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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, 14 May 1.2.3 Tuesday, 15 May 1.2.4 Wednesday, 16 May 1.2.5 Thursday, 17 May 1.2.6 Friday, 18 May 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 Summer Code Party 1.3.6 Identity 1.3.7 Services 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 2.1.8.4 Automation Services 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

• Everyone who worked to get a live WebM stream up during this weekend’s WebFWD Hack Day – https://twitter.com/airmozilla/status/201446072730656768
• All of IT/Operations for their hard work & effort over the last three months moving data centers. They worked odd hours, often over evenings and weekends to minimize disruption. Out of the hundreds of websites and services moved, few needed downtime!

Upcoming Events

This Week

• This week, mobile and Apps QA needs help in mobile web compatibility testing – find problems in top sites that do UA sniffing or use webkit prefixes in firefox mobile!
  • See here for how to get started

Monday, 14 May

Tuesday, 15 May

Wednesday, 16 May

Thursday, 17 May

• Grow Mozilla meeting at 10 AM pacific
  • Topics include using Mozilla Spaces for community building and growing community building skills with Mozilla Brain Builders
  • Full agenda and dial-in information

Brownbag Title	Presenter	Time
How is UX different than UI?	Brandon Schauer	12:00pm PST

Friday, 18 May

• All day Firefox mobile beta test day
• 10:00 AM PDT SecReview: Social API

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Some highlights from the Firefox work week:
  • Scratchpad backending to github gists
  • Jetpacks in scratchpad
  • Task-specific icons in Windows 7 jumplists
  • Finalized interactions and designs for the new downloads manager
  • Sync meet-up and discussion to evaluate how to move forward with a smaller core, by moving data handling to components and allowing the Sync team to concentrate on the real Sync functionality
  • Session Store meet-up and discussion on how to move forward with Speedy Session Restore as well as SS2 (rewriting SS).
  • Initial explorations of a Fennec reading mode (post-1.0)
  • Implemented Windows 8 appbar
  • Roll your own one-off, bespoke debuggers in the scratchpad.
  • Responsive Design tool for web developers
  • Honza made Firebug’s HTTP Monitor a standalone component, and it can now remote-monitor fennec, too
  • Gavin gave a great talk about code review
  • Tim Abraldes demoed the Web App runtime
  • Margaret walked us through Hacking Fennec
  • Brian Bondy updated the status of our Windows 8 work
  • Felipe found and fixed memory leaks with about:cc
  • Dietrich walked through the state of the browser components team
  • David Dahl went meta, and talked about giving Firefox talks in our community

• Also, check out the MSU student project on in-content preferences for Firefox

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Going to beta this week!
• Why are you even looking for another bullet point, here?
• Going. To. Beta. This. Week!

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Summer Code Party

Speaker Location: Matt T in Toronto

• The Mozilla Summer Code Party = teaching the world the web this summer. With tools and projects that make it easy and fun.
• Kicking off June 23. Formal public announcement coming May 22.
• In the mean time: help beta test these new webmaker projects?
• The goal: learning by making. Starter projects and games that help people learn HTML & CSS by getting their hands dirty.
• Let us know what you think. Do they work? Are they clear? Fun?
  • Try them out here
  • Let us know what you think here

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
WebFWD Team Presentations	Cheerleader: Diane Bisgeier	We have the WebFWD teams in town – and today they will do a 30 sec elevator pitch presenting their projects	http://cl.ly/GbD6/WebFWD%20Teams.pdf	https://webfwd.org/portfolio/
Marketplace Mozillian Preview	Justin Scott	Reminder that we need your help testing our app Marketplace	https://marketplace.mozilla.org	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Mozillian_Preview
Reset Firefox is awesome magic!	Michael Verdi	Demo new Reset Firefox feature in Firefox 13	http://youtu.be/SSr2u1wMoFg	http://support.mozilla.org/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems
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

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?
Simon Bennetts	Yvan Boily	Mountain View	Security Automation
Rehan Dalal	James Socol	Toronto	SUMO Engineering
Vladimir Vukicevic	JP Rosevear	Toronto	Engineering Director
Andrew Overholt	Johnny Stenback	Mountain View	Engineering Manager
Marshall Culpepper	Faramarz Rashed	Mountain View	Software Engineer

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?
Benjamin Peterson	Dave Mandelin	Mountain View	Platform Team
Thaddée Tyl	Matthew Noorenberghe	Mountain View	Firefox DevTools Script Team
Lindsey Kuper-you may recognize Lindsey from such films as “I Missed The Nerd Cave” and “Back From the Future-The Prequel”	Dave Herman	Mountain View	Research Team
Eric Holk- you may recognize Eric from such indie pop hits as “I know Where You Were Last Summer” and “You’d Actually Do That Again?”	Dave Herman	Mountain View	Research Team
Devdatta Akhawe	Sid Stamm	Mountain View	Research/Privacy
David Zbarsky	Faramarz Rashed	Mountain View	Platform Team
Xiao Meng Wei (Eric)	Kevin Brosnan	Mountain View	QA Team
Zack Carter	Dan Mills	Mountain View	Browser ID
Andrew Hurle	Matthew Noorenberghe	Mountain View	Firefox Team

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

• MDN migrated out of SJC1 to SCL3, virtually zero downtime
• many smaller/older services migrated out of SJC1, mostly to PHX1
• Sheeri Cabral and Pete Fritchman represented Mozilla IT at http://www.picconf.org/
  • Getting Started with a Podcast
  • Securing MySQL: More than just ACLs
  • Deep Application Monitoring using Statsd and more

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • No updates
• AMO/Marketplace
  • [1] shipped last Thursday
• Firefox Flicks
  • Shipped the wrap-up page
• Mozilla.com
  • shipped 2.4 bugs
• Mozillians
  • Shipped a very minor release on 2012-05-09
• MDN
  • no release last week due to server migration
• Socorro
  • No release last week.
• SUMO
  • Continuous Deployment; no updates
• MozTrap
  • Working on WebDriver migration
• Webmaker
  • Started testing https://make-dev.mozillalabs.com
• Wiki

QA Community

Automation Services

Automation & Tools

Security

• please note we are changing from whiteboard tags to keywords for security markings
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security_Severity_Ratings
  • Use both keyword and whitboard tag until Fri-May-18 as our transition period so we can verify searches work properly

Engagement

PR

• The Engadget interview: Mozilla Chief of Innovation Todd Simpson at CTIA 2012 (video)
• Today in Tech: Mozilla Going Mobile
• This Phone Is All Firefox, All the Way
• Mozilla CEO pushes for HTML 5 over mobile apps

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

Foundation Updates

WeeklyUpdates/2012-05-07

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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, 07 May 1.2.3 Tuesday, 08 May 1.2.4 Wednesday, 09 May 1.2.5 Thursday, 10 May 1.2.6 Friday, 11 May 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 Popcorn 1.3.5 Older Branch Work 1.3.6 Identity 1.3.7 Services 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 IT 2.1.4 Services 2.1.5 Messaging 2.1.6 Mobile 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 2.1.8.4 Automation Services 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

• Special thanks to both RelEng & IT/Ops & RelOps for Saturday tree-closing work. These teams worked hard most of the day Saturday to avoid developer disruption.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 07 May

Tuesday, 08 May

Wednesday, 09 May

Brownbag Title	Time	Presenter	Topic
Towards a Typed Dialect of JavaScript	1:00PM	Ravi Chugh	Intern’s final presentation.

