Labs/Ubiquity/Meetings/2009-02-25 Weekly Meeting

Details

Time

5:00pm Pacific time

Location

• IRC channel: #ubiquity
• Dial in:
  • +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 201 (US Toll Free/Skype)
  • +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 201 (US/International)
  • +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 201 (Canada)

Agenda

• The Herd - getting it back online
• Automatic bug reporting
• Logistics of pushing a release every 2 weeks
• Level of support for FF3.0 once FF3.1 is out
• Create new types of videos like http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails

Attendees

1. Blair
2. Mitcho
3. Abi
4. Atul
5. Jono
6. Ray
7. Zac

Notes

The Herd

• Taken down shortly after 0.1.6
• Due to slowness of server - needed trac/hg more
• Atul has been spending some time trying to make umc go faster
• Some trouble is:
  • Standard feeds getting hit very often
  • Trac sessions not expiring
  • The Herd needs to be on separate machine?

Bug reporting

• Automatic bug reporting, via report-bug command
• Atul implemented simple webservice
• Need to add a link/button to submit bug report from about:ubiquity

Quick-release logistics

• Only Mozilla employees (Atul/Jono/Aza/Blair) can do releases
  • But only Atul really knows how and isn't scared by it
    • Actually, Aza does too, but Atul didn't mention this during the meeting...
• Schedule
  • Beta released very often
  • Prodution releases every 2 weeks (preceded by 1 or more RCs)
• Need central page for history + older revisions?

Supporting 3.0 when 3.1 is out

• While many people will upgrade, many also won't
• Compatability with 3.0 very important
• We current support 3.0, 3.1, 3.2pre - with no troubles
• Nothing major missing by supporting 3.0
• No issues with binary components
  • nsIUbiquity (binary component) is optional, and only relevant to 3.0
  • nsIUbiquityDesktopIntegration is still highly experimental + only for mac
• Nore buildbots - all OSes, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2
  • Try servers too? Blair to ask IT about it

New tutorial videos

• Style similar to http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails
• Need feedback on this style
• Ray to play with a greenscreen with creater of above video
• Use usability videos as a type of reference
  • What people have trouble with, when they get bored, etc

International relations

• Start international mailing lists/group for localizers, etc
• Need feedback on [mitcho.com/blog/projects/writing-commands-with-semantic-roles/ mitcho's semantic roles blog post]
• Mitcho doing intro video for linguists/localizers + call for help

Ubiquity 0.1.7

• Oops, we're late!
• 0.1.6.1 is being pushed ASAP
  • Hotfix to unbreak ubiquity for many people

User Experience with network lag

• Network lag/congestion - leads to bad user experience of blank screen while things load
• Need indicator of waiting for the network
  • No technical limitations in doing so?