WeeklyUpdates/2012-02-06

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Friends of the Tree

• Aleksej, gaby2300, lcamacho, Swarnava for triaging the most Firefox 11 bugs during QA’s Firefox 11.0b1 testday last Friday

• Ed Morley for all around awesomeness.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 06 February

Tuesday, 07 February

Wednesday, 08 February

Thursday, 09 February

Friday, 10 February

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

• Firefox 10 went out last week, with addons compatible by default

• Dig Lawrence’s blog post about silent updates, most of which has already landed
• Then check out Jared’s performance work week recap
• And then try out the Firefox/Features/New_Tab_Page new tab page (bug 455553) on nightly.
• Oh, and gcp just replaced the safebrowsing database with a flat file (bug 673470), resulting in better IO performance and reducing the DB from 60MB to 6MB.
• I thought I told you that we won’t stop.

Firefox Android

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

• Beta build with Native UI should happen this week
  • It’ll be en-US only while we figure out the best way to package/distribute multiple locales

Thunderbird

Speaker Location: Toronto (bwinton)

• Thunderbird team is having a meet-up in the Toronto office this week.
  • Come and say Hi if you’re in the area.
• Thunderbird 10 and Thunderbird 10 ESR released last week
• 3.1.x end of life announced for 24th April.

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

• No voice update this week

• Check out Chris Heilmann’s awesome post & presentation on Mozilla Popcorn and the future of web-enabled video. From London’s news:rewired.

Identity

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.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • Successful push, bug 722478

  • Rajeev [:rshetty] led the release. Transitioning in as the QA lead on the project.
• AMO
  • AMO 6.4.0 is going live on 02/03

  • Paypal Contribution test is merged
  • MPL2 license is merged
• Engagement
  • Careers is blocked on one bug, waiting for ckoehler

  • DTPT Phase II is complete
• Mozilla.com
  • shipped bugs for Firefox 10.0 release on 01/31
• MDN
  • shipped milestone 2.1
• Socorro
  • Successful 2.4.1 milestone released – bug 723185
• SUMO
  • 1/31 release went out, 25% of users are currently on Elastic search

  • 2/7 release in process
• Case Conductor
  • Working towards feature parity with new django build, aiming for early February

QA Community

Automation Services

• Blog post: Mozmill Crowd 0.1.5 released

• Blog post: Case Conductor: I guess we could document it…
• Blog post: Automating BrowserID with Selenium
• Blog post: FOSDEM 2012, Add-on SDK, and slides for Mozmill CI

Automation & Tools

• Worked with QA team to bring up automated testing of top 100 addons for default to compatible. Results are here. Still looking through failures, nothing unexpected at this time.

• Much closer to working fennec arm v6 build
• Marionette-gaia tests (b2g) are now running green
• First pass of Talos + Jetpack (jetperf) is moving into its beta stage.
• More news here

Security

• security team Work Week in Santa Cruz, no reviews this week.

Engagement

PR

• As Firefox 11 Hits Beta, Work Begins on Push Notifications for the Web

• Mozilla preps the Web to push

• Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox

• Firefox 10 Now Available for Download

• Firefox 10 Arrives Today with Extended Support for Businesses
• Mozilla’s Firefox 10 Muscles Up on Developer Tools
• Firefox 10 Arrives With New Dev Tools and Full-Screen API

Events

A call for participation from paid staff will be sent out on February 10th. Volunteer invitations will also be sent out on this day. Please email knaszradi@mozilla.com if you have any questions.

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

• Demo Apps lining up for MWC

• Apps Showcase launched Friday at noon in MV see Apps/ShowAndTells

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

We just launched our Affiliates Program > become one (we’re listed under “Mozilla” at http://blog.webfwd.org/post/17155951369/become-a-webfwd-affiliate)!

Introducing New Hires

Introducing New Interns

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

WeeklyUpdates/2012-01-30

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  • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 8600
• http://air.mozilla.org/ to watch and listen
• join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion

Friends of the Tree

Felipe nominates:

- Sergio Campos: for actively working on bug 704125 (crash caused by an add-on), finding the right authors and keeping in touch with them through the whole process of getting the problem resolved

- Reuben Moraes, Clauber Stipkovic and Marcelo Araldi (possibly more people that I’m forgetting) for getting the community organized to reach people in Brazil who were experiencing the crash and explain the problem and workaround

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 30 January

• Fuzzing brownbag, 1pm

Tuesday, 31 January

Wednesday, 01 February

Thursday, 02 February

Thursday is Answer user questions on SUMO Day

Friday, 03 February

• [QA] Firefox 11.0 Beta 1 Testday: QMO

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: Toronto

• Release week!
  • FF10

  • ESR
  • Migration day is tomorrow
• FF11′s scheduled release in March coincides with patch Tuesday, we might do something about that. Watch r-d/dev-planning if that’s exciting to you.