Thursday, 10 May

Brownbag Title	Time	Presenter	Topic	Time
Lessons Learned from Field Research in China, India, and Japan	Noon	Carissa Carter	Carissa Carter is a Principal at Parallel Design Labs – a startup design group focused on connecting craft, human-centered design, and systemic thinking. We create products and teach design processes to corporate clients, higher-ed students, and beyond.

Friday, 11 May

• The WebFWD teams are in town. Come and say Hi – we’re camping out in MV on the 3rd floor.

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Seeing good falloff in 3.6 usage post-EOL
• Kyle has a great post about shutting down chrome-content leaks. This means, in particular, fewer leaks from add-ons.

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• 3 code blockers left for beta
• Aiming for go to beta build this week

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Popcorn

Brett Gaylor, remote from Victoria BC
Popcorn Maker 0.4 – Top Gun!
https://github.com/mozilla/butter
Live at http://mozillapopcorn.org:8888/

Living Docs event at Hot Docs a success:
http://livingdocs.org/hot-hacks-roundup/

Read about it on about.com
http://documentaries.about.com/od/documentaryfestivals/a/Mozillas-Hot-Hacks-Workshop-At-Hot-Docs-2012.htm?nl=1

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

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
WebFWD Hack Day	Pascal Finette	The WebFWD teams are in town — join us on Saturday for a public hack day (in person in MV and on IRC #webfwd).	—	RSVP here: http://webfwdopenworkday-es2.eventbrite.com/
The Grim Tab Reaper	Jono Xia	I wrote an add-on that causes tabs you haven’t touched in a while to automatically decay into bookmarks. Please try it out!	https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/the-grim-tab-reaper/	https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/the-grim-tab-reaper/
40,207 test jobs in 24 hours (Thurs, 3rd May)	John O’Duinn

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?
Georg Fritzsche	Benjamin Smedberg	Germany	Software Engineer, Platform

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?
Paul Stansifer	Dave Herman	Mountain View	Rust syntax extension/macro system

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

IT

• A huge thanks to cshields, digi, fox2mike, casey, justdave, lerxst, rtucker in IT, and nthomas, rail, catlee, bear, joduinn for a Saturday maintenance window to get our FTP/Rsync/Surf and Tinderbox infrastructure into SCL3
• Lots of DBA Activity, as usual
• moved graphs.mozilla.org (both prod and stage) from SJC1 to SCL3
• MXR (mxr.mozilla.org) moved from SJC1 to SCL3

Services

Messaging

Mobile

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• Mozilla.com
  • shipped 2.3 last week
• Mozillians
  • Automation is still blocked by bug 742017
• MDN
  • working on next [release]
• Socorro
  • Successful milestone 8 release last Wed.
  • New [https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/crash_trends Crash Trends report]
• SUMO
  • Continuous deployment, no updates
• MozTrap
  • Converting tests to WebDriver with help from zac

QA Community

Automation Services

Automation & Tools

• Jgriffin put together a great post on crafting marionette tests for B2G
• Wlach got the Galaxy Nexus working with Eideticker
• Edmorley helped coordinate the libxul linking/tree closure issues: We need to build on 64 bit windows machines
• Henrik replaced some very fragile code in Mozmill when it got broken by YACC (Yet Another Compartments Change): bug 751424
• Bc notes that it’s time for Patch Tuesday! Update All The Things.
• More notes are here

Security

Engagement

PR

• New Firefox Design Will Offer Uniform Look Across Desktop and Mobile
• Mozilla pushes unified interface for all versions of Firefox
• Firefox Merging Desktop And Mobile Experience Into One

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

Join us (and our teams) on Saturday, May 12 for an Open Work Day: learn about our projects and roll up your sleeves to test, code, write, document, localize and more! Best of all, you can do this in Mountain View or on IRC (#webfwd); details at https://webfwdopenworkday.eventbrite.com/

Foundation Updates

WeeklyUpdates/2012-04-30

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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 April 1.2.3 Tuesday, 01 May 1.2.4 Wednesday, 02 May 1.2.5 Thursday, 03 May 1.2.6 Friday, 04 May 1.2.7 Next Week 1.3 Product Status Updates (voice updates) 1.3.1 Firefox Desktop 1.3.2 Firefox Android 1.3.3 Thunderbird 1.3.4 Older Branch Work 1.3.5 Drumbeat 1.3.6 Identity 1.3.7 Services 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 2.1.2 Services 2.1.3 Firefox 2.1.4 Platform 2.1.5 Messaging 2.1.6 Mobile 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 2.1.8.4 Automation Services 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

• Belated shout-out to James Socol for his work on helping Air Mozilla stream MozCamp LATAM for registered Mozillians! (We gave James very little notice, like hours.)
• Thanks to the splendid volunteers who contributed during this weekend’s MDN Doc Sprint: Cory Gackenheimer, Michael Beckwith, Anastasia Cheetham, Frederic Bourgeon, David Bruant, Jeremie Patonnier, Kevin Lim, Kathy Walrath, and Christian Sonne. Thanks also to Jeff Walden for working on SpiderMonkey docs!

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 30 April

Privacy Friends Meeting, 1pm in San Francisco (7N) and Mountain View (Kung Fu) – Vidyo in to 7N. Contact Stacy Martin for more info.

Tuesday, 01 May

• Thor Muller, Author of “Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You” will be talking about his book.
  • noon-1pm PT 10FWD and air mozilla

Wednesday, 02 May

Thursday, 03 May

• Grow Mozilla meeting at 10 pacific – a forum to discuss ideas and ask questions about community building.
• Steve Portigal – Rethink Your Research Approach & Synthesize Your Findings Faster – part of UX Lecture Series.
  • noon-1pm PT 10FWD and air mozilla

Friday, 04 May

• SecReview: Create API for content to keep the screensaver from turning on (or to prevent phone/tablet’s screen from turning off)
• Desktop Web Apps Test Day

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Migration happened last week
  • We released Firefox 12, with the silentest updates ever
  • Beta is now 13, Aurora 14, and Nightly 15
• Firefox team had an amazing work week in Toronto last week, still getting it all blogged, but so far:
  • Felipe presented about finding memory leaks using about:cc
  • Dave Camp has the dev tools scratchpad backending to gists
  • jorendorff has a patch in progress for exposing the Debugger object to scratchpads
  • Several members of the desktop team have a prototype sign-in to browser implementation standing up
  • more to come!

Firefox Android

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Down to 11 beta blockers
• More fx work week output
  • Margaret presented about getting started hacking on Fennec native
  • devtools has a prototype ready for building responsive websites at a variety of phone/tablet screen sizes
  • more to come!

