Webdev:Meetings:2010-09-28

Open Items

• Q3 wrap-up
• Q4 -- what's in store
• The Big Idea
• Welcome Jason!

• I'm reading the Socorro 1.8 notes, and under Discussion Points there's a note about viewing logs and configuration management. I've heard this a lot, so why doesn't this get resolved? I.e., why doesn't the Socorro dev team have access to view everything on those machines? (Same issues apply to most other teams, I think?) -- Ian

Roundtable

buchanan

• Responsys
• Customer Care
• Endar's Game

chowse

• Annotated mocks for AMO DevTools
• Hi-fid mocks for SUMO KB
• Last minute mocks for Graph Server
• The Stars My Destination

dd

• Addons Write API
• Non-clobbering sphinx search testing
• Working with Aakash on Input
• DUNE

jbalogh

• uploading files + validation + lots of logging = maybe less upload bugs
• redis has been running on amo for almost a week
  • and is not dead yet
• tried out asynchronous django signals on a background thread
  • wrapping Signal.send in try/except is safer and easier
• breaking hudson just about every time I commit
• making my performace graphs suck a little less
• jamming with perl and unix pipes every now and then

gl --since='2 weeks ago' --author=jbalogh --stat | grep 'files changed' | perl -ne 'BEGIN {$ins=0; $del=0; } if(/, (\d+).*, (\d+)/) { $ins+=$1; $del+=$2 } END { print "+", $ins, ", -", $del,"\n" }'
+658, -907

• No, I do not know how to write perl.
• I like Ubik and the short stories from Philip K Dick; DickReader anyone?

jsocol

• Updated the SUMO 2.3 timeline.
• Lots of SUMO 2.3 reviews.
• Helped figure Customer Care stuff out with Alex and Fred.
• Fixed our staging servers.
• Set up another one.
• Ender's Game, though it's a tough choice.

ianbicking

• Graph Server backend work
• Finishing up Zamboni stats data migration. MySQLdb is kind of crappy. Or something is, but I've decided to blame MySQLdb because it's not here to defend itself.
• In the aftermath of the burst of releases, fixing packaging problems
• Tweaking doctestjs in response to some feedback* Favorite: Dune. Like Laura I've also been enjoying The Hunger Games, though it's giving me weird dreams.

lars

• the onsite Socorro nightmare
• motorcycling vacation
  • avoided Socorro, New Mexico
  • avoided more localized Socorro nightmares
• I can't decide:
  • "Socorro Saucer, The closest encounter of them all", by Ray Stanford
  • "The Socorro Blast", by Pari Noskin Taichert

laura

• Firefighting:
  • After last webdev meeting, rest of week was consumed with 1.8 release/disaster/rollback/postmortem
  • Last week began with a day off and then grand plans to make things better
  • and ended with further disasters (consuming Thursday and Friday) due to a hole in an HBase table, which we coded around with duct tape and then later fixed thanks to Cloudera Support and help from our friends at StumbleUpon.
  • This week began with a new disaster, which took an entire day of work for the team, Cloudera, and associated contributors, revealed to be due to a failed hard drive on cm-hadoop06. Yes, Hadoop is meant to be redundant if it loses a node. As long as it's not the wrong node. And no, monitoring did not alert us to the drive going bad.

• Science fiction:
  • Classic: Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, or Friday by Heinlein
  • Just read, and now on the list of awesome, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  • Did you know it's Banned Books Week? Read something off the list.

lorchard

• Slogging through Mobile Beta pages (bug 596853, up to 114 comments for just 2 pages!)
• Poking at CSP on blog.mozilla.com (bug 581985)
• Last minute BYOB tweaks for post-Q3 launch
• Fave sci-fi novel, hard to say:
  • Hyperion, by Dan Simmons - it's an epic weird far-future novel with time travel paradoxes told in the style of Canterbury Tales. And it's just the start to a series of further epic books.
  • Anything by Vernor Vinge.

malexis

• firefox site redesign
• firefox demos schedule and planning
• wrapping up Q3
• planning for Q4--gathering goals for web dev radar
• firefox beta panda site
• researching Jira
• project init upgrades
• streamlining process for site copy/content
• Slaughterhouse-Five and Kurt Vonnegut in general

morgamic

• Goals meetings - about 8 hours of meetings last week
• Hiring
• Tying of loose ends
• Nightfall, by Asimov

ozten

• Socorro - PostCrashEmail
• Flash Vulnerability, PFS update

Recent Favorite Rainbow's End or Daemon

paulc

• migrating Tiki articles, branchiness FTL
• blog post to come about migrating legacy data (might not make it this week though)
• helped out Alex with customer care and spreadfirefox affiliates
• excited about doing video uploads soon and planning for a new quarter

One of my favorite novels is 1984 by George Orwell, but there's a lot of good ones.

potch

• The wonder of stats!
  • Web Workers
  • <canvas>
  • pushState/popState
  • localStorage
  • CSS3 transitions
• Did some experimenting with speed of Web Workers (after some prodding by jbalogh), definitely worth a blog post.
  • Built a WorkerPool for easy queueing and dispatch of worker jobs
• v1 of my JS particle engine!
  • http://people.mozilla.com/~mclaypotch/jsparticle/particletest.html
• I, Robot (I love the thorough and exhaustive exploration of a single topic)

ricky

• SUMO Knowledgebase
  • Completed localization workflow
  • Working on email notifications
• Some Doozer work

rsnyder

• Socorro on-site; 1.8 rollout and rollback to 1.7
  • Waiting for the hBase smoke to clear before beginning 1.7.4 work
• Input 1.8 ready for release tonight
• Joined website taskforce
  • Helping define process to retire old/unused websites
  • Creating an archive of retired sites, much like the Wayback Machine
• Starting air.mozilla.com upgrade next week

• Favorite science-fiction novel: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

wenzel

• Out today coordinating movers for my apartment.
• Did some Customer Care work (Buchanan++ for doing the lion's share!)
• In general, spending most my time coordinating my Bay Area move
• Favorite Sci-Fi novel would be 1984. If it qualifies.

wil

• Planning AMO, FlightDeck
• meetings, bugs
• It's been a while, but I liked 1984