Webdev:Meetings:2010-11/16

Open Table

• Goals
  • Deployment and IT
    • deployment to staging is still an issue; need better documentation
    • SUMO deployments go well with oremj; don't go well without oremj
    • push-button releases, script it
• Org changes

Project Updates

• Add-ons
• Support
• Socorro
• Input
• MDN
• Engagement

(YOU create this, so add more if you want to)

Random Nuggets

• Don't forget to buy your travel if you haven't already!

andy

• AMO devhub changes and fixes.

• Flightdeck, couple of minor fixes.

• St Davids, Britain's smallest city - good surfing.

buchanan

• Mobile mozilla.com
• Email migration
• Firefox 4 Beta 7

chowse

• Mockups for Add-on Validator
• Polish work for AMO DevTools, Discovery Pane, and SUMO KB
• Improvements to Graph Server
• Groundwork for Input 3.0
• Brainstorming for new AMO Front Page

dd

• Input
  • Faceted Search - http://bit.ly/abcaWN
  • Highcharts powered by Sphinx
• AMO
  • Activity tracker with flexible schema
• Lots of interviews
• Chicago, but I don't like winter so temperate San José is quite nice.

erik

• SUMO stuff
  • Localization and Contributor Dashboards (WebTrends integration to come)
  • Factored tagging out into its own app. If you need a nice (esp. closed, large vocab) tagging widget (like used at http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/764942, if you have privs to see it in its editable state), it's worth a look now and will be worth using within a few weeks.
  • Lots of little bugs
  • Tons of reviews
• Interviews: Glen, Luke, Sean, James. Helped Dave and Jeff vet their interview questions.
• Filed and patched a Django bug about the ignoring of the name attr on fields. When fixed, this will let us use descriptors to provide getters and setters in more cases.
• Boxed MySQL soundly about the face and neck for not supporting functional defaults on datetime columns. (There's nothing you can do short of using triggers or resorting to a timestamp column, which has its own issues.)
• Reported a really fun can't-make-a-new-window Firefox bug.
• Solla Solew. “It is an Odyssey-tale told by a young narrator who experiences troubles in his life—mostly aggressive small animals which bite and sting.” somehow fails to capture the essence of the thing.

jbalogh

• 3 million more zamboni hits per day with /downloads, averaging 10-20 ms response.
• Brought back caching by id (sharing object instances in the cache) and the discovery pane got half a second faster
• Add-ons can be uploaded to zamboni with the new dev tools
• Portland is a nice place.

jgrlicky

• Graphics work for Fx4b7 pages
• Fx4 Beta screenshots
• Fx4 Demo site coordination & work week
• Mobile mozilla.com mockups & research
• New York City, from what I've seen of it

jsocol

• SUMO had a Test Day for our new KB (2.3) on Friday. It went well, thanks to everyone who helped!
• 2.3 is feature complete as of Armistice Day (11/11).
• Code completion in T-7 days.
• Favorite city: New York (close second/not where I live: Paris)

kumar

• AMO
  • Developer pages
    • Big one is the Add-on validator screen
    • small changes here and there, bug fixes
  • Started some ideas for adding a JavaScript test suite to AMO. Feel free to add yours.
• I like Chicago. The winters are brutal but that's when everyone stays in and gets a ton of work done. Chicagoans emerge from winter with a lot of accomplishments. Also, it's the smallest big city in the world. You can easily get to know a lot of people really well in a small circle (this is both good and bad).

lars

• Socorro! Socorro! Socorro!
  • rewriting collector, coding around the hbase menace.
  • backporting 1.8 features into the 1.7 line
  • reworking unit tests in 1.7 to actually pass
  • favorite city: Missoula, MT
    • I just want to say that I work for Mozilla and live in Missoula.

laura

• Several minor Socorro releases shipped (1.7.5, 1.7.5.1, 1.7.5.2)
• 1.8 abandoned as a version number, but most non-architectural changes from it will ship as 1.7.6 after Thanksgiving
• Planning and re-planning PHX move (re-planning due to hardware delays) - expected switchover date currently January 8
• HBase stability greatly improved by restarting every two days
• Running out of space on prod HBase
  • Adding stuff to SJC data center HBase cluster
  • Replication factor lowered
• rhelmer and jabba have been doing great work on automated builds and deployment
• 35 minute problem - ask me if you need a challenge
  • Mitigated by blocking grad student crawlers, but underlying problem still exists
• Anyone who would like to write some tests for Socorro backend: come see me after
• Also: job interviews!

lorchard

• Small bits of email migration stuffs
• Helping out with some customizations on a fork of BYOB
• webtrek: long weekend hacking on node.js + websockets + canvas
  • Demo: http://webtrek.decafbad.com:3000/
  • Source: http://github.com/lmorchard/webtrek
  • Needs a lot of work
    • No collision detection or actual game yet
    • You can fly around with arrow keys and shoot with space bar.
    • There is (crappy) networking
    • Be sure to try the fancy space backdrop.
• Favorite city
  • Pretty fond of Toronto, ON, CA; Ann Arbor, MI, US; and San Francisco, CA, US.
    • But, Toronto is pushed over the top by the availability of poutine and real-sugar ketchup

malexis

• red panda site 11/30
• college recruiting site
• mobile add-ons cup site 11/22
• air mozilla reskin December
• jira research
• redesign 12/08
• finding agency for Join Us campaign
• a little help coordinating demos, email, army of awesome, mobile friendly moz.com
• favorite city: San Francisco, natch.

ozten

• MDN shipped 0.9.1
• MDN shipping 0.9.2 today
• SSO for MDN
• Fx4demo site planning/coordinating
• Blog post

Favorite city - Lake Tahoe is pretty awesome

paulc

• Video uploads, still using iframe, plan on switching to gkoberger's xhr approach someday, post-2.3
• Thumbnail generation for ogv and flv files
• Other media gallery things - deleting image/video, edit description.
• More data migration stuff, mostly done.
• Really excited about 2.3!!
• Favorite city: Sibiu (it's in Transylvania :)

potch

• Been working on l10n stuff, crazy yet fancy
• Playing with a canvas game engine concept
• Thanks to kumar for fleshing out the js testing stuff
• in PA for a wedding/thanksgiving
• devhub what

• tossup between Dinkelsbuhl, Germany and Leysin, Switzerland (more towns than cities, but meh)

ricky

• SUMO 2.3
  • Fixing lots of bugs
  • Polishing UI

• Favorite city: NYC

rsnyder

• Buttoned up and pushed Socorro 1.7.5
• Will begin backporting a good portion of the code written for Socorro 1.8 into trunk
• Implementing an Idea box for Input, to be released in 2.1
• Finishing the archival of mozillaservice.org this week

• Favorite City: Praha / Prague