{"id":711,"date":"2011-11-22T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/711"},"modified":"2011-11-22T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T04:00:04","slug":"mozilla-project-meeting-minutes-2011-11-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/711","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Project Meeting Minutes: 2011-11-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"with-menu\">\n<h1 id=\"page-title\">WeeklyUpdates\/2011-11-21<\/h1>\n<hr>\n<div><span class=\"subpages\">&lt; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/WeeklyUpdates\" title=\"WeeklyUpdates\">WeeklyUpdates<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/WeeklyUpdates\/2011-11-14\" title=\"WeeklyUpdates\/2011-11-14\">\u00ab previous week<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/WeeklyUpdates\" title=\"WeeklyUpdates\">index<\/a> | <a class=\"new\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/index.php?title=WeeklyUpdates\/2011-11-28&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"WeeklyUpdates\/2011-11-28 (page does not exist)\">next week \u00bb<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;script&gt;if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = &#8220;show&#8221;; var tocHideText = &#8220;hide&#8221;; showTocToggle(); } &lt;\/script&gt;<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Video for today&#8217;s meeting <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&lt;video controls=&#8221;controls&#8221;&gt;&lt;source src=&#8221;http:\/\/videos.mozilla.org\/serv\/air_mozilla\/monday_meetings\/status-2011-11-21.ogg&#8221; type=&#8221;video\/ogg; codecs=&#8221;theora, vorbis&#8221;&#8221;\/&gt;&lt;\/video&gt;\n<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Friends of the Tree <a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/File:Tree.gif\" title=\"Friends of the Tree\"><\/a> <\/span><\/h1>\n<p><i>Speaker Location: Mountain View<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Mihai nominates <b>Sonny Piers<\/b> a new contributor to devtools for doing much needed code cleanup of the Web Console.<\/p>\n<p>Jono nominates <b>Blair McBride<\/b> for his work to make addons default to &#8220;compatible&#8221; &#8212; <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/theunfocused.net\/2011\/11\/19\/solving-firefoxs-add-on-compatibility-problem\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/theunfocused.net\/2011\/11\/19\/solving-firefoxs-add-on-compatibility-problem\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Walden nominates <b>RyanVM<\/b> for triaging a bunch of old, mostly ancient-history JS bug reports last week.  Good stuff!\n<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Upcoming Events <\/span><\/h1>\n<p><i>Speaker Location: Mountain View<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>This Week<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Monday, 21 November<\/b><br \/>\nAmit Swab Drive noon-2pm PT &#8211; 3rd fl, MV<\/p>\n<p><b>Tuesday, 22 November<\/b><br \/>\nEarly Stage Apps Research Presentation &#8211; 11-noon PT 10Forward<\/p>\n<p><b>Wednesday, 23 November<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Thursday, 24 November<\/b><\/p>\n<p>US Thanksgiving<\/p>\n<p><b>Friday, 25 November<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Next Week<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Product Status Updates <\/span><\/h1>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox Future (9, 10, 11) <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><i>Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Getting closer to add-ons being compatible by default, check out <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/theunfocused.net\/2011\/11\/19\/solving-firefoxs-add-on-compatibility-problem\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Blair&#8217;s blog post<\/a>\n<li> Taras, Dietrich &amp; co are running weekly <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Performance\/Snappy\" rel=\"nofollow\">Project Snappy<\/a> meetings to tackle responsiveness issues\n<li> The style editor developer tool just landed on nightly. <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=583041\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 583041<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0 &#8211; 8.0) <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><i>Speaker Location: MV<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Mobile Firefox <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><i>Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Moving Nightly users over the native UI later this week (thread on dev.planning)\n<li> Finkle blogged about <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/starkravingfinkle.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/firefox-android-add-ons-in-a-native-world\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">add-ons in a Native UI world<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><i>Speaker Location: <\/i> (no voice update)\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> There were a couple of great talks about Thunderbird at MozCamp Asia.\n<ul>\n<li> Videos to come later, hopefully.\n<li> For now, here&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/AsiaCamp2011\/Schedule\/Product_and_Technology_Track\/Building_Thunderbird_Extensions\" rel=\"nofollow\">the wiki page<\/a> for one of them.\n<\/ul>\n<li> Other than that, it&#8217;s been a quiet week.\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Older Branch Work <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><i>Speaker Location: <\/i>\n<\/p>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Drumbeat  <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><i>Speaker Location: No voice update this week<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>Great recent press on two of our projects:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Mozilla Open Badges in <\/b><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/20\/business\/digital-badges-may-highlight-job-seekers-skills.html?_r=1&amp;ref=business\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>the New York Times<\/b><\/a>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/openmatt.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/21\/popcorn-on-bbc\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>Mozilla Popcorn on the BBC<\/b><\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Speakers <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>The limit is 3 minutes per speaker.  It&#8217;s like a lightning talk, but don&#8217;t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.\n<\/p>\n<table class=\"fullwidth-table\">\n<tr>\n<th>  Presenter<\/p>\n<th>  Topic<\/p>\n<th>  Media<\/p>\n<th>  More Details<\/p>\n<th>  Location<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> Your Name Here<\/p>\n<td> What are you going to talk about?<\/p>\n<td> Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen<\/p>\n<td> Link to where audience can find out more information<\/p>\n<td> What location will you be transmitting from?<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> Brandon Sterne<\/p>\n<td> Security is Part of Our Mission<\/p>\n<td> <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/~bsterne\/dzslides\/20111121.