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

Speaker Location:

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
Inside the Root Shell	Brandon Burton, via Vidyo	A new weekly interview series with Mozilla IT, starting May 7th.	N/A	Email insidetherootshell@mozilla.com with questions you’d like to know about Mozilla IT folks.
Mozilla Crafts Show and Tell	Janet Swisher, in SF	Mozilla logo crochet project	Mozilla dino ski hat	Previous project: Firefox hat

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?
Diana Livits	Dave Slater	Mountain View	Partner Relationships for Mozilla Marketplace
Matt Grimes (blog)	David Tenser	Eskilstuna (via Vidyo)	Support Analytics for SUMO/Input/social media
Jedediah Parsons	Ben Adida	Mountain View	Software Engineer
Maria Sandberg	Bryan Clark	Mountain View	User Experience Designers
Dale Harvey	Faramarz Rashed	UK	Front-end, Boot to Gecko
Carl Meyer	Clint Talbert	Rapid City, SD	Software Tools Developer, Web Development
Scott Downe	Ryan Merkley	Toronto, ON	Developer
Leah Gilliam	Chris Lawrence	Brooklyn, NY	Hive NYC Portfolio Strategist

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?
Kevin Ngo	Mike Morgan	Mountain View	Web Dev
Jacques Uber	Michael Coates?	Mountain View
Doug Sherk	Jeff Gilbert	Mountain View

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

• More database work than you can shake a stick at
• developer.mozilla.org will be down on Tuesday, May 8th for a move to the new data center
• moved cvs.mozilla.org to SCL3 – file any issues under mozilla.org – Server Operations : Developer Services
• prep new product distribution environment in SCL3, plan to move this week
• work on moving MXR out of SJC1, see post to mozilla.dev.planning or Yammer for details and how to help test
• begin work on a multi-homed AMO/Marketplace environment by extending the db master to a M-M setup between Phoenix and Santa Clara
• dealt with more load balancer issues in Phoenix, came up with a combination of Zeus and Myricom 10g NICs that appears to work well
• moved our infra backup system last week from SJC1 to SCL3: the SpectraLogic tape library, HP server that has it attached and a 10 TB storage array used for faster backups and restores.
• relops
  • replaced dm-wwwbuild01 (build.mozilla.org web) with new vm in scl3
  • all new linux build/try vms (to replace the 100 vms in sjc1) added to staging in scl3
  • replaced cruncher with new vm in scl3
  • migrated opsi config management servers for releng to scl3
  • production rabbit server upgrade
  • prototype design complete for panda board rackmount solution
  • reorganized some of mtv1 machine room in preparation for construction
  • moved community mac minis (seamonkey, camino) from sjc1 to scl1

Services

Firefox

Platform

• Web Standards meetings this week and next:
  • May 1-2 W3C WebApps WG in Mountain View / Hosted by Microsoft
  • May 3-4 W3C HTML WG in Mountain View / Hosted by Microsoft
  • May 9-11 W3C CSS WG in Hamburg / Hosted by Adobe
• See the Events page for further details, and connect with the respective Standards people if you have something to contribute, questions, issues. – Tantek

Messaging

Mobile

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • No releases planned until after WebDev workweek
• AMO
  • New builds available for paypal tests
  • Audit of existing selenium tests for AMO underway
• Marketplace
  • Initial pull request for Marketplace test
• Jetpack Builder (aka FlightDeck)
• Mozilla.com
  • pushed Firefox 12 bugs
• Mozillians
  • Mozillians has moved to a new product in Bugzilla – Community Tools – file bugs here
  • Successful (and accidental) 2012-04-25 milestone release
• MDN
  • no push this week
• Socorro
  • Successful milestone 7 release 2012-04-26
• SUMO
  • Continuous deployment, no updates
• MozTrap
  • Planning for Selenium development

QA Community

Automation Services

Automation & Tools

• Fixed bug 696297 to improve valgrind jobs in tbpl automation
• Eideticker can now use telemetry to gather checkerboarding stats as well
• Working on an RxDroid library to help keep android devices online and reporting to reduce android automation instability.
• Have a code repo for datazilla. If you are a developer that uses Talos numbers, and you want to help us create better talos tools, ping jeads or ctalbert. We need to create a focus group to give us some preliminary feedback on our new UIs.
• More notes here

Security

Calendar and Meeting details

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

Engagement

PR

• Firefox 12 released with UAC-less update system on Windows
• Firefox 12 is here, silences annoying Windows UAC warnings
• Firefox 3.6.x reaches end of life
• Firefox 13 Beta Gets a Speed Boost with SPDY by Default

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

Learn more about our teams when they are in town in mid-May!

1) On Saturday May 12 we’ll be having an “open workday” allowing anyone to contribute to our teams – in-person in Mountain View or remotely via AirMozilla & IRC. Details at http://webfwdopenworkday.eventbrite.com/

2) On Monday May 14 our teams will present brief lightning talks at the All-Hands Meeting.

Foundation Updates

WeeklyUpdates/2012-04-23

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  • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 8600

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, 23 April 1.2.3 Tuesday, 24 April 1.2.4 Wednesday, 25 April 1.2.5 Thursday, 26 April 1.2.6 Friday, 27 April 1.2.7 Next Week 1.3 Product Status Updates (voice updates) 1.3.1 Firefox Future (12, 13, 14) 1.3.2 Firefox Current 1.3.3 Mobile Firefox 1.3.4 Thunderbird 1.3.5 Older Branch Work 1.3.6 Mozilla Popcorn 1.3.7 Identity 1.3.8 Services 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 2.1.2 Firefox 2.1.3 Platform 2.1.4 Services 2.1.5 Messaging 2.1.6 Mobile 2.1.7 Release Engineering 2.1.8 QA 2.1.8.1 Test Execution 2.1.8.2 WebQA 3 Project Status / goals for next week (keep it brief) 3.1 QA Community 3.2 Automation Services 3.3 Automation & Tools 3.4 Security 3.5 Engagement 3.5.1 PR 3.5.2 Events 3.5.3 Creative Team 3.5.4 Community Marketing 3.6 Support 3.7 Metrics 3.8 Evangelism 3.9 Labs 3.10 Apps 3.11 Developer Tools 3.12 Add-ons 3.13 Webdev 3.14 L10n 3.15 People Team 3.16 WebFWD 3.17 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, 23 April

SecReview:Identity KPI Backend

SecReview:Element.mozRequestFullscreenWithKeys

Tuesday, 24 April

Wednesday, 25 April

Thursday, 26 April

VIRTUAL FIRESIDE CHAT
Should Mozilla develop tools to help the world learn HTML5?
Join an online interactive “fireside chat” with education tech expert Audrey Watters and Mozilla to discuss. Audrey will share results of her recent research project for Mozilla, and look for your feedback and ideas. What’s the best way for Mozilla to help teach “web building” to anyone?

• Thursday, April 26: 9am to 10pm PT / 12pm to 1pm ET
• Sign up on Lanyrd here
• Learn more here

Friday, 27 April

• MDN Doc Sprint, Friday in Mountain View (Holodeck); Saturday and Sunday in San Francisco (Board Room); virtually in #devmo on irc.mozilla.org.

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Future (12, 13, 14)

Speaker Location: Toronto

• We communicated the EOL of 3.6 (and the impending automatic update to FF12) last week as part of a new set of major update prompts targeting the most populated 3.6 releases

• Firefox 12, Fennec 10.0.4, and Firefox ESR 10.0.4 are all on track for release tomorrow at 8AM
  • Communication of the fact that FF13 will no longer support Windows versions less than XP SP2 will also start this week

• Firefox 13 Beta and Firefox 14 Aurora will be released later in the week

Firefox Current

Speaker Location: Toronto

• After release tomorrow, mozilla-central will become Firefox 15 and the embargo on mozilla-central changes that pose risk to mobile will be lifted

Mobile Firefox

Speaker Location:

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Mozilla Popcorn

Speaker Location:

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
Guest Speaker: Unreasonable Institute	Daniel Epstein (introduced by Pascal Finette)	Daniel Epstein is the founder of the Unreasonable Institute (ranked most impactful accelerator in the world be the NY Times). Today he is going to be unveiling their newest initiative (www.unreasonableatsea.com)… a 100 day accelerator for technology entrepreneurs that will take place on a ship as it sails more than 25,000 nautical miles around the southern hemisphere.	Slides (PDF): http://cl.ly/G3lC	Watch this 2 minute video introduction – http://vimeo.com/40384173 and find out more at http://www.unreasonableatsea.com
Air Mozilla Update	Richard	This is the first Monday Project Meeting on the new Air Mozilla.	http://air.mozilla.org/
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

