All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of the Tree

• Everybody who worked on the stub installer, both before and on Friday, when we launched it with a Herculean effort! [stephend]

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 09 October

• firefox channel meeting has been changed to 10am pst https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2012-10-09

Wednesday, 10 October

• 3PM PSt we are having a support meeting for mobile and b2g https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mobile-meet-2012-10-10 -satdav

Thursday, 11 October

• https://quality.mozilla.org/2012/10/sumo-questions-day-thursday-october-11th/ we have got a sumo day for people who is interested all day backend support at #sumo

Next Week

the support mobile meetings will be every wednesday for the next couple of weeks until further notice in michelle luna room

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox OS

Speaker Location:’PDX’

• Product teams are reviewing the requirements against the specifications and the implementation to ensure we’ve got every square inch of the OS validatable.
• Development teams focusing on bug fixing and performance, including operation SLIM FAST.
• Dogfooding devices are in, porting in progress.

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: Kate in San Fransisco

• The deadline to submit a proposal for MozCamp Asia is October 15th. For more information on how to submit a proposal, please see here
• Mozilla Reps: Everything you wanted to know but never dared to ask. Mozilla Reps Brownbag this Thursday 2012-10-11 13:30 PST in MV.

Speakers

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Introducing Webmaker, the Product	Erin Knight (phone) (I was on the conference line but couldn’t hear you or speak, will try again next week)	Webmaker!	Slides	http://webmaker.org; http://erinknight.com; erin@mozillafoundation.org
Click-to-play plugins and prompting updates	David Keeler (pdx)	Plugins		Blog post by Jorge

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
John Bernard	David Slater	London	Carrier and OEM Marketing for Firefox OS
Karolina Shaw	Barbara Hueppe	Berlin	Communications Manager
Felix Klock	David Herman	France	Research Engineer
Massimo Gervasini [:mgerva]	Chris AtLee	Vidyo (if possible)	Making Release Engineering even more awesome
Justin Wood [:Callek]	Chris Cooper	Remote (Phone)	Tegras and Pandas and testing (oh my)
Eric Pang [:epang]	Ian Barlow	Toronto	Production Design on Firefox for Android and Firefox OS
William Chen	Johnny Stenback	San Francisco
Nikhil Marathe	Johnny Stenback	Mountain View
Matthew Wobensmith	Bob Moss	Mountain View	Security QA
Erv Thomas	Mathew Caldwell	Mountain View	College Recruiting
Nikhil Marathe	Doug Turner	Mountain View	Content/DOM
Aaron Druck	Todd Simpson	Mountain View	User Experience Designer

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Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)

QA

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • Coming soon – bug 760631 – Allow affiliates to link back to a personal website – display website on leaderboard
• Mozillians (automation)
  • The team is doing an outstanding job of fixing and refactoring our automation suite. A huge shout our and thank you!
  • In discussions to move the project to continuous deployment.
• Socorro
  • Milestone 21 shipped Thursday — features/bugs
  • Django-based Socorro is queued for sec review

B2G

• We need help doing manual testing- B2G: browser & email client

Automation & Tools

• BIG FREAKIN NEWS: sut_tools is updated with modern devicemanager and many patches. This gets us 90% of the way towards changes needed to that toolchain to run on the panda boards
• Minimal rooting for Android 2.3 phones up to (and including) 2.3.6 is now a 5 minute, pain free process. Contact bc for details
• Created longer term sheriffing goals
• We did a hard pivot toward B2G, our revised goals are up, contact ctalbert if you have comments
• More news here

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla previews ‘Metro’-ized Firefox for Windows 8
• Mozilla Firefox 18 for Metro preview released
• Mozilla Takes on Windows 8 With ‘Firefox Metro Preview’

• Mozilla Persona Identity System Eliminates Passwords
• Mozilla’s Persona Single Sign-On Launches in Beta

Foundation Updates

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  • 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

Potch would like to thank Ben Adida and everyone involved in the Persona Beta launch for nailing it and getting the broader Web community excited about Identity!

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, 03 October

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mobile-meet-2012-03-10 – 2:30pm pst in Michelle Lunas room about firefox for mobile support – satdav

Thursday, 04 October

Grow Meeting 10 AM Pacific https://wiki.mozilla.org/Grow/Meeting_10_04_12 – satdav

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: Mountain View (johnath)

• Next week is release week!
  • FF16 becomes release
  • FF17 becomes beta (remember, this is ESR17, too)
  • FF18 becomes Aurora
  • Nightly becomes FF19
• Stub installer has landed
  • Working with *lots* of people about roll out

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: Mountain View (johnath)

• Next week is release week!
• Making the call on ARMv6 this week for FF16

Mozilla Festival

Speaker Location: OpenMatt in Toronto

• Don’t forget to register this week!
  • Mozilla blog post
• Schedule of design challenges taking shape here
• Register here

If you’re Mozilla staff and would like to attend:

• Get approval from your managers to cover travel & accommodation
• Sign up here when you know you’re coming
• Let us know how you’d like to plug in (run a session, volunteer, etc)
• We’re especially looking for: UX designers, Javascript developers, and Firefox OS / mobile hackers

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Dietrich

• Freezing feature work. Some pieces remaining, will straggle in over the next couple of weeks. Most development turning to bug fixes, polish and performance.
• Stabilization period policy
• Gaia issues moving over to Bugzilla for the remaining portion of the release cycle.
• Open Gaia blockers – Need web developers to help out with any of these bugs that aren’t labeled “feature”.
• Dogfooding – Device arrival is imminent, expect communication once initial flashing procedures are worked out.

