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** After last webdev meeting, rest of week was consumed with 1.8 [https://intranet.mozilla.org/Socorro:1.8_Postmortem release/disaster/rollback/postmortem]  
** After last webdev meeting, rest of week was consumed with 1.8 [https://intranet.mozilla.org/Socorro:1.8_Postmortem release/disaster/rollback/postmortem]  
** Last week began with a day off and then [https://intranet.mozilla.org/Socorro:1.8_Postmortem#Outcomes_.2F_Actions grand plans to make things better]
** Last week began with a day off and then [https://intranet.mozilla.org/Socorro:1.8_Postmortem#Outcomes_.2F_Actions grand plans to make things better]
** and ended with further disasters (consuming Thursday and Friday) due to a hole in an HBase table, which we coded around with duct tape and then later fixed thanks to Cloudera Support and help from our friends at StumbleUpon.
** and ended with further [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599352 disasters] (consuming Thursday and Friday) due to a hole in an HBase table, which we coded around with [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599356 duct tape] and then later fixed thanks to Cloudera Support and help from our friends at StumbleUpon.
** This week began with a new disaster, which an entire day of work revealed to be due to a failed hard drive on cm-hadoop06.  Yes, Hadoop is meant to be redundant if it loses a node.  As long as it's not the wrong node.  And no, monitoring did not alert us to the drive going bad.
** This week began with a new disaster, which took an entire day of work for the team, Cloudera, and associated contributors, revealed to be due to a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599977 failed hard drive on cm-hadoop06].  Yes, Hadoop is meant to be redundant if it loses a node.  As long as it's not the wrong node.  And no, monitoring did not alert us to the drive going bad.
 
* Science fiction:
** Classic: Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, or Friday by Heinlein
** Just read, and now on the list of awesome, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
** Did you know it's [http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/ Banned Books Week]?  Read something off the [http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedbydecade/2000_2009/index.cfm list].


== lorchard ==
== lorchard ==

Revision as of 17:17, 28 September 2010

Open Items

  • Q3 wrap-up
  • Q4 -- what's in store
  • The Big Idea
  • Welcome Jason!

Roundtable

basta

buchanan

  • Responsys
  • Customer Care

chowse

dd

  • Addons Write API
  • Non-clobbering sphinx search testing
  • Working with Aakash on Input
  • DUNE

erik

jbalogh

jgrlicky

josh

jsocol

ianbicking

lars

  • the onsite Socorro nightmare
  • motorcycling vacation (avoided Socorro, New Mexico)
  • "Socorro Saucer, The closest encounter of them all", by Ray Stanford

laura

  • Firefighting:
    • After last webdev meeting, rest of week was consumed with 1.8 release/disaster/rollback/postmortem
    • Last week began with a day off and then grand plans to make things better
    • and ended with further disasters (consuming Thursday and Friday) due to a hole in an HBase table, which we coded around with duct tape and then later fixed thanks to Cloudera Support and help from our friends at StumbleUpon.
    • This week began with a new disaster, which took an entire day of work for the team, Cloudera, and associated contributors, revealed to be due to a failed hard drive on cm-hadoop06. Yes, Hadoop is meant to be redundant if it loses a node. As long as it's not the wrong node. And no, monitoring did not alert us to the drive going bad.
  • Science fiction:
    • Classic: Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, or Friday by Heinlein
    • Just read, and now on the list of awesome, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
    • Did you know it's Banned Books Week? Read something off the list.

lorchard

malexis

  • firefox site redesign
  • firefox demos schedule and planning
  • wrapping up Q3
  • planning for Q4--gathering goals for web dev radar
  • firefox beta panda site
  • researching Jira
  • project init upgrades
  • streamlining process for site copy/content
  • Slaughterhouse-Five and Kurt Vonnegut in general

morgamic

  • Goals meetings - about 8 hours of meetings last week
  • Hiring
  • Tying of loose ends
  • Nightfall, by Asimov

ozten

  • Socorro - PostCrashEmail
  • Flash Vulnerability, PFS update

Recent Favorite Rainbow's End or Daemon

paulc

potch

rhelmer

ricky

  • SUMO Knowledgebase
    • Completed localization workflow
    • Working on email notifications
  • Some Doozer work

rsnyder

wenzel

  • Out today coordinating movers for my apartment.
  • Did some Customer Care work (Buchanan++ for doing the lion's share!)
  • In general, spending most my time coordinating my Bay Area move
  • Favorite Sci-Fi novel would be 1984. If it qualifies.

wil

  • Planning AMO, FlightDeck
  • meetings, bugs
  • It's been a while, but I liked 1984
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