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: Toronto

• Checkpointing daily on beta status
  • Wrote a blog post to that effect: Don’t worry. It’s cool.
• No more features, focusing on fundamentals: performance, stability, compatibility.

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

Speaker Location: Matt in Toronto

Teaching the Fourth ‘R’: Webmaking as a vital 21st century skill

• Wed, Feb 1 at 9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm UTC

• Blog post with details and background is here

Is teaching kids the web now as important as teaching other basic literacies like reading and math?
Join an online “fireside chat” with author and academic Cathy Davidson, hosted by Mozilla’s Mark Surman.

Identity

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.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

• Actively testing Firefox 10, ESR, and 3.6.26 as we drive to release this week

• Ongoing and active investigation of issues related to GC/CC timings (contact Juan Becerra or Anthony Hughes if you want to help)
• Also have eyes on Firefox 11, 12, and 13 for merge to beta, aurora, and nightly, respectively this week
• Actively testing split APK solution for Android Marketplace

WebQA

• AMO
  • AMO 6.3.9 is going live today

  • paypal test is in the pull request queue
  • set of tests are in jenkins for apps-preview-dev
• Mozilla.com
  • Shipped 1.2 and parts of 1.3 milestone
• Mozillians
  • waiting for 1.3 milestone code freeze, qa to begin shortly

  • on-boarding a new community member
• MDN
  • working on 2.1 milestone
• Socorro
  • 2.4.1 milestone slated for release on 2.8.12
• SUMO
  • 1/24 release went out

  • 1/31 release in progress
• Case Conductor
  • 2/3 is the upcoming .8 release
• mozwebqa-templates
  • Overhauled and converted to WD by Zac and Sergey (contributor)

  • Looking for a couple of people to review it for us

QA Community

• Working on a community action plan to grow our community through 2012 and beyond; please help us by taking part in the discussion on the dev-quality newsgroup

Automation Services

• Blog post: Mozmill 1.5.8 has been released

• Blog post: Automating Web Performance Data Collection

Automation & Tools

• Dkl added X-headers to bugmail to indicate when a “new to bugzilla” contributor attached his or her first patch bug 719526

• Eideticker checkerboarding tests are now more reliable. Setting up an automated machine in mountain view for them this week
• Robocop is running in staging today (mobile UX automation)
• B2G test and build automation is live!
• Default to Compatible automation is nearly ready to go – waiting on VMs from IT. See bug 718403 for status. This is a joint project between QA, A*team, and AMO.
• More updates here

Security

Security Reviews Scheduled for this week

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 releases Rust 0.1, the language that will eventually usurp Firefox’s C++

• Mozilla ‘crowdsourcing’ State of the Union address

• Mozilla OKs Firefox 10 launch this week

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

We’ve begun partnering with local accelerators: Rockstart in Amsterdam and MuckerLab in Los Angeles. Please let us know if you have contacts in the startup community in either location!

Introducing New Hires

Introducing New Interns

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

WeeklyUpdates/2012-01-23

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Friends of the Tree

• Mohamed Dabbagh for helping out with Apps QA test day and automation

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 23 January

Tuesday, 24 January

Wednesday, 25 January

• Selenium meetup at Mozilla San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/seleniumsanfrancisco/events/47873402/, 6:30pm

Thursday, 26 January

Thunderbird ESR testing at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:QA_TestDay:2012-01-26

Friday, 27 January

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

• 1 week until migration day

• Firefox ESR plan finalized
• Web devs – check out the style editor (shift-F7) in nightlies

Firefox Android

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

• Native UI is closing in on beta quality, might ride the next train, might not
  • Don’t panic. That’s normal for a big rewrite like this.

  • Finkle blogged about the current state of things
• Sync has landed on nightly for early testing, but expect bugs

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:
Testday This Thursday https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:QA_TestDay:2012-01-26

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

Speaker Location: Matt in Toronto

• Mozilla & Learning: two exciting upcoming events
  • Wed, Jan 25: Launch of Mozilla’s “Learning, Freedom and the Web” book. 9am – 10am PT. Registration and details here. Chat with the authors and folks featured in the book.