Grow Mozilla

MozCamp Asia Call for Participation was sent out to Paid-staff this morning. All participation proposals are due by October 15th. If you have any questions about your proposal, please do not hesitate to reach out to mozcamp@mozilla.com. More information on how to submit a proposal can be found here

Speakers

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
New Business Ideas	Christopher Arnold	New Wiki Link for submitting business concepts	https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:IdeaEvaluation.jpg	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Legal/New_Business_Ideas
Firefox for Android – Expanding to ARMv6	Karen Rudnitski	Call to Action: testing Firefox for Android on ARMv6 phones	https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2012/09/07/firefox-for-android-beta-is-expanding-support-to-new-devices-help-us-test/	https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2012/09/07/firefox-for-android-beta-is-expanding-support-to-new-devices-help-us-test/

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Massimo Gerva [:mgerva]	Chris AtLee	Vidyo (if possible)	Making Release Engineering even more awesome
Justin Wood [:Callek]	Chris Cooper	Remote (Phone)	Tegras and Pandas and testing (oh my)
Eric Pang [:epang]	Ian Barlow	Toronto	Production Design on Firefox for Android and Firefox OS
William Chen	Johnny Stenback	San Francisco
Nikhil Marathe	Johnny Stenback	Mountain View
Matthew Wobensmith	Bob Moss	Mountain View
John Bernard	David Slater	London	Carrier and OEM Marketing for Firefox OS
Erv Thomas	Mathew Caldwell	Mountain View	College Recruiting

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Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)

QA

WebQA

• Affiliates
• AMO
• Marketplace
• Mozillians (automation)
  • rbillings, stephend, and mbrandt met with cmore to discuss coverage
• Mozilla.com
  • shipped milestone on 09/24
• MDN
  • shipped milestone on 09/24
• Socorro
  • shipped milestone 20 on 2012-09-26 – small change-set
• SUMO
  • First iteration of new SUMO UI went out to all users successfully – yay!
  • Upcoming roll outs are based on a few bugs here and there, Ricky confirmed that the team would not need concentrated QA on any of the releases.
• MozTrap
  • Planning October development, and discussing B2G needs
• Wiki
• B2G
  • Test case writing bonanza

Automation & Tools

• Bugzilla Per-comment tagging patch ready this week (will land upstream first, then in BMO). Follow along in bug 793963
• Intermittent Orange work:
  • Disabling tests for some top oranges where no one seems willing to fix them: https://bugzil.la/782196,767215,752786,677841,780863,708927,691580
  • Closed out intermittent orange bugs as WORKSFORME if they hadn’t been seen for > 6 months and the tests weren’t disabled (approx 550 bugs closed).
• Patched over an issue with the newer tegras and reftest bug 792212 should allow us to turn on some new tegras for android tests.
• Got a subset of Reftests green on B2G!! Layout team is helping pick off reftest issues coming up in that testing.
• More details here

WebFWD

As we’re kicking off our 2nd class (“WebFWD II”) this week, we will be featuring each of our teams on our blog in the next week or two – please get to know them! http://blog.webfwd.org

Foundation Updates

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• 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

• Bob Silverberg, a Web QA contributor, for his many contributed tests to the Mozilla.org project

Upcoming Events

Monday, 24 September

Privacy Friends Meeting, 1pm PST, SF Bay Bridge Room (3rd floor and dial-in) and MV Peanut Butter Jelly

Wednesday, 26 September

New WebFWD Class to be announced at http://blog.webfwd.org

Thursday, 27 September

SUMO Day this Thursday!

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Mozilla Festival

Speaker Location: OpenMatt in Toronto

Join us for the 2012 Mozilla Festival: Making, Freedom and the Web

• Nov 9 – 11, London, UK
  • Mozilla blog post
  • Festival web site
• 800 developers + designers + educators + youth + journalists + you…
• …getting together for three days of design challenges, learning labs and fireside chats…
• …to make amazing things that can change the world.

Sound like fun? Register here now.
Or if you’re Mozilla staff and would like to attend:

• Get approval from your managers to cover travel & accommodation
• Sign up here when you know you’re coming
• Let us know how you’d like to plug in (run a session, volunteer, etc)
• We’re especially looking for: UX designers, Javascript developers, and Firefox OS / mobile hackers

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Dietrich

• Lots of finishing moves as we close down the last feature work: FM Radio works, Music can play multiple songs in a row and shuffle and play all, SIM PIN support, can set wallpaper from Homescreen and settings, using default wallpapers or gallery, Email forwarding and reply-all support, default bookmarks available.
• Follow along via this sheet which tracks the progress of the built-in apps, the Basecamp blocker dashboard, the @hackb2g twitter account which tweets Gaia commits, and the B2G Desktop builds.
• A list of dogfooding tips. Think about which smartphone features you’re relying on for daily-use, and list them at the bottom!

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

If you attended MozCamp Europe, please fill out the survey to help us improve future MozCamps. All survey responses are due by October 5th

The call for participation for MozCamp Asia (November 17-18th in Singapore) will be sent out later this week. Please send any questions to mozcamp@mozilla.com

Speakers

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Persona Beta Launch	Ben Adida	Persona Beta is launching this week! What have we built, why, and what to expect next.	https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iZRdpFvGKBj0_p5yDz5iyNddJ0PVRtNTPGSuZbMqlQE/edit	https://login.persona.org
All new SUMO Site	Ibai on behalf of the SUMO Team	SUMO launched a brand new site last week. We want to explain why and what we build it.	https://support.mozilla.org	https://blog.mozilla.org/sumo/2012/09/19/the-all-new-sumo/

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Selena Deckelmann	Laura Thomson	Mountain View	Data Architect
Seth Fowler	Daniel Holbert	Mountain View	Gecko / Layout
Dylan Oliver	Faramarz Rashed	Mountain View	Engineering Manager
Gabriele Svelto	Faramarz Rashed	Mountain View	Software Engineer, Boot to Gecko

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Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)

QA

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • Facebook app v2 went out 9/20
• AMO
• Marketplace
• Mozillians (automation)
  • resurrecting the suite to be used to help deploys
• Mozilla.com
  • working on release
• MDN
  • working on release
• Socorro
  • automated testing ongoing to help test the Django rewrite: https://github.com/mozilla/socorro-crashstats
• SUMO
  • First UI release went out successfully last week!

Automation & Tools

• Working on finishing the goals for Q3, things are trending toward done.
• Rolling out Datazilla code with metrics and web services to pull various statistics out of the system
• Automation Development Crew is helping craft some basic webRTC mochitests to help them get landed
• Bugzilla guys have a preview of some personal dashboards that they are working toward with the 4.2 release
• More information here

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla announces Firefox Health Report, will phone home with data to improve the browser
• Firefox: Users to provide feedback on software’s health and performance

• Mozilla Festival 2012

• Meet the Mozilla OS Developer Phone

Apps

Mountain View. The Firefox OS Marketplace needs your Apps. There’s never been a better time to Submit your app or encourage your app developer friends to build HTML5 web apps, especially in Spanish & Portuguese. Go to Firefox Marketplace

Want to see what the app will look like on the new phone? Check out r2d2b2g – an experimental add-on/app testing environment that installs a desktop build of b2g into your Firefox browser.

