenium automation, and then some |
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? |