  • Wed, Feb 1: “Teaching the 4th ‘R’”: a fireside chat with author Cathy Davidson on why teaching kids to code is a vital 21st century skill. Registration and details here.

• Also, great coverage of Mozilla’s Open Badges project in the Wall Street Journal

• Crowdsourcing tomorrow’s “State of the Union” address with Universal Subtitles. Part of new partnership between Mozilla, PBS Newshour and CPB: “Open Election 2012″
• Learn more / get involved: join our weekly community calls.

Identity

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.

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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
Director Open Innovation Group	Pascal Finette	WebFWD Mailing List & Sticker Galore (!)	<a href=”https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/webfwd-all“>Mailing List</a> & <a href=”http://webfwd.openphoto.me/photos/tags-stickers/list“>Sticker Galore</a>	<a href=”https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/webfwd-all“>Mailing List</a> & <a href=”http://webfwd.openphoto.me/photos/tags-stickers/list“>Sticker Galore</a>
Intern	Santiago Hollmann	Postcard for Manuel Camacho

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • released on 1.18.12

  • Blayne, new contributor will be working on automation
  • rshetty continues to verify releases
  • staging test user account repaired, suite passing again (ZC)
• AMO
  • AMO 6.3.8 is going live today.

  • paypal test is unblocked (Thx Zac)
  • finishing up with focusmanager patch
  • finishing up with tests for apps-preview
• Mozilla.com
  • waiting for 1.2 to ship
• Mozillians
  • 1.3 milestone 1 – 2 weeks out

  • dual authentication is being removed in the backend – MySQL will be the primary, LDAP is going away
• MDN
  • working on 2.1 milestone

  • 2.0 milestone shipped
• Socorro
  • successful release of the 2.4 milestone
• SUMO
  • 1/17 release went out

  • 1/24 release in process

QA Community

Automation Services

• Blog post: Case Conductor pytest plugin proposal

• Blog post: The beginning of a Browser Automation Standard
• Selenium 2.17 release
• David Burns spoke at London Web Performance on Wednesday

Automation & Tools

• Lots of stuff in the works, notes here

Security

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla touts Firefox impact in SOPA blackout

• Mozilla’s SOPA Blackout Reaches 40 Million
• Mozilla reaches 40 million people in anti-SOPA campaign
• Mozilla’s Anti-SOPA Message Reached 40 Million People
• Mozilla’s Anti-Censorship Campaign Reached 40 Million People

• Mozilla’s BrowserID moves forward

• Mozilla pushes browser-based alternative to passwords
• Mozilla tackles identity management

• Mozilla is Going to Crowdsource the Translation of the State of the Union

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

• Created framework for new 3-tier structure and learning modules

• Sign up for our weekly newsletter to stay up-to-date: https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/webfwd-all

Introducing New Hires

Introducing New Interns

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

WeeklyUpdates/2012-01-09

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Friends of the Tree

• Rajeev Bharshetty [:rshetty] – For being instrumental in helping verify the affiliates.mozilla.org and mozillians.org BrowserID releases. Rajeev spent a good portion of his holiday break away from school helping insure new features were wicked high quality and the team understood the risks associated with shipping the code.

• Sergey Tupchiy [:stupchiy] – Another awesome contributor to WebQA, who has been instrumental in not only beefing up our AMO automation tests in Selenium, but also helping us complete a Q4 goal of automating tests for Engagement projects, as well as helping out with Socorro, Affiliates (BrowserID), and much, much more, automation-wise. Thanks so much!
• Jason Smith, Jessica Davis, and Mike Conley for helping out with Firefox 10.0b3 testing

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 09 January

Tuesday, 10 January

Wednesday, 11 January

Mozilla Blog Guidelines – Brown Bag Talk

Noon PST in Ten-Forward

Description: The PR and Creative teams have been working to streamline our outbound communication channels. We have drafted a set of Mozilla Blog Guidelines, which will help to better distinguish between personal opinions and an official Mozilla positions, represented on our various blogs. It’s meant to give guidance to all Mozilla teams when publishing to Mozilla blogs, when setting up new blogs or when simply seeking support on any outbound communication.

In this session we would like to show and discuss the current draft of the Mozilla Blog Guidelines, looking for your comments and thoughts before we roll them out more broadly.

Thursday, 12 January

Friday, 13 January

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox

Speaker Location: Mountain View, and SF

• Welcome back – 2012 is going to be incredible!

