Webdev:Meetings:2009-05-05

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Roundtable

  • morgamic
    • all-hands
    • careers page
    • intern prep
    • AMO staffing
    • Seeing you all
  • wenzel
    • all-hands, obviously
    • went through a bunch of iterations for the new Firefox Geolocation info page
    • working on evaluating the Narro and Pootle projects for Verbatim
    • working on remaining Bandwagon implementation bugs
    • Best all-hands quote was Brendan Eich's "you know, it's hard to work with people!", followed by a close second, Matt Mullenweg: "I wish there was a way to display video without Flash on the Internet".
  • clouserw
    • clearleft designs should be done this week
    • still plenty of 5.0.6 bugs that aren't blocked by clearleft
    • Reviewing new specs
    • checking out jshydra for JS static analysis
    • met with contractors last week, this week
    • fiddled around with test dashboard which got a lot of attention for what it is
    • made a rhubarb+mango pie last night
  • ozten
    • Renamed CTAW to Mozilla Service Week, Mitmach Wochen - favorite moment
    • got domain, svn, etc
    • pushing hard on staging server, copy, designs
    • fixed launch date, tight schedule
  • Lars
    • all hands
      • new ideas with Metrics for squeezing information from dump archive
      • spoke with JustDave about Socorro / Bugzilla integration
      • the only moment that brought tears of joy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnxylAJ0M9Q
      • Northern California Coast
    • Entered 50th year of existence
    • Socorro
      • migration tests are now passing
      • request for staging made today
      • final migration of most recent 2 weeks will happen over next 48 hours
      • hope to push to production on Thursday
  • laura
    • allhands omg: great to see team.
    • SUMO
      • work commences on building data warehouse for metrics dashboard
      • kampyle website perf survey with IT
      • various screencast related drama
    • Priorart now waiting for action from legal
    • Webdev visibility
    • What are we doing about hacks.mozilla.org?
  • jbalogh
    • snuck in the dev agreement before the freeze
    • played with php quick profiler; verdict: pretty
    • merged bandwagon into trunk
    • burst onto the webdev blog scene
    • All-hands quote: "we're not google, we don't have web developers"
  • lorchard
    • all-hands
    • pitching in to help ozten a bit with LizardFeeder customization on MoService
    • plotting about intern
    • AMO bugs
    • fave all-hands OH:
      • "Oakland isn't that bad, right?"
      • "I said I'm from *Auckland*. New Zealand. Oakland scares the hell out of me."
  • abuchanan
    • last week
      • SFx launch
      • talked with Metrics about SFx, Affiliates, and FF download count
    • this week
      • SFx 3.0 cleanup (spam, slow queries, affiliate buttons)
      • SFx 3.1 planning/triage
      • Fastest Fox upload tool
      • Community Store reviews
      • 1 AMO bug
    • rel=nofollow thoughts? bug
  • neilio
    • all handin'
    • worked on a few iterations of the AMO search redesign: check 'em, please give me feedback
    • spent a bunch of time researching and working on tag interfaces for AMO
    • did a fast usability audit of the bandwagon extension (more coming)
    • spent some time thinking about content submission systems
    • enjoyed the heck out of putting faces to IRC nicks at the all hands (and having almost every person I spoke with say, "oh, you do web design stuff? I have work for you...")
    • Oh, and ozten's spiffy hat
  • mccammos
    • Started 05-04 - hi everybody!
    • Working on AMO editor queue filters

Agenda

  • Visibility for webdev -- how do we improve our presence internally and externally?
    • Portfolio page
    • Blog schedule
    • webcandy
    • Conference talks
    • release reusable libraries
    • get more involved with education
  • Feedback on all-hands?
    • What went well?
      • Really pleasant
      • Great to see people in person
    • What could be better next time?
      • non-fx and non-fennec projects are not in people's minds
      • If we're going to have meetings as a group we should decide that ahead of time
      • Even if the schedule is not finished, schedule out freetime in advance without booking all the sessions
      • Have webdev co-present with product people
      • Webdev presentation -- what are we up to?
  • Board slides/discussion feedback?