Compatibility/Meetings/2017-12-12

• Web Compatibility Meeting - 2017-12-12
• Minutes: Previous Austin Work Week

Minutes

Scribed by Karl

WebCompat Agenda topic to discuss. ( 🐝 )

We vote on topics.

• Google search tier 1: 4
• Code quality on webcompat.com: 1
• Direction of webcompat.com: 7
• Proper webcompat.com doc for uswgi, nginx: 0 (probably mike-karl 1-1)
• make webcompat sprint for everyone: 6
• how to improve bug quality through form: 7
• webcompat lightning talks: 3.5
• Team dinner: 7
• Corsica screen: 5
• Working in public: 7
• User agent detection: Karl will do it before the end of Q12018

Webcompat Planning 2018 - What did we do in 2017? (mike)

• mike: What happened in 2017?
• mike: we shipped GoFaster webc v1 -> v1.1. It will also us to sitepatch dynamically. It does nothing for now. It can do UA override on desktop right now.
• mike: In 2018 v2.0 has JS patching.
• mike: Google Search Fixer addon. If you are on Google search, we switch to a chrome UA. It is on addon site.
• mike: In 2018 We need to probably shield studies by giving a different version of google search.
• mike: Google Tier 1 testing by Oana, Sergiu and subsequent diagnosis.
• mike: Locale testing. This was good. More than 700 bugs analyzed. As far as I know we continue with Oana/Sergiu in 2018.
• mike: webcompat report site issue in devedition and it was ok.
• mike: we moved the report site button.
• karl: Maybe a consequence is that we receive more scam/deceptive website issues.
• mike: We supported Firefox sprints.
• mike: type-media, type-stylo, support of integration reporting.
• mike: Partner relations program transition from dees to adam. It is now under webcompat.
• adam: Over the last 6 months, Currently there are 50 partners we have relationships with through mailing-lists and others. My hopes… @@@@
• mike: webcompat.com improvements.
• mike: Webcompat.com redesign sprint in Berlin.
• mike: webcompat.com milestones releases (karl, eric, mike).
• mike: oana/sergiu has done reporting guidelines.
• mike: Eric has webcompattobugzilla addons.
• mike: webcompat.com Alexa ranking priority webhooks.
• mike: triage dashboard (guillaume/karl)
• mike: metrics dashboard (Adam)
• mike: Outreachy project. Misha worked on UX. Bea worked on testing. (mentored by Mike, adam)
• mike: diagnosis addon (just used by dennis/tom for now)
• mike: in 2018, make this addon public.
• mike: some completed OKRs.
• mike: Talks - Ola talked at conferences. Mike did a couple and Karl did two. And Dennis too. Eric in Taiwan.
• mike: Berlin work week. Sessions in Toronto. Taipei work week.
• mike: Ideally, we could imagine one work week with everyone. and Probably 2 or 3 with smaller team on specifics, focused topics. AllHands are great, but work weeks are more productive.
• adam: We went from 70/80 to now 300 bugs reported.
• mike: In 2018, I want to talk on how to improve triage, but also diagnosis.
• biraj: Do we encourage people to use webcompat.com or bugzilla?
• mike: we usually encourage people to use webcompat.com because it is easier. But then if you really know it is a core issue, then it is probably better to open on bugzilla.
• adam: webcompat.com is meant to be an open project welcoming bugs from any browsers.
• adam: webcompat.com queue digests more quickly then bugzilla
• mike: Topic: UX? Explaining the benefits of sign-in on Github
• karl: Related to the github issue, about anonymous reporter being able to leave their details.
• adam: Bug fixes in Core, we pushed.
• karl: I'm giving a talk about this in the platform lightning talks on Thursday.
• mike: some other achievement other than webcompat, ola talked a lot with dev marketing. Open innovation consulting.
• mike: Adam has grown. There is a lot of stuff, that people don't see has been done, partly with triage.
• mike: Eric giving talks, and user support on Facebook. He made a video on promoting.
• mike: Sergiu/Oana helps with video the sprints.
• mike: Karl comes in conservation. His name comes in lot of Bugzilla bugs.
• mike: Tom developed things in Core.
• adam: mike as 55/58 regression manager
• mike: Dennis is very active with devtools.
• mike: Dennis/Tom are active with Quantum workflow.
• karl: We reported a lot of bugs for Firefox devtools.

Webcompat Planning 2018 - Current Active Projects (mike)

+ high priority, / middle priority, - low priority

• mike: # (+) webcompat.com dev
• tom: # (/) tripwire (web regression test suite). It helps compare snapshots in between old and new versions of the site.
• mike: We are really close of a functional prototype
• mike: # (+) Gofaster webcompat
• tom: # (/) user agent addon.
• tom: # (/) diagnosis addon.
• adam: It has the potential to be helpful for burning down the diagnosis.
• mike: # (-) compat standards.
• mike: # (+) firefox webcompat integration.
• mike: it is about making the bug reporting more useful for teams inside Mozilla.
• tom: # Flow profiling
• ola: # community/education outreach
• eric: # issues/dependency graph
• tom: # Google websearch. gws tier1
• mike: # tech evangelism in bugzilla.
• mike: # webcompat project (triage, diagnosis, outreach). Keep the lights on
• adam: The more we spent less time on it, the more we can solve of other issues.
• mike: # (+) Softvision
• mike: the work has been extremely valuable. We asked for a contract renewal
• mike: we need to discuss about incoming bug triage or top sites testing.
• adam: # Partner Rel.
• karl: it would be good to explore to have testing accounts with some companies.
• mike: Enterprise class of websites for tracking time, expenses, etc. It could be a short term experiment.
• ola: # Opening more to communities. Onboarding to both: bug reporting and webc dev.
• ola: # Wrapping up the refactor
• karl: too late for internship/outreachy?
• mike: as I know it's only for an office, but it's different for outreach. Should we do outreachy this year.
• karl: It can be good like this year.
• mike: focus on 18 Q1?
• Eric: Improving bug quality reporting and gofaster webcompat.
• karl: need guideline for gofaster release, code/legal/etc.
• karl: keep fix small issue of webcompat.com. paper cuts with impact for users.
• tom: regression addon with at least 1 test working.
• sergiu: gofaster webcompat really cool project. You should release v2.
• sergiu: webcompat.com redesign should go live.
• sergiu: Google search tier 1.
• mike: The search could be fixed in 1 year. We have support from Google on this. People from Google are looking at this weekly.
• oana: do work on specific sites or categories?
• mike: This is a good idea to explore.
• serigu: GWS is important, should we test more on that?
• karl: Some of the issues they worked on have already changed because Google has changed the UI.

Two Minutes ( 🐝 )

This is the summary of what you have done during the week. Feel free to add your own 2 minutes. Keep it short. Feel free to add your name if you think you need to share something.

• Adam: Half week of PTO. Triage, outreach and AV partner work
• Dennis:
• Eric: Triage. Diagnosis/Contact/Close old TW issues from SV friends.
• Karl: Triage. A bit of needsdiagnosis. Closed Milestone Needstriage Dashboard. Open a new one for the second phase. Code review for mike's code.
• Guillaume:
• Mike: Catching up on things. Changed the way the `label` param works for new issues. Planning stuff related to All hands.
• Ola: Refactor. Content. Refactor. Content. VandI.
• Oana: Continued testing ID locale and investigate issues.
• Sergiu: Continued testing ID locale and investigate issues.
• Thomas: Worked on clearing Google Search tier-1 issues. Also worked on my UA and diagnosis addons.