• Next Migration day is 3 weeks away

• We’re sorry about Fennec nightly over the holidays, it’s feeling much better now.
  • Aurora is on the path to be our first public release so feel free to move with us, but we still deeply value bugs filed against nightlies.

• The biggest piece of Silent Update landed: a Windows service so updates don’t require UAC prompts.

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

Speaker Location: no voice update this week. Toronto work week.”

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

• Tested and signed-off Firefox 10.0b3 last week — pushing toward 10.0b4 this week (please contact Juan Becerra or Anthony Hughes if you want to help)

• Putting together a testday for Add-ons Compatible by Default (details to be posted on QMO very soon)
• Putting together a sprint for testing competitive cache performance (details to be posted on QMO very soon) — contact Anthony Hughes if you want to help

WebQA

• AMO
  • AMO 6.3.6 went live 01/05
• Careers-page redesign: we began testing and filing bugs; ongoing
• Mozillians: A very active project with lots of community contributors. A great project for community members to get involved on. Drop in and say hello on irc at #mozillians.
• MDN: working on 1.9
• Affiliates: Another great project for community member to get involved on. A release is slated for this Wednesday, January 11th, 2012. Drop in and introduce yourself in irc on the #affiliates channel.
• Socorro: The 2.4 milestone is being targeted for release this Friday, January 13th, 2012.
• Input: Currently not seeing active development. The project will potentially see new features landing during Q1

QA Community

Automation Services

• Selenium 2.16 has been released

• We are working on the MemChaser extension to allow users to easily observe the current GC activity and memory usage of Firefox.

Automation & Tools

• Dkl is now one of the release managers for the upstream Bugzilla project. Congrats DKL!

• wlach has verified that we can measure checkerboarding using eideticker
• We are kicking off the Talos Signal From Noise project this week.
• More notes are here

Security

Security Reviews Scheduled for this week

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

• Web Browser Grand Prix VIII: Chrome 16, Firefox 9, And Mac OS X

• Mozilla Releases Version 2.0 of Its License

• Mozilla rings in new year with 2.0 license overhaul
• Mozilla releases version 2.0 of its license
• Can Mozilla Unify Open Source?

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

Introducing New Hires

Introducing New Interns

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

WeeklyUpdates/2011-12-19

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Video for today’s meeting

Friends of the Tree

Speaker Location: Mountain View

Joe Drew and jdm nominate Mihai Sucan for his incredibly supportive review comments for new contributors, like in bug 704295.

Jean-Yves Perrier (in behalf of the MDN writers team) nominates Florian Scholz for creating and maintaining the Doc Tracker Tools.

Upcoming Events

Speaker Location: Mountain View

This Week

Monday, 19 December

Brownbag: Why Capture-the-Flag Hacking Contests are fun.

2pm Pacific – 10 Forward

Frederik Braun will present the concept of capture-the-flag style hacking competitions, describe the existing game types, and emphasize each type’s special strategies.

Tuesday, 20 December

Brownbag: Designing for Trust – User Interfaces and Privacy

2pm Pacific – 10 Forward

Ilana Westerman will be speaking about her firm’s experience with user testing privacy workflows and user expectations in mobile phones and mobile UIs.

Wednesday, 21 December

Wednesday is SUMO Day! Help Firefox users and those who upgraded to Firefox 9 on the contributor-powered Firefox support forum.

Thursday, 22 December

Friday, 23 December

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox

Speaker Location: Toronto

• FF9 release tomorrow for desktop and mobile (including the sexy new tablet UI)!

• Migration day is tomorrow

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

• No voice update this week

• Check out our new weekly round-up of news and press

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.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Automation Services

• Released Selenium IDE 1.5.0

• Released FlynnID for registering Selenium nodes to Selenium Grid
• Blog post: Hooking Android up the the (Selenium) Grid

Automation & Tools

• Restarted cross browser startup test. Getting data, but now finding bugs in the dashboard. You can see some data here

• BMO/Pulse integration is being reviewed
• BMO/Orange Factor (war on orange) integration in security review
• Landing patches to get reftests turned on for native fennec
• Robocop (native fennec UI automation) is landing this week
• More updates here

Security

Calendar and Meeting details

General Meeting Details
* IRC Channel: #security
* Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/secreview
* Dial-in Info:
** 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 624

Engagement

PR

• Zooey Deschanel, Jonah Hill, Other Celebs Compete In Mozilla Firefox Charity Challenge

• Mozilla teams up with celebs like Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen for social good
• Mozilla Firefox Challenge Pits 12 Celebs in Battle of the Most Charitable

• Can Firefox Become A Game Platform?