WebFWD

Our first graduated last week – view their accomplishments (and pix) at http://blog.webfwd.org/post/31738682930/our-first-class-brag-alert

Our next class starts October 1 – announcement coming on the WebFWD blog this Wednesday – meet our teams then!

Foundation Updates

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  • 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 brothers Marcelo & Mauricio Araldi from the Mozilla Brazil community, for all their awesome localization & translation work (and uber-responsiveness) in support of Firefox OS, and Ricardo Panaggio, for translating Rob Hawkes’ post ‘There’s Something Magical About Firefox OS’ to pt-BR
• Jesse Ruderman, who recently filed his 7000th bug

Upcoming Events

Thursday, 20 September

• 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)

• Intern presentations from 11am-1pm in 10 Forward, TOR Commons and SF Commons.
  • Come see Paul Adenot, Zhijia Zhao, Nicholas Silva, and Codrut Stancu present what they’ve been working on all summer!

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Week 4 of the release cycle
  • If you have FF16/FF17 bugs, git ‘er done
• Stub installer targeted to land this week
• Snappy work week last week post-mozcamp, watch for amazingness

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Last week we broke 1M ADIs on Native Fennec
• Released 15.0.1 with some crash and keyboard fixes
• ARMv6 support is released in FF16 beta 2

Webmaker

Speaker Location: no voice update this week

• Update on what we’re working on
• This weekend is the final wrap-up for Summer Code Party. Find an event near you, or host your own.

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Dietrich

• All teams focusing on freezing feature work in order to stabilize and close down V1.
• Follow along via this sheet which tracks the progress of the built-in apps, the Basecamp blocker dashboard, the @hackb2g twitter account which tweets Gaia commits, and the B2G Desktop builds.
• Dogfooding program: Devices are ordered, OTA updates are being tested at this very moment.
• A list of dogfooding tips. Add yours!

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

• MozCamp photos on Flickr
• If you ran a session at MozCamp Europe, please make sure to link to your slides or any other relevant material from your session’s wiki page so people will be able to find this information.

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Zack Carter	Lloyd Hilaiel	Mountain View, CA	Software Engineer, Identitiy
Mark Coggins	Stormy Peters	Mountain View, CA	Head of Technical Evangelism
Kyle Lahnakoski	Martin Best	Toronto, ON	Business Intelligence / Data Analyst, Bugzilla Anthropology

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Mihai Cirlanaru	Michael Bebenita	San Francisco	Research

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Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)

QA

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • Affiliates FB app released 9/5
  • Chief release today or Monday
• Mozilla.com
  • shipped Style guide, new about page and sms pages
• MDN
  • shipping release this week
• Socorro
  • Milestone 18 successfully released 2012-09-13 — this is the MoBeta release .. lot’s of new functionality.
• SUMO
  • SUMO UI revamp testing underway
• MozTrap
• Wiki
  • Added a couple new tests
• B2G
  • We are moving all of our tests into Moztrap
  • camd will be implementing the needed features in Moztrap during the month of October

Automation & Tools

• New BMO push
• Deployed the dogfooding OTA updates for B2G
• Working on fixing reftest resolution issues so that we can run reftests at smaller resolutions for mobile
• Thanks to wlach and bgirard, we now have profiling integrated with Eideticker
• Mcote and bc deployed six more phones into autophone, running automation on real phone hardware (versus development boards, allowing us to do testing on real hardware/chipsets/drivers/acceleration etc).
• More information here

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla juices Firefox’s JavaScript with IonMonkey
• Mozilla Accelerates Firefox 18 with IonMonkey
• Mozilla Working On IonMonkey For Firefox 18 To Juice Up JavaScript Execution

• Mozilla’s Firefox OS Seeks Innovation Without Gatekeeping

Foundation Updates

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  • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 8600
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  • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 8600

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Contents 1 All-hands Status Meeting Agenda 1.1 Friends of the Tree 1.2 Upcoming Events 1.2.1 This Week 1.2.2 Monday, 10 September 1.2.3 Tuesday, 11 September 1.2.4 Wednesday, 12 September 1.2.5 Thursday, 13 September 1.2.6 Friday, 14 September 1.2.7 Next Week 1.3 Product Status Updates (voice updates) 1.3.1 Firefox Desktop 1.3.2 Firefox Mobile 1.3.3 Thunderbird 1.3.4 Older Branch Work 1.3.5 Webmaker 1.3.6 Identity 1.3.7 Services 1.3.8 Firefox OS 1.3.9 Grow Mozilla 1.4 Speakers 1.5 Introducing New Hires 1.6 Introducing New Interns 1.7 Roundtable 2 <meta> 2.1 Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates) 2.1.1 Firefox 2.1.2 Platform 2.1.3 Services 2.1.4 Messaging 2.1.5 Mobile 2.1.6 IT 2.1.7 Release Engineering 2.1.8 QA 2.1.8.1 Test Execution 2.1.8.2 WebQA 2.1.8.3 QA Community 2.1.9 Automation & Tools 2.1.10 Security 2.1.11 Engagement 2.1.11.1 PR 2.1.11.2 Events 2.1.11.3 Creative Team 2.1.11.4 Community Marketing 2.1.12 Support 2.1.13 Metrics 2.1.14 Evangelism 2.1.15 Labs 2.1.16 Apps 2.1.17 Developer Tools 2.1.18 Add-ons 2.1.19 Webdev 2.1.20 L10n 2.1.21 People Team 2.1.22 WebFWD 2.2 Foundation Updates

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of the Tree

• Siddharth Agarwal, for his work on getting pymake used on the windows builders. Windows builds now take under 90 minutes.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 10 September

Tuesday, 11 September

Wednesday, 12 September

“The Business of Open Source” at Mozilla San Francisco, 4pm – 8pm
Many misconceptions exist around the viability of open source as a business advantage. This panel will explore the ways entrepreneurs can make money while giving back to innovation by adopting open source models. We’ll hear from successful open source entrepreneurs, examining their past successes and fleshing out frameworks for aspiring open source entrepreneurs.
The event is hosted by both WebFWD and 10gen, providers of the popular MongoDB open source database.
http://opensourcebiz.eventbrite.com/

Thursday, 13 September

• Intern presentations from 2-4pm in 10 Forward, TOR Commons and SF Commons.
  • Come see Kevin Ngo, Christoph Kerschbaumer, Jacques Uber, and Bing Han present what they’ve been working on all summer!

