Webdev:Meetings:2011-11-08

Meeting Info

In the Mountain View office in room PB&J

Or for remotees:

• PB&J via Vidyo
• or room 95346 via Teleconferencing

Open Items

• BrowserID (Ben)
• Security? (mcoates)
• People update? (Lynee)
• IT? (cshields)
• Team updates
  • AMO - In wine country, sitting by the fire
  • SUMO - James
  • MDN - Luke
  • Flux - tofumatt (rapid dev), jlongster (moz.org)
  • Webtools - Laura? (or Rob or Peter)
  • UX - Crystal
  • Web Prod - Chris
  • Video - morgamic
• Other topics?

Roundtable

adrian

• Socorro:
  • New middleware organization is almost ready
  • Writing documentation
  • Reviews
• Halloween:
  • Nope.

ckoehler

• firefox live is launching tomorrow! [1]
• at Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computer this week [2]
• in Mt View next week

cmore

• Moz PM survey launched! Next steps in the works. 130+ surveys completed thus far.
• Affiliates moving to a rapid release model, but still working out the bumps.
• FF Flicks just getting started.
• Halloween: Do the chickens have large talons?

dd

• contributors
• looking at BrowserID for Mozillians
• Data migration for Mozillians
• Playdoh bikeshedding

erik

• Ported various SUMO bits to oedipus, our new Sphinx search API. Did huge review of Will's search view rewrite. Planned and schemed for our transition to ElasticSearch.
• Submitted a couple PyCon proposals and did some back and forth with organizers.
• Released a major new version of nose-progressive, my humane test runner. Totally redid traceback display, added intelligence that omits useless frames, and made every frame an editor shortcut.
• Released a new terminal library: Blessings, for when curses isn't cutting it. nose-progressive uses it to do all its fancy stuff.
• Patches to our MediaWiki parser and nose-progressive are starting to roll in. Took some merges.
• Attended Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit, where I ran a well-attended Crazy Language Hacks session.
• Interviews galore

If you haven't watched Ian's JavaScript for people who know Python, do.

jgrlicky

• Apps: Been working on fleshing out the app store concept.
• Office Hours: Helped out Peter with some Elmo design advice.
• Office Hours: Minor CSS changes for Wil.
• People have been looking for this Hipster Waldo guy for a long time. You probably haven't heard of him yet.

jlongster

• Released Firefox 8 on mozilla.org today
• Got download buttons working on bedrock, the new mozilla.org Python platform
• Built out a few pages in bedrock
• Releasing the mozilla.org email pref center tomorrow

jsocol

• Mad code reviews.
• Some patches.
• Spinning up on SUMO ElasticSearch work.
• Recovering some dataz with IT.
• DoMoCoTO planning.
• Me as The Best Man. I may have rooted around in RySny's best stories for material for "embarrassing" toasts.

lars

• Socorro
  • code reviews
  • minor enhancements
• Configman
  • writing demos
• Other
  • Beaver Bar Camp
• Photos from Halloween
  • https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/NG7ekIwLADhudp-0E9BTGpCZE4H_cktDUccvUspBCWk?feat=directlink
  • scary, eh?

laura

• Socorro 2.3.2 yesterday, less easy than usual but tons of features bugs
• Blog post in progress
• Trying to get set up with master-ball
• Planning informal work week in MV first week of December (5-9) - yes, I know this is the same as mdn/sumo->TO
• Halloween

lcrouch

• mdn 1.5 pushing today
• mdn 1.6 backlog
  • Apps launch
  • merge django auth branch to mdn main
  • bugs
• no pics :(

lorchard

• MDN 1.5 & 1.6
• Halloween
  • I shaved for this:
  • 

mkelly

• Affiliates is now pushing once a week! Still working out kinks in the process, though.
• Blank snippet went live, Video snippet is on the way.
• Script to turn YAML files into wiki pages: https://github.com/Osmose/scripts/tree/master/yaml2wiki

Photos

morgamic

• intern recruiting
• making pretty pictures
• 2012 planning
• I was supposedly the scary guy in black swan. Pretty weak, though.

ozten

• Implemented BrowserID for Affiliates, currently in review
• Integrated UX work into Mozillians BrowserID, currently in review
• sasl-browserid platform team security review
• Started Etherpad BrowserID integration
• Working on RePo (registerProtocolHandler + postMessage) adoption

Celebrity Seance photos

peterbe

• Moved to MV
• Coding Elmo
  • implemented django_compressor
  • consensus made on the new Team home page
• finished the Elmo London Sprint with much success
• been working with lars on configman
• Getting involved in verbatim/pootle
  • got live code running locally (almost)
  • talking to Kadir about adding more minor Mozilla changes
• landed change to playdoh to use "settings" as a directory instead.
• working on playdoh issue to refactor monkeypatches https://github.com/mozilla/playdoh/issues/82

rhelmer

• filed bug/started newsgroup thread about making perfomatic 2.0 http://graphs-new.mozilla.org the default graphserver: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_thread/thread/eb316114929209a8
  • also more general thread about what people would like to see in graphserver http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_thread/thread/72c1ab1d90805080

• lots o' socorro bugs

• made socorro AMI using puppet manifests built for vagrant, inspired by/based on lorchard's bootstrap script https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.tools.socorro/0jZQCk34Q88

ricky

• SUMO
  • KB "Article Needs Change" flag and dashboard
  • Question filtering UI
  • Lots of UX bugs

seanmonstar

• Shipyard
• JS unit tests for FlightDeck

skinny

SUMO UX updates

• user survey for "not helpful" votes
• search log analysis template
• right sidebar design cleanup

Mozillians

• user testing of vouching
• finalizing flows for BID

Affiliates

• ux audit of site

Looking ahead to 2012 project list

tofumatt

• Mozillians 1.1 launched. It has groups.
• Some more playdoh hacking. Gonna take puppet stuff from there and put it into funfactory.

It's been awhile since I last dressed up.

I'm 100% sure I'm moving to Montreal by the summer, so that's exciting!

wenzel

• shepherding Flux projects:
  • people tools improvements
  • careers site
  • bedrock
  • Affiliates, Mozillians, Input.
• Some 2012 planning

No Halloween pictures, but this was the first time trick or treaters showed up where I lived! (Apparently, houses occupied by students are too scary)