Webdev:Meetings:2010-05-18
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Open Items
- New superstars have joined our ranks!
- Josh Gross, Über Intern (AMO)
- Matt Basta, Über Intern (SUMO)
- Ricky Rosario, Distinguished Full-timer (SUMO)
- Paul Osman, WebDev/IT/AllSortsOfOtherStuff (MoFo)
- Webdev meetings
- What do you like?
- Good to hear what people are doing
- Like the random tidbits
- What sucks?
- Lots of people
- Meeting is getting longer
- How can we make better use of the time?
- What do you like?
- Other hiring updates, FYI
Roundtable
basta
abuchanan
- Firefox Cup, hacked on Zamboni
- Email Campaign, researching MailChimp API
- Mozilla.com landing page performance
- Mobile device detection launched
chowse
- Socorro tweaks (style guide)
- AMO collections revamp (mocks )
- SUMO forums
- BYOB (mocks, style guide)
- AMO marketplace (early mocks)
- AMO navigation (mocks)
- L10 portal (wireframes)
dd
- When I started my boss lived in PDX, then he moved to MV... and now my new boss is in PDX.
- Spark Program over
- Building some more fixture-y tools for Django
- Reviewing whatever James tells me to review.
- AMO bugs
- Porting things to Zamboni
- Fixed a lot of crashes/tracebacks
- Cleanup of Advanced Search
- Getting remora and zamboni to play nice (tags, users, etc)
- I may have written about Bar Tab
- Baby due in 0-21 days
- Ingredent: Whatever they use to sweeten my diet MTN DEW
- <- wishes this was markdown
jbalogh
- got forked four times yesterday
- pushed amo 3 times last week, only 1 planned for this week (so far)
- zamboni is at 100% on the homepage and detail pages
- and we have 12 contributors so far
- and 459 tests
- other stuff
- I love Lake Blue #3
josh
jsocol
- Prepped for new people (yay!, welcome!)
- Pushed SUMO 2.0 and it stuck this time.
- Filed a number of 2.1 and 2.2 bugs.
- Lots of reviews.
- Worked on engineering plan for the quarter.
- Blue. Definitely blue.
ianbicking
lars
- socorro 1.7 code freeze? Slushy? Squishee?
- rolling back 2.6 code to 2.4 because infrastructure not ready
- it was the path of least resistance
- retiring NFS storage in favor of HBase storage
- more dealing with a Java codebase written in Python 2.1
- trouble recovering from socket and other network errors
- resurrecting failed iterators mid cycle without the benefit of transactions
- rolling back 2.6 code to 2.4 because infrastructure not ready
- liquid smoke
- soy sauce + maple syrup + liquid smoke + coarse black pepper + thin tempeh strips; baked or fried until crisp...
laura
- Long time since the last meeting!
- Shipped three releases (1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3)
- Trying to freeze on 1.7, some issues (cf lars, ozten)
- Interviewing Firefox and Platform engineers for requirements elicitation, spending many hours with metrics
- CrashKill started up again
- Researching text indexes for Hbase
- Working on the 2.0 PRD
- I have a draft post up on the webdev blog if you have feedback on it, otherwise I'll post it later today
- I dislike artificial flavors intensely, cherry is worst of all, followed by banana
lorchard
- Weave 1.3 code frozen, heading toward GA (fingers-crossed)
- Plugin Check page now using Plugin Directory API
- Heads down on BYOB Q2 goals
- Is Yellow No. 5 a flavor? Either way, it's my favorite to avoid :)
morgamic
- hiring and putting out fires
- summit stuff -- sent out reminders to 88 folks to RSVP, resurrecting summitr
- AUS patch reviews for build
- Favorite flavor: banana runts!
ozten
- Socorro 1.6.3
- Wrestling with Socorro DB to add Hang to ADU report
- Cross Browser UpYourPlug and bug fixes
- Launching a Labs Experiment
- Grape is my favorite fake flavor. Why do smoke machines sometimes smell like Grape?
paulc
- get Kitsune live with jsocol
- yay, we now have a UTF8 database on prod!
- initial work on getting a python mediawiki parser
- get WebTrends on SUMO, remove Omniture
- bug 563578 new discussion forums views
- Wonka Nerds
potch
- Stats first draft finished EOW next week!
- Red Starburst
- (Kinda cribbed from jsocol) [[1]]
ricky
rsnyder
- Bespin Gallery - Started development on a gallery for Bespin plugins. Est. launch June 15th.
- Creative Collective - Pushed search and navigation enhancements Thursday.
- Socorro - Code-freeze on 1.7.
sam
- starting kitsune live chat app (learning django as i go)
- Live Chat Web Client
- coming up to speed on the requirements and dividing tasks between myself and Matthew(zzxc)
- start building sections of the proposed js client
- various SFX and QMO drupal bugs
- deployment of new worker management app (with buddy system added)
- corp seating chart
- Fav Artificial Flavor
wenzel
- Bouncer
- Blogged about Tuxedo
- Tried to involve clients in mirror checking but no success due to JS client security policies :-/
- SSO
- Prototype code-complete
- need to get instance staged
- planning on integrating with WikiMo first
- Weave
- Making some webpages for Weave Sync
- Contributing to the Account Manager Spec
- Favorite artificial flavor: Dr. Pepper -- and don't try to tell me that's natural ;)
wil
- AMO has done, like, 6 pushes since we last talked. Another one scheduled for today @ 4
- AMO has some pages 100% on python
- Add-on Validator V2 spec
- Interviews, reviews of specs, bug triaging, coordination, trying to figure out how to fit more zamboni pages into Q2
- In MV a lot
paulosman
- Work for MoFo on stuff like Drumbeat.org
- Based in Toronto, in MV for the week
- Just started (2 wks old)
- Love Red Dye # 5