WeeklyUpdates/2012-05-07
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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 IT
- 2.1.4 Services
- 2.1.5 Messaging
- 2.1.6 Mobile
- 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
- Special thanks to both RelEng & IT/Ops & RelOps for Saturday tree-closing work. These teams worked hard most of the day Saturday to avoid developer disruption.
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 07 May
Tuesday, 08 May
Wednesday, 09 May
Brownbag Title | Time | Presenter | Topic |
---|---|---|---|
Towards a Typed Dialect of JavaScript | 1:00PM | Ravi Chugh | Intern's final presentation. |
Thursday, 10 May
Brownbag Title | Time | Presenter | Topic | Time |
---|---|---|---|---|
Lessons Learned from Field Research in China, India, and Japan | Noon | Carissa Carter | Carissa Carter is a Principal at Parallel Design Labs - a startup design group focused on connecting craft, human-centered design, and systemic thinking. We create products and teach design processes to corporate clients, higher-ed students, and beyond. |
Friday, 11 May
- The WebFWD teams are in town. Come and say Hi - we're camping out in MV on the 3rd floor.
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- Seeing good falloff in 3.6 usage post-EOL
- Kyle has a great post about shutting down chrome-content leaks. This means, in particular, fewer leaks from add-ons.
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- 3 code blockers left for beta
- Aiming for go to beta build this week
Thunderbird
Speaker Location:
Popcorn
Brett Gaylor, remote from Victoria BC Popcorn Maker 0.4 - Top Gun! https://github.com/mozilla/butter Live at http://mozillapopcorn.org:8888/
Living Docs event at Hot Docs a success: http://livingdocs.org/hot-hacks-roundup/
Read about it on about.com http://documentaries.about.com/od/documentaryfestivals/a/Mozillas-Hot-Hacks-Workshop-At-Hot-Docs-2012.htm?nl=1
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Identity
Speaker Location:
Services
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 |
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WebFWD Hack Day | Pascal Finette | The WebFWD teams are in town -- join us on Saturday for a public hack day (in person in MV and on IRC #webfwd). | -- | RSVP here: http://webfwdopenworkday-es2.eventbrite.com/ |
The Grim Tab Reaper | Jono Xia | I wrote an add-on that causes tabs you haven't touched in a while to automatically decay into bookmarks. Please try it out! | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/the-grim-tab-reaper/ | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/the-grim-tab-reaper/ |
40,207 test jobs in 24 hours (Thurs, 3rd May) | John O'Duinn |
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? |
Georg Fritzsche | Benjamin Smedberg | Germany | Software Engineer, Platform |
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? |
Paul Stansifer | Dave Herman | Mountain View | Rust syntax extension/macro system |
Roundtable
<meta>
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
IT
- A huge thanks to cshields, digi, fox2mike, casey, justdave, lerxst, rtucker in IT, and nthomas, rail, catlee, bear, joduinn for a Saturday maintenance window to get our FTP/Rsync/Surf and Tinderbox infrastructure into SCL3
- Lots of DBA Activity, as usual
- moved graphs.mozilla.org (both prod and stage) from SJC1 to SCL3
- MXR (mxr.mozilla.org) moved from SJC1 to SCL3
Services
Messaging
Mobile
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
- Mozilla.com
- shipped 2.3 last week
- Mozillians
- Automation is still blocked by bug 742017
- MDN
- working on next [release]
- Socorro
- Successful milestone 8 release last Wed.
- New [https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/crash_trends Crash Trends report]
- SUMO
- Continuous deployment, no updates
- MozTrap
- Converting tests to WebDriver with help from zac
QA Community
Automation Services
Automation & Tools
- Jgriffin put together a great post on crafting marionette tests for B2G
- Wlach got the Galaxy Nexus working with Eideticker
- Edmorley helped coordinate the libxul linking/tree closure issues: We need to build on 64 bit windows machines
- Henrik replaced some very fragile code in Mozmill when it got broken by YACC (Yet Another Compartments Change): bug 751424
- Bc notes that it's time for Patch Tuesday! Update All The Things.
- More notes are here
Security
Engagement
PR
- New Firefox Design Will Offer Uniform Look Across Desktop and Mobile
- Mozilla pushes unified interface for all versions of Firefox
- Firefox Merging Desktop And Mobile Experience Into One
Events
Creative Team
Community Marketing
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Apps
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
People Team
WebFWD
Join us (and our teams) on Saturday, May 12 for an Open Work Day: learn about our projects and roll up your sleeves to test, code, write, document, localize and more! Best of all, you can do this in Mountain View or on IRC (#webfwd); details at https://webfwdopenworkday.eventbrite.com/