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?
Ali Spivak	Jean-Yves Perrier	Mountain View	MDN Product Manager
David Dahl	Sid Stamm	Mountain View	Privacy Engineering
Francois Marier	Ben Adida	Mountain View	Software Engineer
Audree Halasz	Mihca Degele	Mountain View	HR Business Partner
Naveed Ihsanullah	David Mandelin	Mountain View	Engineering Manager
David Walsh	Mike Morgan	Madison, WI	MDN Web Developer, Front-end
Kim Moir	Chris Cooper (phone)	Remote – Ottawa	Release Engineer Magic

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

• wiki.mozilla.org was migrated by solarce and cturra, to our phx1 data center last week, with no downtime and 1.25 hours of read-only mode.
• Thanks to jason, getpersonas.mozilla.com moved to our new scl3 data center on Saturday. This leaves one last website to move in our sjc1 exodus: developer.mozilla.org
• Beefed up our generic webhosting cluster in phx1 which should add speed to some sites hosted there such as wikimo, blogmo, getfirebug, firefoxflicks, mozillians, qmo, and tbpl, just to name a few.
• a few of our team attended Asterisk training this week. Though vidyo has become a popular option for communications, we still have quite a system of office and remote phones and conferencing to support.
• More servers moved out of our sjc1 data center last week. 3 more weeks to go in this migration!

Firefox

Platform

Services

• Apps-in-the-Cloud servers launching this week in support of the Marketplace ecosystem
• High-volume key signing also hoping to launch for Marketplace receipt signing.

Messaging

Mobile

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

Project Status / goals for next week (keep it brief)

• Affiliates
  • Successful 2012-04-11 release
  • moving to continuous deployment
• AMO
  • Made tasks for the remaining production tests so the set will be complete for next week.
  • Marlena to demo use cases tomorrow in the Apps show-and-tell
• Mozilla.com
  • mozilla.org [I assume this is where it goes] push yesterday, small patch with bug fixes
• Mozillians
  • Successful 2012-04-18 release – bug 746750
  • Automation efforts are blocked by bug 742017
• Socorro
  • Successful milestone 6 release 2012-4-18 – bug 746718
  • runs on webdriver!
• SUMO
  • Continuous deployment, no updates
• MozTrap
  • No new updates
• Wiki
  • Supported a production re-deploy in Phoenix

QA Community

Automation Services

Automation & Tools

Security

Calendar and Meeting details

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

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla Shows Off Click Highlighting

• The Internet Gets a Hall of Fame (Including MItchell Baker)

• Mozilla Inspired To Rethink How We Create

• First Mozilla Boot to Gecko Devices Launching by Early 2013
• Mozilla’s Plans to Compete in the Smartphone Market Are Advancing
• Mozilla, Telefonica target Brazil for Boot to Gecko smartphone launch

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Metrics infrastructure is mostly operational in the new datacenter. We suffered a data loss of the Add-ons usage data for the 20th through the 22nd.

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

Want to not only get familiar with but actually get involved with some of our awesome projects (see https://webfwd.org/portfolio/)? Join us in our Open Work Day on Sat May 12th – either in Mountain View or via Air Mozilla! Details at https://webfwdopenworkday.eventbrite.com/

Foundation Updates

WeeklyUpdates/2012-04-16

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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, 16 April 1.2.3 Tuesday, 17 April 1.2.4 Wednesday, 18 April 1.2.5 Thursday, 19 April 1.2.6 Friday, 20 April 1.2.7 Next Week 1.3 Product Status Updates (voice updates) 1.3.1 Firefox Desktop 1.3.2 Mobile Firefox 1.3.3 Thunderbird 1.3.4 Older Branch Work 1.3.5 Mozilla Popcorn 1.3.6 Knight-Mozilla Open News Project 1.3.7 Identity 1.3.8 Services 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 2.1.2 Firefox 2.1.3 Platform 2.1.4 Services 2.1.5 Messaging 2.1.6 Mobile 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 2.1.8.4 Automation Services 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, 16 April

Tuesday, 17 April

Wednesday, 18 April

• Security Review for New Identity Box Design bug 742419 (details below in Security)

Thursday, 19 April

• Grow Mozilla meeting at 10 pacific – a forum to discuss ideas and ask questions about community building.

Friday, 20 April

• MozCamp LATAM kicks off in Buenos Aires and runs until April 22nd.

Next Week

• MDN Doc Sprint, Friday April 27 in Mountain View, Sat-Sun 28-29 in San Francisco. If you’re in the area, come help us make MDN docs even better!

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto

• Kilimanjaro!
  • Draft spec emerging
• 1 week until the next migration day

Mobile Firefox

Speaker Location: toronto

• dev.planning thread about making mozilla-central APRPOVAL_REQUIRED
• Current beta blockers
  • Daily triage at 11:30am PT

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Mozilla Popcorn

Brett Gaylor, remote

• Popcorn Maker 0.3 released, aka Breakfast Club
• GitHub: https://github.com/mozilla/butter
• Staged version: http://mozillapopcorn.org:8888/
• Ben Moskwowitz blog post on how to get involved http://www.benmoskowitz.com/?p=527

Knight-Mozilla Open News Project

Speaker Location: Dan Sinker via phone from Chicago

• Last week, the application to become a 2012/13 Knight-Mozilla Fellow went live: <a href=”http://mozillaopennews.org/fellowships/apply.html“>
• Fellows will spend 10 months doing open source development at news organizations around the world: New York Times, BBC, Guardian, Zeit Online, Spiegel Online, Boston Globe, ProPublica, and La Nacion in Buenos Aires.
• We’re looking for great developers to apply and would love you spreading the word.
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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
Mentored Bugs and You	Josh Matthews	How to make good use of mentored bugs for your team	http://www.joshmatthews.net/deck.js/mentor/	http://www.joshmatthews.net/blog/2011/09/making-bugs-more-attractive-for-other-people-to-fix/
Firefox Clinic	Michael Verdi	Wrap-up of how the Firefox Clinic event went	Call in with vidyo	http://blog.mozilla.org/sumo/2012/04/09/the-firefox-clinic-was-an-absolute-blast/

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Chris Turra	Corey Shields	Mountain Views	Web Operations
Annie Elliott	Gilbert FitzGerald	Mountain View	Data Analyst, Business Intelligence
David Slater	Chris Beard	Mountain View	VP of Product Marketing
Ed Morley	Clint Talbert	San Francisco	Software Tools Developer, Front-end
Elisabeth Laude	Lori Jashinsky	Paris	Office Service 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)

