Webdev:Meetings:2012-03-13

Meeting Info

• Room webdev via Vidyo
• Room 9798 via Teleconferencing
• Mountain View office in room PB&J

Meeting notes

• Note-taker: aricaud
• Take a note about deciding who's taking notes before meeting starts

Civility in the workplace

• morgamic talks about the recent planet mozilla events
  • Book: "The No Asshole Rule"
  • Should we read planet.mozilla.org?
  • It's good to feel what's going on in the community. In the future, there may be other sources for this.
  • If you need to talk about those events, morgamic is there

Webdev contributor stewards

• Not a lot of attendance or answers to emails
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Stewards/Webdev
• Each group should think about how to bring new contributors
• Looking for goals and metrics
  • example: do we want many casual contributors or a few very involved
• "Edit this page" in tabzilla to bring new contributors

Offsite

• We discussed offsite but it has been reported so removing from notes

Goals

• Review of Q1
• Q2 drafts in progress
  • See morgamic email for Q2 Goals draft for details

Open Items

• civility and other cultural things
• Webdev Contributor stewards
• Work week/off-site
• Q1 Goals
• Q2 Goals

Roundtable

adrian

• Socorro
  • Getting rid of SQL in the UI, moving stuff to the middleware;
  • There is still a lot to do with ElasticSearch but it's coming;
  • Reviews.

aricaud

• 2 week trip in the US. Flux work week. Finally visited SF a little bit.
• Brown bag about browser engines, need to write blog post about it.
• My SSD crashed, be smarter than me, do backups!
• Chat with Zeno Crivelli from SublimeVideo.
• Bouncer: Admin to let volunteer admins edit stuff.

craigcook

• One Mozilla WordPress theme done.
• Updating Press Center WP theme, due to go live with the rest of One Mozilla, pending infrasec approval of plugins.
• Ramping up on Bedrock so I can try to help build pages for the moz.org relaunch.
• Working on a quick refresh of air.mozilla, with a more extensive overhaul coming in Q2

Didn't go to PyCon, wouldn't know what to do if I was there. But I skipped SXSW for the first time since 2005, kinda bummed.

jlongster

• Release some web stuff
• Made some other stuff
• Planned to make some Python stuff

kumar

• Fixing Mozilla Marketplace bugs! We launched! So many bugs! Not really that many bugs! It was a success!
• PyCon: absinthe w/ my brother Paul McMillan

lars

• Socorro
  • refusing to work
  • tantrums
  • threats

laura

• Vacation - eventing camp! Rode my (young, silly) horse every day, only fell off once
• Pounding on ES stuff with metrics/IT
• Catching up on OMG email

lcrouch

• mdn 2.4.5 bugs pushing today
  • wiki migration
    • syntax highlighting
    • profile activity feed migrated
    • kumascript!
• mdn 2.5 bugs and backlog
  • wiki migration
    • more kumascript implementation
  • long-standing security bugs
  • bugs

lonnen

Socorro has moved to a weekly release schedule (wednesdays) RelEng Dash is being prototyped, using D3.js for graphs

PyCon moment: Dave Dash is everwhere, knows everyone.

lorchard

• interest in django-badger grows
• BYOB and plugindir need new owners
• working hard to get kumascript presentable for MDNYC
• my favorite moment of PyCon is being sad because I didn't think to go

mkelly

• Flicks backend work
• Finally going back to working on Affiliates for a bit!
• Tons of django-browserid fixes went out last week. You should try it out!

Favorite pycon moment was timw's quote: "Paul Graham said the racism market is ripe for disruption."

peterbe

• Interviewing
• Pushing to have Sheriff Duty and PTO app launched
• Working on a crontab wrapper in Python for Socorro
• Numerous smaller Elmo bugs

ricky

• SUMO!
  • We are serving 90% of searches with Elastic Search now
  • We started doing Continuous Deployment last week (7 pushes last week) \o/

timw

MOZILLIANS:

• New pretty responsive design
• Fleshed out release process.

tofumatt

Mozillians work, improving process, code reviewing, flux work week, interviews, etc.

wenzel

• Flux work week was a great success
  • We worked on a platform game with the catchy name flux-game!
  • we played with LAZORZ
  • we gave lightning talks and will blog them (soon, promised)
• Firefox Flicks launched. The submissions are slowly coming in. My personal favorite so far: Firefox rises.
• Thanks to Owen, we now have a fun little privacy-loving "share this" library for Tw/FB/G+
• By the end of the month, we're migrating the most important pages on mozilla.org off PHP and onto Python/"bedrock".
• ... and many more (Air Mozilla redesign, One Mozilla blogs, Affiliates, etc.) -- poke me/the Flux team if you have any questions.