Webdev:Meetings:2010-10-12

Open Items

• Hi Kumar
• Hi Tim Cullen
• Nick
• Bonus

Roundtable

dd

• AMO
  • Cleaned out a lot of old search bugs (even some fixes)
  • API should be ready for FlightDeck
• Firefox Input
  • pushed 1.8
  • fixed our hudson
  • mobile themes
  • Django CSRF issues - easy to fix with jbalogh's nuggets
• BONUS QUESTION: http://goo.gl/nqGj

jgrlicky

• Started doing research on mobile web design - started adding best practices to the wiki page https://intranet.mozilla.org/Going_Mobile <- please add any you might know about!
• Began creating wireframe mockups of the mobile AMO - landing page and details page have first drafts.
• Brainstormed / reviewed proposals for the Fx4 Demo site

jsocol

• Still in the middle of the SUMO 2.3 Knowledge Base.
  • Really looking forward to the post-rewrite world of smaller milestones.
• Looks like I'll be giving a talk on Django/Celery next month at Django-NYC. Might ask the AMO folks some questions.
• Favorite Halloween costume (of mine?): to do House one year I carried a cane and behaved otherwise normally.
• BONUS ANSWER

ianbicking

• I've been out due to a death in the family

laura

• At Hadoop World today, won't call in because I will be in a talk about how Facebook uses Hadoop in prod
• More firefighting:
  • Some details in our Downtime Postmortem
  • Problems running compaction (an HBase maintenance task) means we can't run it right now. Solution on the way (I hope) - meeting with Cloudera today
  • pgexperts are back on board, reviewing our postgres setup after some locking issues
• We now have access to staging (not webapp yet) (see [1])
• Going to do an architectural review to see how we can bolster HBase's availability with other tools
• We did ship 1.7.4, successfully
• Working on 1.7.5, freeze today-ish, release next week-ish.
• Drafted some release guidelines for Socorro that may be useful to other webdev projects
• Estimated fallback storage requirements
• Hiring: if you know any Hadoop Ops people, let recruiting know.
• Bouquets to rhelmer for getting Socorro on Hudson

morgamic

• lots of phone screens for mozilla.com and MDN roles
• set up some contractors as well
• figuring out how to improve how we work with mozilla.com/engagement projects
• getting Q4 rolling with Mike Alexis
• don't have photos, but when I was a young lad my Mom dressed me up as Andy (as in raggedy ann and andy -- it was horrible)

ozten

• Cranked out last Q3 Socorro work
• Setup MDN stack (phpBB, mdn Django app)
• Bugfixes

paulc

• still on knowledge base migration, mostly
• video and image migration too
• fun with video player with flash fallback, just use Video:Some title!
• edge cases and more edge cases
• this could be the first halloween I'd wear a costume. Ideas welcome.

rhelmer

• AUS and Socorro on Hudson
• working to rescue broken windows nightly users
• started implementing new graphserver design with chowse and ianbicking
• got socorro 1.7 dev environment going, working on 1.8 to test HBase upgrade

ricky

• More SUMO 2.3/KB
  • Wiki syntax editor enhancements
  • New designs!!

wenzel

• MDN
  • Made MDN localizable, it's in Verbatim now
• Input
  • version 1.9 is on track, tying up various odds and ends
  • version 2.0 will support "ideas" straight out of non-beta Firefox 4
• SSO
  • Getting the Secret Squirrel app straight to support SSO for MDN.
  • Patching Django on behalf of mcoates, for example. And blogging about it.

wil

• AMO 5.12.1 is code frozen (lots o' new features, not many bug fixes)
• AMO 5.12.2 will also be lots of new features
• In mountain view. General merriment at the festivities
• Still filing bugs for AMO Q4 and FlightDeck stuff
• Is taking classes to learn how to do the thriller dance. Public performance on the 24th.