IT

• Sheeri Cabral (one of our awesome DBAs) won a MySQL Community Award for her work in the OurSQL podcast !
• blog.mozilla.org moved to PHX1 on new infrastructure
• mail.mozilla.com (Zimbra) ~ completed final cut over to HCI (LDAP masters & proxies moved)
• hg.mozilla.org relocated to SCL3. New scalable infrastructure.
• www.mozilla.org (PEK1)
  • spun up www.mozilla.org out of PEK1 (new China-based data center).
  • dropped page load times from 19 seconds to 5 seconds.
• Relocated DNSSEC signer to SCL3
• Finished moving and/or decommissioning a VM cluster hosting 130 virtual machines in SJC1 (this was the bulk of our week), including:
  • moved BZR (hosting bugzilla and more) to SCL3, speed improvements were reported after (woot!)
  • moved litmus to SCL3
  • moved l10n dashboard to SCL3
  • moved legacy stage services to SCL3
  • moved security assurance services to SCL3
  • moved MoCo addressbook to new corp infrastructure in PHX1
  • moved MDN Staging environment to SCL3
  • re-routed irc services out of SJC1, took sand offline
• work began on migrating the “generic” web cluster in PHX1 to new, faster hardware. Should be completed this week.
• Preparing to migrate http://wiki.mozilla.org/ to PHX1 on new, faster “generic” web cluster this week
• RelOps
  • instantiated 50 new linux and linux64 Firefox builders in SCL3 to replace existing infrastructure in SJC1
  • substantially faster new OS X Firefox builders in production for mozilla-central

Firefox

Platform

Services

Messaging

Mobile

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • Released 4/13
  • Moving to continuous deployment (we have statsd)
• AMO
  • Marlena writing some “fully dressed” use cases for apps
  • Focus is on keeping the build green
• Marketplace
  • Automation tasks are being added to the WebQA tracker
• Mozilla.com
  • working on 2.0 release
• Mozillians
  • Latest release is tagged and ready to be deployed
  • New responsive UI hotness
• Moztrap: 1.0 release, testing internally
• MDN
  • release shipped 4/10
  • Working on next release
• Socorro
  • Milestone 5 released yesterday – bug 744500
  • Automation is moving to WebDriver – HUGE shout out to the team for doing the refactor!
• SUMO
  • no news (is good news), due to Continuous Deployment
• Wiki
  • Prod cutover to the new host should happen soon; thanks for the help testing

QA Community

Automation Services

Automation & Tools

Security

Date / Time	Item
Mon Apr 16 / 13:00 PST	NONE
Wed Apr 18 / 13:00 PST	New Identity Box Design
Thu Apr 19 / 10:00 PST	Identity Project BigTent
Fri Apr 20 / 10:00 AM PST	Nightly updates PHP script for Lightning

Calendar and Meeting details

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

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

All Metrics infrastructure moving dtaacenters tomorrow, Tuesday April 17th.

This move will be very disrupting, and while we are going to attempt to have everything up and running again as quickly as possible, there are a lot of configuration changes that need to happen during this move that could take time to be completed. At the end of this process however, we will have a much better environment that will allow us to rapidly improve several pieces such as building out more staging environments and enable better replication/failover in the future.

The impact for various teams is as follows:

metrics.mozilla.com website and all dashboards will be unavailable for one to two days

Nightly and weekly Metrics e-mail reports will not be delivered on Tuesday and possibly Wednesday.

Exports of ADI data to AMO & Socorro will not be delivered Tuesday and possibly Wednesday. After the move is completed, we will backfill data and export the missing data.

Log file collection / processing will be delayed during the migration. IT has worked hard to ensure we have a new collection server waiting for our arrival in the new datacenter, so we believe that we will be able to quickly get started on backprocessing. Depending on how long the migration itself takes, it could take up to four days for us to finish backprocessing (at the same time we are processing new data).

Test Pilot data submissions will not be accepted during the migration. Test Pilot has a client-side retry mechanism in it that will cause the clients to attempt to submit that data at a later time so we do not expect any data loss.

Telemetry data submissions will not be accepted during the migration. Telemetry does not have a client-side retry mechanism, so there will be an unrecoverable gap in data for the duration of the downtime. We will be making restoration of this service our top priority. We were hoping to be able to migrate this service ahead of everything else, but the hardware for the new cluster was not available in time due to missing parts. :/

Buildbot log collection will be delayed during the migration. We will work with that team to backfill any missing data after the migration is complete.

Bugzilla analysis datawarehouse will not be available during the migration. This has *no* impact on the normal operation of bugzilla.mozilla.org so unless you know specifically what this is, don’t worry about it. 🙂

If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to e-mail metrics@mozilla.com.

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

Our teams will be back in the Bay Area May 11-14 for our 2nd in-person Summit. This will include a community hack day on Saturday May 12 – details coming soon!

Foundation Updates

WeeklyUpdates/2012-04-09

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  • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 8600
• *1 to mute/unmute

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, 09 April 1.2.3 Tuesday, 10 April 1.2.4 Wednesday, 11 April 1.2.5 Thursday, 12 April 1.2.6 Friday, 13 April 1.2.7 Next Week 1.3 Product Status Updates (voice updates) 1.3.1 Firefox Future (9, 10, 11) 1.3.2 Firefox Current (3.6, 8) 1.3.3 Mobile Firefox 1.3.4 Thunderbird 1.3.5 Older Branch Work 1.3.6 Drumbeat / Foundation 1.3.6.1 Open Badges Public Beta launch 1.3.7 Identity 1.3.8 Services 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 3 Project Status / goals for next week (keep it brief) 3.1 QA Community 3.2 Automation Services 3.3 Automation & Tools 3.4 Security 3.5 Engagement 3.5.1 PR 3.5.2 Events 3.5.3 Creative Team 3.5.4 Community Marketing 3.6 Support 3.7 Metrics 3.8 Evangelism 3.9 Labs 3.10 Apps 3.11 Developer Tools 3.12 Add-ons 3.13 Webdev 3.14 L10n 3.15 People Team 3.16 WebFWD 3.17 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

• Les Orchard

Thanks for graciously sharing your work (on Badger) with the Open Badges team. Your efforts with DjangoBadger are deeply appreciated as well. Your contributions to open source help us all. You rock.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 09 April

Tuesday, 10 April

Wednesday, 11 April

Thursday, 12 April

Topic of Brownbag	Presenter	Time	Description
The Pyschology Behind Pair Designing	Karl Dotter from Dopamine	12:00PM	Karl will be speaking about pair designing and introduce us to some case studies where this technique has worked for his design firm.

Friday, 13 April

Topic of Brownbag	Presenter	Time	Description
MozCamp LatAm	Kate Naszradi and Mary Colvig	10:00AM	This will be a brief overview, training, and Q&A for staff who will be attending MozCamp Latin America.
Brown Bag w/ Board Member Reid Hoffman	Reid Hoffman	12:00PM	Reid will be giving out his new book.

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Future (9, 10, 11)

Speaker Location:

Firefox Current (3.6, 8)

Speaker Location:

Mobile Firefox

Speaker Location:

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat / Foundation

Speaker Location: Erin Knight, phone

Open Badges Public Beta launch

• What: Public beta version of the Open Badge Infrastructure, the underlying badge specification and set of repositories (‘Backpacks’) to support a badge-as-alternative-credential ecosystem
• Pretty big deal: lots of badges are getting a lot of attention and lots of people are working on badges toward a common goal of supporting all types of learning, especially informal, interest-driven and on-the-job learning. The OBI is a key part of success since it allows learners to earn badges across learning experiences, collect them into a single collection they manage and share them out with potential employers, etc.

