Identity/WeeklyMeeting/2012-11-26

Last Week's Actions

• [COMPLETE] [PF, DM] Bring Christopher Arnold in and clarify our plan with Partners moving forward
• [SLIP] everyone/LH JP interested in dev engagement, talk to Christian
• [SLIP] [MOVE TO SEP 20th] LH to blog about bug bounty - Lloyd, any update on this?
• [ON ICE] DM to work w/ JF, CB, and KV (Karthik) on persona.org plan
• [ON ICE] DM to look into where broader profile fits in.
• [IN PROGRESS] [DC, Shane, FM] FOSDEM '13: Callahad & Francois to draft proposal

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION

• Welcome back! I hope everyone had a fun-filled long weekend!  :)
• [DC] Conference Update - IdentityNorth.ca
• Persona Strategy Update
• "We are all ambassadors"
• Review my blog post! (on client-sessions)
  • https://github.com/mozilla/anodejsholidayseason/blob/master/client-sessions.md

Crew Updates

B2G

• Implementation plan with milestones: https://id.etherpad.mozilla.org/b2g-implementation-plan

Accomplished: Client-side:

• Nightly builds finally include working native Identity (w00t!) but you still have to pref it on
• To pref native identity on (on device): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=811528#c3

Server-side:

• ozten:
  • force issuer pull request submitted https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/pull/2761

Planned for this week: Client-side:

• Jed:
  • Better notification when persona is off-line (gaia doesn't actually notice particularly well)
  • Marionette tests galore
  • Implement onmatch()

Server-side:

• seanmonstar:
  • progress on unverified emails can be watched in this issue: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/2744

BigTent https://etherpad.mozilla.org/bigtent-project-status

• Meeting notes https://etherpad.mozilla.org/bigtent-2012-11-12
  • No progress last week, members worked on other crews

Core

• train-2012.11.09 deployment delayed till monday due to short week, has QA green light
• train-2012.11.21 (to be retroactively) branched from commit cdc6e5b - dev is open
• new tasty automated tests merged
• next week is target for merging primary transition UX stuff for bigtent

Dialup Performance

• Accomplished last week:
  • added prefetching of dialog resources to the communication_iframe
  • works great in Firefox on simulated 2G, but not on dialup
  • prefetching is disabled in Chromium
• Planned for this week:
  • setup kpiggybank and measure the improvements we have so far
  • submit prefetch pull request
  • investigate font delivery middleware

Firefox Accounts

• liuche:
  • will be figuring out what server to provision accounts with
• Brian:
  • started in on the client-side code, and updated the API spec a bit in response to some problems discovered in the process.
  • Planned for this week:

dig deeper into the client-side code and probably spend a day drawing pictures of the different phases.

KPI

Accomplished:

• Met with Jed in person (yay) and walked through some code
• Inspired by that meeting, I spent the short week playing with awsbox and dorking around with express, jade, backbone and socket.io
• Looked a little bit at other Identity metrics

Planned for this week:

• File ticket and start working with Gene on deployment
• Commit config tweak for tests
• Get my head around existing documentation about KPI requirements and set up meeting with skinny

ScalingUp

• a new (complimentary) approach to graceful failure implemented here: https://github.com/lloyd/node-toobusy
• same approach integrated here with target merge early next week: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/2722
• After 2722 is resolved, we turn up the # of processes on our web heads and make HUGE progress on our upper bound capacity (#happyhappyjoyjoy)

Skycrane

• latest dev version of chrome add-on always available from http://dev.tobmog.org (from @zaach)
• initial skinning of website complete, WIP: http://dev.tobmog.org (from @zaach)
• a host of UI improvements implemented and in progress (from @automin)
• an abstraction to simulate infobars in chrome add ons ready for use and integrated: https://github.com/lloyd/simulated_infobars (from (@lloyd)
• team is laser focused on generating a user testable artifact so skinny can get this in front of actual people

Test Automation

• Hit our weekly milestone: Vista/Chrome, our platform of the week, is looking 90%+ stable over recent runs
• Next week's target is stabilizing Vista/IE9 & continuing to work on open bugs
• Hopefully early next week for Sauce contract signoff

Ops

• Staging and production deploy schedule?
• New 36 hour change control notification for production changes

QA

• QA signs off on train-2012.11.09 -- needs respin for L10N and stage deploy for quick check, and then a production push, which gene says can be tomorrow.
• train-2012.11.23 was cut and target deploy is first week of December
• I am behind on getting caught up with b2g, bigtent, etc.

UX

<<<<<< IN MTVIEW Weds-Fri >>>>>>

• Prep for steering committee meeting
• continuing stakeholder interviews
• review Fx Account implementation on Android

PTO/OOO

• [BW] Nov 26th vacation
• [TO] vacation day 26 Nov
• [Fr] Nov 30th: Mozilla Auckland trip
• [ST] Dec 3rd for mini-break
• [Fr] Dec 4 -7: speaking at OSDC.com.au