Friday, 14 September

• Intern presentations from 2-4:30pm in 10 Forward, TOR Commons and SF Commons.
  • Come see Nick Fitzgerald, Codrut Stancu, Mihnea Balaur, Tim Disney and Vineeth Kashyap present what they’ve been working on all summer!

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location:

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location:

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location:

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Dietrich

• The development team had a successful week in Sao Paulo working with Telefonica. Major visual design changes landed – icons, wallpapers, homescreen layouts, etc.
• Follow along via this sheet which tracks the progress of the built-in apps, the @hackb2g twitter account which tweets Gaia commits, and the B2G Desktop builds.
• Dogfooding program: Device selection in progress, OTA updates almost ready for dogfooding, expect more info over the next 1-2 weeks.

Grow Mozilla

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
Firefox Affiliates Facebook App	Chelsea Novak	Firefox Affiliates has a Facebook app, just like the title says.	Screencast from my laptop in Toronto please!	http://apps.facebook.com/fxaffiliates/
Mozilla WebFWD Events + Graduation	Didem Ersoz (Mountain View)	We have a few [| events] this & next week leading up to our graduation on Wed., Sept 19 in SF at 4pm (also on Air Mozilla). Note that many of [| our teams] will be in town prior to meet Mozillians and others so reach out if you would like to meet them.		http://webfwdgraduation.eventbrite.com/
About Home – Firefox on Android Snippets	Barry Munsterteiger (San Francisco)	Showing a sneak peak of the Upcoming Firefox on Android snippets	Vidyo share from my laptop

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?
Shea Helms	Mathew Caldwell	Mountain View	Recruiter
Anton Kovalyov	Dave Camp	Mountain View	Developer Tools Engineer
Thomas Zimmermann	Faramarz Rashed	Mountain View	Software Engineer
David Zeber	Gilbert FitzGerald	Mountain View	Data Analyst
Denelle Dixon-Thayer	Harvey Anderson	San Francisco	Associate General Counsel
Pierros Papadeas	Mary Colvig	Germany	Community Manager

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Brian Burg	Brian Anderson	Mountain View	Research

Roundtable

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Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)

Firefox

Platform

Services

Messaging

Mobile

IT

• Set-up an environment for the Brand Engagement team in support of MozCampEU.
• On-site support for BrazilJS & Firefox OS Hack Day.
• Worked with Release Engineering to increase infrastructure to support development teams.
• Working with Security Assurance to build a Panda chassis for their specific mobile testing needs.
• Continue to work on a plan for proactive system updates and maintenance, draft can be found at https://wiki.mozilla.org/IT/Maintenance

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • Affiliates FB app released 9/5
• B2G
  • Will start automating some smoketests in a week or so, using Marionette
• Socorro
  • Tentatively shipping “mobeta” support in Socorro 18 this Wednesday, 9/12
• SUMO
  • UI revamp in process, slated for release 9/10

QA Community

Automation & Tools

• Statistics APIs and Metrics branches landed in Datazilla, pushing to production this week
• Lots of improvements to bugzilla, including changes to reduce and (in most cases) eliminate mid-air collisions
• Automation Development did a hackathon at Mozcamp EU on creating automated tests for B2G
• Eideticker Galaxy Nexus results and integration with SPS profiler now live
• TBPL nearly ready to pre-fetch logs. See bug 718632 for details
• More information here

Security

Engagement

PR

Mozilla Makes a Mobile Web Browser Feel Like a Smartphone

A Firefox Smartphone for the Developing World

Our first look at Firefox OS and how Mozilla is building its ecosystem of apps

Backers Tout Firefox OS as Open Mobile Option

Why Chrome Hasn’t Killed Mozilla Firefox

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

Foundation Updates

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Contents 1 All-hands Status Meeting Agenda 1.1 Friends of the Tree 1.2 Upcoming Events 1.2.1 This Week 1.2.2 Monday, 27 August 1.2.3 Tuesday, 28 August 1.2.4 Wednesday, 29 August 1.2.5 Thursday, 30 August 1.2.6 Friday, 31 August 1.2.7 Next Week 1.3 Product Status Updates (voice updates) 1.3.1 Firefox Desktop 1.3.2 Firefox Mobile 1.3.3 Thunderbird 1.3.4 Older Branch Work 1.3.5 Webmaker 1.3.6 Identity 1.3.7 Services 1.3.8 Firefox OS 1.3.9 Grow Mozilla 1.4 Speakers 1.5 Introducing New Hires 1.6 Introducing New Interns 1.7 Roundtable 2 <meta> 2.1 Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates) 2.1.1 IT/Operations & Services 2.1.2 Firefox 2.1.3 Platform 2.1.4 Messaging 2.1.5 Mobile 2.1.6 Release Engineering 2.1.7 QA 2.1.7.1 Test Execution 2.1.7.2 WebQA 2.1.7.3 QA Community 2.1.8 Automation & Tools 2.1.9 Security 2.1.10 Engagement 2.1.10.1 PR 2.1.10.2 Events 2.1.10.3 Creative Team 2.1.10.4 Community Marketing 2.1.11 Support 2.1.12 Metrics 2.1.13 Evangelism 2.1.14 Labs 2.1.15 Apps 2.1.16 Developer Tools 2.1.17 Add-ons 2.1.18 Webdev 2.1.19 L10n 2.1.20 People Team 2.1.21 WebFWD 2.2 Foundation Updates

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of the Tree

• Apps/Mobile QA would like to thank to all those who attended, tested, and commented on last Friday’s Web Apps in Firefox for Android test day. With your help over 25 bugs were filed!
• The Contributor Engagement team nominates Parth Mudgal for having coded a long-awaited feature – creating website shortcuts with favicons was something that users couldn’t do for more than a decade, until now. More info here.
• The JavaScript Team nominates Till Schneidereit for implementing self-hosting support. Which allows us to speed up, simplify and share our built-in JavaScript methods.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 27 August

Privacy Friends Meeting, 1pm PST, Bay Bridge (3rd floor + dial in) and Peanut Butter Jelly

Tuesday, 28 August

Mozilla Gear Site Presentation: 3-4pm Pacific (UTC -8) in Ten Forward and on Air Mozilla

Wednesday, 29 August

Thursday, 30 August

• Intern presentations from 11am-1:30pm in 10 Forward, TOR Commons and SF Commons.
  • Come see Daniel Thornton, Karthik Viswanathan, Elliott Slaughter, Jordan Lund, and Michael Comella present what they’ve been working on all summer!

