Webdev/Meetings/2017/March

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-march-2017/

Shipping Celebration

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

• [garbas] TreeStatus: https://mozilla-releng.net/treestatus
• (groovecoder, February) Dynamic list-serving for shavar; so we can more quickly & easily experiment with different blocking lists (Flash-blocking, Tracking Protection, etc.)
• (groovecoder, February) Tracking Protection "graduating" from Test Pilot
• (groovecoder) Containers Test Pilot Experiment
• (ErikRose) An episode of Podcast.__init__ about parsers, with Dave Beazley
• (ErikRose) sphinx-js 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.3.1 (Python 3, autoattribute, staleness fixes, autoclass), the generated Fathom docs that show it off, and the Travis deploy script that puts them up on GH Pages and the Sphinx theme that makes the code literals not bright red.
• (lorchard) Oh hey, we released Snooze Tabs on Test Pilot
• (Osmose) Normandy has functional tests via Selenium on CircleCI, and will soon have Auth0 auth using Django's RemoteUser auth backend
• (craigcook) New blog theme, "Frontierline" git repo
• (irc nick) Topic

Open-Source Citizenship

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

• (willkg) Bleach 2.0 is coming! https://bleach.readthedocs.io/
• (irc nick) Topic

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?

• [garbas] In the summer of 2016 we (in RelEng) decided to use Elm to build our frontends. After 6 months and 10k lines of Elm I can finally share our experience with Elm.
• (groovecoder) Contact Sandra Persing about doing a Developer Roadshow event in your town - it's very cool
• (ErikRose) Want to debug mocha tests in Chrome? Upgrade to node 7.6, mocha 3.2. Run mocha --inspect --debug-brk. Put "debugger;" in your code.
• (irc nick) Topic