Webdev:Meetings:2013-03-26

Meeting Info

• Room webdev via Vidyo
• Room 9 798 via Teleconferencing
• Mountain View office in room 3A - All Your Base

Meeting notes

• Note-taker: mkelly
• Meeting notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webdev-2013-03-26

Open Items

• Q1 wrapping up, think about Q2 goals
• Time for peer feedback!
  • What is effective feedback
  • Why the *))(&!@# do we do this all the time?
  • How should I interpret feedback?
• LEAD summary - where morgamic was last week
  • Hero's journey, or the importance of faith and allies
  • some commentary on how 80s action films totally butcher this formula but somehow still work
• Maybe some Kanban stuff from Luke

Roundtable

adrian

• Socorro
  • Automatic emails are being sent to Firefox user that crash
  • elasticsearch is coming, currently testing on stage
  • Preparing a new search UI that will be super!
• Participated and helped organize another Game Dev Party in Lyon this weekend, I'll share more about the game we made soon (protip: game jams are awesome! )

Favourite science thing:

andy

• payments for marketplace
• api for marketplace
• trying not to hate on tastypie
• writing stupid little packaged apps for the marketplace on car journeys

peterbe

• Built the prototype for Mozilla office sign-in sheet
  • to be run on tablets as a web app
  • code name Peekaboo https://github.com/mozilla/peekaboo
  • almost ready
• Added a new event suggestion wizard for logged in users of Air Mozilla
  • so you don't need file a bug to suggest an event
  • landed but not launched yet as we're tuning the tooltips
• Managed to get Pootle 2.5 (master actually) running in parallel on the Verbatim production server
  • awaits Milos to set up dev SVN and GIT repos
  • awaits some more testing
  • done using similar vendor tricks as playdoh https://github.com/peterbe/verbatim/tree/development
• landed quick re-tries for crontabber
  • so failing jobs are re-tried every 5 minutes until they work again