Weekly Status Report, W12/2012

Here's a short summary of Mozilla-related work I've done in week 12/2012 (March 19 - 25, 2012):

• CSI:Mozilla / CrashKill:
  Got the Stability Dashboard up and running at arewestableyet.com!
  Based on its data and some investigation together with Naoki found that Fennec 12.0b1 had the wrong channel set (actually filed a dupe to that one, which was already known and fixed).
  Did some updates to custom reports reports wrt recent version changes.
  Triaged all Socorro skiplist bugs, either asking questions to make them actionable or forwarding them to Laura for being fixed.
  Updated categorized Socorro bug lists, seeing that some of them have shrunk, actually.
  Discussed discrepancies between a DB query and official crash rates.
  As every week, watched new/rising crashes, caring that bugs are filed where needed.
• Themes:
  After some more work, I'm almost done with 2.8 versions of EarlyBlue and LCARStrek, and even did take a peek at what I need to work on for the 2.9 versions.
• Various Discussions/Topics:
  SecureMail activation, H.264 and Mozilla, permission/security model proposals for B2G, L10n/L20n for B2G, ARMv6 work, WebAPIs, WebRTC, etc.

A lot of time this week went into discussions, be it around skiplists, Socorro features like ElasticSearch and other crash-related topics or around security, B2G and web standards and more general Mozilla topics. A ton of things are going on at Mozilla these days and it's really fun to work in such a dynamic place - even more as our arguments are not about what makes more profit but what's right for the web public and how to move the open web forward. I'm still left in awe about such a place existing for real and can't wait to see some of things come to life that we are talking about right now in this project. There's a lot left to do but I'm convinced that we can do it and make the web a better place for everyone.