Webdev/Meetings/2014/April 1

Webdev Extravaganzas are open to the public and serve as a gathering point for anyone in the Mozilla community who is interested in web development and what Mozilla has been doing in it.

There is a recording of this meeting available.

Shipping Celebration

What did we ship this month? Alternatively, what didn't we ship to spare the world the horror?

• (irc nick) [TOPIC GOES HERE]
• (jgmize) Nucleus+RNA+Bedrock publishing system for release notes and system requirements
• (ErikRose) peep 1.0 and 1.0.1 are out, and 1.0.2 comes out tomorrow. It has passed sec review. There's even a PR open to deploy gittip with it.
• (ErikRose) Shipped a couple of talks:
  • Why DXR Is Cool And Why You Should Hack On It
  • Why The DXR Community Works (kind of a general thing on community-building)
• (adrian but laura by proxy) Crash Comment dashboard
• (mkelly) https://oneanddone.mozilla.org/

Open-Source Citizenship

Any updates with our libraries or with libraries we use? Anyone looking for help with a library they maintain?

• (irc nick) [TOPIC GOES HERE]
• (ErikRose) Improved speed of the dictionary iterator routine shims in six by 20%.
• (peterbe) GitHub PR Triage

New Hires / Interns / Volunteers

Anyone new that we want to induct into the secret order?

• [NEW HIRE NAME] [NEW HIRE FATE]

The Bikeshed / Roundtable

Anything else to talk about?

• Serving locale-specific fonts: We've got an open PR for bedrock that does some djangoey stuff to serve a different font stack tailored for the requested locale. But since the mozilla.org fonts have sort of become canonical references for other sites as well (via tabzilla), we're concerned this might have a broader impact beyond just bedrock. Thoughts?
• RelengAPI and authentication/authorization - trying to come up with a "normal" solution