Webdev/Meetings/2016/April

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.

The meeting will be streamed and recorded on Air Mozilla: https://air.mozilla.org/webdev-extravaganza-april-2016/

A blog post summarizing the meeting is available: https://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2016/04/13/extravaganza-april-2016/

Shipping Celebration

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

• ngoke/ngokevin - A-Frame is an open-source WebVR framework that lets us build virtual reality scenes with HTML. We just released v0.2.0: https://aframe.io/blog/2016/03/31/aframe-v0.2.0/
• (erikrose in absentia) Switcheroo from peep to pip 8 landed in Let's Encrypt.
• (erikrose) All the interesting moz-central branches are now indexed in DXR: Aurora, Beta, Central, ESR45, and Release.
• (erikrose) pipstrap 1.1.1 is out, with a bugfix for error reporting in Python 2.6.
• (Ben) Snippets in AWS + Deis, Basket sooon.

Open-Source Citizenship

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

• (pmac) taking over django-csp (thanks jsocol!)
• (peterbe) thanks to mythmon, you can now use hashin for specific versions of python

New Hires / Interns / Volunteers / Contributors

Anyone new that we want to induct into the secret order? Paid, unpaid, contract, doesn't matter!

• (irc nick of new person) New Person

Roundtable

Anything else to talk about?