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== Firefox ==
== Firefox ==
'''Firefox Front End Work'''
'''Firefox Front End Work'''
* review our list of [[Firefox/Projects|active projects]] and [[Firefox/Goals/2009Q3|this quarter's goals]]
* last week's team progress reports are available on [http://planet.firefox.com Planet Firefox], which will get prettier in time


'''[[Firefox/Namoroka|Namoroka]]'''
'''[[Firefox/Namoroka|Namoroka]]'''
* next milestone: Firefox 3.6 Beta 1


'''Team News'''
'''Team News'''
* no more interns, boo-hoo


== Gecko ==
== Gecko ==
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== TB 3 ==
== TB 3 ==
Bearing down on 3.0b4:
* Slushy Code Freeze: Monday 7th Sept 23:59 PDT.
* Full String Freeze: Wed 9th Sept 23:59 PDT.
* Code Freeze: Friday 11th Sept 23:59 PDT.
* l10n Complete: Monday 14th Sept 23:59 PDT.
* Release builds start: Tues 15th Sept.


== Mobile ==
== Mobile ==
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== Release Engineering ==
== Release Engineering ==
* Fx3.5.3/3.0.14 ETA to beta, 9/1
** there will be a refreshed major update (MU) offered between these
* some improvements on the nightly update situation:
** Armen has landed code to prioritize en-US update generation ahead of l10n updates.
** we've switched l10n nightly builds to be triggered immediately after the en-US nightly rather than at a set time (7am). This means we'll get l10n nightlies earlier for each platform, and the update generation machine won't be swamped with a huge batch of updates each morning at 7am PDT.


== QA ==
== QA ==
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* Fx3.5.3/3.0.14 ETA to beta, 9/1
* Fx3.5.3/3.0.14 ETA to beta, 9/1
* Winmo Alpha 3 testing in progress, 2 blocker bugs remain: {{bug|511535}}, {{bug|513520}}  
* Winmo Alpha 3 testing in progress, 2 blocker bugs remain: {{bug|511535}}, {{bug|513520}}  
* Iterating the list and contacts on the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Firefox3.6/TestPlan#Feature_Test_Plans_and_Status Firefox 3.6 Testplan]  
* Iterating the list and contacts on the [[QA/Firefox3.6/TestPlan#Feature_Test_Plans_and_Status|Firefox 3.6 Testplan]]
* Investigating exploitable crash reports
* Investigating crash reports
* Automating of manual litmus tests progress: Smoketests 88%, BFTs 20%
* Automating of manual litmus tests progress: Smoketests 88%, BFTs 20%


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* Shipped [http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2009/08/28/amo-5-0-9-launched/ AMO 5.0.9]
* Shipped [http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2009/08/28/amo-5-0-9-launched/ AMO 5.0.9]
** It was a beast, at [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Server+Software&product=addons.mozilla.org&target_milestone=5.0.9&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&resolution=FIXED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= 116 bugs]
** This release included the run of over [https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?searchType=by_category&product_id=8&branch_id=18&testgroup_id=85&subgroup_id=851 100 Litmus testcases]
** This release included the run of over [https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?searchType=by_category&product_id=8&branch_id=18&testgroup_id=85&subgroup_id=851 100 Litmus testcases]
* Helped in the [http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/say-hello-to-the-new-mozilla-org/ relaunch of Mozilla.org]
* Helped in the [http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/say-hello-to-the-new-mozilla-org/ relaunch of Mozilla.org]
* Finished testing SFx 3.0.4 changes, and wrote [https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?searchType=by_category&product_id=13&branch_id=31&testgroup_id=129&subgroup_id=1207 News & Events and Campus Reps testcases]
* Small testing of AMO in China (for a CDN)


'''Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community'''  
'''Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community'''  
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** Investigating the mochitest-browser-chrome test harness hang issue. Seems to be caused by memory leak while switching between private browsing and regular browsing in the harness testing.
** Investigating the mochitest-browser-chrome test harness hang issue. Seems to be caused by memory leak while switching between private browsing and regular browsing in the harness testing.
** Started a new [http://mkngama.blogspot.com/2009/08/volunteers-needed-for-firefox-code.html usage based code coverage project]
** Started a new [http://mkngama.blogspot.com/2009/08/volunteers-needed-for-firefox-code.html usage based code coverage project]
** [http://people.mozilla.com/~mnandigama/mac-codecoverage Mac OS X86 coverage Report]


