Identity/WeeklyMeeting/2013-01-28

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION

• Weekly notetaker : have you signed up?
  • See: https://id.etherpad.mozilla.org/weekly-notetakers
• New Engineering Leadership update from Ben
• Confirm team breakdown & update list below
  • briefly discuss team status workflow for this meeting
  • [signin] wed prioritization meeting - come if you care! 2013.1.30
• Conference / Speaking Engagements - anything new that should be added to our schedule?
• Dev/Ops update from Jared & Gene

Meeting Notes

• Engineering update
  • reorg = Brendan CTO; our reporting structure does not change
  • Jonath (Firefox desktop), Andreas (mobile), Bob Moss (svs, eng ops) newly annointed VP reporting to BE
  • NB, Brendan, in a CNet interview, mentions Persona as one important way moz is "moving up the stack" (good sign :))
  • this doesn't change a whole lot for us
  • our motto for 2013: be explicit about differences of opinion we might have re client-side services and engineering
  • our other motto is One Engineer: One Focus - ergo, we should stop talking about crews

in lieu of crews, we have these three areas across which to distribute our efforts:

• 3 major efforts for 2013:
  • Sign Into Web (Persona)
  • My Firefox (Next Generation Sync)
  • Native Persona SDKs (iOS, Android, etc.)

• Don't have enough people for all 3. Focusing on 1 & 2 at the moment.

• Sharing info with each other:
  • Monday meeting: raise points that all of us need to know, incl. strategic questions, things that impact the whole team
  • Save specific notes about area focus with smaller groups
  • Lloyd notes, regarding native persona (b2g, ios, etc), there's a lot of community - what's the minimum we need to do to keep people engaged and collaborating?
  • Ben has idea - takes as action item

Team Status

B2G

• winding down for now
• helping marketplace debug payment flows as necessary
• crossing my fingers :)
• work is transitioning to Signin to the Web (integration of native support)

Signin to the Web

• Wondering about our train schedule? Wonder no more, Lloyd created an awesome tool that clear up any questions about where we are with our schedule
  • http://personatra.in
• in issues, *always* include screenshots - this will make skinny happy (and it makes everyone happy, actually. a picture is worth 1024 words.

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

• Meeting notes https://etherpad.mozilla.org/bigtent-2012-12-10
• Worked on https://id.etherpad.mozilla.org/primary-transition-ux-swarm
• 2 to 3 weeks out to deployment (see train schedule)
• beta2 hopefully ready late February

Dialup Performance

• notes for supporting b2g on crappy 2G network: https://id.etherpad.mozilla.org/b2g-persona-performance

KPI

• Finished dashboard changes
• Implementing whitelisting for kpiggybank requests
• Hope to get changes turning on production into next train
• Setting up staging environment for kpiggybank and dashboard this week, testing

PICL

• Check out the Attached Services wiki
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/AttachedServices
  • Brian's demo on Tabs can be viewed at: http://vimeo.com/58167504

please everyone contribute and participate as you like - Freedom To Focus weekly updates will communicate overall progress wiki page will communicate more detail

QA

• working on train-2013.01.18 - we are on stage with RSBAC disabled and gene is working on cleaning up RSBAC rules organization for dynamically loading shared objects.
• have run a small bit of load, and am continuing to check various user agents; have a fair number of bugs to still verify.
• I am not focussing on bigtent - just that this train is fine for current features

Docs & Engagement

• shane and callahad speaking at fosdem
• françois speaking on the 29th and the 1st at linux.conf.au
• francois organized a Firefox OS App Day in Wellington last Saturday
• every thursday, Christian et al coordinate who's speaking where - please check in by thursday to get stickers, goodies, etc
• Android devs at apps day had not heard of Persona - were wondering what it is when signing into marketplace (at the Wellington App Day, francois gave a 15 min talk about it)

Actions

• crystal, christian, jed to meet to capture early-adopter reactions (e.g., mobile devs on Android not knowing what persona is)

PTO/OOO

• [jared] PTO Thurs Jan 31
• [francois] linux.conf.au Jan 28 to Feb 1 (AU time)
• [jedp] Feb 1
• [ben] Feb 1 - 10 (ben will look at "urgent" emails; not others)
• [francois] PTO / public holidays Feb 4 to Feb 6 (NZ time)
• [warner] Feb 14-18
• [psawaya] working in boston Feb 18-22
• [tauni] Feb 25 - Mar 1
• [shane] Jul 31 - Aug 9