Webdev:Meetings:2012-03-27

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Meeting Info

Meeting notes

  • Note-taker: aricaud
  • Meeting notes:

Devtools

Offsite

  • There are a lot of conflicts in April, end of May and June
  • It will be during the April 30th - May 4th week
  • Watch out for more details
  • Maybe, maybe another one in the fall, maybe with WebQA and/or IT

Recruiting

  • Made offers:
    • Front-end person for MDN
    • 2 Community Tools people
  • peterbe: Pre-briefing emails ("focus on...") are working great, keep it up.
  • Lots of interviews lately
    • thanks, everybody who's spending time and effort on finding great folks to join our team

Q1 Goals

  • Another review of yellows

Q2 Goals

Misc

Open Items

Roundtable

adrian

  • Socorro
    • Worked on search with ElasticSearch
    • Release managing
    • Reviews / helping others writing middleware services
  • I wrote a cool Web game this weekend with a few friends: http://www.superbitboy.com/
    • Will write a blog post on the WebDev blog soon

Green things I like... Grass? Dollars?

andy

  • video upload support for the marketplace
  • in app payment paypal support into the marketplace
  • moar marketplace

arron

ashort

aricaud

bram

bsavage

bensternthal

craigcook

  • MDN workweek (workdays, really) and the hack day in NYC were a success.
  • New blog theme released on a handful of official blogs (I forget the list at the moment).
  • New wordpress-powered press center based on the new blog theme will go live shortly after the big bedrock push.
  • We should do a custom child theme for webdev. Noodle that and let's decide what we want.

The Green Goblin

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ckoehler

cmore

ednapiranha

gkoberger

jgrlicky

jlongster

Getting ready for a big bedrock push on Thursday. Our main pages will be running on Django!

jsocol

kumar

lars

laura

  • Just trying to survive the end of Q1, mostly
  • Stratergery for solving the million file problem in Elmo
  • Pushing on ES, Elmo deployment, PTO, Sheriffs, releng dashboard, etc
  • Bunch o' triage
  • Planning Q2: etherpad? workday? oh my.
  • Is the light at the end of the tunnel green? No? Then how about the Emerald Isle?

lcrouch

My favorite green thing is a continuous integration server's status indicator

lonnen

lorchard

malexis

mkelly

  • Maintenance release of Flicks
  • Eventually getting around to writing a statistics interface for Affiliates
  • Teaching people how to Dougie

Favorite green thing would be Doug's sweater-vest.

morgamic

  • recruiting
  • reorg stuff
  • went to identity work week for 1 day
  • gave bret some bourbon and a man hug
  • helping organize the ecosystem effort for apps

ocoutts

ozten

peterbe

  • interviewing, phone and on-site
  • wrapping up design bits and pieces for Elmo
    • tidying up CSS for launch of new design + new domain
  • launching Sheriff Duty app on https://sheriff-dev.allizom.org and testing with RelEng folks
  • set up pto-dev.allizom.org and planning for the new PTO app launch
    • announcement postponed by till 2nd April
    • actual live launched not yet planned
  • sprinting with lars on hard inner workings of Socorro
  • the woods!

piotr

pmac

  • Completed implementing the new skin for betafarm.
  • Blogged about Scrumbu.gs.

Green thing: a well made mint julep.

potch

rhelmer

ricky

  • PTO

robhudson

  • Continued work on default-to-compatible... on the final stretch.
  • Finished a permissions review on AMO.
  • Enjoyed a couple fun snowed in days in Eugene (http://cl.ly/2f2j2E240V3q0108011a).

Favorite green thing: Beer (although it's quite rare and can only be found once a year)

schalk

seanmonstar

  • flightdeck extra package.json properties editor
  • Shipyard ForeignKeys
  • ecosystem skeleton

skinny

ubernostrum

  • NYC devengage event
  • I don't want to travel anymore

Green things... I LIKE TURTLES!

timw

tofumatt

  • Wait, what the heck team am I on now? (See wenzel's update lulz)
  • Kinda sick this week
  • Moving to Montreal
  • It's nearing motorcycle season

Favourite green thing?Easy.

wenzel

  • In good git fashion: Fork in the road for Flux!
    • Rik, mkelly, pmac and craigcook are joining cmore and his team to build the new Websites team, focusing on Engagement campaigns and projects.
    • jlongster, tofumatt, ednapiranha, arron, piotr, sean are joining Fred to build the new <a href="Webdev/DevEcosystem">Dev Ecosystem</a> team, focusing on developer happiness and product innovation.
  • Also:
    • Interviewed a bunch of people, e.g., for Community Platforms, QA.
    • Helping getting bedrock migration out the door (mozilla.org on Django? woo hoo!)
    • Working on a landing page for open web apps developers

Favorite green thing: Kermit the Frog. Though apparently, it's not easy being green.

wil

willkg

  • interviewed
  • worked on elastciutils: documentation, pulling in changes, figuring out the state of elasticutils with other projects
  • worked on nixing db hits for sumo search with elasticsearch

Favorite green thing: string of green lights on jenkins