'''Test Development'''
'''Test Development'''
* Have a full run of [http://github.com/jonallengriffin/moz-remote-reftest/tree/master Reftests over HTTP] for Tegra, will put failures into bugs this week.
* Have a full run of [http://github.com/jonallengriffin/moz-remote-reftest/tree/master Reftests over HTTP] for Tegra, will put failures into bugs this week.
* Beginning work with Electrolysis team to work on [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Content_Processes/Meetings/2009-08-28-testing test harnesses for electrolysis]. Our first priority will be testing Out of Process Plugins.  
* Beginning work with Electrolysis team to work on [[Content_Processes/Meetings/2009-08-28-testing|test harnesses for electrolysis]]. Our first priority will be testing Out of Process Plugins.  
* Working with Dmandelin to use his python harness for JS Shell testing
* Working with Dmandelin to use his python harness for JS Shell testing
* Released the first release of [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fennec/addon/13954 QAC For Mobile]
* Released the first release of [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fennec/addon/13954 QAC For Mobile]
* Pushed [http://code.google.com/p/mozmill/downloads/detail?name=mozmill.xpi&can=2&q=#makechanges Mozmill 1.2.1]
* Pushed [http://code.google.com/p/mozmill/downloads/detail?name=mozmill.xpi&can=2&q=#makechanges Mozmill 1.2.1]
* Nearing completion for the log comparison tool to help get the Fennec Test Tree Green
* Nearing completion for the log comparison tool to help get the Fennec Test Tree Green
* More details [https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/TDAI/MeetingNotes/2009-08-31 here].
* More details [[QA/TDAI/MeetingNotes/2009-08-31|here]].


== Security ==
== Security ==
* No updates


== Marketing/PR  ==
== Marketing/PR  ==
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* Snowl featured in [http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7495/1.html Linux Magazine]
* Snowl featured in [http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7495/1.html Linux Magazine]
* Lifehacker's [http://lifehacker.com/5346946/five-features-we-want-to-see-in-firefox?skyline=true&s=x Five Features We Want to See in Firefox]
* Lifehacker's [http://lifehacker.com/5346946/five-features-we-want-to-see-in-firefox?skyline=true&s=x Five Features We Want to See in Firefox]
 


'''Mozilla Service Week'''  
'''Mozilla Service Week'''  
* Overall update: 
** Pledge hours are over 6,000!
** Focus for the coming weeks is on awareness and growing organic events.
*** Created video to help [http://kiq.me/SP promote]
** Featured on [http://www.casefoundation.org/ Case Foundation] home page!
* Wondering how you can be a part of Mozilla Service Week?
** Join a [[MozService_Service_Sprints|local sprint]]
** Stay tuned for "challenges":
*** [http://www.mozilla.org/causes/serviceweek/internethealth/ Internet Health Check]
*** [http://www.flickr.com/photos/82445883@N00/3872375742/ Web Support at Cafes]
*** [http://www.mozilla.org/causes/serviceweek/digitalmarketing/ Social Media seminars]
* We're still going global!
** SQ, PL & KO going live this week


'''Events'''  
'''Events'''  
*[[JRSL Chile|Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre en Chile]] October 7 - 9, 2009, Santiago, Chile - Sponsoring event and bringing together the Mozilla Hispanic Community. + 2 day MozCamp Prior.  
*[[JRSL Chile|Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre en Chile]] October 7 - 9, 2009, Santiago, Chile - Sponsoring event and bringing together the Mozilla Hispanic Community. + 2 day MozCamp Prior.  
*[http://wordcamp.ph/ WordCamp Philippines] September 19, 2009 in Makati City, Philippines - We are sponsoring this event.&nbsp; Our mission is to help build up the Philippine community and build the Tagalog locale. <br>
*[http://wordcamp.ph/ WordCamp Philippines] September 19, 2009 in Makati City, Philippines - We are sponsoring this event.&nbsp; Our mission is to help build up the Philippine community and build the Tagalog locale.
*[http://www.philippineblogawards.com.ph/ Philippine Blog Awards] October 9, 2009 in Luzon, Philippines - We are sponsoring this event.&nbsp; Our mission is to help build up the Philippine community and build the Tagalog locale.<br>
*[http://www.philippineblogawards.com.ph/ Philippine Blog Awards] October 9, 2009 in Luzon, Philippines - We are sponsoring this event.&nbsp; Our mission is to help build up the Philippine community and build the Tagalog locale.
 
