Webdev:Meetings:2013-01-29

Meeting Info

• Room webdev via Vidyo
• Room 798 via Teleconferencing
• Mountain View office in room PB&J

Meeting notes

• Note-taker: WILL CAGE and anyone else who wants to participate
• Meeting notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webdev-2013-01-29

Open Items

• Work week
• Locations: fix calendar/meeting room/vidyo room
• Apps days!
• WebFWD reaction

Roundtable

ErikRose

DXR

• Got LLVM 3.2 working on Jenkins.
• Replaced our weird, subprocess-spawning, socket-opening testrunner with nose. (Yay for less code.)
• Merged lots of features
  • distinguishing between const and non-const functions
  • controlling the build order of multiple trees, for when there are inter-tree dependencies
  • indexing that makes some queries go 30x faster
  • finding callers and callees
  • typedefs
  • absolute paths for ignores
• Redid the server as a Flask app. CGI is gone in favor of WSGI. Now we have auto-reloading, REPL debugging, better pdb support, etc.
• Greatly reduced the number of files spit out by a DXR build. Where before, DXR would emit large "target" folders full of Python source, templates, executables, and the index data, it now spits out just the index and a config file. Since we're no longer generating copies of everything, development is simpler, as we can just edit the originals that are under version control.
• Started looking into JS static analysis. Reflect.parse is looking pretty good. Also, codeintel2 exists and is in Python.
• Planned future of continuous deployment with Lonnen and Shyam. Ordered the hardware!

elasticsearch

• Consulted on some Marketplace and Socorro use cases.
• Worked on upcoming ConFoo talk, Elasticsearch: The Missing Intro.
• (pyelasticsearch) Made bulk indexing compatible with 0.17.x ES (willkg).
• (pyelasticsearch) Fixed some URL quoting (johnsmith).

peterbe

• Built http://ntsp.lt with mythmon at the Firefox OS Apps Days
  • https://github.com/peterbe/netsplit
• Writing Selenium tests for Elmo using the django 1.4 LiveServer
• Wrote first version of Air Mozilla Channels feature (2013Q1 goal)
• Had some open source success with http://www.peterbe.com/plog/mincss
  • presented this at beer & tell
  • see it in action on http://www.peterbe.com/plog/mincss-in-action for why it matters

tofumatt

• Podcasts! https://github.com/mozilla/high-fidelity
• I was really sick; now I'm better. Sadly, this meant I missed the hack days in Jakarta and Manila. Ultra sadface.

willkg

• rolled off Gaia and back onto SUMO/Input/elasticutils/etc
• finished up elasticutils pyelasticsearch overhaul
• updated fjord to use elasticutils master tip (with new kung-fu pyelasticsearch magic)
• fixed bulk indexing in pyelasticsearch
• wrote pirate test translation awesomeness (blog post to come soon)

wraithan

• Fought the plague
• Got several payment blockers done. Including reset flows.
• Helped friends file bugs
• Discussed/filed devtools bugs to make things better.