• New wardrobe for Android Firefox surfaces

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

• As of 12/16 2580 total registrants to the Developer Preview

• Smooth launch of both the Developer Preview and Apps Developer Community on MDN
  • https://apps-preview.mozilla.org

  • https://developer.mozilla.org/apps

Note: Can all Mozillians please register asap for the Developer Preview.

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

WeeklyUpdates/2011-12-12

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Friends of the Tree

Speaker Location: Mountain View

jdm nominates philor, Ms2ger and edmorley for their firefighting efforts when Firefox refused to continue building on Windows for a while.

blizzard nominates Pat McManus for his work on WebSockets, which is now an RFC! – http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455

Upcoming Events

Speaker Location: Mountain View

This Week

Monday, 12 December

Tuesday, 13 December

• Brown bag with Google’s Innovation Director, Alberto Savoia, 12pm PST Ten Forward, Mountain View
  • Title: The Pretotyping Manifesto – Make sure you are building the right ‘it’ before you build ‘it’ right.

Wednesday, 14 December

• Intern Presentations – 12pm PST Ten Forward

Thursday, 15 December

• WebFWD Summit in MV (Agenda: http://people.mozilla.com/~pfinette/summit.html)
  • Noon PST Ten Forward (MV): Brownbag – The WebFWD teams present their respective solutions/products

  • 5pm PST Ten Forward (MV): Mixer – Information & RSVP here: http://webfwd-mixer.eventbrite.com/

• Digital Media and Learning Competition Stage 2 Webinar 1:00pm EST / 10:00am PST (http://dmlcompetition.net) Register here: http://t.co/wibpGEnx

• Intern Presentations – 2pm PST Ten Forward

Friday, 16 December

• WebFWD Summit (Agenda: http://people.mozilla.com/~pfinette/summit.html)

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Future (9, 10, 11)

Speaker Location: Toronto

• Migration week next week!

• UAC disabling service very close to landing (OMG SILENT UPDATE)

Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0 – 8.0)

Speaker Location:

Mobile Firefox

Speaker Location: Toronto

• Mobile is now once again building off of mozilla-central

• It is also killing it. Get get some.

Thunderbird

Speaker Location: No voice update this week

• Using or wanting to use Thunderbird Beta? Need Lightning? Check out the developer channel on the AMO page.

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

Speaker Location: No voice update this week.

Lightning presentation on Open Badges to follow.

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.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Desktop Firefox

Mobile Firefox

Open Web Apps

WebQA

• AMO 6.2.7: http://cl.ly/0i0I3d121f0o293k2p0t

• SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-12-06 – released 12/8
• Mozilla.com 4.9

QA Community

QA Automation Services

• Selenium 2.15 has been released

• David Burns wrote up how he got involved with Mozilla

Automation & Tools

Security

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla Chairwoman Sheds Light on Firefox Priorities

• Interview with Mozilla Foundation’s Mitchell Baker
• Facing Trouble, Mozilla Argues Importance of Firefox

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

• Aiming for a release 12/13 for Apps Documentation to be live on MDN and the launch of the Apps Developer Preview.

• Announcement will be on the Hacks blog
• There will be 3,000 developers allowed into the Developer Preview on a first come first serve basis.
• Note: All Mozillians will have access to the Developer Preview via a separate url that will be shared directly after the preview is live

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

WeeklyUpdates/2011-12-05

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Friends of the Tree

Speaker Location: Mountain View

jdm nominates Andrew Quartey (drexler), a new contributor who has been active in a wide variety of bugs and submitting a flurry of patches to fix them all.

Upcoming Events

Speaker Location: Mountain View

This Week

Monday, 5 December

• Cross-Site Request Forgery – brownbag presentation by Frederik Braun, 12PM Noon PST

• The Webtools team is in Mountain View/San Francisco

Tuesday, 6 December

• Should Privacy Survive? – brownbag presentation by Dr. John Guelke, 12PM Noon PST

• Mobile Testdrivers Program – brownbag presentation by Alex Keybl, 1:30PM PST
• The Webtools team is in Mountain View/San Francisco

Wednesday, 7 December

• ZURB Design and rapid multi-platform prototyping – brownbag presentation by Jonathan Smiley and Matt Kelley, 12PM Noon PST

• The Webtools team is in Mountain View/San Francisco

Thursday, 8 December

• Contribute Group meeting
  • Meeting time: Thursday, December 8 at 10 AM Pacific (times around the world)