'''Community'''
'''Community'''
'''Product'''
*Currently working on a solution to help our users understand what Plug-ins are and how to update them.
**Three phase project:
***3.5.3 What's New Page (embedded Flash plug-in detector)(Bug 512483-FIXED)
***Plug-In Updater Page for end of Sept (detects all users plug-ins and shows users how to update vulnerable ones) [[Website/Sprints/PluginProblem#Plug-In_Problem]] ({{Bug|391433}}, {{Bug|512787}})
***In product plug-in updater (similar to Add-Ons updater) for 3.6


== Support ==
== Support ==
* One-day sprint to write crash articles for the knowledge base on Thursday September 3
* One-day sprint to write crash articles for the knowledge base on Thursday September 3
** Goal is to document the most common crash signatures in Firefox so that they all have a Knowledge Base article explaining the cause of the crash and the way to fix it (and any other info that is relevant).
** Goal is to document the most common crash signatures in Firefox so that they all have a Knowledge Base article explaining the cause of the crash and the way to fix it (and any other info that is relevant).
** See [http://blog.mozilla.com/sumo/2009/08/24/one-day-sprint-to-write-crash-articles-for-the-knowledge-base/ blog post] and [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/CrashesKBSprint/ list of crash signatures] (still being worked on) for more info
** See [http://blog.mozilla.com/sumo/2009/08/24/one-day-sprint-to-write-crash-articles-for-the-knowledge-base/ blog post] and [[Support/CrashesKBSprint/|list of crash signatures]] (still being worked on) for more info


== Metrics ==
== Metrics ==
* We're currently implementing a solution that will allow us to easily do optimization testing on Mozilla web sites (e.g., mozilla.com, addons.mozilla.org, support.mozilla.com, etc.).  We'll soon be talking more about goals/objectives and planning (and eventually, findings/impact).


== Evangelism ==
== Evangelism ==
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== Labs ==
== Labs ==
* Snowl 0.3pre3 has been released. It's the last preview release before 0.3. It includes some new features and some bug fixes. More info is available in [http://www.melez.com/mykzilla/2009/04/snowl-integration-with-places.html the blog post].
* Weave 0.6!  OMG [https://services.mozilla.com/updated/changelog.html Weave 0.6]!  It is released.  It has major performance improvements, new better UI on the about:weave page, and better Fennec support.


== Developer Tools ==
== Developer Tools ==
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== Add-ons ==
== Add-ons ==


* [http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/08/20/coming-up-for-amo/ New release last week]
* [http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/08/28/recommendations-collections-and-contributions/ Lots of new stuff in 5.0.9]
* Next release is 9/24, will include the Add-on Developer Hub
** Collections Phase II
* Join us in [https://wiki.mozilla.org/AddonMeetups:2009:Miami Miami] on 9/15 or [https://wiki.mozilla.org/AddonMeetups:2009:Chicago Chicago] on 9/29 for our Add-ons meetups
*** Add-on recommendations
*** Collection based statistics
*** Rating for collections
** [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/statistics Public Stats Dashboard]
** Contributions on search results, home page, and category pages
** Post-install "Meet the Developer" pages now available via the Developer Tools
* Next release (5.1!) is 9/24, will be focused on the [http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Ad7mAOXgEBZyZGRzNnZ3YjRfMjBnc3Y1YnhkNA&hl=en Developer Hub]
* Join us in [[AddonMeetups:2009:Miami|Miami]] on 9/15 or [[AddonMeetups:2009:Chicago|Chicago]] on 9/29 for our Add-ons meetups


== Webdev ==
== Webdev ==
* [http://moxie.fligtar.com/bugstats/amo/5.0.9 AMO 5.0.9 launched last Thursday]
* Built web pages and applications for other groups.
* Making progress on the plugins front.  [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512483 Adding warning to whatsnew page on mozilla.com] and [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Website/Sprints/PluginProblem creating a plugin campaign]. ([http://www.grabup.com/uploads/dbdba6e00d9170ff58378624229abca4.png see screenshot])
* [http://moxie.fligtar.com/bugstats/amo/5.0.9 AMO 5.0.9 launched last Thursday].  [http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/08/20/coming-up-for-amo/ Read about it].
* Making progress on the plugins front.  [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512483 Adding warning to whatsnew page on mozilla.com] ([http://www.grabup.com/uploads/dbdba6e00d9170ff58378624229abca4.png see screenshot]) and [[Website/Sprints/PluginProblem|creating a plugin campaign]].
* SUMO 1.3 goes out Thursday (foundations for Fennec support)


