Webdev:Meetings:2013-04-23

Meeting Info

• Room webdev via Vidyo
• Room 9 798 via Teleconferencing
• Mountain View office in room 3A - All Your Base

Meeting notes

• Note-taker: Ghost of Mkelly
• Meeting notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/tvm6P6ULTo

Open Items

• feedback on feedback
• interns!
• blog - update from andy
• summit tools/eye candy - looking for heroes
• security reps
• q2 goals, framing the rest of the quarter
• updates, open discussion

Roundtable

ErikRose

DXR

• Fixed "direct" search results for qualified functions.
• Refactored DXR wiki front page so I don't have to keep explaining things anew to contribs.
• Stop using suffix matching for direct-result qualified-type queries. This ought to make them much faster.
• Chased build timeout in production. Upgraded Vagrant box to 64-bit so I could try builds of recent Firefoxes, which take a ton of RAM to link. Repro'd it. Now for some stracing.
• Worked with IT trying to get a modern deployment up.
• Considered Postgres and ES as future DXR backends. I fear their highlighting and regex support aren't quite up to snuff.

pyelasticsearch

• Redesigned the bulk() API. Opinions welcome.
• Made it not crash under python -OO.
• Switch testrunner to nose.
• Released 0.4.1 and 0.5, fixing lots of other little bugs and adding support for more APIs like percolate() and multi_get().
• Tried to convince elasticsearch.com to not roll their own "official" Python client. Had a fair degree of success. We'll see.

nose-progressive

• Make compatible with nose 1.3.0.
• Fix brittle tests.
• Fix the "AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'raw_input'" error that sometimes occurred at pdb breakpoints.
• Released 1.4.1 and 1.4.2.

More

• Gave brown bag: Poetic APIs.
• Reviewed various elasticsearch-heavy PRs.
• Lime Cat is not amused.

laura

• I love Hadoop (catmeme)
• Plotted the future of Webtools

peterbe

• demoed peekaboo to Jim and Lori
  • we're abandoning the idea of using a tablet
  • github.com/mozilla/peekaboo
  • hoping to have a working prototype up by end of next month
• built a public web API for socorro-crashstats
  • still missing some features such as auto-generated documentation
• managed to get python-ldap installed on jenkins!
  • ...it's stupid http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ldap/2013q2/003223.html
• working hard on getting Air Mozilla to work with Nightly and with Vid.ly
  • now working on re-submission features

pmac

grumpy cat. clearly.

robhudson

• Work on cleaning up elasticsearch tests for AMO in prep for elasticutils upgrade on marketplace.
• Monolith stats work for Q2 goals.
• Added nice reviewer tools search using API.
• App features and device detection (aka "buchets")