WeeklyUpdates/2012-01-30
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Friends of the Tree
Felipe nominates:
– Sergio Campos: for actively working on bug 704125 (crash caused by an add-on), finding the right authors and keeping in touch with them through the whole process of getting the problem resolved
– Reuben Moraes, Clauber Stipkovic and Marcelo Araldi (possibly more people that I’m forgetting) for getting the community organized to reach people in Brazil who were experiencing the crash and explain the problem and workaround
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 30 January
- Fuzzing brownbag, 1pm
Tuesday, 31 January
Wednesday, 01 February
Thursday, 02 February
Thursday is Answer user questions on SUMO Day
Friday, 03 February
- [QA] Firefox 11.0 Beta 1 Testday: QMO
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: Toronto
- Release week!
- FF10
- ESR
- Migration day is tomorrow
- FF11’s scheduled release in March coincides with patch Tuesday, we might do something about that. Watch r-d/dev-planning if that’s exciting to you.
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location: Toronto
- Checkpointing daily on beta status
- Wrote a blog post to that effect: Don’t worry. It’s cool.
- No more features, focusing on fundamentals: performance, stability, compatibility.
Thunderbird
Speaker Location:
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Drumbeat
Speaker Location: Matt in Toronto
Teaching the Fourth ‘R’: Webmaking as a vital 21st century skill
- Wed, Feb 1 at 9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm UTC
- Blog post with details and background is here
Is teaching kids the web now as important as teaching other basic literacies like reading and math?
Join an online “fireside chat” with author and academic Cathy Davidson, hosted by Mozilla’s Mark Surman.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Alex Fowler | ACTA |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
- Actively testing Firefox 10, ESR, and 3.6.26 as we drive to release this week
- Ongoing and active investigation of issues related to GC/CC timings (contact Juan Becerra or Anthony Hughes if you want to help)
- Also have eyes on Firefox 11, 12, and 13 for merge to beta, aurora, and nightly, respectively this week
- Actively testing split APK solution for Android Marketplace
WebQA
- AMO
- AMO 6.3.9 is going live today
- paypal test is in the pull request queue
- set of tests are in jenkins for apps-preview-dev
- Mozilla.com
- Shipped 1.2 and parts of 1.3 milestone
- Mozillians
- waiting for 1.3 milestone code freeze, qa to begin shortly
- on-boarding a new community member
- MDN
- working on 2.1 milestone
- Socorro
- 2.4.1 milestone slated for release on 2.8.12
- SUMO
- Case Conductor
- 2/3 is the upcoming .8 release
- mozwebqa-templates
- Overhauled and converted to WD by Zac and Sergey (contributor)
- Looking for a couple of people to review it for us
QA Community
- Working on a community action plan to grow our community through 2012 and beyond; please help us by taking part in the discussion on the dev-quality newsgroup
Automation Services
- Blog post: Mozmill 1.5.8 has been released
- Blog post: Automating Web Performance Data Collection
Automation & Tools
- Dkl added X-headers to bugmail to indicate when a “new to bugzilla” contributor attached his or her first patch bug 719526
- Eideticker checkerboarding tests are now more reliable. Setting up an automated machine in mountain view for them this week
- Robocop is running in staging today (mobile UX automation)
- B2G test and build automation is live!
- Default to Compatible automation is nearly ready to go – waiting on VMs from IT. See bug 718403 for status. This is a joint project between QA, A*team, and AMO.
- More updates here
Security
Security Reviews Scheduled for this week
| Date / Time | Item |
|---|---|
| Mon Jan 30 / 13:00 PST | No Review, please attend Fuzzing Brownbag |
| Wed Feb 1 / 13:00 PST | bug 718066 – [meta] Add feature to submit anonymous product metrics to Mozilla |
| THU Feb 2 / 10:00 PST | Instant Messenger in Thunderbird |
| Fri Feb 3/ 10:00 AM PST | AVAILABLE SLOT |
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
Events
Creative Team
Community Marketing
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Apps
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
People Team
WebFWD
We’ve begun partnering with local accelerators: Rockstart in Amsterdam and MuckerLab in Los Angeles. Please let us know if you have contacts in the startup community in either location!
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? |
| Pete Scanlon | Chris Beard | Mt. View | Sr. Director, Brand Engagement |
| Paul Theriault | Dan Veditz | Mt. View | Security Researcher |
| Michelle Marovich | Bret Reckard | Mt. View | Recruiting Lead |
| Kym Lee | Bret Reckard | Mt. View | Staffing Associate |
| Brandon Burton | Corey Shields | Torrance, CA | Web Operations Engineer |
| Rosana Biela | David Tenser | Germany | Community Support Program Manager |
| Trevor Norris | Gilbert FitzGerald | Mt. View | Metrics Engineer |
| Peter O’Neill | Tim Fairfield | Mountain View | Desktop Support |
| Vinh Hua | Tim Fairfield | Mountain View | Desktop Support |
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? |
| Darwin Derosans | Tim Fairfield | Mountain View | Desktop Support |
| Ashlee Chavez | Tim Fairfield | Mountain View | Desktop Support |
| Sal Espinoza | Tim Fairfield | Mountain View | Network Operations |