Friday, 31 August

• Intern presentations from 2pm-4pm in 10 Forward, TOR Commons and SF Commons.
  • Come see Thaddee Tyl, Stephen Crane, Liz Noonan, and Christoph Kerschbaumer present what they’ve been working on all summer!

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: Alex Keybl in MV

• Firefox 15.0 will be released tomorrow morning (8/28). Check out the beta notes here (release notes are being finalized).
  • We’re particularly excited about plugging many of the worst add-on leaks in FF15
  • Special thanks to Lukas Blakk for leading this release’s beta convergence, and Lawrence Mandel for taking time out of his busy schedule to help with triaging.
• Today is the merge day. The central version bump and tree closures will happen shortly if they haven’t already. Nightly=18, Aurora=17, and Beta=16.
• 16.0 beta 1 will be released Thursday, and 17.0a2 updates will be enabled Friday.

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: Alex again

• Similarly, Firefox for Android 15.0 will be released tomorrow. Check out the mobile beta notes here.
  • This is our first release since FF10 where Desktop/Mobile major update is released in sync!
  • Some of our most requested features made it in: find in page, copy/paste, tablet support, etc.
• We also expect Firefox 16 beta 1 to include ARMv6 support – if you have a friend who couldn’t install Firefox for Android previously, give them a shout.

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

no voice update this week

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox OS

Speaker Location:

• No voice update today
• Many of the team are in Sao Paulo, Brazil on-site at Telefonica/Vivo offices
• Regular meeting schedule this week is canceled, will resume normal schedule next week

Grow Mozilla

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
Desktop Support	Guillermo Huerta	Vidyo 2.2 Upgrade		https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2012-08-27#IT.2FOperations_.26_Services

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?
Ria Joy	David Slater	Mountain View, CA	Product Marketing Strategy for Apps/Marketplace
Chad Weiner	David Slater	Mountain View, CA (but Chad is in SF office today)	Director of Consumer Product Marketing

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?

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)

IT/Operations & Services

• Working on the expansion of the Santa Clara data center in support of Mobile testing.
• Purchased more hardware to install in our Santa Clara data center that will add disaster recovery for our mail environment.
• Setup Datazilla in production for the Automation & Tools Engineering team. This new service will allow them to replace their current graph server and database.
• Team Meet-up held August 13-17
  • The week consisted of successful cross team meetings, presentations to kick off projects as well as information sessions.
• Developed a Chassis to house the Pandas for Android and b2g testing
• Working on a plan for proactive system updates and maintenance, draft can be found at https://wiki.mozilla.org/IT/Maintenance
• Vidyo 2.2 Upgrade
  • Downtime window Thursday 30th at 8pm PT
  • Full screen sharing in OS X client
  • Offical Linux support
    • SLC 5, SLC 5.7 32/64 bit versions
    • Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10 32/64 bit versions
    • Fedora 14, 15, 16 32/64 bit versions
    • Debian 5.0, 6.0.3 32/64 bit versions
  • VidyoMobile clients can join guest links
  • Silence All feature allows room owners to mute all with users being able to unmute themselves
  • Improved echo cancellation and automatic preferred device selection

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• Web QA work week this week
• Socorro
  • Milesone 18 aka the mobeta release has been moved to 2012-09-12
  • Fantastic changes landing in the interim
    • bug 774290 – Add b2g support
    • bug 784094 – Force correlations for next week’s releases: must ship next week (what day?)
    • bug 781136 – Improve Flash detection
• SUMO
  • SUMO UI overhaul is in process, testing will happen over the next few weeks
• B2G (Firefox OS)
  • Action item for the team — join the Gaia QA Pivotal Tracker
  • Helped reformat many of the current spreadsheets, plans on the horizon to start working on test cases.

QA Community

Automation & Tools

• Talos is now putting data in Datazilla as well as graph server. http://datazilla.mozilla.org/talos
• Tree Status is now live – now the tbpl automation no longer depends on Tinderbox.
• More information here

Security

Engagement

PR

Firefox 17 Will Boost Add-On Security
Firefox 17 to make add-ons more secure
Mozilla Firefox 17: better add-on security but some add-ons may break

Can You Trust Your Browser With Your Passwords?
Which Browser Offers the Most Secure Password Storage?

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

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Contents 1 All-hands Status Meeting Agenda 1.1 Friends of the Tree 1.2 Upcoming Events 1.2.1 This Week 1.2.2 Monday, 20 August 1.2.3 Tuesday, 21 August 1.2.4 Wednesday, 22 August 1.2.5 Thursday, 23 August 1.2.6 Friday, 24 August 1.2.7 Next Week 1.3 Product Status Updates (voice updates) 1.3.1 Firefox Desktop 1.3.2 Firefox Mobile 1.3.3 Thunderbird 1.3.4 Older Branch Work 1.3.5 Webmaker 1.3.6 Identity 1.3.7 Services 1.3.8 Firefox OS 1.3.9 Grow Mozilla 1.4 Speakers 1.5 Introducing New Hires 1.6 Introducing New Interns 1.7 Roundtable 2 <meta> 2.1 Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates) 2.1.1 Firefox 2.1.2 Platform 2.1.3 Services 2.1.4 Messaging 2.1.5 Mobile 2.1.6 IT 2.1.7 Release Engineering 2.1.8 QA 2.1.8.1 Test Execution 2.1.8.2 WebQA 2.1.8.3 QA Community 2.1.9 Automation & Tools 2.1.10 Security 2.1.11 Engagement 2.1.11.1 PR 2.1.11.2 Events 2.1.11.3 Creative Team 2.1.11.4 Community Marketing 2.1.12 Support 2.1.13 Metrics 2.1.14 Evangelism 2.1.15 Labs 2.1.16 Apps 2.1.17 Developer Tools 2.1.18 Add-ons 2.1.19 Webdev 2.1.20 L10n 2.1.21 People Team 2.1.22 WebFWD 2.2 Foundation Updates

