Webdev:Meetings:2010-10-12

Open Items

• Hi Kumar
• Hi Tim Cullen (MoFo contractor)
• Nick
• Bonus

Roundtable

buchanan

• Firefox Mobile 4.0b1 launch
• Responsys migration
• Redesign progress, JPGs
• What do you want your URL to look like? Discuss
• Stick man dance

chowse

• AMO DevTools
• SUMO KB
• Graph Server
• Add-on Recommendations
• Demo Site planning
• Fighter of the Night Man!

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

erik

• SUMO's DB access is now in one transaction per request (on trunk). Yay, atomic writes.
• Learned MySQL doesn't even try to replicate LIMITed write queries correctly, so don't try.
• Lots of fleshing out of requirements: wiki polls, localization dashboard
• Baby's first contribution to the HTML 5 spec: hidden form inputs are now un<label>able.
• Coding: wiki redirect UI; document metadata editing, renaming, & slug-changing. Made {for} parser handle implicitly self-closing tags.
• Filed an html5lib bug about the lxml-based parseFragment not operating to spec.
• Documented the heck out of the new {for} wiki tag
• Reviewed email notiications, video tags
• Started using <detail> and <summary> tags on SUMO. There's a nice jQuery fallback, since no browser on earth supports them yet.
• Improved bleach.linkify() so it doesn't pull invalid-in-URLs chars into URLs: makes scanning things like {hey}www.zombo.com/things{hey} work.
• Ummm...dogburger?

gkoberger

• I finally (almost) finished the edit page, and committed it to jbalogh
• It broke Hudson horribly
• I spent the rest of the time fixing it
• Not sure about favorite costume

jbalogh

• devhub
• Ninja Turtle costumes had sweet weapons, particularly Michelangelo's nunchucks

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
• Luigi

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

kumar

• monkeying together my new machine to get a zamboni dev setup
• punishing my local mysql daemon with a 2G database dump
• starting on some simple bugs in AMO (css changes, layout changes, etc)
• once when I was younger my Dad was a wall for Halloween. It works best if you use your imagination but I'll just say that he was an elaborately painted and constructed brick wall.
• I'll pick up some more bugs once I get some of these finished.

ianbicking

• I've been out due to a death in the family
• I made myself a duct tape suit when I was a kid, before duct tape became so hip. I thought it was pretty cool, even if it smelled a lot. But modern duct tape clothing craftsmanship has reached levels I could not have imagined then, which takes away some of the sense of pride.

lars

• quietly backporting 1.8 features to 1.7.x
• hbase stability issues are depressing
• 1981 - digital death hooded cloak
  • 300 LEDs sewn into fabric
  • many 74 hundred series TTL ICs
  • six 555 clocks
  • three minute sequence of sweeps, vortexes and explosions
  • http://picasaweb.google.com/twobraids/1981Costume#

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
• I've never worn a Halloween costume; not really big in Australia. Open to suggestions for the baby this year though :)

lorchard

• BYOB updates from Q3 pushed live
  • Localizable bookmarks, switched to gearmand from cruddy PHP job queue, among other things
• bug 592431 - Starting to poke at writing a snippet service for about:home
  • http://github.com/lmorchard/home-snippets-server
• bug 584148 - some progress on Badger - tags, ratings, claim codes, cute logo
  • http://badger.decafbad.com/ and http://badger.stage.mozilla.com/

• Fave Halloween costume:
  • Transformable costumes
    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_bvbMIodrs
    • http://www.engadget.com/2005/11/25/fully-transformable-robot-costumes/

malexis

• Firefox site redesign
• air mozilla redesign
• red panda site!
• web dev radar housekeeping
• Q4 projects analysis
• demos site
• coordinating email integration
• fave costume: in college, Flavor Flav

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

One of my favorite costumes was Smokey Bear.

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.

paulosman

• Building support for Events (Django RSVP style app) in Batucada (Drumbeat)
• Working with designer on UI / site architecture for Batucada
• Experimenting with Webfinger logins.
• Membership / engagement program planning.
• Onboarding new contractor (Tim Cullen).

Favourite Halloween costume: A few years ago I went to a party dressed as Sandy Cohen from the OC (Peter Gallagher) which just meant taping on really big eyebrows.

potch

• AMO
  • Built performance UI for addons
  • Other exciting devhub UI stuff too
  • Thinking more about spriting and image perf
• Doozer
  • >500 users!
  • pushing new content this week
• Errata
  • Thinking about/ prototyping a bunch of jquery plugins for native drag/drop, css transforms, canvas, etc. (working name 'fivequery')
  • The Spritificator!
  • Wouldn't it be cool to turn Doozer into a general microsite platform? With SSO and stuff? I think so.

• No Question

rhelmer

• AUS and Socorro on Hudson
• notifying some broken windows nightly users that they are horked and need to reinstall
• started implementing new graphserver design with chowse and ianbicking
• got socorro 1.7 dev environment going, working on 1.8 to test HBase upgrade
• BONUS - Halloween costume

ricky

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

rsnyder

• Socorro 1.7.5, collecting and exposing crash data and filters
• Input 1.9
• air.mozilla.com on hold
• website archive project starting up again late this week / early next

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.
• Alex Faaborg's Intertubes costume was pretty awesome.

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.