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To make triage-life easier and to identify Firefox Crash and Critical Bugs we are thinking about ways to strengthen and build the number of people working on nightly triage and create a Community-Triage Team, and on some ideas to set up a priority system for which bugs get looked at first in the nightly triage work.

Focus of this Team should be on the unconfirmed Crash [and Critical] Bugs that are filed everyday [as the first priority, then move on to other classes of bugs]. With doing this daily it allows us to find regressions/crashes sooner and faster and also allow us (if the crash is on a website) to create a testcase for this Crash before a site changes. Its also clear that a lot of these crash bugs are frequently missing key information and several iterations are needed to gather information to make the bug useful. We should formalize steps to close the bugs as “incomplete” after some time period if not enough information is being added to the bug. We can encourage the filer to reopen if more info becomes available.

The Team is open and everyone can join (the sign up for the mailinglist is here https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-triageteam) – Also feel free to tell others about this new Project and Team.

- Tomcat & Chofmann

Hi,

about a week ago (12-14 June) Community Member from Spain/Germany/Italy/France and Denmark + 5 Mozilla Employees got together in Geneva/Swiss to talk about Status of Localization-Teams, QA, SUMO and a lot of other topics.

In my talks i talked about QA and L10n and about the MozillaMeetups.

I got very great feedback from the L10n Teams about what we can improve in the Tools (like litmus) and whats on the L10n Wishlist, like a QA Dashboard. I think that a lot of the things we discussed during the Meeting will result in improvements to make the QA work for our L10n Teams easier.

I was very impressed about the Session where the L10n Teams and our Community really rocks !

Also Big Thanks to William for organizing this Event !

- Tomcat

Hallo!

wie bereits angekuendigt, findet am 24.Juni der erste Mozilla Stammtisch in Berlin statt !

und zwar haben wir einen Tisch reserviert:

am Mittwoch, den 24. Juni,

ab ca. 18:00 Uhr

in der Tiergartenquelle (www.tiergartenquelle.de) in der naehe S-Bahnhof Tiergarten.

Wenn noch jemand teilnehmen moechte, bitte kurz per E-Mail direkt an tomcat@mozilla.com Bescheid, wenn und mit wie vielen Personen ihr kommen wollt!

Vielen Dank und viele Gruesse !

Bis Mittwoch dann !

- Carsten / Tomcat

Hallo !

Aufgrund von vielen Krankheits bzw. Urlaubsbedingten Absagen, muss er Stammtisch in Muenchen morgen leider verschoben/abgesagt werden.

Aber der naechste Stammtisch kommt schon bald !:) Ich werd dann das naechste Datum hier wieder posten !

Viele Gruesse
Carsten

Hallo!

wir planen nun auch die Meetups in Berlin zu starten.

Wir planen das erste MozillaMeetup in Berlin am 24.Juni (das ist waehrend des Linuxtages 2009) !

Ort gebe ich dann noch bekannt.

Damit ich abschätzen kann, wie viele Plätze wir reservieren müssen, gebt mir bitte kurz per E-Mail direkt
an tomcat@mozilla.com bescheid, wenn und mit wie vielen Personen ihr kommen wollt.

Vielen Dank und viele Gruesse !

- Carsten / Tomcat

Hi,

we plan to start the MozillaMeetups also in Berlin!

We plan to do the first Berlin Meetup during the LinuxTag 2009 Conference on June, 24 starting about 6pm local time.

So when you are interested to join please let me know via email: tomcat@mozilla.com

- Tomcat

Hallo!

wie bereits angekuendigt, findet am 17.Juni der naechste Mozilla Stammtisch in München statt !

und zwar haben wir einen Tisch reserviert:

am Mittwoch, den 17. Juni,

ab 18:00 Uhr

im Augustinerkeller in der Arnulfstraße in Bahnhofsnähe (www.augustinerkeller.de).

Wenn noch jemand teilnehmen moechte, bitte kurz per E-Mail direkt an tomcat@mozilla.com Bescheid, wenn und mit wie vielen Personen ihr kommen wollt!

Vielen Dank und viele Gruesse !

Bis naechste Woche dann !

- Carsten / Tomcat

Hi,

so back from the Mozilla Meetup in Sweden !

A big thanks to the guys from Bwin and especially to Patrick for organization of this Meetup ! It was a evening with great talks from “Mr. Sumo” David Tenser about the support.mozilla.com Project, William about Community Marketing and the great Robert Nyman and also from me about getting involved into Mozilla QA.

Beside the interesting talks we had some great conversation with Community Members and i hope that we got on this evening a lot of new Community Members for the Swedish Community and QA, SUMO, Addons and Marketing.

My presentation slides can be found here : https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/c/c4/Stockholm-meetup-qa.pdf

Hi,

its time for the next Mozilla Meetup in Munich !
We plan to do this at June 17 starting about 6pm local time.

So when you are interested to join please let me know via email: tomcat@mozilla.com

thanks !

- Tomcat

Hi All,

here a little recap of the first MozillaMeetup that has happened in Munich on May 14th.

Overall 5 people got together on that evening in Munich and i think for the first meetup ever it was a great success.
We have met in the Augustinerkeller in Munich, a great location and one of Munich’s traditional Beeergarden. So no hacking (not even wifi connection and just talking “unplugged”

The meetup went from 6pm to approx. 9:30 pm, so 3,5 hours full of talk around Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird and more !

2 guys were already active in the Community and the other 2 guys were interested in Mozilla and about ways to get involved and to hear more how “Mozilla” works.

We had a lot of great talks around different topics – like how Mozilla Code Changes works (we explained how the review process works) and a lot of questions around Firefox and Thunderbird.

Steffen and Tosha were a great help to show ways to get involved from coding to working in newsgroups to forums !
Also it was personally a great experience to connect Mozilla Fans and Contributors here in my local Bavarian Area. Before the Meetup is was not quite sure if and how many Community Members living here in my area, but now i feel very great about that experience and about connecting the local guys here !

It was great to connect local community members and to share ideas/Feedack and to talk to them in real life and to also answer questions form people who are not so familiar with the Mozilla Project. To share the enthusiasm about Mozilla is a wonderful thing !

Not to mention that the 2 guys who joined us will now working as active community members and they will take a look into bugzilla, sumo etc

We will now do this meetup a monthly base and the next Munich meetup is planned for June 17.

But this is not only a Munich thing thing There are anywhere Mozilla Fans and Community Members aroudn the world !

With this first experience i encourage everyone to setup own meetups, its not that hart as it sounds, its basically:

-> Posting a plan/idea about a meetup in your favorite forum/spreadfirefox and set a date as proposal
-> Collect Feedback and get a idea how many people might come
-> Set a date and location, like a restaurant/bar
-> thats all

and trust me , every meetup is worth the time of setup and let me know when i or william quiver from the Mozilla Marketing Team can help. Connecting the Community is a wonderful thing and we have such a awesome Community ! Talking to the Guys of the Munich Meetup was worth every second of planning and organizing this!

thanks !

- Tomcat