== L10n ==
== L10n ==
*  Verbatim Alpha launched
*  Jeremy Hiatt intern finished with a presentation to platform on l20n. [http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/tag/l20n/ Blog posts here].
*  Lots of work ahead on Mobile l10n for the client application and web content


= Foundation Updates =
= Foundation Updates =
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* Mark [http://commonspace.wordpress.com/category/drumbeat/ posted extensively] on Drumbeat, an initiative to engage huge numbers of people as promoters and stewards of the open web.
* Mark [http://commonspace.wordpress.com/category/drumbeat/ posted extensively] on Drumbeat, an initiative to engage huge numbers of people as promoters and stewards of the open web.
** This is likely major MoFo priority for 2010. Feedback and involvement highly encouraged.  
** This is likely major MoFo priority for 2010. Feedback and involvement highly encouraged.  
** A [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat wiki] and [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilladrumbeat google group] have also been put up to support Drumbeat conversations.
** A [[Drumbeat|wiki]] and [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilladrumbeat google group] have also been put up to support Drumbeat conversations.


* Thank you to everyone who helped with the relaunch of [http://www.mozilla.org www.mozilla.org]
* Thank you to everyone who helped with the relaunch of [http://www.mozilla.org www.mozilla.org]


* The second Mozilla Service Week [http://www.mozilla.org/causes/serviceweek/ action template] is up: [http://www.mozilla.org/causes/serviceweek/digitalmarketing/ Digital Marketing].
* The second Mozilla Service Week [http://www.mozilla.org/causes/serviceweek/ action template] is up: [http://www.mozilla.org/causes/serviceweek/digitalmarketing/ Digital Marketing].
* Please have a look at the first template [http://www.mozilla.org/causes/serviceweek/internethealth/ Internet health] and help us by testing it before service week.


= Roundtable =
= Roundtable =
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== Intern Show & Tell ==
== Intern Show & Tell ==


This week we have the following interns presenting:
Eric Hergenrader (metrics) and Anthony Hughes (QA) will be doing their presentation on Thursday, at 2pm PST in the common area.


= Other Business =
= Other Business =
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Friends of the Tree Friends of the Tree

Five people, Stuart, Tony, Clint, Tim, and Aakash all wrote in to nominate Joel Maher as a Friend of the Tree for his great work over the last 2-3 weeks

  • Handled and drove Beta 3 maemo AND winmo a3 release testing
  • Created a test harness to run mochitests on winmo
  • Created first test harness to run reftest, crashtest, xpcshell on winmo
  • Driving the log compare effort to get known failures factored out of tinderbox output for maemo tunit reports so that we can have a system that we can use going forward to maintain detailed information about our testing on Fennec and even Firefox going forward.
  • verified 140+ Fennec bugs last week alone
  • leading charge to debug known failures for maemo fennec on tunit
  • Mentoring QAE folks on how to test Fennec, aiding with Fennec testday

And I (Asa) would like to nominate David Tran for all his help this summer in improving the experience of streaming content to Air Mozilla.

Development Updates

Firefox

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

  • next milestone: Firefox 3.6 Beta 1

Team News

  • no more interns, boo-hoo

Gecko

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

  • Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4
    • please work on your blockers
    • code freeze set for September 22 at 11:59pm
    • targeting mid-late October release

TB 3

Bearing down on 3.0b4:

  • Slushy Code Freeze: Monday 7th Sept 23:59 PDT.
  • Full String Freeze: Wed 9th Sept 23:59 PDT.
  • Code Freeze: Friday 11th Sept 23:59 PDT.
  • l10n Complete: Monday 14th Sept 23:59 PDT.
  • Release builds start: Tues 15th Sept.

Mobile

IT

Last Week

  • VeriSign EV cert for addons.mozilla.org (08/25/2009) bug 503040
  • Added Layer42 as a transit provider in San Jose.
  • Added multi-state flags


This Week

  • The Amsterdam Reboot
    • Turned down sites last week. Did we break anything yet?
    • Derek & Arzhel in transit Tuesday, onsite Wednesday

Release Engineering

  • Fx3.5.3/3.0.14 ETA to beta, 9/1
    • there will be a refreshed major update (MU) offered between these
  • some improvements on the nightly update situation:
    • Armen has landed code to prioritize en-US update generation ahead of l10n updates.
    • we've switched l10n nightly builds to be triggered immediately after the en-US nightly rather than at a set time (7am). This means we'll get l10n nightlies earlier for each platform, and the update generation machine won't be swamped with a huge batch of updates each morning at 7am PDT.