  • Audio: 1-800-707-2533, pin: 369, conf: 634
  • Back channel: irc://irc.mozilla.org#mozillians
  • Agenda: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla.org/Contribute/Group/12_08_11

• WebFWD Update – brownbag presentation by Pascal Finette & Diane Bisgeier, 12PM Noon PST

• How WebQA responds to, plans for, and executes on, new projects – Stephen Donner, 1:30PM PST

• The Webtools team is in Mountain View/San Francisco

Friday, 9 December

• WebGL Camp #4 – 10Forward – 8:30-5:00. Registration required. Mozillians, contact Havi (havi at mozilla dot com) for more info. [1]. Talks livestreamed on Air Mozilla.

• Knowing Where One’s Towel Is (The Neurobiology of Decision Making) – brownbag presentation by Curtis Koenig, 12PM Noon PST

• The Webtools team is in Mountain View/San Francisco

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox

Speaker Location: Toronto

• 2 weeks to migration day!

• Major update prompt to invite 3.6 users to (pleasepleaseprettyplease) migrate to 8.0 went out late last week, should have early numbers this week on its effect
• Firefox 8.0.1 post-mortem occurred on 12/2. Topics of discussion included add-on blocklisting, system restore runtime failure mitigation, and better tracking of pre-release 3rd party software.

Mobile Firefox

‘Speaker Location:

• Don’t have a phone? Not sure how to help out? Join the Mobile Test Drivers program

Thunderbird

Speaker Location: bwinton – Toronto

• Wednesday 7th December is the 7th Anniversary of Thunderbird 1.0.

• Daily builds now have default to compatible turned on for add-ons.

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

Speaker Location: No voice update this week. Presentation from Mark Surman to follow.

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.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Desktop Firefox

• Fx 3.6.x – 8.0.1 Major Update, tested and shipped

• Fx9 beta 4, tested and shipped
• Web compatibility run started (tests for compatibility issues)
• add-on, configuration compatibility test run starts (this week)
• graphics blocklisting (with refactored code on try-builds) starts this week

Mobile

• Deployed Fx9 beta 4 to market

• Read the weekly testing newsletter here
• Triaged 73 bugs from last week

BrowserID

• BrowserID workweek this week, also targeting test completion of Stage before going to prod this week thursday

• Production Deployment Plan

Open Web Apps

• First Open Web Apps last Friday
  • Feel Good Info:
    • We tested across multiple revisions of the extension / soup app

    • We continuously pushed changes to myapps.mozillalabs
    • We fixed / verified bugs across Windows / Linux / Mac OS X
  • Stats:
    • 32 filed / modified bugs

    • 18 Commits https://github.com/mozilla/openwebapps/
    • 4 Commits to Soup
    • At times over 60 people in #testday
    • 6-7 Contributors from Indonesia showed up at midnight (mdabbagh was online and managed to steer them in the right direction)

WebQA

• AMO 6.2.7: http://cl.ly/0i0I3d121f0o293k2p0t

• Mozillians 1.1 (continuing)
• SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-11-28

QA Community

Automation Services

• Selenium 2.14 released

Automation & Tools

• First run of b2g automation completed:
  • Build

  • Published build
  • Downloaded build on test machine
  • Installed build on emulator
  • Run Test
  • Published Results
  • The results will soon be appearing on autolog. Stay tuned.
• BugHunter is now tracking assertion messages both encountered during its test runs as well as our crash reproduction system.
• Peptest user responsiveness test harness landed in m-c.
  • Wrote some tests to show off how it works

  • Makefile target should land either today or tomorrow. Should be added as an option to try builds later this week or early next.
• More notes are here

Security

Security

Calendar and Meeting details

General Meeting Details
* IRC Channel: #security
* Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/secreview
* Dial-in Info:
** 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 624

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla’s Catch-Up Strategy for Mobile

• Mozilla pushes Firefox fuddy-duddies toward the future
• amps up fight against anti-piracy and Internet protection bills
• Don’t write off Mozilla-Google revenue deal as dead

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

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Friends of the Tree

Speaker Location: Mountain View

Jeff Walden nominates RyanVM — again — for continuing the old-JS-bug triage madness, cutting a particularly wide path through obsolete tracejit bugs. Splendid!

Upcoming Events

Speaker Location: Mountain View

This Week

Monday, 28 Nov

Tuesday, 29 Nov

Wednesday, 30 Nov

Thursday, 01 Dec

Friday, 02 Dec

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox

Speaker Location: Toronto (and possibly MV?)

