Webdev:Meetings:2010-09-28

Open Items

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

Roundtable

buchanan

• Responsys
• Customer Care

dd

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

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.

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

ricky

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

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