Webdev:Meetings:2013-06-11

Meeting Info

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

Meeting notes

• Note-taker: mkelly
• Meeting notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webdev-2013-06-11

Roundtable

andy

• Payments for Firefox OS. Oh payments how we love thee.
• The blog is looking awesome, some people should right some blog posts on it.

ErikRose

DXR

• Continuous deployment is in place for staging!
• The DXR code we've written for the last 5 months is finally LIVE! This let us close about 10 longstanding bugs and brings a gazillion new features to our users.
• An up-to-date mozilla-central tree is now building, locally and manually. That was hard. There's a reason we have a whole releng department whose job this is. :-) Working on buildbot integration.
• Ported buggy, ad hoc multiprocessing implementation to concurrent.futures. 200 lines → 20 lines.
• New production setup docs
• callers: and called-by: query speedups
• Little bugs and improvements. Progress indicators flicker less. JS code now uses a consistent case convention. Fixed some overzealous string escaping.
• Welcome to a new contibutor, jonasac!

Socorro

• Reviewed patches: ES stuff, new skiplist implementation, etc.
• RabbitMQ sprint (way back when)
• Lots of simplifying and correcting the rabbitmq branch to get it ready to merge

More

• Release nose-progressive 1.4.3 and 1.5:
  • Support for any text editor that has a go-to-line option, no matter how it's spelled.
  • Ability to jump to a failure in your editor in one click: no copying and pasting.
  • First-class Python 3.3 support
• Lots of chasing the Indian Consulate around and such for my Fifth Elephant trip. A slapdash video preview of my talk
• Released Parsimonious 0.5 so the CSS parser could have single-quoted literals and whitespace allowed after parens.
  • Put together a proof-of-concept CSS parser in Parsimonious. Basta is now building a minifier based on it.

jezdez

• almost finished exploitable crashes report into Socorro with the help of Brandon and Selena
  • https://github.com/mozilla/socorro-crashstats/pull/359
  • https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/pull/1280
  • learned more about the Socorro internals on the way

• refactored the crashstats view decorators a bit to be less magic
  • https://github.com/mozilla/socorro-crashstats/pull/354

• met with Pike to talk about Elmo/a10n again
• worked on the Elmo trying to figure out a collation issue (bug 538282)

I want to go to Brussels since I want to stay close to the then very close birth of my first child.

lonnen

• CrimsonTwins Paris!
• Getting hardware for new Telemetry Dash
• Spec'd out some legal Bugzilla tools
• trying to coordinate Bixie (JS error reporting)
• Mozilla Boxen for WebDevs
• Summit matching algorithm

lorchard

• Brussels - I've never been to continental Europe, and I really like Belgian beer.

mkelly

• Snippets is almost done being rewritten. IT SHALL BE STUNNING
• I've been doing Couch 2 5k! I CAN'T STOP RUNNING
• I purchased Grooveshark Anywhere! I'M BASS AND DRUMMING

I want to go to Brussels because I have never left the continent. BROADEN MY HORIZUNING

peterbe

• Working on the Socorro public API
  • PII removal last piece
  • https://github.com/mozilla/socorro-crashstats/pull/364
• Working on as little as possible
  • pending paternity leave starting some time this week

• Moved into my new house in Santa Clara
• Wants to go to Santa Clara

pmac

Brussels. Best beer in the world. Are there other reasons?

robhudson

• Lots of work on separating AMO and MKT elasticsearch indexes.
• Work on "buchets" -- filtering out apps that don't work on the user's device.
• Made a jsfiddle thing to help calculate feature profiles that we pass as a query string to the API: http://jsfiddle.net/robhudson/9PArz/

schalk

Brussels ~ Looks like a beautiful place and I have never been there. Also, looks like I will be in good company ;)

sole

(following mkelly's suggestion about what to put in here)

• been working on revamping a mortar template: https://github.com/sole/mortar-list-detail/tree/simplify
• we're getting closer to releasing a fancy real time image processing app as a reference app, code here: https://github.com/sole/rtcamera and try it out here: http://sole.github.io/rtcamera (you need a camera/webcam, WebGL and WebRTC... which means Nightly on mobile, but it's awesome to run this on a MOBILE DEVICE!!)
• I've been asking many questions to many people because I'm still quite new here, and will probably continue doing so for a while, so bear with me...

Social activities:

• met Yahuda Katz AND Tim Berners-Lee - BEAT THAT, everyone else
• also been to one of these monthly ladieswhocode meetings where I try to convince people to stop using ASP and move to JS
• and went picnic-ing to Hampstead Heath where we had scones and played badminton. It can't get more English than that.

There's this upcoming DemoJS demoscene party in Paris: http://demojs.org They are accepting remote submissions so if you're into making something fancy feel free to enter one of their compos! I looked into going there but the travel+hotel was indecently expensive.

Finally: I'd prefer Santa Clara as I haven't been there and it sounds warmer than Toronto or Brussels. But I've already been to Brussels so I'd prefer travelling somewhere new (to me) like Toronto! What I like about Brussels is that one can go there by train, and cross the Chunnel, which always seemed like very awesome to me.

wenzel

• Lots of work on web components, templates, and such for Firefox Apps. Coming along nicely!

I'd love to go to Brussels because:

• It's a great city with a rich history for Mozilla (FOSDEM, hello!)
• aaand I can add a few days of PTO afterwards and take a quick train ride to visit my family, which would be awesome.

willkg

• input.mozilla.org: fixed locale handling in responses, added query parser and fixed happy hardcoding for FfA
• support.mozilla.org: fixed some minor things
• elasticutils: overhauled docs, updated changelog and added a bunch of tests -- probably ready for a 0.7 release
• tower: updated docs

Awaiting new roommate. He should be here in the next few days.