Webdev:Meetings:2012-05-22

Meeting Info

• Room webdev via Vidyo
• Room 798 via Teleconferencing
• Mountain View office in room PB&J

Open Items/Meeting notes

• Note-taker: Rik

• Apps Blog posts (moar blogs!)
  • Kumar to write a summary this week
  • Anyone else?
• Pre-screening coding for job candidates (Laura)
  • Some candidates don't know how to code, is there any way to filter them out before the first phonescreen?
  • Checking Github or other public repositories.
    • A busy Github profile does not mean the interviewee has actually done stuff, check actual commits
    • Some people don't have code that they can share (because of employer policies)
  • Should we be ok to finish first screen interview quicker if we discover someone can't code?
  • Coding experiences over 45min (skyrock, rik) or a weekend (sourceforge, groovecoder). Maybe we can try that. Should not discriminate people that have other things to do on weekends (family, friends, etc)
  • No decision, just a reflexion
• Notable status updates (Fred, Laura, James, Wil, anyone)
  • Dev ecosystem: Take a look at x-tag demo http://csuwldcat.github.com/x-tag/demo.html#menu
  • Almost everyone on Webprod is at the Engagement offsite this week.
  • If you want to flash a phone to B2G, jlongster has some builds to help you out.
  • Marketplace: We have a marketplace, please test, file bugs. It's open to registered Mozillians (on mozillians.org) https://marketplace.mozilla.org/.

Roundtable

adrian

• In Madrid this week
• Working on moving the very last pieces of SQL in the UI of Socorro

andy

• marketplace including some APIs for other people
• in the UK at the moment, back in Vancouver next week

aricaud

• Getting comfy with Bedrock, cleaning tests to turn Jenkins on, looking at selenium tests.
• Visited the awesome London office and autochthons.
• Small Affiliates release

• I really enjoyed graphs theory but never applied as much as I'd like.

lars

• socorro
  • continuing on processor2012
  • added hex address templating for Java crashes from Fennec
  • blocked by unittests and the difficulty of creating a new socorro VM.
• favorite algorithm
  • nextgen←{↑1 ⍵∨.∧3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵}

lcrouch

• working http://scrumbu.gs/projects/mdn/2012-05-22-/
• huge bug triages from docs team for Kuma to launch summer

lonnen

• briar-patch, bramble, releng machine health dashboard
• socorro -- landed statsd in the processors[1]
• KarlG, my chatbot[2]
• favorite data structure: bloom filters[3]

morgamic

• on vacation. so far being successful at actually being on vacation.

peterbe

• Interviewing, interviewing and interviewing people
• Trying out Sandstone on Elmo http://cl.ly/GnA6
• Re-writing various Socorro cron scripts into crontabber apps.

robhudson

• Finishing up smaller default-to-compatible bugs.
• Reviewers tools
• Excited to work with willkg on elasticutils.

tofumatt

• Worked in Paris last week. I have some blog ideas for remote work/travel/community/etc. Yay!
• Paris people were nice. Merci!
• Back in Barcelona for a bit. Gonna start at a coworking place fulltime tomorrow.
• Working on newnewtab. Staging stuff for Todd to see tomorrow. Yay!

Favourite algorithm? Quicksort; it is the appropriate reply to all computer science related threads on Slashdot.

wenzel

• Lots of recruiting work
• newnewtab project planning
• Marketplace submission API planning

Favorite algorithm is the efficient solution to the Traveling Salesman Problem that I am surely going to come up with any day now. Oh, *existing* algorithms. I like Minimum Spanning Tree for its simplicity.

willkg

• set up an #elasticutils irc channel
• submitted pull requests for input and mozillians to fix elasticutils usage
• talked with Rob about elasticutils future--Rob is going to work on new features while Will works on merging features in various branches into master; elasticutils will ROCK.
• launched my first app with Petri as an experiment to see how it all works: https://isitmfict.vcap.mozillalabs.com/ (based on http://isitmfbt.com/)
• worked on elasticsearch code in SUMO--we're almost at the point where we're showing unified search results
• got my business cards!

I like map coloring. You can use it for register allocation, coloring maps, and I sketched out how to use it for seating plans for wedding receptions. It's pretty cool.