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/~bsterne\/dzslides\/20111121.html<\/a><\/p>\n<td> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"mailto:security@mozilla.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">security@mozilla.org<\/a><\/p>\n<td> Mountain View<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> Tristan Nitot<\/p>\n<td> Operations in Europe<\/p>\n<td> Nothing<\/p>\n<td> <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.governance\/browse_thread\/thread\/aa73ae69237f4fc8#\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.governance\/browse_thread\/thread\/aa73ae69237f4fc8#<\/a><\/p>\n<td> Tristan&#8217;s place in Paris<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> Harvey<\/p>\n<td> Stop SOPA<\/p>\n<td> Nothing<\/p>\n<td>\n<td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Status Updates By Team  <\/span><\/h1>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Platform <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Messaging  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Mobile  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> IT <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Release Engineering  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> QA  <\/span><\/h2>\n<dl>\n<dt>Test Execution\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<ul>\n<li> 8.0.1 Chemspill testing gallore, all weekend\/week last week, shipping today.\n<li> Firefox 9.0b2 released last week.\n<li> Firefox 9.0b3 due out this week; needs a lot of attention on bug fix verifications.\n<li> Add-ons Manager Testday last week: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/quality.mozilla.org\/2011\/11\/results-of-add-on-manager-testday\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/quality.mozilla.org\/2011\/11\/results-of-add-on-manager-testday\/<\/a>\n<li> DevTools Testday this week: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/quality.mozilla.org\/2011\/11\/devtools-aurora-testday-nov-25th\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/quality.mozilla.org\/2011\/11\/devtools-aurora-testday-nov-25th\/<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<dl>\n<dt>WebQA\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<ul>\n<li>AMO 6.2.7:  <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/cl.ly\/0i0I3d121f0o293k2p0t\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/cl.ly\/0i0I3d121f0o293k2p0t<\/a>\n<li>SUMO <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/moxie.jamessocol.com\/bugstats\/sumo\/2011-11-15\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/moxie.jamessocol.com\/bugstats\/sumo\/2011-11-15<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<dl>\n<dt>QA Community\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl>\n<dt>Automation Services\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Automation &amp; Tools <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Landed talos code for responsiveness testing on mac and windows, should be enabled today on mozilla-central by a buildbot reconfigure\n<ul>\n<li> Still tracking down a linux crash when we enable responsiveness there.\n<\/ul>\n<li> Cross browser mobile startup automation <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/brasstacks.mozilla.com\/testperf_dashboard\/#\/xbrowserstartup\" rel=\"nofollow\">is reporting numbers from a few different phones.<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li> Click on the names in the legend to toggle lines on and off\n<li> This visualization could use some help, if you want to exercise your JS skillz, contact wlach or ctalbert on IRC to <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=703470\" rel=\"nofollow\">get<\/a> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=703471\" rel=\"nofollow\">involved.<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<li> B2G battery API test using Marionette and QEMU emulators is running, automating this week.\n<li> Eideticker project has made <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/masalalabs.ca\/2011\/11\/measuring-what-the-user-sees\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">great progress<\/a>\n<li> The native implementation of the Bugzilla REST API (implementing as part of Bugzilla itself) is almost ready for beta.\n<li> More updates <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Auto-tools\/Meetings\/2011-11-21\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Security  <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> no reviews scheduled this week\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Engagement  <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>PR<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><b>Events<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><b>Creative Team<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><b>Community Marketing<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Support  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Metrics  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Evangelism  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Labs  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Apps <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Working towards launch of app documentation on MDN\n<li> Go to market plan being finalized\n<li> More soon next week.\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Developer Tools <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Add-ons  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Webdev  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> L10n  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Introducing New Hires <\/span><\/h1>\n<table class=\"fullwidth-table\">\n<tr>\n<th>  New Hire<\/p>\n<th>  Introduced by<\/p>\n<th>  Speaker location<\/p>\n<th>  Will be working on<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> New person&#8217;s name here<\/p>\n<td> Who will be introducing that person?<\/p>\n<td> From which office will that introduction be transmitted?<\/p>\n<td> What will the new person be working on?<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> Josh Carpenter<\/p>\n<td> Madhava Enros<\/p>\n<td> Toronto<\/p>\n<td> UX on Pancake!<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Samuel Foster<\/p>\n<td>Stuart Parmenter<\/p>\n<td>UK<\/p>\n<td>Pancake!<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edwin Flores (Intern)<\/p>\n<td>Robert O&#8217;Callahan<\/p>\n<td>New Zealand<\/p>\n<td>Software Engineer<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lazar Sumar (Intern)<\/p>\n<td>Robert O&#8217;Callahan<\/p>\n<td>New Zealand<\/p>\n<td>Software Engineer<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Foundation Updates  <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Roundtable <\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/WeeklyUpdates\/2011-11-21\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/WeeklyUpdates\/2011-11-21<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"catlinks catlinks-allhidden\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WeeklyUpdates\/2011-11-21 &lt; 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