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{{WebdevMeetingInfobox
{{WebdevMeetingInfobox
   |date=November 5th, 2013
   |date=January 14th, 2014
   |etherpad=https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webdev-2013-11-04
   |etherpad=https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webdev-2014-01-14
   |notetaker=mkelly
   |notetaker=mkelly
}}
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Webdev Meetings are open to the public and serve as a gathering point for anyone in the Mozilla community who is interested in Web Development and what Mozilla has been doing in it.
Webdev Extravaganzas are open to the public and serve as a gathering point for anyone in the Mozilla community who is interested in web development and what Mozilla has been doing in it.


There is a [https://vreplay.mozilla.com/replay/showRecordingExternal.html?key=75M5cXjjtPQa1oj recording of this meeting] available.
There will be a recording <!-- [https://vreplay.mozilla.com/replay/showRecordingExternal.html?key=75M5cXjjtPQa1oj recording of this meeting] --> available.


== Shipping Celebration ==
== Shipping Celebration ==
What did we ship this month? Alternatively, what didn't we ship to spare the world the horror?
What did we ship this month? Alternatively, what didn't we ship to spare the world the horror?


* (mkelly) A redesign of the [https://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/ Careers site] just came out! Major props to [https://twitter.com/stephaniehobson @stephaniehobson] for doing the frontend work!
* (cthulhu) Shreiks of the damned, 3 crates
* (erikrose) [https://github.com/mozilla/dxr/commit/5429c62c572877dddf6725a16084813867bf648a One fewer C++ tokenizer] in the world, care of DXR. Also, new, more reliable clang-side inclusion finding: no more after-the-fact heuristics.


== Open Source Citizenship ==
== Open-Source Citizenship ==
Any updates with our libraries or with libraries we use? Anyone looking for help with a library they maintain?
Any updates with our libraries or with libraries we use? Anyone looking for help with a library they maintain?


* (erikrose) django-tidings merged in jezdez's South migrations, for initializing new projects' use of tidings. Will be in an upcoming release.
* (erikrose) django-nose has now moved to its own GitHub organization, and jsocol is helping maiintain it. More help is always welcome.
* (erikrose) http://pythonhosted.org/Banyan/ is an amazing, well-documented, nice-API'd Python tree lib, with fast C backend: interval trees, self-balancing trees, sets-as-trees, and all that jazz.
* (erikrose) chardet has moved to a dedicated GitHub organization, and I've knighted 3 new maintainers. A new release is out.
* django-csp has lost its maintainer to bitly!
* (potch) updating my promises library to be a DOM Promises polyfill! https://github.com/potch/promise.js https://github.com/potch/promise.js/tree/dom-polyfill
* (mythmon) Does anyone use django-mobility anymore?
* (mkelly) QA team needs help! https://quality.mozilla.org/2013/10/qa-taskboard-development-call-for-participation/
* (laura) Contribute team, ditto: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blackhole
* (potch) Friday Hackternoon - mozilla.github.io!


== New Hires / Interns / Volunteers ==
== New Hires / Interns / Volunteers ==
Anyone new that we want to induct into the secret order?
Anyone new that we want to induct into the secret order?


* John Karahalis, openjck - transitioning from Project Management to Front-end dev on MDN
* Cthulhu Lite, son of Cthulhu
* Cthulhuette, daughter of Cthulhu


== The Bikeshed / Roundtable ==
== The Bikeshed / Roundtable ==
Anything else to talk about?
Anything else to talk about?


* Whatsdeployed - Or shall we completely abandon all hope in Stackato?
* It should be green.
** New version of Stackato coming up: moving from 2.6.7 to 2.10.6 http://docs.stackato.com/reference/release-notes.html
* Playdoh-lib - replace with a requirements script or slim down gradually?
* (erikrose) Slow file writes on Vagrant under OS X. Turned out to be a combination of NFS and, apparently, the 10.8.5 upgrade. Removed NFS from DXR's Vagrantfile so others don't suffer my fate.
* npm registry downtime - what to do?
* (erikrose) [https://github.com/erikrose/shiva Shiva] doesn't quite exist yet, but we've been talking so much about deployment that it's time to mention it before somebody else starts over from scratch. Will probably spend Friday Hackternoon on it.

Revision as of 17:49, 7 January 2014

Webdev Meeting
Date: January 14th, 2014
Time: 10:00 AM Pacific
How to Join
Vidyo:
Teleconferencing: Room 9 798
IRC: #webdev on irc.mozilla.org
Notes
Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webdev-2014-01-14
Note-taker: mkelly

Webdev Extravaganzas are open to the public and serve as a gathering point for anyone in the Mozilla community who is interested in web development and what Mozilla has been doing in it.

There will be a recording available.

Shipping Celebration

What did we ship this month? Alternatively, what didn't we ship to spare the world the horror?

  • (cthulhu) Shreiks of the damned, 3 crates

Open-Source Citizenship

Any updates with our libraries or with libraries we use? Anyone looking for help with a library they maintain?

  • (erikrose) django-nose has now moved to its own GitHub organization, and jsocol is helping maiintain it. More help is always welcome.
  • (erikrose) chardet has moved to a dedicated GitHub organization, and I've knighted 3 new maintainers. A new release is out.

New Hires / Interns / Volunteers

Anyone new that we want to induct into the secret order?

  • Cthulhu Lite, son of Cthulhu
  • Cthulhuette, daughter of Cthulhu

The Bikeshed / Roundtable

Anything else to talk about?

  • It should be green.
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