Identity/WeeklyMeeting/2013-03-04

AGENDA

• Have you signed up for note taking?
  • See: https://id.etherpad.mozilla.org/weekly-notetakers
• MWC update - Todd (& Lloyd)
• Big Tent update from Callahad & Gene
• A node.js blog schedule can be viewed at: https://id.etherpad.mozilla.org/a-nodejs-winter
  • Zach's post is due to Robert today
  • Lloyd is up next with the subject: "Deploying NodeJS services" - awsbox
    • blog post deadline is Monday, March 18th
• Blog Postings (on main identity blog)
  • Ben proposing to take some of that on
  • and to lead Beta2 coordination in the process
• Coordination: how often are you reading up on teamstatus?

Meeting Notes

• MWC, busy, successful, set good high expectations to live up to, constant demos, inspiring
  • Persona on phone is important! Meaningful federated identity system is the hard road, but important win for users
  • Supporting these users is an important priority
• Welcome back James Bonacci!

Signin & big Q1 goals

• Signin team is juggling 5 important Q1 goals (including B2G support)
  • assessment due Wed for each goal, with 2/3 key dates leading up to the goals
  • make any hard calls about priority quickly

Big Tent

• Mission critical goal (Beta2 & BigTent)
  • Figure out what needs to be done to get it into production
  • Need a week in production before we can do Beta2
  • 9 April is drop dead day for hitting deadline for making Q1 goal
  • Don't want a quality dip right before we go to press
• BigTent blocked on QA
  • 5 star bug, Yahoo mobile (upstream issue, same bug on stack overflow)
    • Maybe not a five star if its found on other major sites?
  • Proposal: revert stage back to train-2013.02.15 which is current production, to focus on BigTent testing against current production (current train going well enough)
• IRC meeting to pull BigTent plan together

Beta2

• Ben jumping in to take on Beta2, will ask for help where he needs it
• Dan handing off workflow from Beta1 to Ben for Beta2

AWS

• Gen can now provision the environment in region (sans code)
  • need AMIs for bigtent, proxy
• BigTent + Proxy tier is standalone product in AWS, without moving everything else in lockstep
• All of the pieces need to be moved from SC2 by April deadline

B2G

• B2G continues to rock
  • Jed solved memory issue on B2G by making process not long lived
  • If phone kills app due to memory usage, no solution for that problem yet
  • Platform team: perhaps they can help, they are open to helping if they can -- lay out requests for them

Blog postings

Node.js

• A node.js blog schedule can be viewed at: https://id.etherpad.mozilla.org/a-nodejs-winter
  • Deadline tonight for Zach's post
  • Lloyd is up next w/awsbox, his deadline in two weeks 3/18 (Lloyd will speak up by tomorrow if that is infeasible)
  • ozten on deck for 4/1 deadline with l10n-abide
• These posts are important and have been well received
  • Really good text coming out, these posts have a really positive impact
  • Good recruiting tool!

Identity team blog

• To give the blog some life, Ben is jumping in and doing some posts
  • No master plan yet, jump in if you are interested
• Ben will answer question about whether Persona is doomed (framed differently)
• Good idea to reference back to other posts

Persona Adoption Wins

• Metrics dashboard: triple our usage from Jan 1! Above 30,000 users per day
• Props to Dan for landing Discourse! Awesome stuff.
• Badges for adding Discourse to blog
• Skype call to use Persona on Discourse site itself (?)
• Using leverage to get Discuss to do Persona as well

Team Process

Teamstatus: is it a useful read? (Ben reads it, so do several other team members, not everyone)

• Send Ben and Tauni a one liner by email on what change could be made to get you to read teamstatus once a week

Team Status

B2G

- need to deal with this soon: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/3033 (too-early assertion expiration on b2g) - good first stab at merging dev and b2g with 6a68; actually considerably less painful than anticipated :) - UX updates need scheduling

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

KPI / Metrics

• Changes lined up, waiting on security review and qa blessing for kpi - live

Profile in the Cloud (PiCL)

• check out the Attached Services wiki page for regular updates and new demos.

- Shane Caraveo feedback for native identity patch super helpful (re demo of native sign-in patch)

QA

• train-2013.03.01 built and deployed to stage with some preliminary testing -

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=846928

• For bigtent testing, we may want to move stage back to train-2013.02.15 which is current production and (hopefully) get that out next week.
• I've put up a c1.medium awsbox to test 2003.03.01 if we roll back to 2003.02.15 on stage - https://train0301.personatest.org/
• there are a few open issues at the moment with bigtent
• I am happy to take anyone's help in testing bigtent ;-)

Docs & Engagement

• [Francois] LibrePlanet this weekend
• [Francois and Shane] AsyncJS user group next week: http://asyncjs.com/persona/

PTO/OOO

• [shane] Mar 4 - 8
• [warner] Mar 8
• [francois] March 6-11 (Open Source Days)
• [francois] March 11-15 (in London with Shane)
• [francois] March 16 - April 7 (working from Eastern Timezone)
• [francois] March 22 - 25 (LibrePlanet)
• [warner] Mar 14-18 (pycon), Apr 4-12 (PTO London)
• [ozten] Apr 1 - 12 - confirm dates with ozten
• [tauni] Jul 22 - 26
• [shane] Jul 31 - Aug 9