WeeklyUpdates/2012-03-19

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Contents 1 All-hands Status Meeting Agenda 1.1 Friends of the Tree 1.2 Upcoming Events 1.2.1 This Week 1.2.2 Monday, 19 March 1.2.3 Tuesday, 20 March 1.2.4 Wednesday, 21 March 1.2.5 Thursday, 22 March 1.2.6 Friday, 23 March 1.2.7 Sunday, 25 March 1.2.8 Next Week 1.3 Product Status Updates (voice updates) 1.3.1 Firefox Desktop 1.3.2 Mobile Firefox 1.3.3 Thunderbird 1.3.4 Older Branch Work 1.3.5 Popcorn 1.3.6 Identity 1.3.7 Services 1.4 Speakers 1.5 Introducing New Hires 1.6 Introducing New Interns 1.7 Roundtable 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 2.1.8.1 Test Execution 2.1.8.2 WebQA 2.1.8.3 QA Community 2.1.8.4 Automation Services 2.1.9 Automation & Tools 2.1.10 Security 2.1.10.1 Security Reviews & Threat Modeling Sessions Scheduled for this week 2.1.10.2 Security Review Needed but Unscheduled 2.1.11 Engagement 2.1.11.1 PR 2.1.11.2 Events 2.1.11.3 Creative Team 2.1.11.4 Community Marketing 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

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of the Tree

• Great work by the Fx team (and Platform Layout team) on landing the New Tab speed dial feature for Firefox 13. Shout out to Tim Taubert, Jennifer Morrow, Stephen Horlander and many others!

Upcoming Events

This Week

• Help QA name our new tool!
  • QA has been working on a new Test Case Management tool (to replace Litmus later in 2012). And for some tl;dr reasons, we’re looking for a new name before the 3/30 release of 1.0. We have a short list of names and would love for YOU, the Community, to chime in this week with your opinions and creativity. We’ll choose the new name this weekend.
  • Blog post
  • Take the Survey

Monday, 19 March

Tuesday, 20 March

Wednesday, 21 March

• Contributor Training: Student Reps 101 // March 21st at 10am PT at SFO Commons + Air Mozilla // Please promote // Thanks!

Thursday, 22 March

Friday, 23 March

Sunday, 25 March

• Contributor Training: Student Reps 101 // Sunday, March 25th at 7am PT on Air Mozilla // Please promote // Thanks!

Next Week

• Contributor Engagement BrownBag – Monday, 3/26, @ 4pm Pacific.

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: no voice update (hello from London!) (there’s a lot of jetlag here!)

• 4 — yes 4! — exciting pieces of UI updates coming soon!
  • new about:home landing progress bug 711157
  • new new-tab designs bug 729878
  • new download manager landing progress bug 564934
  • new web apps UI bug 697006, bug 702363

Mobile Firefox

Speaker Location: None

• Closing on beta
  • Merged Maple into mozilla-central last week
  • Beta blocker list is going in the right direction

Thunderbird

Speaker Location: Toronto

• Two new features landed in Daily & Earlybird:
  • Instant Messaging
    • Add Twitter, Facebook Chat, Google Talk, IRC to Thunderbird
    • Search through your instant messaging conversations
  • Filelink
    • Use online storage services to store large size email file attachments

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Popcorn

Speaker Location: Matt Thompson in Toronto (Brett Gaylor’s on a plane)

• Popcorn.js shipped version 1.2 last week. Blog post is here
• More on new features

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
Chief Lizard Wrangler	Mitchell Baker	Audio / Video Codecs	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/video-mobile-and-the-open-web/; http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/03/18/video-user-experience-and-our-mission/
Web Standards Lead	Tantek Çelik	Mozillians working on Standards	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Standards
Firefox Clinic	Michael Verdi – in this video	Help users at the Firefox Clinic – March 24th in San Francisco	Video	http://blog.mozilla.org/sumo/2012/03/12/help-firefox-users-at-the-firefox-clinic/
Contributor Training Announcement	Jason Haas	Student Reps 101	http://studentreps.mozilla.org

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?
Desiree Almendral	James Murdock	Mountain View, CA	Legal Counsel
Adrian Fernandez	Phong Tran	Mountain View, CA	Site Reliability Engineer
David Hylands	Faramarz Rashed	Mountain View, CA	System Engineer, Boot to Gecko
Joanne Nagel	Susan Chen	Mountain View, CA	Strategic Partner Manager
Chris Appleton	Matt Thompson	Toronto, ON	Graphic Designer
Christopher Arnold	Susan Chen	San Francisco, CA	Persona – BD

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?

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

Services

Standing up the preliminary Apps-in-the-Cloud servers this week for the Apps team to develop against.

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • Successful 3/14 release – push bug 735679
  • [fromAutomation] bug 735058
• AMO
  • lots of cleanup/refactoring of tests
  • Marlena will be focused on Browser Quest
  • Testday scheduled for March 28 (Thx Teodosia)
• Mozilla.com
  • parts of 1.10 shipped
• Mozillians
  • 3/14 release was at risk and missed
  • next release scheduled for 3/21
• MDN
  • 2.4.5 release shipped
• Socorro
  • Successful 2.5.1 milestone 3/14 release
  • [fromAutomation] bug 735860
• SUMO
  • Fully on continuous deployment
  • Migrated to WD, will migrate the Jenkins job very soon
• Case Conductor
  • Testing .9, discussing the new name for the product

QA Community

Automation Services

• Blog post: MemChaser 0.2.1 released
• Blog post: Automation Services Week 05 Mar – 09 Mar

Automation & Tools

• Eideticker automation is up and running
• Fennec Stats from running on real phones are now publicly available once more
• New Do I have a Pulse tool to translate buildbot messages into a standardized set of messages in order to be more predictable.
• Preparing to roll out the new row-major run mode for TP5 talos tests
• More information available here

Security

Security Reviews & Threat Modeling Sessions Scheduled for this week

Date / Time	Item
Mon Mar 19 / 13:00 PST	None
Wed Mar 20 / 13:00 PST	None
Thu Mar 15 / 10:00 PST	None / Security Post Mortem instead
Fri Mar 16 / 10:00 AM PST	None

Calendar and Meeting details

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

• Review Needed

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

We are in the throes of planning our 2nd WebFWD Summit. The theme is “Making it Work – Building successful Open Source Projects.” Tentative dates (pending confirmations from some outside participants) is May 11 – 14. Stay tuned for details!

Foundation Updates