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Weekly updates from Mozilla IT on things we're doing to support and empower all of Mozilla in our mission keep the web a global public resource, open and accessible to all. An Internet that truly puts people first, where individuals can shape their own experience and are empowered, safe and independent. | Weekly updates from Mozilla IT on things we're doing to support and empower all of Mozilla in our mission keep the web a global public resource, open and accessible to all. An Internet that truly puts people first, where individuals can shape their own experience and are empowered, safe and independent. | ||
==2019-10-22== | |||
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It’s time for the weekly minute update where we tell you all the things IT is doing to empower Mozillians in their mission to keep the web a global resource open and accessible to all. | |||
Our first update today comes from Core Systems. Do you have slow C/Rust builds that make your life sad? Want to help your fellow devs go faster? Maybe you remember when we had icecc in the offices also referred to as Ice cream. Well the engineering workflow team and IT have worked to provide an SCCache distributed setup in every office. All we need is volunteers to let us use their CPUs to create distributed builds. The intent is to replace the user supported ice with the IT supported SCCache setup. Unlike ice we have SCCache schedulers in every office. | |||
If you’re interested in helping checkout login.mozilla.org - the SCCache subsection has links on setting up the builder and getting registrant information. If you’d like to use sccache for your builds take a look at the link here. https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/build/buildsystem/sccache-dist.html Questions go to #sccache on slack. | |||
Next from the IT data and analytics team. Many mozillians will be happy to know that our team continues to build an API integration platform allowing you to focus on the data you care about. We’ve completed the integration for Skyline which gives a comprehensive view of Google Cloud, SalesForce, and Lifecycle marketing. | |||
Finally for Audio Video collaborations the team is gaining some insight into our web streaming platform “AirMozilla”. Here are is some information on usage for 2019. | |||
Through the month of September the team has supported 429 global airmozilla events that have been view 27,000 times and totaled 827,000 minutes of streaming video. | |||
That’s an average of 40 events, 3,000 vies and 91,000 minutes per month though 2019. The team has implemented a few solutions along the way to improve the experience such as upgrading hardware and software globally to stabilize the steam along with provide recommendations on browser configuration best practices. The addition of Zoom and multiple platform releases have lead to the steady decline of user reported issues and overall improved experience. | |||
Next week a short survey will go out to the company to help us reevaluate AirMozilla for 2019. More exciting news over the next few weeks on upcoming improvements. | |||
And it’s still me. Now making an announcement on behalf of IT and Open Innovation. You may be aware that over the last few years the Identity and Access Management team worked to launch a people directory for contributors and staff that really reflects our unique Mozilla Culture. | |||
That directory became generally available this year. As a result all Staff Mozillians gave us great feedback on what we could be doing better. Today we’re proud to release a brand new version of DinoPark. | |||
So what’s new? | |||
First! Let’s talk about profile pictures. I know I like to maintain a consistent avatar across Mozilla web properties. We’ve launched a new picture API, generally available today so all Mozilla web properties can safely pull in staff and community photos. | |||
Next is LDAP and Mozillians access groups. If you ever asked yourself the question, “Am I in that group?” Now you can answer it by just looking at your own people.mozilla.org profiles. For now access groups here are read only but joining and leaving groups is a milestone still coming soon to a directory near you. | |||
In other news Timezone has now been updated based on profile location time with auto-calculated time zone difference. This should help you in scheduling all those global meetings with colleagues. | |||
You also asked that we reflect our strong ties to Bugzilla and Github by making handles available and searchable in the platform. Now mozillians can link verified identities for both platforms and elect to make their handles searchable making it far easier to find all the versions of contributors and colleagues across these properties. | |||
Speaking of colleagues the profile now shows a complete peers section not just your reporting structure because there’s more than managers in a team. | |||
Finally Zoom links that allow you to join a colleagues personal meeting room are now available as well which should save you a lot of time moving between the directory and meetings. | |||
Don’t worry we’ve maintained the same security and privacy tenants that launched in the very first version of people.mozilla.org. All data visibility is staff configurable and we’ve also launched a feature that allows you to view your profile as other users to see what their experience is like. | |||
With that you may be wondering what’s next. The big announcement is that NDA contributors are coming to the directory soon which is a major milestone in unifying our staff and contributor experience. We’ll open it up first to best-testing toward the end of October onboarding 20 trusted contributors. Provided that goes well an additional 400 NDA volunteers will join by the end of November. | |||
Now the important part. Every profile owner has complete control of their profile. Now is a great time to check those profile visibility defaults and ensure that you aren’t sharing anything with NDA contributors you wouldn’t want to. | |||
A complete FAQ is available at the link below. | |||
If you have any questions at all about the launch please reach out in #iam on Slack or leave us a comment here on discourse. | |||
==2019-10-14== | ==2019-10-14== | ||