• We are mid-way through the 6 week cycle

• We landed bug 429592 to catch and report Firefox hangs
  • May pref it off by default, still investigating
• Project Snappy is off and filing bugs

• Firefox 3.6 → 8.0.1 advertised update offer (bug 691483) proposed for this Thursday, 2011-12-01
  • If there are any issues with this, please email release-drivers@mozilla.org

• Native UI Fennec pushed to nightly users last week
  • Also available on http://nightly.mozilla.org

  • File bugs in the Fennec Native component
  • Don’t have a phone? Not sure how to help out? Join the Mobile Test Drivers program

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

Speaker Location: No voice update this week

• Design and develop digital badges for NASA. Cool, huh?
  • Looking for designers and developers to participate in the “Badges for Learning” competition

  • Design or develop digital badges using Mozilla’s Open Badges infrastructure. For learning partners like NASA, the U.S. Departments of Education, Labor, Energy, and Veterans Affairs, Intel, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and many others.
    
  • Questions?
    
    • Click on “feedback and support” at openbadges.org

    • Ping Carla in #badges IRC
      
    • Join the Open Badges mailing list.

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.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Automation Services

Automation & Tools

• Bugzilla got hit with a DOS attack, nothing bad happened, but it generated a nice graph. BTW, we now have web analytics running on bugzilla.

• Made a ton of progress on marionette
• Have reftests almost working on native fennec.
• Talos TP5 responsiveness is live on mac and windows:

http://graphs-new.mozilla.org/graph.html#tests=[[130,1,1],[130,1,21],[130,1,12],[130,1,13],[130,1,22]]&sel=none&displayrange=7&datatype=running

• • Linux to come soon
• Peptest – user responsiveness regression testing will land in m-c this week, blog posts will be coming.
• More updates here

Security

Engagement

PR

• Firefox’s Android reboot begins tomorrow

• Firefox 8.0.1 available for download
• Firefox for Android Will Get Its New Interface Tonight
• Firefox gets a native makeover for Android
• Firefox for Android Gets Its Overhaul

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

• Aiming for the documentation release this week.

• Comms and Go to market plans continue to be worked on.
• Test Day 12-02. A first for apps.
  • https://quality.mozilla.org/2011/11/web-applications/

  • https://etherpad.mozilla.org/testday-111202-webapps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

WeeklyUpdates/2011-11-21

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Friends of the Tree

Speaker Location: Mountain View

Mihai nominates Sonny Piers a new contributor to devtools for doing much needed code cleanup of the Web Console.

Jono nominates Blair McBride for his work to make addons default to “compatible” — http://theunfocused.net/2011/11/19/solving-firefoxs-add-on-compatibility-problem/

Jeff Walden nominates RyanVM for triaging a bunch of old, mostly ancient-history JS bug reports last week. Good stuff!

Upcoming Events

Speaker Location: Mountain View

This Week

Monday, 21 November
Amit Swab Drive noon-2pm PT – 3rd fl, MV

Tuesday, 22 November
Early Stage Apps Research Presentation – 11-noon PT 10Forward

Wednesday, 23 November

Thursday, 24 November

US Thanksgiving

Friday, 25 November

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Future (9, 10, 11)

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

• Getting closer to add-ons being compatible by default, check out Blair’s blog post

• Taras, Dietrich & co are running weekly Project Snappy meetings to tackle responsiveness issues
• The style editor developer tool just landed on nightly. bug 583041

Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0 – 8.0)

Speaker Location: MV

Mobile Firefox

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

• Moving Nightly users over the native UI later this week (thread on dev.planning)

• Finkle blogged about add-ons in a Native UI world

Thunderbird

Speaker Location: (no voice update)

• There were a couple of great talks about Thunderbird at MozCamp Asia.
  • Videos to come later, hopefully.

  • For now, here’s the wiki page for one of them.
• Other than that, it’s been a quiet week.

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

Speaker Location: No voice update this week

Great recent press on two of our projects:

• Mozilla Open Badges in the New York Times

• Mozilla Popcorn on the BBC

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.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

• 8.0.1 Chemspill testing gallore, all weekend/week last week, shipping today.

