Webdev:Meetings:2012-03-27

Meeting Info

• Room webdev via Vidyo
• Room 798 via Teleconferencing
• Mountain View office in room Webdev

Meeting notes

• Note-taker: aricaud
• Meeting notes:

Devtools

• The team needs feedback, they want us to complain to make the tools better
  • Try on Nightly before filing bugs
  • File bugs at: Product Firefox; Components all start with "Developer Tools"
  • Or send feedback by email at paul@
  • Bugzilla link
• They will send us some surveys to understand how we work and make decisions

Offsite

• There are a lot of conflicts in April, end of May and June
• It will be during the April 30th - May 4th week
• Watch out for more details
• Maybe, maybe another one in the fall, maybe with WebQA and/or IT

Recruiting

• Front-end person for MDN
• Lots of interview lately

Q1 Goals

• Another review of yellows

Q2 Goals

• etherpad | draft goals
• Take a look at them

Misc

• OSBridge : Talk submission deadline on 2012/03/30 (three days)
  • Submit your talk and you'll get to go to Portland in June.
• Browserquest launched
• On Thursday, massive Bedrock launch
  • Launching most of the important pages of mozilla.org

Open Items

• Guest of Honor: Paul Rouget - webdev feedback needed for dev tools
• Off-site: whenisgood results | discussion
• Recruiting
• Q1 goals: wrap-up open items
• Q2 goals: etherpad | draft goals
• submit a talk to Open Source Bridge and come to Portland in June (deadline 3/30)! http://opensourcebridge.org/call-for-proposals/

Roundtable

adrian

• Socorro
  • Worked on search with ElasticSearch
  • Release managing
  • Reviews / helping others writing middleware services
• I wrote a cool Web game this weekend with a few friends: http://www.superbitboy.com/
  • Will write a blog post on the WebDev blog soon

Green things I like... Grass? Dollars?

andy

• video upload support for the marketplace
• in app payment paypal support into the marketplace
• moar marketplace

arron

• Working on WebBuilder control and extension framework
• Favorite green thing: Green Machine

craigcook

• MDN workweek (workdays, really) and the hack day in NYC were a success.
• New blog theme released on a handful of official blogs (I forget the list at the moment).
• New wordpress-powered press center based on the new blog theme will go live shortly after the big bedrock push.
• We should do a custom child theme for webdev. Noodle that and let's decide what we want.

The Green Goblin

jlongster

Getting ready for a big bedrock push on Thursday. Our main pages will be running on Django!

kumar

• implementing in-app payments
• fighting with celery
• lots of minor AMO / marketplace production bugs

laura

• Just trying to survive the end of Q1, mostly
• Stratergery for solving the million file problem in Elmo
• Pushing on ES, Elmo deployment, PTO, Sheriffs, releng dashboard, etc
• Bunch o' triage
• Planning Q2: etherpad? workday? oh my.
• Is the light at the end of the tunnel green? No? Then how about the Emerald Isle?

lcrouch

• mdn 2.6 bugs pushing today
  • wiki migration
    • kumascript
    • export/import templates
  • login bug
  • profiles bug
• changing workflow for mdn 2012-04-10 bugs and backlog
• fixing scrumbugs bug

My favorite green thing is a continuous integration server's status indicator

lorchard

• Was in NYC for MDNYC
• Still firing loads of lead bullets at Kuma
• Kumascript looks like a thing now
• Favorite green thing:
  • TABASCO brand Green Jalapeno Pepper Sauce
    • 

mkelly

• Maintenance release of Flicks
• Eventually getting around to writing a statistics interface for Affiliates
• Teaching people how to Dougie

Favorite green thing would be Doug's sweater-vest.

morgamic

• recruiting
• reorg stuff
• went to identity work week for 1 day
• gave bret some bourbon and a man hug
• helping organize the ecosystem effort for apps

peterbe

• interviewing, phone and on-site
• wrapping up design bits and pieces for Elmo
  • tidying up CSS for launch of new design + new domain
• launching Sheriff Duty app on https://sheriff-dev.allizom.org and testing with RelEng folks
• set up pto-dev.allizom.org and planning for the new PTO app launch
  • announcement postponed by till 2nd April
  • actual live launched not yet planned
• sprinting with lars on hard inner workings of Socorro

• the woods!

pmac

• Completed implementing the new skin for betafarm.
• Blogged about Scrumbu.gs.

Green thing: a well made mint julep.

ricky

• PTO

robhudson

• Continued work on default-to-compatible... on the final stretch.
• Finished a permissions review on AMO.
• Enjoyed a couple fun snowed in days in Eugene (http://cl.ly/2f2j2E240V3q0108011a).

Favorite green thing: Beer (although it's quite rare and can only be found once a year)

seanmonstar

• flightdeck extra package.json properties editor
• Shipyard ForeignKeys
• ecosystem skeleton

ubernostrum

• NYC devengage event
• I don't want to travel anymore

Green things... I LIKE TURTLES!

wenzel

• Interviewed a bunch of people, e.g., for Community Platforms, QA.
• Helping getting bedrock migration out the door (mozilla.org on Django? woo hoo!)
• Working on a landing page for open web apps developers

willkg

• interviewed
• worked on elastciutils: documentation, pulling in changes, figuring out the state of elasticutils with other projects
• worked on nixing db hits for sumo search with elasticsearch

Favorite green thing: string of green lights on jenkins