Webdev:Meetings:2009-05-05

Roundtable

• morgamic
  • all-hands
  • careers page
  • intern prep
  • AMO staffing
• wenzel
  • all-hands, obviously
  • went through a bunch of iterations for the new Firefox Geolocation info page
  • working on evaluating the Narro and Pootle projects for Verbatim
  • working on remaining Bandwagon implementation bugs
  • Best all-hands quote was Brendan Eich's "you know, it's hard to work with people!", followed by a close second, Matt Mullenweg: "I wish there was a way to display video without Flash on the Internet".
• clouserw
  • clearleft designs should be done this week
  • still plenty of 5.0.6 bugs that aren't blocked by clearleft
  • Reviewing new specs
  • checking out jshydra for JS static analysis
  • met with contractors last week, this week
  • fiddled around with test dashboard which got a lot of attention for what it is
  • made a rhubarb+mango pie last night
• ozten
  • Renamed CTAW to Mozilla Service Week, Mitmach Wochen - favorite moment
  • got domain, svn, etc
  • pushing hard on staging server, copy, designs
  • fixed launch date, tight schedule
• Lars
  • all hands
    • new ideas with Metrics for squeezing information from dump archive
    • spoke with JustDave about Socorro / Bugzilla integration
    • the only moment that brought tears of joy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnxylAJ0M9Q
    • Northern California Coast
  • Entered 50th year of existence
  • Socorro
    • migration tests are now passing
    • request for staging made today
    • final migration of most recent 2 weeks will happen over next 48 hours
    • hope to push to production on Thursday
• laura
  • allhands omg: great to see team.
  • SUMO
    • work commences on building data warehouse for metrics dashboard
    • kampyle website perf survey with IT
    • various screencast related drama
  • Priorart now waiting for action from legal
  • Webdev visibility
  • What are we doing about hacks.mozilla.org?
• jbalogh
  • snuck in the dev agreement before the freeze
  • played with php quick profiler; verdict: pretty
  • merged bandwagon into trunk
  • burst onto the webdev blog scene
  • All-hands quote: "we're not google, we don't have web developers"
• lorchard
  • all-hands
  • pitching in to help ozten a bit with LizardFeeder customization on MoService
  • plotting about intern
  • AMO bugs
  • fave all-hands OH:
    • "Oakland isn't that bad, right?"
    • "I said I'm from *Auckland*. New Zealand. Oakland scares the hell out of me."
• abuchanan
  • last week
    • SFx launch
    • talked with Metrics about SFx, Affiliates, and FF download count
  • this week
    • SFx 3.0 cleanup (spam, slow queries, affiliate buttons)
    • SFx 3.1 planning/triage
    • Fastest Fox upload tool
    • Community Store reviews
    • 1 AMO bug
  • rel=nofollow thoughts? bug

• neilio
  • all handin'
  • worked on a few iterations of the AMO search redesign: check 'em, please give me feedback
  • spent a bunch of time researching and working on tag interfaces for AMO
  • did a fast usability audit of the bandwagon extension (more coming)
  • spent some time thinking about content submission systems
  • enjoyed the heck out of putting faces to IRC nicks at the all hands (and having almost every person I spoke with say, "oh, you do web design stuff? I have work for you...")
  • Oh, and ozten's spiffy hat

• mccammos
  • Started 05-04 - hi everybody!
  • Working on AMO editor queue filters

Agenda

• Visibility for webdev -- how do we improve our presence internally and externally?
  • Portfolio page
  • Blog schedule
  • webcandy
  • Conference talks
  • release reusable libraries
• Feedback on all-hands?
  • What went well?
  • What could be better next time?
  • What could we have done differently as a group?
• Board slides/discussion feedback?