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of the Tree

• Congrats to Ben Kerensa for being named Mozilla Rep of the Month. He’s doing amazing work for Mozilla as a Rep and WebFWD Scout, and well as for other FOSS communities such as Ubuntu.
• The Contributor Engagement team nominates the Mozilla India community for bringing an open web to the 1,2 billion inhabitants in the country of contrasts, contradictions and festivals. More info here.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 20 August

• Security Review: Identity BigTent

Tuesday, 21 August

Wednesday, 22 August

Thursday, 23 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)
• Intern presentations from 11am-1:30pm in 10 Forward, TOR Commons and SF Commons.
  • Come see Nathan Malkin, Zach Carter, Jonas Jensen, Caroline Wong and Doug Sherk present!
• Security Review: implement FileHandle

Friday, 24 August

• Android Web Apps Test Day – Come try out the Mozilla Marketplace and Web Apps on Firefox for Android

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: johnath (Toronto)

• Next week is merge/release week!
• Provisional UI for integrated Persona/BrowserID support starting to land. bug 764213

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: blassey (Boston)

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location: OpenMatt in Toronto

• Summer Code Party update: 600+ community events, 4,250+ participants, 77 countries and counting…
• Big Summer Code Party finale coming up on Sep 23. More next week!
• Lots of great community photos here

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Portland

• Extreme estimation – Anyone who owns bugs blocking Basecamp is now actively engaged in estimating the LOE (Level Of Effort) needed to close P1 issues. Dashboard of platform blocker, owners, and estimated vs not-estimated bugs. Gaia dashboard in progress.
• Visual and functional pieces continue to land: FM Radio visual design implementation, Calendar event synchronization, Email can now display HTML messages.
• Software update scenarios are long and storied. See all of the gory details at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/System/Updates.
• Persona will now be used for federating identity to marketplace and payment providers in Firefox OS v1, requiring late-changes in many areas in the Basecamp ecosystem.
• Gaia UI building blocks are now browse-able and getting close to final.
• Links: Gaia meeting notes, B2G meeting notes, Triage schedule, Tracking doc

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

• Mozilla Welcome Video: Amie Tyrrel will be sharing more details on onboarding shortly, but she could use some help with a “Welcome to Mozilla” video! It’s just a matter of recording yourself saying “Welcome to Mozilla” in your local language. Post your submissions to Flickr with the hashtag #welcomemozillians by Tuesday, August 21st. We’ll aim to include your video in our montage of Global Mozillians – we can’t guarantee all submissions will be included, but we’ll try! We’ll be sharing this video along with Mozilla’s new onboarding tool in coming months. If you have questions please email amie at mozilla dot com.

• This week will be the last Grow Mozilla discussion before MozCamp in Warsaw, so this is a good opportunity to come by and ask any questions you have about hosting a session or how to get the most of attending.

• Mozilla Reps Event Manager is live and includes a calendar, an interactive map and an awesome event creation tool.

• The Mozillians Phonebook now offers an API to authorize Mozillians across your favorite sites/apps vouch api.

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
Recruiting	Michelle Marovich	We are hiring in Product Management!	Link to Job Listing	We are looking for two Senior Product Managers to round out the team with Chris Lee! Need to have strong understanding of both the web space and experience working with Carriers or Operators preferably on mobile platforms. Ideally this person will have launched at least one phone into a marketplace. Have a strong understanding of mobile ecosystems as well as a clear and articulate vision of the features that will compete best in this space in the future.
Games – BananaBread Demo	Martin Best	Demo of what is now possible with the release of Firefox 15!	Presentation	Demo

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?
Didem Ersoz	Pascal Finette	Mountain View,CA	WebFWD
Mathew Caldwell	Debbie Cohen	Mountain View, CA	Director of Staffing
Angela King	Mihca Degele	Mountain View, CA	HR Coordinator

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?

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

• Affiliates
  • 2012-08-15 Prod outage due to MySQL server being run as read-only when Zeus was did not restart properly – bug 782994
• Socorro
  • Milestone 18 (the MoBeta) is on our staging env for the next 2-weeks for QA
  • Prepare for automation tasks to begin arriving early next week
• SUMO
  • Continuous deployment, no updates

QA Community

Automation & Tools

Security

• Curtis Koenig, Security PM will be speaking at the GFIRST Conference in a Panel discussion on “Grey Hats and Responsible Disclosure” on 21-Aug

Engagement

PR

Google, Mozilla and Wikimedia partnered to organize Maya ‘translathon’

Raspberry Pi gets a Firefox OS port

Move over Chrome, preview of Firefox for Windows 8 expected in September

Better Browsing on Your Android Smartphone

Firefox Competitive Strategy Must Focus On Privacy

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

Foundation Updates

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Contents 1 All-hands Status Meeting Agenda 1.1 Friends of the Tree 1.2 Upcoming Events 1.2.1 This Week 1.2.2 Monday, 13 August 1.2.3 Tuesday, 14 August 1.2.4 Wednesday, 15 August 1.2.5 Thursday, 16 August 1.2.6 Friday, 17 August 1.2.7 Next Week 1.3 Product Status Updates (voice updates) 1.3.1 Firefox Desktop 1.3.2 Firefox Mobile 1.3.3 Thunderbird 1.3.4 Older Branch Work 1.3.5 Webmaker 1.3.6 Identity 1.3.7 Services 1.3.8 Firefox OS 1.3.9 Grow Mozilla 1.4 Speakers 1.5 Introducing New Hires 1.6 Introducing New Interns 1.7 Roundtable 2 <meta> 2.1 Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates) 2.1.1 Firefox 2.1.2 Platform 2.1.3 Services 2.1.4 Messaging 2.1.5 Mobile 2.1.6 IT 2.1.7 Release Engineering 2.1.8 QA 2.1.8.1 Test Execution 2.1.8.2 WebQA 2.1.8.3 QA Community 2.1.9 Automation & Tools 2.1.10 Security 2.1.11 Engagement 2.1.11.1 PR 2.1.11.2 Events 2.1.11.3 Creative Team 2.1.11.4 Community Marketing 2.1.12 Support 2.1.13 Metrics 2.1.14 Evangelism 2.1.15 Labs 2.1.16 Apps 2.1.17 Developer Tools 2.1.18 Add-ons 2.1.19 Webdev 2.1.20 L10n 2.1.21 People Team 2.1.22 WebFWD 2.2 Foundation Updates

