The roads I take...

Here's a short summary of Mozilla-related work I've done in week 42/2012 (October 15 - 21, 2012):

• CSI:Mozilla / CrashKill:
  Went through all the tracking+ crash bugs for 17, 18 and 19 that are not fixed in those "trains" right now, and cared that they are updated and patches get uplifted where possible.
  Kept tracking B2G crash reporting, the things we need are all moving forward right now.
  Tested reporting of content crashes from B2G phones.
  Did some small patches to keep my custom reports working well.
  Had some discussions on possible Socorro improvements.
  Filed a bug on better signatures for aborts.
  As usual, watched new/rising crashes, caring that bugs are filed where needed, and made sure my custom reports keep working well.
• Various Discussions/Topics:
  B2G testing, Italy workshop, plugin crashes and URLs, Linux OMTC, click-to-play blocklisting, web app submissions, B2G L10n, etc.

I spent this weekend in Torino, Italy, for a workshop with students, and held a session there on how we go for measuring stability and investigating crashes. I wonder how many such sessions it takes to get more people to help us there. It's not hard to get in, but monitoring reports might sound tedious - but when you find a problem and it actually gets solved because of that before it hits too many users, it's a good feeling that you saved people out there from problems!