Webdev:Meetings:2012-03-27
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Contents
- 1 Meeting Info
- 2 Meeting notes
- 3 Open Items
- 4 Roundtable
- 4.1 adrian
- 4.2 andy
- 4.3 arron
- 4.4 ashort
- 4.5 aricaud
- 4.6 bram
- 4.7 bsavage
- 4.8 bensternthal
- 4.9 craigcook
- 4.10 ckoehler
- 4.11 cmore
- 4.12 ednapiranha
- 4.13 gkoberger
- 4.14 jgrlicky
- 4.15 jlongster
- 4.16 jsocol
- 4.17 kumar
- 4.18 lars
- 4.19 laura
- 4.20 lcrouch
- 4.21 lonnen
- 4.22 lorchard
- 4.23 malexis
- 4.24 mkelly
- 4.25 morgamic
- 4.26 ocoutts
- 4.27 ozten
- 4.28 peterbe
- 4.29 piotr
- 4.30 pmac
- 4.31 potch
- 4.32 rhelmer
- 4.33 ricky
- 4.34 robhudson
- 4.35 schalk
- 4.36 seanmonstar
- 4.37 skinny
- 4.38 ubernostrum
- 4.39 timw
- 4.40 tofumatt
- 4.41 wenzel
- 4.42 wil
- 4.43 willkg
Meeting Info
- Room webdev via <a href="https://intranet.mozilla.org/Webdev:Vidyo">Vidyo</a>
- Room 798 via <a _fcknotitle="true" href="Teleconferencing">Teleconferencing</a>
- Mountain View office in room Webdev
Meeting notes
- Note-taker: aricaud
- Meeting notes:
Devtools
- The team needs feedback, they want us to complain to make the tools better
- Try on Nightly before filing bugs
- File bugs at: Product Firefox; Components all start with "Developer Tools"
- Or send feedback by email at paul@
- <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&component=Developer%20Tools">Bugzilla link</a>
- They will send us some surveys to understand how we work and make decisions
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
- <a href="https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webdev-q2-2012">etherpad</a> | <a href="https://intranet.mozilla.org/Innovation_Q2_2012_goals#Webdev">draft goals</a>
- Take a look at them
Misc
- OSBridge : Talk submission deadline on 2012/03/30 (three days)
- <a href="http://opensourcebridge.org/call-for-proposals/">Submit your talk</a> and you'll get to go to Portland in June.
- <a href="http://browserquest.mozilla.org/">Browserquest</a> launched
- On Thursday, massive Bedrock launch
- Launching most of the important pages of mozilla.org
Open Items
- Guest of Honor: Paul Rouget - webdev feedback needed for dev tools
- Off-site: <a href="http://whenisgood.net/xdtz5bh/results/dbm87c">whenisgood results</a> | discussion
- Recruiting
- Q1 goals: <a href="https://intranet.mozilla.org/2012Q1Goals#WebDev">wrap-up open items</a>
- Q2 goals: <a href="https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webdev-q2-2012">etherpad</a> | <a href="https://intranet.mozilla.org/Innovation_Q2_2012_goals#Webdev">draft goals</a>
- submit a talk to Open Source Bridge and come to Portland in June (deadline 3/30)! http://opensourcebridge.org/call-for-proposals/
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
- Working on WebBuilder control and extension framework
- Favorite green thing: <a href="http://www.nakedjuice.com/our-products/juice/green-machine">Green Machine</a>
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
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
- implementing <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Apps/In-app_payments">in-app payments</a>
- fighting with <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739111">celery</a>
- lots of minor AMO / marketplace production bugs
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
- mdn 2.6 <a href="http://mzl.la/mdn_26">bugs</a> pushing today
- wiki migration
- kumascript
- export/import templates
- login bug
- profiles bug
- wiki migration
- changing workflow for mdn 2012-04-10 <a href="http://mzl.la/mdn_20120410">bugs</a> and <a href="http://scrumbu.gs/projects/mdn/2012-04-10/">backlog</a>
- fixing scrumbugs bug
My favorite green thing is a continuous integration server's status indicator
lonnen
lorchard
- Was in NYC for MDNYC
- Still firing loads of lead bullets at Kuma
- Kumascript looks like a thing now
- Favorite green thing:
- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/TABASCO-brand-Jalapeno-Pepper-Sauce/dp/B002B1HGDU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332870797&sr=8-1">TABASCO brand Green Jalapeno Pepper Sauce</a>
- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/TABASCO-brand-Jalapeno-Pepper-Sauce/dp/B002B1HGDU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332870797&sr=8-1">TABASCO brand Green Jalapeno Pepper Sauce</a>
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