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of the Tree

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 13 August

Tuesday, 14 August

• CSS WG F2F in San Diego

Wednesday, 15 August

• CSS WG F2F in San Diego

Thursday, 16 August

Friday, 17 August

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Stub Installer work progressing. UI interaction build made available on 8/6. Functional build this week. We’ll QA and release, possibly with a funnelcake study, when it’s ready (doesn’t ride trains.)
• HiDPI work for retina Macs well underway. Try server build at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674373 that makes text really pretty.
• These notes shamelessly cribbed from the Wednesday product coordination call, maybe you should attend!

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Mobile team meeting up in Boston this week to plan the rest of 2012 (and beyond!)
  • We will also be hosting a “Games & Add-on Hack Day” on Thursday.
• 14.0.2 is now out with JB crash fixes
• Many Google properties now sending us mobile content. Thanks to the web compat folks!
• Finkle blogged about remote debugging in Firefox for Android

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location:

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Dietrich

The team is focused on P1 priorities and has started daily B2G and Gaia triage sessions to close bugs and reduce scope to essential v1 requirements. Follow along on Lawrence’s blocker dashboard.

• Gaia: New UI pieces: overlays for Scanning, No Photos, No SD Card messages, the date/time picker landed, some Email visual design implementation, carrier name shows in utility tray, image picker in Contacts. Lots of localization work and updates to new permissions system landing. Flux in requirements for consumption control and first-run experience is ongoing risk.
• Platform: Most of cell broadcast is finished. More work in permissions, camera, headset, and automatic updates continue to land.
• Security: Existing permission whitelist is being replaced with proper permission checks and prompts. Need to lock down permissions and app data jars. App signing for privileged apps – at risk.
• Release Coordinators: Blocked on device availability for dogfooding as well as FOTA updates that don’t wipe user data
• Release Engineering: Repo layouts for developers on github. Resolved some contract and security access questions which impact release mechanics. Need information from agal on contractual details of how updates are to be served.
• L10n: AMO & Marketplace: es 100%, pt-BR 71%; Persona: es 100%, pt-BR 100%.
• QA: Test coverage metrics on daily smoke tests available, working with A-team to publish daily manifests so TEF can test daily builds. Smoke test metrics are still averaging about 26% failures and Blocking-Basecamp+ count is high.
• Tools and Automation: Mochitests and WebAPI tests running per-commit to m-c and getting triaged 3x week.

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

• Kicking off a weekly Grow Mozilla update! As a reminder, Grow Mozilla helps us achieve our ambitious goals by bringing new people into the project, increasing skills of community members and expanding our culture as we grow larger.

• Check out the new about:community blog at blog.mozilla.org/community for Grow Mozilla and Mozilla community-related news.

• MozCamp EU: We are currently in the process of sending out attendance and session acceptance notifications to paid staff and booking volunteer travel. Note: We are still evaluating some proposals and everyone should be notified of their status by end of week.

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
Senior Privacy Manager	Stacy Martin	How to Use the Cloud at Work	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	https://intranet.mozilla.org/Cloud

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?
Bhavana Bajaj	Johnathan Nightingale	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Engineering Project Manager
Lisa Brewster	Justin Scott	Mountain View,CA	Marketplace App Review Lead

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?

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

• Affiliates
  • Small l10n pushed — milestone 2012-08-06
  • Pushing another small release today – bug 781550
• AMO
  • 2012-08-09 is going live today.
• Jetpack Builder (aka FlightDeck)
  • Small push on Friday to upgrade the SDK to version 1.9
• Mozilla.com
  • Small content pushes
• Mozillians
  • milestone 2012-08-08 pushed
• MDN
  • Continuing work on post-KUMA fixes and tweaks
• Socorro
  • Bug 771218 – Ongoing problems with Socorro staging
    • Resolved, and pushed a small, infra-related release
• SUMO
  • Continuous deployment, no updates

QA Community

Automation & Tools

• See notes here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Meetings/2012-08-13

Security

Engagement

PR

Mozilla hosts an event to help build a future generation of web site coders

4 Tips On Scaling From Open-Source Pioneers

Mozilla’s Newest Office Used to Be Part of the Berlin Wall

Rethinking the Learning Experience: Part IV

Firefox’s per-window Private Browsing mode coming soon

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

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Contents 1 All-hands Status Meeting Agenda 1.1 Friends of the Tree 1.2 Upcoming Events 1.2.1 This Week 1.2.2 Monday, 06 August 1.2.3 Tuesday, 07 August 1.2.4 Wednesday, 08 August 1.2.5 Thursday, 09 August 1.2.6 Friday, 10 August 1.2.7 Next Week 1.3 Product Status Updates (voice updates) 1.3.1 Firefox Desktop 1.3.2 Firefox Mobile 1.3.3 Thunderbird 1.3.4 Older Branch Work 1.3.5 Webmaker 1.3.6 Identity 1.3.7 Services 1.3.8 Firefox OS 1.4 Speakers 1.5 Introducing New Hires 1.6 Introducing New Interns 1.7 Roundtable 2 <meta> 2.1 Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates) 2.1.1 Firefox 2.1.2 Platform 2.1.3 Services 2.1.4 Messaging 2.1.5 Mobile 2.1.6 IT 2.1.7 Release Engineering 2.1.8 QA 2.1.8.1 Test Execution 2.1.8.2 WebQA 2.1.8.3 QA Community 2.1.9 Automation & Tools 2.1.10 Security 2.1.11 Engagement 2.1.11.1 PR 2.1.11.2 Events 2.1.11.3 Creative Team 2.1.11.4 Community Marketing 2.1.12 Support 2.1.13 Metrics 2.1.14 Evangelism 2.1.15 Labs 2.1.16 Apps 2.1.17 Developer Tools 2.1.18 Add-ons 2.1.19 Webdev 2.1.20 L10n 2.1.21 People Team 2.1.22 WebFWD 2.2 Foundation Updates

