Webdev:Meetings:2010-11/16
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Open Table
- Goals
- Deployment and IT
- deployment to staging is still an issue; need better documentation
- SUMO deployments go well with oremj; don't go well without oremj
- push-button releases, script it
- Deployment and IT
- Org changes
Project Updates
- Add-ons
- Support
- Socorro
- Input
- MDN
- Engagement
(YOU create this, so add more if you want to)
Random Nuggets
- Don't forget to buy your travel if you haven't already!
andy
- AMO devhub changes and fixes.
- Flightdeck, couple of minor fixes.
- St Davids, Britain's smallest city - good surfing.
buchanan
- Mobile mozilla.com
- Email migration
- Firefox 4 Beta 7
chowse
- Mockups for Add-on Validator
- Polish work for AMO DevTools, Discovery Pane, and SUMO KB
- Improvements to Graph Server
- Groundwork for Input 3.0
- Brainstorming for new AMO Front Page
dd
- Input
- Faceted Search - http://bit.ly/abcaWN
- Highcharts powered by Sphinx
- AMO
- Activity tracker with flexible schema
- Lots of interviews
- Chicago, but I don't like winter so temperate San José is quite nice.
erik
- SUMO stuff
- Localization and Contributor Dashboards (WebTrends integration to come)
- Factored tagging out into its own app. If you need a nice (esp. closed, large vocab) tagging widget (like used at http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/764942, if you have privs to see it in its editable state), it's worth a look now and will be worth using within a few weeks.
- Lots of little bugs
- Tons of reviews
- Interviews: Glen, Luke, Sean, James. Helped Dave and Jeff vet their interview questions.
- Filed and patched a Django bug about the ignoring of the name attr on fields. When fixed, this will let us use descriptors to provide getters and setters in more cases.
- Boxed MySQL soundly about the face and neck for not supporting functional defaults on datetime columns. (There's nothing you can do short of using triggers or resorting to a timestamp column, which has its own issues.)
- Reported a really fun can't-make-a-new-window Firefox bug.
- Solla Solew. “It is an Odyssey-tale told by a young narrator who experiences troubles in his life—mostly aggressive small animals which bite and sting.” somehow fails to capture the essence of the thing.
gkoberger
jbalogh
- 3 million more zamboni hits per day with /downloads, averaging 10-20 ms response.
- Brought back caching by id (sharing object instances in the cache) and the discovery pane got half a second faster
- Add-ons can be uploaded to zamboni with the new dev tools
- Portland is a nice place.
jgrlicky
- Graphics work for Fx4b7 pages
- Fx4 Beta screenshots
- Fx4 Demo site coordination & work week
- Mobile mozilla.com mockups & research
- New York City, from what I've seen of it
jsocol
- SUMO had a Test Day for our new KB (2.3) on Friday. It went well, thanks to everyone who helped!
- 2.3 is feature complete as of Armistice Day (11/11).
- Code completion in T-7 days.
- Favorite city: New York (close second/not where I live: Paris)
kumar
- AMO
- Developer pages
- Big one is the Add-on validator screen
- small changes here and there, bug fixes
- Started some ideas for adding a JavaScript test suite to AMO. Feel free to add yours.
- Developer pages
- I like Chicago. The winters are brutal but that's when everyone stays in and gets a ton of work done. Chicagoans emerge from winter with a lot of accomplishments. Also, it's the smallest big city in the world. You can easily get to know a lot of people really well in a small circle (this is both good and bad).
lars
- Socorro! Socorro! Socorro!
- rewriting collector, coding around the hbase menace.
- backporting 1.8 features into the 1.7 line
- reworking unit tests in 1.7 to actually pass
- favorite city: Missoula, MT
- I just want to say that I work for Mozilla and live in Missoula.
laura
- Several minor Socorro releases shipped (1.7.5, 1.7.5.1, 1.7.5.2)
- 1.8 abandoned as a version number, but most non-architectural changes from it will ship as 1.7.6 after Thanksgiving
- Planning and re-planning PHX move (re-planning due to hardware delays) - expected switchover date currently January 8
- HBase stability greatly improved by restarting every two days
- Running out of space on prod HBase
- Adding stuff to SJC data center HBase cluster
- Replication factor lowered
- rhelmer and jabba have been doing great work on automated builds and deployment
- 35 minute problem - ask me if you need a challenge
- Mitigated by blocking grad student crawlers, but underlying problem still exists
- Anyone who would like to write some tests for Socorro backend: come see me after
- Also: job interviews!
lorchard
- Small bits of email migration stuffs
- Helping out with some customizations on a fork of BYOB
- webtrek: long weekend hacking on node.js + websockets + canvas
- Demo: http://webtrek.decafbad.com:3000/
- Source: http://github.com/lmorchard/webtrek
- Needs a lot of work
- No collision detection or actual game yet
- You can fly around with arrow keys and shoot with space bar.
- There is (crappy) networking
- Be sure to try the fancy space backdrop.
- Favorite city
- Pretty fond of Toronto, ON, CA; Ann Arbor, MI, US; and San Francisco, CA, US.
- But, Toronto is pushed over the top by the availability of poutine and real-sugar ketchup
- Pretty fond of Toronto, ON, CA; Ann Arbor, MI, US; and San Francisco, CA, US.
malexis
- red panda site 11/30
- college recruiting site
- mobile add-ons cup site 11/22
- air mozilla reskin December
- jira research
- redesign 12/08
- finding agency for Join Us campaign
- a little help coordinating demos, email, army of awesome, mobile friendly moz.com
- favorite city: San Francisco, natch.
morgamic
ozten
- MDN shipped 0.9.1
- MDN shipping 0.9.2 today
- SSO for MDN
- Fx4demo site planning/coordinating
- Blog post
Favorite city - Lake Tahoe is pretty awesome
paulc
- Video uploads, still using iframe, plan on switching to gkoberger's xhr approach someday, post-2.3
- Thumbnail generation for ogv and flv files
- Other media gallery things - deleting image/video, edit description.
- More data migration stuff, mostly done.
- Really excited about 2.3!!
- Favorite city: Sibiu (it's in Transylvania :)
paulosman
potch
- Been working on l10n stuff, crazy yet fancy
- Playing with a canvas game engine concept
- Thanks to kumar for fleshing out the js testing stuff
- in PA for a wedding/thanksgiving
- devhub what
- tossup between Dinkelsbuhl, Germany and Leysin, Switzerland (more towns than cities, but meh)
rhelmer
ricky
- SUMO 2.3
- Fixing lots of bugs
- Polishing UI
- Favorite city: NYC
rsnyder
- Buttoned up and pushed Socorro 1.7.5
- Will begin backporting a good portion of the code written for Socorro 1.8 into trunk
- Implementing an Idea box for Input, to be released in 2.1
- Finishing the archival of mozillaservice.org this week
- Favorite City: Praha / Prague