WeeklyUpdates/2012-08-06
« previous week | index | next week »
- Dial-in: conference# 8600
- US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 8600
- US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600
- Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 8600
All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of the Tree
- The Contributor Engagement team nominates Hugo Acosta and the team in Bolivia for spreading Firefox and helping Firefox become the #1 browser there! Efforts have included a social media campaign that Mozilla Hispano contributed to as well.
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 06 August
Tuesday, 07 August
Wednesday, 08 August
Thursday, 09 August
- Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific — a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla
- Agenda and dial-in information (feel free to add items to the agenda)
Friday, 10 August
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: MV (johnath)
- Social: bug 764869, bug 764872, bug 773351, bug 770695: big pieces of the work that makes Social actually semi-usable have landed. That means that you can test social features using “MoTown” in Nightly builds, by setting social.enabled = true.
- navigator.id DOM and core landed last week, the beginnings of native Persona integration
- Taras’ weekly performance/snappy update. Highlights include:
- JS profiling using the built in profiler
- Reducing the cache nuking hit that telemetry tells us we hit on 10-20% of pages
- Also starting to file performance bugs on popular addons
- OMGCDN!
- We are moving to a CDN for initial Firefox downloads. The extra speed improves download success & conversion by 10-20% in some locales!
- Software updates are still using the volunteer mirror network, for now.
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location: MV (johnath)
- Spinning a 14.0.2 to fix jellybean specific crashes
- More testing on ARMv6 to find stability gotchas and minimum requirements
- FF15 (with Tablet support) firming up!
- BUT has anyone had a lot of hangs with Firefox Beta on Asus Transformers? Let mfinkle/blassey know.
- Scott wrote an excellent blog post about font inflation
Thunderbird
Speaker Location:
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker Location:
Identity
Speaker Location:
Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox OS
Speaker Location: Dietrich
- Gaia: Working camera! And photo filters in the Gallery! Animated SVG analog clock and FM Radio dial landed. There are risks in email plumbing, calendar, 1st Run, and settings, some in visual design access and some in implementation. More visual design implementation is landing every day. Weekly meeting notes.
- Platform: Security review for bluetooth is done. The media stream components of Camera back-end are in review. Cell broadcast was added to v1 requirements. Lots of software update pieces under development and discussion. Lots of E10s work ongoing. Weekly meeting notes.
- Release: Technical Release Plan sign-offs held on Gecko base, branching, updates and testing. Blockers for internal dogfooding are now tracked with [B2GTest:Blocker].
- QA: Completed ~60% of the Gaia requirements deep dive and added more tests cases for additional feature coverage. Built a webapp on devices that tests battery, geolocation, vibration, fullscreen and orientation. Daily build smoke tests still show critical regressions.
- Triage is now daily. Details in the weekly meeting schedule announcement.
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 |
| Tour Guide | David Boswell | Community data | arewegrowingyet.com and coding contribution dashboards | Data posts on about:community blog |
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? |
| Brendan Colloran | Gilbert FitzGerald | Mountain View | Senior Data Analyst |
| Sriharsha Chintalapani (Harsha) | Gilbert FitzGerald | Mountain View | Metrics Software Engineer |
Introducing New Interns
| New Intern | Introduced by | Speaker location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leo Yeykelis | Mary Trombley | Mountain View | User Research |
| Valentin Gosu | Nick Hurley | Mountain View | Platform |
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
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
QA Community
Automation & Tools
- Tegras are not rebooting randomly anymore, 39% failure rate on android tests dropped to 13% as of Friday evening. Big thanks to Jmaher, Wlach, and Callek
- Web API and B2G mochitests running again on new VMs supplied by releng
- Datazilla is alive on production hardware! https://datazilla.mozilla.org/test
- Initial plan for a TBPL intermittent failure bug filer (try saying that three times fast… :P) bug 779529.
- Expect this thursday’s Bugzilla.mozilla.org push to include a fix for interdiff bug 779862
- More Notes Here
Security
Engagement
PR
Quiz Of The Week: The Fiery Fox
Smartphone OS makers eye developing markets
State of the Web: Which vision of an ‘open Internet’ would you fight for?
Firefox’s most popular add-ons from 3 billion downloads
New Photos of Mozilla’s Mobile OS Have Arrived Online
Mozilla Confirms It Will Join Berlin’s New ‘Factory’ Campus
Mozilla Will Nearly Double SF Office, Add 125 People In Early 2013
Mozilla expands in Berlin and US