All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Webmaker
Speaker Location: nonverbal since can’t hear through the phone
- Mozilla Festival was awesome! Great photos here. Summary of what people made here.
- Launched Popcorn Maker and Webmaker badges
- Ways to get involved and keep the momentum rolling.
Firefox OS
Speaker Location: Dietrich on Vidyo, yo. Can’t get moco pin, yo.
- Focusing on the remaining 16 user-stories (1.69%) and 34 feature bugs that are open. More numbers at http://j.mp/Sa4QpV.
- Dogfooding feedback is great, keep it up. See dev-gaia for the weekly feedback reports.
- Lots of performance work landing, expect continued improvements from here on out.
Speakers
| Title | Presenter | Topic | Media | More Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Manager for Firefox Engineering | Benjamin Smedberg | Inviting members of the community to apply or recommend people for this new position. | No onscreen info | Online Job Posting |
| Survey about new contributors in Mozilla | Kevin Carillo | Presenting the project and asking for help to promote the survey within Mozilla | No onscreen info | SurveyLink |
| Air Mozilla Update | Richard Milewski | Encoding problems, Experimental Camera Platform at MozFest | MozFest Pictures | Video on Air Mozilla |
Introducing New Hires
| 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? |
| Milan Sreckovic | Jet Villegas | Toronto | Platform Graphics Engineering Manager |
| Stephen Pohl | Robert Strong | Mountain View | Platform Integration Team working on Mac OS X and Windows integration points, Application Update, and the Firefox Installer |
| Sam Mott | Chad Weiner | Mountain View | Product Marketing Manager, Mobile Browser |
| Felix Klock | Dave Herman | San Francisco | Research Engineer, working on River Trail (JavaScript parallelism), Rust and Servo, and maybe more! |
| Jan-Ivar | Robert O’Callahan | Philadelphia, PA | Software Engineer, Platform |
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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)
QA
WebQA
- AMO
- Firefox 17 compatibility changes are landing this week.
- Firefox Health Report (FHR) – https://blog.mozilla.org/metrics/fhr-faq/
- the work and timeline is currently being scoped
- https://intranet.mozilla.org/Program_Management/FirefoxHealthReport
- B2G/Gaia testing:
- we’ll be able to check out the touch-event support in Marionette, tomorrow:
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=809245
- this unblocks us from finishing Marketplace + almost all of the smoketests (sans ~2)
- A-team is busy working through our list of outright blockers or testability bugs:
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=811053
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=810376 (landed)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=811351 (landed, needs to land in aurora)
- Bouncer
- Sentry improvements verified and in the pipeline for the next release – https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=804347#c13
- Engagement Projects
- Firefox Flicks is in early project-kickoff state
- Firefox Marketplace
- App signing is being set up. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797902 for more details
- We push as always on Thursdays. This week’s changes are available at http://cl.ly/3K29001a3E2X
- Mozilla.com
- Mozillians
- shipped the API today!
- Funkload performance benchmarking complete –https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795388#c7
- MDN
- PFS
- just got asked to help move PFS off of AMO:
- Socorro
- Milestone 26 slated for release tomorrow
- team completed a postmortem for last week’s release which needed to be rolled back due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792118 causing a regression
- Community Members Onboarding
- Firechemist/Jonah Ho has done some great MozTrap testing
- chrisculver701 joined IRC today and has looked at a few Marketplace tests
Automation & Tools
- OrangeFactor down to a new all time low: 1.36!!!!!!
- This means that we have very few intermittment failures in our test runs at the moment and represents a ton of work by our sheriffs and many various developers. Thanks!
- Bugzilla 4.2 roll out to testing is getting very close — we are waiting on IT to finish installing our code onto the staging servers and we will open the gate, watch Glob’s blog for updates.
- B2G Tests were moved to hidden due to some infrastructure issues Thursday. Since then the A*Team and Releng have been working around the clock to turn them back on. Current ETA is that they will reappear tomorrow. In the meantime, you can use the noignore flag to see them:
- More news including some presentations by several A*Team members on python, automation, eideticker, and marionette available here
Foundation Updates
- 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
