Mozilla.com/Bedrock/Meetings/11-14-2011

Bedrock discussion 11/14

Attendees

• Steven Garrity
• James Long
• Fred Wenzel
• Chris More
• Mike Alexis

Status

• Project almost done with first pass of architecture
• download buttons working but need polishing
• l10n working but no example yet.
• Channel page working
  • James showed mockup: http://markup.io/v/nnwf5gytgqmf
• we're at the point where we can start porting pages
• not a whole lot of testing yet
  • now is a good time to start writing them
• the project is farther along than SO expected
• good stage for SO to get involved

How to get SO set up

• set up will be more complex
• SO will try to port a page themselves
  • working on set up today
• Playdoh has good install documentation
  • SO will keep tabs on where they get stuck and where we need more documentation
• 404 page good next to port over
• work with Pascal on l10n

Details

• Playdoh is mature and should be able to solve problems
• /new page has unique optimization that doesn’t exist on other pages
  • need to look at these edge cases
• Pain-points can be tackled incrementally
• New designs aren’t dependencies/blockers on porting over pages to bedrock

• SO devs eager to dig into django and learn new platform

• Time estimate
  • Aurora release notes page with new design was built in a day with borrowed assets from other similar pages

• basic worklow is straight forward and would not change significantly
  • dl buttons, header / footer, template work...

• l10n is where it gets complicated
  • can do some parallelizing of l10n.
• make en-us just another locale instead of en-us first?
  • could be complex up front but overall will save localization time

• ultimately aim is to save 10- 20% dev time

Next steps

• SO getting an instance up today or tomorrow
• work on that throughout the week.