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

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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

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

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

Foundation Updates

WeeklyUpdates/2012-07-30

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Contents 1 All-hands Status Meeting Agenda 1.1 Friends of the Tree 1.2 Upcoming Events 1.2.1 This Week 1.2.2 Monday, 30 July 1.2.3 Tuesday, 31 July 1.2.4 Wednesday, 01 August 1.2.5 Thursday, 02 August 1.2.6 Friday, 03 August 1.2.7 Next Week 1.3 Product Status Updates (voice updates) 1.3.1 Firefox Desktop 1.3.2 Firefox Mobile 1.3.3 Thunderbird 1.3.4 Older Branch Work 1.3.5 Webmaker 1.3.6 Identity 1.3.7 Services 1.3.8 Firefox OS 1.4 Speakers 1.5 Introducing New Hires 1.6 Introducing New Interns 1.7 Roundtable 2 <meta> 2.1 Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates) 2.1.1 Firefox 2.1.2 Platform 2.1.3 Services 2.1.4 Messaging 2.1.5 Mobile 2.1.6 IT 2.1.7 Release Engineering 2.1.8 QA 2.1.8.1 Test Execution 2.1.8.2 WebQA 2.1.8.3 QA Community 2.1.9 Automation & Tools 2.1.10 Security 2.1.11 Engagement 2.1.11.1 PR 2.1.11.2 Events 2.1.11.3 Creative Team 2.1.11.4 Community Marketing 2.1.12 Support 2.1.13 Metrics 2.1.14 Evangelism 2.1.15 Labs 2.1.16 Apps 2.1.17 Developer Tools 2.1.18 Add-ons 2.1.19 Webdev 2.1.20 L10n 2.1.21 People Team 2.1.22 WebFWD 2.2 Foundation Updates

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 Vineel Reddy Pindi for spreading Firefox in India and for creating this awesome video, which shows Mozillians from all over the world talking about Firefox in their native language to thousands of Firefox users on about:home. More info here.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 30 July

Tuesday, 31 July

Wednesday, 01 August

Thursday, 02 August

Friday, 03 August

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Dev tools landed the source maps library, which means we’re on the way to being able to hack on minified code.
• Incremental GC made the cutoff for Aurora 16, which should be a very nice performance improvement. (thx billm!)
• Taras on the the kind of things we’re learning from telemetry (and why our startup got better when we removed an optimization)
• Mary Meeker’s 2-month old D10 talk about the state of the web is still worth reading, or even re-reading.

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Flash support on honeycomb!
• Native text selection handles!
• Testing ARMv6 builds on Aurora as we speak!
  • Go retweet Brad
• Clicking on things has gotten better in nightly with bug 770659, bug 773427 and bug 773431

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location:

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox OS

Speaker Location:

• Kicking off milestone 5. Platform team focusing on finalizing WebAPIs, and improving performance. Gaia team applying the final visual designs, implementing Web Activities for app-to-app interactions. Check out these slides from Josh Carpenter of the visual design work that’s currently being implemented.
• Lots of work to get the dogfooding program ready – platform and build fixes, software update, tester feedback loops, device availability, etc.
• Watch Christian Heilmann and John Hammink rock the stage in Recife, with their keynote covering the history of Firefox OS and a high-level overview of some of the APIs.

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
Director of Creative	John Slater	One Mozilla style guide	first draft: http://mozilla.seanmartell.com/guide/index.php?directory=.	more background: http://www.intothefuzz.com/for-your-review-one-mozilla-style-guide-v1/

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	Daniel Einspanjer	Mountain View	Metrics Software Engineer
Salvador Espinoza	Derek Moore	Mountain View	DataCenter Operations Technician
Ashlee Chavez (Seasonal)	Derek Moore	Mountain View	DataCenter Operations Technician
Sam Mott (Seasonal)	David Slater	San Francisco	Product Marketing Manager
Christopher Arnold	Susan Chen	Berlin	Strategic Development Principal

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?
Glen Durmas Jr.	Tim Fairfield	Mountain View	Desktop Support
Joshua Labian	Tim Fairfield	Mountain View	Desktop Support
Adreena Winnfield	Tim Fairfield	Mountain View	Desktop Support
John Shih	Tony Chung	Mountain View	Firefox OS

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
  • Small release – Localize Affiliates news item (Help us out) – bug 706216
• Mozillians
  • No updates
• MDN
  • Working on bugs for Kuma launch
• Socorro
  • Milestone 17 shipped 2012-07-25
  • hi-risk release due to the stage env being broken – bug 771218 – specifically the crontabber work – bug 767165
  • Milestone 17.1 shipped to resolve bug 777545, bug 777010, and bug 777533
  • Another point release last Thursday — bug 777670

QA Community

Automation & Tools

• Created bug 778688 for making TBPL handle more types of failure (to reduce need for manual starring / the need to open full logs) and started collating issues under it.
• Began work on SUTAgent for B2G so that we can automate pandas as we normally do for other dev boards in our TBPL automation, first step fix up the old SUT Agent tests – bug 778366
• Got reftests failing consistently on B2G (this is awesome and will help us to get things fixed) – see bug 773482
• The Browser Automation Spec test repo has been created and mirrored on github if people want to follow
• More notes here

Security

Engagement

PR

Firefox OS Is Fast, Open And Commercial – Brendan Eich

The Feature phone rises (again?)

Why Open-Source Principles Are a Recipe For Innovation

Silent update speeds Firefox 14 uptake

Mozilla And SoundCloud In Berlin Startup Hub
Mozilla looks for startup ‘cross-pollination’ with new Berlin office

Mozilla Firefox Add-ons hit 3 billion downloads
Firefox Users Have Downloaded 3 Billion Add-Ons Since 2004

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

WebFWD is actively recruiting / accepting applications for our next class (starts October 1). Apply on our website: http://webfwd.org

Graduation of our current class is September 19th > in SF and live streamed on Air Mozilla: RSVP at http://webfwdgraduation.eventbrite.com/

Foundation Updates