• Public beta includes: full issuer API, Backpacks with management tools, privacy controls, grouping and publishing features, initial displayer APIs, necessary legal components
• Outreach: Press release and announcements going out tomorrow, Tuesday 4/10/12
• Adoption: Lots of badge issuers already starting to push badges in.
• More info / see for yourself:
  • http://openbadges.org (earn your first badge!)
  • http://beta.openbadges.org
  • https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges

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
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

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Simon Wex	David Ascher	Phone	Labs
Chloe Varelidi	Erin Knight	Phone	Foundation, webmaker/learning games and assessment
David Keeler	Lucas Adamski	Mountain View, CA	Security Engineering
Jon Buckley	Ryan Merkely	Mountain View	Developer
Michiel Kamermans	Ryan Merkely	Mountain View	Software Engineer

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?
Jordan Lund (jlund on IRC)	Armen Zambrano	Toronto	Release Engineering

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

Data Centers

• SCL3/SJC1:
  • We are in the middle of a massive data center move from one of our original data centers, SJC1 to our other data centers. We are on track to move roughly 1300 servers and virtual machines by the middle of the quarter.
  • While migration work has been going on for a year now to get websites and services out of there in advance of this move, some services are hanging on to the end and may require downtime to get them physically moved (or virtually migrated) to their new home. Please be patient with us as this move takes our resources away from other projects, and as some of these services incur downtime for their move.
  • Continued migration of community infrastructure form sjc1 to scl3.
• PEK2: Data center migration in China for Mozilla Online continued this week, with fox2mike on site finishing the load balancer and vm hosting, and working on moving key sites.

Websites

• Firefox 3.6 Start Page. This week we stood up a cluster (admin, dev, stage, and prod) along with global caching for the Mozilla-hosted Firefox 3.6 start page.
• www.mozilla.org multi-datacenter. Last week we spun up www.mozilla.org in Santa Clara. It is now hosted in two data centers and cached out of Amsterdam. We will be making more use of CDNs in the next step.

Infrastructure

• Completed Zimbra migration to HCI. All @mozilla.com & @mozillafoundation.org email accounts are on a new Zimbra infrastructure (and the migration happened with no impact to you!). See blog posts by justdave & mrz.
• Turned up hundreds of new systems (more than I can collectively count amongst all teams in IT). For example, 128 nodes with new Sandy Bridge Xeon procs have been deployed to the SCL3 data center, and 64 to the PHX1 data center.
• Zeus NIC cards (PHX1). We replaced the NIC cards in our PHX1 load balancers this week with new vendor-recommended cards to overcome problems that have plagued us for months. So far, we have not had any lb-related problems in PHX1. However, part of this success is due to moving the load of Addons version checking and about:home snippets to a new set of Netscaler load balancers which handle the heavy-loaded sites better but don’t provide some of the features we enjoy out of our Stingray load balancers.

Developer Services

• hg.mozilla.org
  • A lot of work was wrapped up in prepping a new environment for hg.mozilla.org in our new data center.
    • We should be announcing downtime soon to make the switch this week.
  • Please do not abort a push to try (with ctrl-c) once it has begun. Due to the added pushlog in commit hooks, it causes hg to break and requires manual intervention to fix.

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

Project Status / goals for next week (keep it brief)

• Affiliates
  • No release scheduled for last week
• AMO
  • CI for AMO mobile tests…yay!
  • New tests from contributors Pengsu and Victor…yay!
  • Pull request is in the queue for a smarter login…yay!
• Mozilla.com
  • No release last week
• Mozillians
  • [rel:04/04/2012] scheduled to be released this week
  • hot new UI with responsive design
  • mbrandt: struggling with mozillians, not asking for team coverage, but the team is struggling with quality and it’s taking a lot of my focus. Really trying to help them out- but it’s taking away from pull requests and other duties. Am sure that there’s nothing others can do to help with this.
• Mozilla Reps
  • 0.2 shipped today
• MDN
  • pushed on 04/04
• Socorro
  • Successful Milestone 4 release on 4/4/2012
  • zac: Thanks to alin- did a lot of work on socorro, takes 8 min to run the suite but that is too long, have an etherpad to work on cleaning up tests. Probably do it in the next couple of days.
• SUMO
  • no updates
• MozTrap
  • Yay new name! Yay 1.0 release! blog post about it here has more info.
• Wiki
  • no updates
• REMO
  • stephend: pushed mozilla reps 2.0 Thursday morning, still hoping to find a community person to take over as leader

QA Community

Automation Services

• MemChaser 0.3 is out

Automation & Tools

• Eideticker caught its first checkerboarding regression you can follow along in bug 741988
• Got 10.7 Mac OS builds and Windows builds on Visual Studio 2010 working for Bughunter
• Project flag support for Kilmanjaro Event landed in Bugzilla
• Analyze This tool ready for feedback (a tool to pull statistics out of Talos into a reusable, redistributable package).
• MozTrap 1.0 is out and alive. Waiting on security review to go live on production.
• More information on our notes page

Security

Date / Time	Item
Mon Apr 9 / 13:00 PST	BrowserID Sync
Wed Apr 11 / 13:00 PST	AVAILABLE
Thu Apr 12 / 10:00 PST	AVAILABLE
Fri Apr 13 / 10:00 AM PST	AVAILABLE

Calendar and Meeting details

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

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla Builds Video Chat App Using Nothing but Web Standards
• HTML5 roundup: Mozilla demos standards-based video chat in Firefox
• Mozilla demonstrates standards-based video chat in Firefox

• Mozilla posts Firefox redesign mockups

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

We’ve just announced two new teams to the program — read about both Entropy Wave and Tomahawk on our blog: http://blog.webfwd.org.

And one more team will be announced by next week 🙂

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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, 02 April 1.2.3 Tuesday, 03 April 1.2.4 Wednesday, 04 April 1.2.5 Thursday, 05 April 1.2.6 Friday, 06 April 1.2.7 Next Week 1.3 Product Status Updates (voice updates) 1.3.1 Firefox Desktop 1.3.2 Mobile Firefox 1.3.3 Thunderbird 1.3.4 Older Branch Work 1.3.5 Mozilla Popcorn 1.3.6 Identity 1.3.7 Services 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 IT/Operations & Infrastructure 2.1.5 Messaging 2.1.6 Mobile 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 2.1.8.4 Automation Services 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

Friends of the Tree

• The accessibility team is excited to call out Mark Capella for his great bug hacking. Thanks!

• Big thanks go out to Avi Halachmi (:avih) for his work on smooth scrolling and Joshua M (:soapy) for his work on the Australis theme for Firefox.

• Kudos to Mozilla IT/Ops to quickly scaling browserquest.mozilla.org last Tuesday when it went viral! This site wasn’t even hosted on Mozilla IT managed infrastructure!

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 02 April

Tuesday, 03 April

• Brownbag: Community Tools & Platforms Roadmap for 2012. More Details

Wednesday, 04 April

Thursday, 05 April

Friday, 06 April

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• pdf.js landed, providing safe, in-browser PDF rendering for Firefox users bug 714712
• Active discussion in dev.planning about 3.6 EOL plans
• We are now midway through the FF14 development cycle. 3 weeks to land on central before the next migration.
  • Get your ff12/ff13 tracked bugs in now plzkthx.