• Firefox 9.0b2 released last week.
• Firefox 9.0b3 due out this week; needs a lot of attention on bug fix verifications.
• Add-ons Manager Testday last week: https://quality.mozilla.org/2011/11/results-of-add-on-manager-testday/
• DevTools Testday this week: https://quality.mozilla.org/2011/11/devtools-aurora-testday-nov-25th/

WebQA

• AMO 6.2.7: http://cl.ly/0i0I3d121f0o293k2p0t

• SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-11-15

QA Community

Automation Services

Automation & Tools

• Landed talos code for responsiveness testing on mac and windows, should be enabled today on mozilla-central by a buildbot reconfigure
  • Still tracking down a linux crash when we enable responsiveness there.
• Cross browser mobile startup automation is reporting numbers from a few different phones.
  • Click on the names in the legend to toggle lines on and off

  • This visualization could use some help, if you want to exercise your JS skillz, contact wlach or ctalbert on IRC to get involved.
• B2G battery API test using Marionette and QEMU emulators is running, automating this week.
• Eideticker project has made great progress
• The native implementation of the Bugzilla REST API (implementing as part of Bugzilla itself) is almost ready for beta.
• More updates here

Security

• no reviews scheduled this week

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

• Working towards launch of app documentation on MDN

• Go to market plan being finalized
• More soon next week.

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

WeeklyUpdates/2011-11-14

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Friends of the Tree

Speaker Location: Mountain View
Ctalbert would like to nominate Tfair and Dougt for their work debugging the talos perma-orange on birch and getting us back to green in time for the test day. Ctalbert would also like to nominate BYK for his invaluable help in ensuring that cross browser mobile automation reports results properly.

Upcoming Events

Speaker Location: Mountain View

This Week

Monday, 14 November

Tuesday, 15 November

Wednesday, 16 November

Thursday, 17 November

Friday, 18 November

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Future (9, 10, 11)

Speaker Location:

Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0 – 8.0)

Speaker Location:

Mobile Firefox

‘Speaker Location:

Thunderbird

Speaker Location: (no voice update).

• The TB9 beta is delayed.
  • We’re working on it, it should be up soon.
• OpenSearch and Account Provisioning have landed.
  • Followup bugs are being worked on.
• There is a Thunderbird bug day today in #tb-qa!
  • Come help out, if you can.

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

Speaker Location: Matt in Toronto
Report-back from Mozilla Festival

• Round-up of press coverage. (Wired, BBC, Boing Boing + many others)
  • (Plus this new one in the New York Times blog)

  • Best MozFest photos and videos
    
• “Fire hose” of links and prototypes people made. (More curated version coming soon)
• Early analysis from Mark on what it all means.
• Main takeaway: “We make webmakers.” Huge enthusiasm for Mozilla instilling maker ethos into more of the web. Moving people from passive online consumers to active creators.

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.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

• Firefox 8.0.1:
  • We have been working over the weekend to investigate causes for explosive crash we need to address.

  • Working on gathering information for RoboForm dll blocklisting
• Fx9, 10:
  • Tested and shipped versions of Beta and Aurora

Desktop Firefox

Mobile

• Shipped Firefox 8 last week

• Firefox Native Testday was a success! blogpost coming soon.
• Weekly QA Mobile newsletter sent out

Open Webapps

WebQA

• AMO 6.2.7: http://cl.ly/0i0I3d121f0o293k2p0t

• SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-11-08
• Firefox Live

QA Community

Automation Services

Automation & Tools

• Got first run of page load test completed with eideticker

• Completed the first iteration of cross-browser mobile startup automation
• Will demo our replacement for UI-automation tests for the native Fennec UI branch this week.
• And lots of other things. More information on our wiki page

Security

Calendar and Meeting details

General Meeting Details
* IRC Channel: #security
* Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/secreview
* Dial-in Info:
** 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 624

SecTeam Conferences

• Gary Kwong: Asia MozCamp 2011

Engagement

PR

• Speedy Firefox 9 Beta Versions Take Their Place in Line

• Mozilla promises more speed with Firefox 9 beta
• HTML5 games, video get boost from full-screen API in Firefox nightly
• Mozilla Offers Fresh Firefox Previews
• Firefox 8 Gets Twitter Search Integration
• Mozilla Firefox 8: 5 Key Features
• Mozilla releases Firefox 8 with built-in Twitter search

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

• As noted in the Mozilla Hacks article, the new Aurora release offers a collection of web developer tools to help people dive into the CSS of their pages.

• The Orion project noted that last week’s new Firefox release includes the Orion code editing component for use with the Scratchpad feature. You’ll need to toggle a preference to see it in the release, but it’s turned on by default in the new Aurora.

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

Foundation Updates

Roundtable