Identity/WeeklyMeeting/2013-08-12

AGENDA

• How will performance reviews for our team work?
• Project Leadership!

General Reminders:

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  • Content deadline: 5 pm PDT every Thursday
  • volunteer for next week (19 Aug)  :: we need a volunteer for next week

Meeting Notes

• Performance Reviews
  • "Stage setting"
    • This conversation should happen by the end of the week, Friday August 16th
    • What happens in this conversation?
    • 1. Your manager sets expectations with you
    • 2. Talk about how often will we do reviews/conversations
    • This conversation will happen in your 1 on 1 over the next 2 weeks (ya, that's after the designated end date for "Stage Setting" conversation)
    • Lloyd says that in Edwin's absence there's likely the option to just delay the "Stage Setting" for QA
  • Performance review
    • Lloyd and Ben have had conversations before Ben left regarding everyone's performance
    • 1st review happens with Lloyd and your manager sometime in September (salary changes, etc).
      • Salary adjustments will be back-dated to the right date regardless of when the conversation happens
• Project Leadership Model
  • Any questions/concerns about Lloyd's idea?
    • Karl : previously there was a secondary leader on teams, unlike in the new "project leadership" model. Lloyd says +1 to having primaries establish a secondary for themselves.
    • Shane : What about when a project reaches a point of self sustainment (e.g. Persona iOS). Lloyd : Another example "FirefoxOS Persona integration". There should always be a maintainer/owner for a project.
    • Rob : What's the motivation for the project leadership model? What's trying to be solved? Lloyd : Not all progress is currently being communicated. With regular status reports from project leaders this could be solved. Communication is a major motivation for the model. Also to make explicit some existing implied project leadership (e.g. Dan on sign-in). Rob : Could we not solve the communication problem with Tauni rolling up what each projects status is? Lloyd : ya Austin : Escalation method and people is an issue that's currently not defined, this will help that. Gecko components need to have owners which is a new thing for us.
• Gene : any thoughts about the topic in MoCo about having user data in a form that we can read (unlike previously with sync where we didn't have access to user's data)? Lloyd : This is surfacing the hard question when PICL was starting to the larger Mozilla community.
• Ryan F : He's working on a dev centric site for Sean and Didem. https://id.etherpad.mozilla.org/developers-persona-org
• Karl : He's working on Moz IDP security testing
• Rob : He was talking with Paxton and he wants to do a sync picl review and communicate progress and status up the chain.

Team Status

Profile in the Cloud (PiCL)

Firefox Accounts updates: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/sync-dev/2013-August/000246.html Sync.next updates: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/sync-dev/2013-August/000248.html

QA

• train-2013.07.31 is now on stage, but due to last week activities, this won't be pushed to production on the scheduled date Aug 14th.
• we have a marketplace instance pointed at our stage servers, and login works on b2g and desktop app
• download app here - http://people.mozilla.org/~jmorrison/id-stg-mkt.html (Ops work to continue on getting autoupdate and apps available).

UX

• All UX information for Identity now has a home.
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/UX

Docs & Engagement

• [francois] talk accepted, OWASP NZ Day: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_New_Zealand_Day_2013

Blog Schedule

• We are working on launch on new blog series. Stay tuned for more information soon

PTO/OOO (kept in the Identity calendar for everyone's reference)

• [jedp] PTO all next week
• [warner] conference (USENIX Security) aug 12-16
• [tauni] PTO Aug 12
• [francois] Aug 16 - 26 (conferences & PTO)
• [kparlante] PTO Aug 22-23
• [ozten] PTO Aug 23
• [francois] Aug 26 to Sep 2 (Paris Persona Party)