WeeklyUpdates/2012-03-26
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All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of the Tree
The SUMO team would like to recognize these awesome people for helping users at the Firefox Clinic on Saturday: Dylan Verdi, Zhenshuo Fang, Tim Watts, James Ouyang, Crystal Beasley, Matthew Claypotch, Amy Tsay, Cori Schauer and Dan Callahan.
The snappy team would like to recognize Markus Stange for his outstanding contributions to the upcoming Gecko Profiler.
QA would like to recognize LightWaveX for finding a performance regression in Firefox 14.0a1 (bug 738709) during our Silent Update testday last Friday (not a Silent Update regression)
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 26 March
Tuesday, 27 March
Brownbag | Presenter | Time | Description |
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What Has the UR Team Been Up To? | User Research Team | 12:00pm PST – 10 Forward | TBA |
The War on Orange, soup to nuts | Mark Côté | 4:00pm TOR/ 1:00pm 10F – TOR Commons | An introduction to the War on Orange, an effort to dig into the spectre of intermittent failures at Mozilla.
For those new to automation at Mozilla, I’ll include background on buildbot and tbpl. I’ll also talk about some upcoming features of the War on Orange. |
Wednesday, 28 March
Brownbag | Presenter | Time | Description |
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Getting Community involved in BugDays – lessons from the Past | Asa Dotzler | 4:00PM UTC-7 | TBA |
Thursday, 29 March
Friday, 30 March
Brownbag | Presenter | Time | Description |
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Mozilla Crash Analysis and Investigation | Marcia Knous | 12:00pm PST – 10 Forward | Stability is an important part of the Mozilla mission. Mozilla uses the Socorro tool to catch, process, and present crash data for Desktop and Mobile Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, and Seamonkey. The CrashKill team then takes that data, analyzes it, detects trends, and drives the crash bugs to resolution. This presentation will give a general overview of the crash analysis and investigation process as well as some fascinating insight into how the team uses the Socorro tool to help keep the browser stable. |
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- Google searches now SSL by default! bug 633773
- New about:home and new tab pages landed, file bugs!
- The dev tools team had a work week last week and made some pretty things, stay tuned!
Mobile Firefox
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- The new rendering code landed last week on Nightly, getting close to Aurora uplift, file bugs!
- Remember, Fennec isn’t riding the trains, so we need bugs early, before we send it to our beta users
Thunderbird
Speaker Location:
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Popcorn
(no voice update this week)
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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Bugzilla Usage for Security | Curtis Koenig (remote) | Changes to Whiteboard and Keyword usage in Bugzilla for security. | http://htmlpad.org/BugSec/# | https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security_Severity_Ratings/Merge |
The new PTO app | Peter Bengtsson | Teaser of soon-to-be-launched PTO app replacement | http://people.mozilla.com/~pbengtsson/pto-presentation/slides.html | peterbe@#webdev |
Introducing New Hires
New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | Will be working on |
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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? |
Sahaja James Lal | Faramarz Rashed | Mountain View, CA | Software Engineer |
Kristin Baird | Peter Scanlon | San Francisco, CA | Director, Campaign Management |
Introducing New Interns
New Intern | Introduced by | Speaker location | Will be working on |
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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
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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
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
- Affiliates
- Successful 03/14/12 release
- Many thanks to rshetty !
- AMO
- TeamRo is rolling on the testday
- Thanks for klrmn for the pull request
- Jetpack Builder (aka FlightDeck)
- Mozilla.com
- Mozillians
- 03/21/12 scheduled to release yesterday – integration testing exposed bug 738125
- MDN
- Socorro
- 2.5.2 milestone released yesterday
- Push bug 737971
- SUMO
- no news is good news, due to Continuous Deployment
- Case Conductor
- We are hunting for a new name for the tool- add your 2 cents via the survey: Mystery Name survey
QA Community
Automation Services
- We have released Nightly Tester Tools 3.2.2
Automation & Tools
- Eideticker cross-browser checkerboarding had landed, mentioned on CNET
- Secure mail for bugmail was turned on
- Robocop will be activated today
- Talos on try will be activated for android today
- Pulse Translator Service has landed to make consuming buildbot messages easier and more predictable.
- Talos row-major Tp5 test is turned on, doing side by side staging. The results are showing much less noise on almost every platform running this way. The only platform that doesn’t show this is Mac OS X 64bit.
- More notes here
Security
- Bugzilla keywords and whiteboard tags are changing due to security team changes
- see lightning talk today
- Example mock up: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security_Severity_Ratings/Merge
Security Reviews & Threat Modeling Sessions Scheduled for this week
Date / Time | Item |
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Mon Mar 19 / 13:00 PST | None |
Wed Mar 20 / 13:00 PST | AVAILABLE |
Thu Mar 15 / 10:00 PST | AVAILABLE |
Fri Mar 16 / 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: “The Web Is The Platform”
- Mozilla working on Do Not Track support for open source mobile OS
- Mozilla at Work on Mobile Do Not Track
- Firefox to turn on default encryption for Google searches