Mobile Firefox

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Daily triage of beta blockers continues at 11:30 PT
• The blocking list is shrinking, and GFX is making a lot of progress on crashers

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Mozilla Popcorn

Speaker Location:
Brett Gaylor, remote

• Popcorn Maker 0.3, aka “Breakfast Club” releasing this week. Notable features:
  • Node.js based server for saving work and hosting creations (aka “cornfield”)
  • BrowserID for user authentication
  • Supporting youtube and vimeo for media
• Held a Popcorn Learning Lab at new London office last Sunday, 30 web devs and film folks working together photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/etherworks/sets/72157629314277716/
• Launched Living Docs project to work with documentary creators, holding a hackthon at the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto at end of month http://www.livingdocs.org

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
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

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?
Dan Maher	Brian Hourigan	MV	IT Systems team, webops
Tim Chevalier	David Herman	Mountain View, CA	Research Engineer
Ilana Segall	Jinghua Zhang	Mountain View, CA	Quantitative User Research
Bob Micheletto	Jeff Vier	Mountain View, CA	Mozilla Services, Operations Engineer
Michael Henry	Joe Stevensen	Mountain View, CA	Security Engineer
Yury Delendik	Andreas Gal	Edmond, OK	Software Engineer
Benjamin Francis	Faramarz Rashed	UK	Front-End Engineer

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?
Paul Adenot	Daniel Holbert	Mountain View	Platform (Video/Audio features)
Kate Hudson	Matt Thompson	Toronto	Summer internship. UX for Mozilla Popcorn app.
Ilana Segall	Jono Xia	Mountain View	User Research

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

IT/Operations & Infrastructure

• Debugged a code-related performance regression in www.mozilla.org over the weekend that was impacting site performance
• Bunch of database work
• SCL3 Data Center move
  • Lit up Bay Area POPs – PAIX & Equinix
  • Upgrading the PHX1/SCL3 link to 10GbE
  • Spun up bedrock & www.mozilla.org in SCL3
  • Configured release engineering core infrastructure
  • Installed new Firefox OS X builders
  • Migrated parts of community infrastructure
• Brought new linux builders (b2g integration) into production
• Wrapped up Beijing, China data center move
• Preparing to ship Air Mozilla Event Kit to MozCamp LATAM

Messaging

Mobile

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • Successfully released the 3/28/2012 milestone, push bug, bug 740019
  • Test day today
• AMO
  • AMO 6.4.8 going live at 2pm
  • Testday was Wednesday, a big Thanks to everyone for help with moderating!
• Marketplace
  • MP 6.4.8 going live at 2pm
• Input

• Jetpack Builder (aka FlightDeck)

• Mozilla.com
  • shipping one mozilla today 3/29

• Mozillians
  • Still working on the [rel:03/21/2012] release, hope to push it today or tomorrow
• Mozilla Reps testday tomorrow
• MDN
  • shipped 2.6 on 3/28

• Socorro
  • Milestone 3 successfully released today
  • push bug 740075
• SUMO
  • no updates
• Case Conductor
  • Testing the .9 release, trying to find bugs during the last few days with the Meyers
• Wiki
  • no updates

QA Community

Automation Services

Automation & Tools

• User documentation for Peptest (user responsiveness testing framework) available on MDN, Peptest is now available on mozilla-inbound and mozilla-central
• Did War on Orange brown bag last week
• Android automation Improvements
  • trobopan and tcheckerboard (fennec specific performance tests) are now live
  • robocop unittests are green
  • sut-tools are being updated to reduce instability
• Tp5 Row-order change has landed, which should dramatically reduce the noise in our talos numbers
• Kraken was added to the speedtest automation system
• Lots of other work is ongoing, see here for notes
• Also, the Q2 Automation and Tools Goals are finalized

Security

Date / Time	Item
Mon Apr 2 / 13:00 PST	WebRT] bug 697006
Wed Apr 4 / 13:00 PST	AVAILABLE
Thu Apr 5 / 10:00 PST	AVAILABLE
Fri Apr 6 / 10:00 AM PST	AVAILABLE

Calendar and Meeting details

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

Engagement

PR

• Reasons Why Firefox Could Become a Top Browser Again

• Mozilla’s BrowserQuest Points to New Online Gaming Model
• Mozilla BrowserQuest The Future of Open Source HTML5 Gaming?
• Mozilla launches multiplayer browser adventure to showcase HTML5 gaming

• Picture Better Web Apps With Mozilla’s Camera API

• Inside Mozilla’s Amazing Office Space In San Francisco

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

Mark your calendars for the 2nd ever WebFWD Summit, where we’ll be bringing in our teams from around the world to Mountain View for hands-on workshops May 11th and (this could involve you) a public code sprint event on Saturday, May 12. We’ll share details on how to participate – whether remotely or locally – as we firm them up!

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, 26 March 1.2.3 Tuesday, 27 March 1.2.4 Wednesday, 28 March 1.2.5 Thursday, 29 March 1.2.6 Friday, 30 March 1.2.7 Next Week 1.3 Product Status Updates (voice updates) 1.3.1 Firefox Desktop 1.3.2 Mobile Firefox 1.3.3 Thunderbird 1.3.4 Older Branch Work 1.3.5 Popcorn 1.3.6 Identity 1.3.7 Services 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 2.1.8.4 Automation Services 2.1.9 Automation & Tools 2.1.10 Security 2.1.10.1 Security Reviews & Threat Modeling Sessions Scheduled for this week 2.1.10.2 Security Review Needed but Unscheduled 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
  • 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
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

Calendar and Meeting details

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

• Review Needed

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

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

Foundation Updates

WeeklyUpdates/2012-03-19

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  • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 8600

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, 19 March 1.2.3 Tuesday, 20 March 1.2.4 Wednesday, 21 March 1.2.5 Thursday, 22 March 1.2.6 Friday, 23 March 1.2.7 Sunday, 25 March 1.2.8 Next Week 1.3 Product Status Updates (voice updates) 1.3.1 Firefox Desktop 1.3.2 Mobile Firefox 1.3.3 Thunderbird 1.3.4 Older Branch Work 1.3.5 Popcorn 1.3.6 Identity 1.3.7 Services 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 2.1.8.4 Automation Services 2.1.9 Automation & Tools 2.1.10 Security 2.1.10.1 Security Reviews & Threat Modeling Sessions Scheduled for this week 2.1.10.2 Security Review Needed but Unscheduled 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

• Great work by the Fx team (and Platform Layout team) on landing the New Tab speed dial feature for Firefox 13. Shout out to Tim Taubert, Jennifer Morrow, Stephen Horlander and many others!

Upcoming Events

This Week

• Help QA name our new tool!
  • QA has been working on a new Test Case Management tool (to replace Litmus later in 2012). And for some tl;dr reasons, we’re looking for a new name before the 3/30 release of 1.0. We have a short list of names and would love for YOU, the Community, to chime in this week with your opinions and creativity. We’ll choose the new name this weekend.
  • Blog post
  • Take the Survey

Monday, 19 March

Tuesday, 20 March

Wednesday, 21 March

• Contributor Training: Student Reps 101 // March 21st at 10am PT at SFO Commons + Air Mozilla // Please promote // Thanks!

Thursday, 22 March

Friday, 23 March

Sunday, 25 March

• Contributor Training: Student Reps 101 // Sunday, March 25th at 7am PT on Air Mozilla // Please promote // Thanks!

Next Week

• Contributor Engagement BrownBag – Monday, 3/26, @ 4pm Pacific.

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: no voice update (hello from London!) (there’s a lot of jetlag here!)

