WeeklyUpdates/2011-10-31

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Video for today’s meeting

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Friends of the Tree

Speaker Location: Mountain View

Upcoming Events

Speaker Location: Mountain View

This Week

Monday, 31 October

• Happy Halloween!
• Cathy Davidson presents “Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn”. 10-Forward in Mountain View at 12:30pm Pacific time, and on Air Mozilla

Tuesday, 1 November

• Paris office closed for All Saint’s Day

Wednesday, 2 November

• Jenn Ng User Experience Researcher from Palm/HP will be giving a brown bag at noon in 10Forward talking about her process and findings on various studies relating to webOS.

Thursday, 3 November

• Brown Bag: Getting More Contributors Involved with Mozilla
  • Time: 12 noon pacific / 19:00 GMT (other times around the world)
  • Audio: Dial 1-800-707-2533 (password 369) or 1-650-215-1282 (extension 92#) then dial Conference number 8600#
  • Video: http://air.mozilla.org
  • IRC: irc://irc.mozilla.org/airmozilla

Friday, 4 November

Mozilla Festival begins!

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Future (8, 9, 10)

Speaker Location: Phone (johnath)

• Firefox 8 is virtually done
  • Any outstanding issues need to be resolved TODAY
  • Signoff meeting will be scheduled for later this week, likely Wednesday

• If you read only one article on the future of Firefox feature development this week, read Dietrich’s

• Source migration is in 1 week!

Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0 – 7.0)

Speaker Location: No voice update

• Planning to go to build today for Firefox 3.6.24
• There will be a 3.6.25, shipping with Firefox 9

Mobile Firefox

‘Speaker Location:

Nightlies (without auto update quite yet) are here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-birch-android/

Thunderbird

Speaker Location: Toronto

• Ran the TB8-TB9 compatibility update for addons.
  • 325 tested, 16 fail, 309 pass.
• We’ve got a test build of Tabs-on-Top.
  • Try it out, and let mconley know what you think!

Drumbeat

Speaker Location: Toronto

• Mozilla Festival kicks off Friday in London!
  • Coming? Please add yourself here
  • Follow along through #mozfest or the Festival blog

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.

Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details	Location
Zandr Milewski	Air Mozilla	None	Quick update on the present and future of Air Mozilla	Mountain View

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• AMO 6.2.7: http://cl.ly/0i0I3d121f0o293k2p0t
• SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-10-25

QA Community

• Results of Firefox Test Day last Friday: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/testday-20111028

Browser Tech

• 8.0b5 mobile QA results
• Fennec Perf Ts
• BrowserID Train 10: 10/20/2011
• Sync Server 10/25/2011 Release

Automation Services

Automation & Tools

• Landed Talos user responsiveness tests, but had to be backed out due to crashes and hangs that did not appear in staging. Investigation ongoing.
• Developing an error reporting system for BMO
• Tp nochrome now working for Native Fennec builds, tpan, tzoom, reftest, and browser-chrome replacement still underway
• More updates here

Security

Security Reviews Scheduled for this week

Date / Time	Item
Mon Oct 31 / 13:00 PST	BrowswerID API
Thu Nov 03 / 10:00 PST	WebBattery (Fennec) bug 678694
Fri Nov 04 / 10:00 PST	Flash for Android

Calendar and Meeting details

General Meeting Details
* IRC Channel: #security
* Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/secreview
* Dial-in Info:
** 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 624

Security Severity Ratings Changes

• new version of the severity ratings will be posted 31-Oct-2011
  • New layout
  • includes sections for bugzilla keyword & Feature Page Security Usage
  • Ending the use of sg:crit? & sg:critical?

SecTeam Conferences

• Brandon Sterne; W3C TPAC 2011
• Lucas Adamski & Dan Veditz: BlueHatv11
• Curtis Koenig: SkyDocCon

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla’s Brendan Eich on JavaScript – and Microsoft Buying Netscape

• Mozilla Develops Firefox Version That Favors Bing

• Mozilla Brings Sharing to the Browser With ‘Firefox Share’
• Firefox learns to share, again

• Mozilla Foundation Opens Branch Office in Taiwan

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
New person’s name here	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	What will the new person be working on?
Frederik Braun	Michael Coates	Mountain View	Infrastructure Security
Hubert Figuiere	David Bolter	Toronto Office	Accessibility
Shezmeen Prasad	Stormy Peters	Mountain View Office	Developer Engagement
Marlena Compton	Stephen Donner	Mountain View Office	Web QA Engineer
Peter Bengtsson	Laura Thomson	Peter in MV, Laura on the phone	Web Developer
Nicolas Pierron	David Mandelin	Mountain View Office	Software Engineer
Jan de Mooij	David Mandelin	Mountain View Office	Software Engineer

Foundation Updates

Roundtable