QA

Test Execution

  • Fx3.5.3/3.0.14 ETA to beta, 9/1
  • Winmo Alpha 3 testing in progress, 2 blocker bugs remain: bug 511535, bug 513520
  • Iterating the list and contacts on the Firefox 3.6 Testplan
  • Investigating crash reports
  • Automating of manual litmus tests progress: Smoketests 88%, BFTs 20%

Web Dev Testing

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

  • Community:
  • Accessibility: Reviewed of provided feedback on these bugs. Provided ports and updates to patches for these: bug 499816 and bug 504053. Evaluated both the Yahoo! RichText editor and the CKEditor WYSIWYG editors for web applications to advise on their accessibility.
  • Metrics:
    • Filed a bug on the MAKE rules of security component bug 512341 to allow instrumenting the code base. Provided the solution as well!
    • Mac OS Firefox instrumentation is a success.
    • Investigating the mochitest-browser-chrome test harness hang issue. Seems to be caused by memory leak while switching between private browsing and regular browsing in the harness testing.
    • Started a new usage based code coverage project
    • Mac OS X86 coverage Report

Test Development

  • Have a full run of Reftests over HTTP for Tegra, will put failures into bugs this week.
  • Beginning work with Electrolysis team to work on test harnesses for electrolysis. Our first priority will be testing Out of Process Plugins.
  • Working with Dmandelin to use his python harness for JS Shell testing
  • Released the first release of QAC For Mobile
  • Pushed Mozmill 1.2.1
  • Nearing completion for the log comparison tool to help get the Fennec Test Tree Green
  • More details here.

Security

  • No updates

Marketing/PR

PR

Mozilla Service Week

Events

  • Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre en Chile October 7 - 9, 2009, Santiago, Chile - Sponsoring event and bringing together the Mozilla Hispanic Community. + 2 day MozCamp Prior.
  • WordCamp Philippines September 19, 2009 in Makati City, Philippines - We are sponsoring this event.  Our mission is to help build up the Philippine community and build the Tagalog locale.
  • Philippine Blog Awards October 9, 2009 in Luzon, Philippines - We are sponsoring this event.  Our mission is to help build up the Philippine community and build the Tagalog locale.

Community

Product

  • Currently working on a solution to help our users understand what Plug-ins are and how to update them.
    • Three phase project:

Support

  • One-day sprint to write crash articles for the knowledge base on Thursday September 3
    • Goal is to document the most common crash signatures in Firefox so that they all have a Knowledge Base article explaining the cause of the crash and the way to fix it (and any other info that is relevant).
    • See blog post and list of crash signatures (still being worked on) for more info

Metrics

  • We're currently implementing a solution that will allow us to easily do optimization testing on Mozilla web sites (e.g., mozilla.com, addons.mozilla.org, support.mozilla.com, etc.). We'll soon be talking more about goals/objectives and planning (and eventually, findings/impact).

Evangelism

  • Firefox 3.6 documentation is progressing. Don't forget to tag relevant bugs with the dev-doc-needed keyword so we can find them while looking for the next thing to write about!

Labs

  • Snowl 0.3pre3 has been released. It's the last preview release before 0.3. It includes some new features and some bug fixes. More info is available in the blog post.
  • Weave 0.6! OMG Weave 0.6! It is released. It has major performance improvements, new better UI on the about:weave page, and better Fennec support.

Developer Tools

Add-ons

  • Lots of new stuff in 5.0.9
    • Collections Phase II
      • Add-on recommendations
      • Collection based statistics
      • Rating for collections
    • Public Stats Dashboard
    • Contributions on search results, home page, and category pages
    • Post-install "Meet the Developer" pages now available via the Developer Tools
  • Next release (5.1!) is 9/24, will be focused on the Developer Hub
  • Join us in Miami on 9/15 or Chicago on 9/29 for our Add-ons meetups

Webdev

L10n

  • Verbatim Alpha launched
  • Jeremy Hiatt intern finished with a presentation to platform on l20n. Blog posts here.
  • Lots of work ahead on Mobile l10n for the client application and web content

Foundation Updates

  • Mark posted extensively on Drumbeat, an initiative to engage huge numbers of people as promoters and stewards of the open web.
    • This is likely major MoFo priority for 2010. Feedback and involvement highly encouraged.
    • A wiki and google group have also been put up to support Drumbeat conversations.

Roundtable

Intern Show & Tell

Eric Hergenrader (metrics) and Anthony Hughes (QA) will be doing their presentation on Thursday, at 2pm PST in the common area.

Other Business

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