• 4 — yes 4! — exciting pieces of UI updates coming soon!
  • new about:home landing progress bug 711157
  • new new-tab designs bug 729878
  • new download manager landing progress bug 564934
  • new web apps UI bug 697006, bug 702363

Mobile Firefox

Speaker Location: None

• Closing on beta
  • Merged Maple into mozilla-central last week
  • Beta blocker list is going in the right direction

Thunderbird

Speaker Location: Toronto

• Two new features landed in Daily & Earlybird:
  • Instant Messaging
    • Add Twitter, Facebook Chat, Google Talk, IRC to Thunderbird
    • Search through your instant messaging conversations
  • Filelink
    • Use online storage services to store large size email file attachments

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Popcorn

Speaker Location: Matt Thompson in Toronto (Brett Gaylor’s on a plane)

• Popcorn.js shipped version 1.2 last week. Blog post is here
• More on new features

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
Chief Lizard Wrangler	Mitchell Baker	Audio / Video Codecs	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/video-mobile-and-the-open-web/; http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/03/18/video-user-experience-and-our-mission/
Web Standards Lead	Tantek Çelik	Mozillians working on Standards	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Standards
Firefox Clinic	Michael Verdi – in this video	Help users at the Firefox Clinic – March 24th in San Francisco	Video	http://blog.mozilla.org/sumo/2012/03/12/help-firefox-users-at-the-firefox-clinic/
Contributor Training Announcement	Jason Haas	Student Reps 101	http://studentreps.mozilla.org

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?
Desiree Almendral	James Murdock	Mountain View, CA	Legal Counsel
Adrian Fernandez	Phong Tran	Mountain View, CA	Site Reliability Engineer
David Hylands	Faramarz Rashed	Mountain View, CA	System Engineer, Boot to Gecko
Joanne Nagel	Susan Chen	Mountain View, CA	Strategic Partner Manager
Chris Appleton	Matt Thompson	Toronto, ON	Graphic Designer
Christopher Arnold	Susan Chen	San Francisco, CA	Persona – BD

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

Standing up the preliminary Apps-in-the-Cloud servers this week for the Apps team to develop against.

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • Successful 3/14 release – push bug 735679
  • [fromAutomation] bug 735058
• AMO
  • lots of cleanup/refactoring of tests
  • Marlena will be focused on Browser Quest
  • Testday scheduled for March 28 (Thx Teodosia)
• Mozilla.com
  • parts of 1.10 shipped
• Mozillians
  • 3/14 release was at risk and missed
  • next release scheduled for 3/21
• MDN
  • 2.4.5 release shipped
• Socorro
  • Successful 2.5.1 milestone 3/14 release
  • [fromAutomation] bug 735860
• SUMO
  • Fully on continuous deployment
  • Migrated to WD, will migrate the Jenkins job very soon
• Case Conductor
  • Testing .9, discussing the new name for the product

QA Community

Automation Services

• Blog post: MemChaser 0.2.1 released
• Blog post: Automation Services Week 05 Mar – 09 Mar

Automation & Tools

• Eideticker automation is up and running
• Fennec Stats from running on real phones are now publicly available once more
• New Do I have a Pulse tool to translate buildbot messages into a standardized set of messages in order to be more predictable.
• Preparing to roll out the new row-major run mode for TP5 talos tests
• More information available here

Security

Security Reviews & Threat Modeling Sessions Scheduled for this week

Date / Time	Item
Mon Mar 19 / 13:00 PST	None
Wed Mar 20 / 13:00 PST	None
Thu Mar 15 / 10:00 PST	None / Security Post Mortem instead
Fri Mar 16 / 10:00 AM PST	None

Calendar and Meeting details

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

• Review Needed

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

We are in the throes of planning our 2nd WebFWD Summit. The theme is “Making it Work – Building successful Open Source Projects.” Tentative dates (pending confirmations from some outside participants) is May 11 – 14. Stay tuned for details!

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, 12 March 1.2.3 Tuesday, 13 March 1.2.4 Wednesday, 14 March 1.2.5 Thursday, 15 March 1.2.6 Friday, 16 March 1.2.7 Next Week 1.3 Product Status Updates (voice updates) 1.3.1 Firefox Desktop 1.3.2 Mobile Firefox 1.3.3 Thunderbird 1.3.4 Older Branch Work 1.3.5 Mozilla Festival 1.3.6 Popcorn 1.3.7 Identity 1.3.8 Services 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 2.1.8.4 Automation Services 2.1.9 Automation & Tools 2.1.10 Security 2.1.10.1 Security Reviews & Threat Modeling Sessions Scheduled for this week 2.1.10.2 Security Review Needed but Unscheduled 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

• Mohamed Dabbagh for providing an analysis of a top app on the apps runtime and logging 17 bugs in the open web apps extension and soup

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 12 March

Tuesday, 13 March

Wednesday, 14 March

Thursday, 15 March

• Thursday is Answer user questions on SUMO Day

Friday, 16 March

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Release Week!
  • Migrations will happen this week, as will releases
  • We’re tracking the impacts of MS patch Tuesday, and waiting on ZDI for a vulnerability disclosure, so release may be later than our usual Tuesday morning.

Mobile Firefox

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Closing on beta
  • Maple to merge into mozilla-central this week
  • Beta blocker list is going in the right direction

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Mozilla Festival

Speaker Location: Matt in Toronto

• Save the date! The 2012 Mozilla Festival will take place November 9 – 11 in London, U.K.
• Look for more on programming, volunteer opportunities and registration soon

Popcorn

Speaker location: Matt in Toronto

• Living Docs project launches today. Partnership with Mozilla and world leaders in documentary film.
• Aimed at showing how Mozilla Popcorn and HTML5 video can revolutionize storytelling online.
• Blog post here
• Hack sprint in Toronto April 28 – 29

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
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

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?
Daniel Callahan	Ben Adida	Mountain View, CA	Software Engineer
Larissa Co	Madhava Enros	Toronto, ON	User Experience Designer

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

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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

• AMO
  • AMO 6.4.5 is going live 03/08.
  • Had lots of failing tests this week because browserid was turned off and changes to search.
  • This tracker story created so we can turn off the browser id tests easily from jenkins
  • All planned mobile tests for AMO are finished
• Input
  • 3/2 milestone 4.3.10 went out successfully – Bug 732538
• Mozilla.com
  • pushed a few bugs
• Mozillians
  • No releases
  • Team is re-aligning towards almost-continuous delivery
• MDN
  • Pushed 2.5 milestone
• Socorro
  • 3/8 milestone 2.5 released – Bug 733931
  • TCBU and TCBD tests removed in pull/94
• SUMO
  • 3/6 release went out successfully
  • As of 3/6 SUMO is now on continuous deployment without any weekly scheduled releases
• Case Conductor
  • Testing locally & on new dev/stage site for 0.9 release

QA Community

Automation Services

Automation & Tools

• Joel wrote a great blog post on the Talos Signal From Noise project
• Will has Eideticker running a canvas test on nightly native fennec. See the dashboard
• Jeff has a simple pypi system available that we will likely deploy inside our automation infrastructure so that buildbot slaves can sanely manage their python dependencies for tools without hitting an outside network (necessary for mozharness migration)
• Started work on a pulse translation service which will make pulse messages from buildbot much less likely to change and more predictable.
• More Updates here

Security

• there is a final proposal for changing the way security uses bugzilla keywords and whiteboard tags going on in dev.planning & security-group please provide comments by 16-Mar

Security Reviews & Threat Modeling Sessions Scheduled for this week

Date / Time	Item
Mon Mar 12 / 13:00 PST	None
Wed Mar 14 / 13:00 PST	GCLI
Thu Mar 15 / 10:00 PST	Automated/Assisted landing from Bugzilla to tip of $branch
Fri Mar 16 / 10:00 AM PST	BrowserID extension for b.m.o.

Calendar and Meeting details

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

• Review Needed

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

Foundation Updates