Webdev:Meetings:2009-10-06

Open Items

• IT Items
  • IT Q4 Goals
  • Any open issues?
    • Preferred Python deployment method
  • Summary of what goals improve IT/Webdev relations:
    • Continue IT data/transparency trend. We'll focus on our monitoring & trending tools and expose data (performance trends on application servers, load balancers) internally to help webdev debug and scale applications.
    • Self-service development VM/VEs that mirror production for development (webdev)
    • Setup production-like access to webapp servers to facilitate debugging (webdev)

• Updated Webdev Radar -- please review, will discuss in 1:1s
  • Add anything new or missing
  • Update due dates you're aware of
  • Fill in status and specs if you have them

Roundtable

buchanan

• Spread Firefox
  • Catching up on 3.0.5
  • Planning Q4
• Mozilla.com
  • Implementing Surveys
  • Helping Metrics with A/B perf. tests
• Favorite hobby: piano

dd

• AMO Meetup Chicago was awesome - even found people wanting to contrib to webdev
• AMO Search released
• AMO Search fire with Fennec API searches not working fixed and ready to deploy
• Fixing AMO Search bugs
• AMO blob dumping
• Hobby: Commuter biking - this used to mean something when I worked more than a mile from the office.

jbalogh

• AMO 5.1
• Went to Canadia
• Just r?'d Persona importer
• Hobby: running

jsocol

• Pushed mobile.support.mozilla.org
• Pushed SUMO 1.4.0.1
• WebDev blog changes
  • Trying to get more community involvement in WebDev
  • Any ideas, suggestions?

kourge

• Sheriff app, using Sinatra
• working with IT on setting up Ticker, the aggregator component of MozBeat
• Phonebook tripped up a bug in Tracemonkey on trunk!
• getting some Moz-à-Vis visualization ideas from chowse as well
• hobby: playing limbo

lars

• MirrorBrain
  • took Frank's SQL and made it into a Bouncer to MirrorBrain migration script
• Socorro
  • Collaboration with Metrics to replace all of Socorro backend to a 40 machine Hadoop cluster
  • reworked signature generation to handle pure virtual function call crashes
  • worked on debugging materialized views
  • corrected product/version problems with materialized views
  • schema changes
  • hacked a way for devs to get copies of raw minidump crash reports
• favorite hobby: python programming while motorcycling with roses

lorchard

• PFS2 fun!
• Will be in MV next week (10/12 - 10/16)
• My hobbies, sadly, are basically all the same things I do for work.
  • Although I do sometimes roast coffee and fold origami

mccammos

• Mostly working on Stats Dashboards for AMO 5.2
• Preparing for upcoming travels
• Backpacking is a favorite hobby

morgamic

• Helping out with plugins stuff
• Talking with some vendors about plugins
• Q4 stuff -- meeting with other groups, goals
• Basketball, video games and drinking

neilio

• mocom Students page work (integrating content changes and personas preview code)
• AMO mockups: addon practices (shelved for now), top tags
• Add-ons 101 content ideas, wireframes
• ongoing SUMO UX audits, compiling list of improvement ideas, some wireframe work (improved add a reply form flow), working on some patches for Ask a question polish
• Ongoing Mozilla Projector wireframe/concept refinements, need to finish blog post
• Met with Rob Campbell, Sean Martell to talk about getfirebug.com, ideas for rebranding
• My favourite hobby: childrearing.

ozten

• PluginCheck Blog post analyzing access logs to get Plugin Info
• Wrapped up Service Week random tasks
• Fighting with setting up a Desktop machine (64 bit -> 32 bit Ubuntu 9.4)
• Hobby: Homebrew is fun

rdoherty

• AMO button re-write
• Personas l10n & various other hot-fixes
• Added ARIA landmarks to SUMO & Mozilla.com
• Snowboarding

wil

• AMO 5.1 went out. AMO team rocks
• AMO 5.2 in progress, everyone says they are confident. Freeze is 10/13.
• AMO:v4 (confusing?) in planning. Add your thoughts.
• AMO onsite in 1 month. Buy your plane tickets.
• Last weekend: puss on boots. That's right.