Webdev:Meetings:2010-03-16

Open Items

• Recruiting changes
  • Position description updates
  • Grab code samples earlier on first screen
• Conferences
• Q1 goals
• Radar walkthrough

Roundtable

buchanan

• Marketing website agenda

• mozilla.org l10n
  • setting up gettext and a way to preview translations without a stage site (.org pulls production from svn:trunk)

• mozilla.com
  • mozweb reorg.
    • marketing working on finding Information Architecture and design experts to contract
    • moving content from .com -> .org (e.g. Get Involved page)
    • mozilla.org l10n
  • mobile
    • features page redesign bug 549947
    • landing page redesign bug 551757
    • firstrun page redesign bug 551785
    • device detection bug 547810
  • nosetests running in hudson
  • 3.0.x, 3.5.x, 3.6.x releases this week
    • 3.0.19 end of life
  • A/B tests
    • IE download page results - less content had higher download rate

• browser choice
  • launched locale detection
  • translated in 28 locales

• open to choice
  • 1.0 done
  • 1.x - cleanup and minor tweaks

• Favorite nature place - Nedonna Beach on a clear night

dd

• Working on making testing sphinx not so darn slow.
• AMO bugz
• Volcano National Park, Hawaii - new land formed daily.

jsocol

• Last time, on jsocol's week...
  • Lots of interviews.
  • Lots of reviews.
  • Pushed SUMO 1.5.2 for Desktop last week—had to hold off on 1.5.2 for Mobile.
  • Hacked together a Sphinx-backed search engine for GetPersonas.com.
• Stay tuned for...
  • SUMO 1.5.2 for Mobile.
  • SUMO 1.5.3.
  • Kitsune (SUMO 2.0) up in staging.
• Favorite place in nature: Prospect Park, even though there's nothing remotely natural about it.

ianbicking

• Doing a big code fixup/refactoring of Silver Lining
• Ramp up on Weave Sync 2.0 server
• Need to continue (start) discussion with operations about Zamboni deployment

lars

• Metrics Collaboration
  • continues to provide hours of entertainment
  • collector breakdowns finally reproduced and traced to hbase setup
  • fixed just in time for a big NFS failure
  • in a role reversal, we can use hbase to backfill what was lost in NFS
    • writing and testing that now
    • hoping to run it tomorrow
• Socorro 1.6
  • top_crash_by_signature enhancement
    • rolled into trunk
    • need to write long upgrade instructions
  • yet to write the code that will garbage collect the materialized views

mccammos

• Working on a zamboni mailer for contribution thank you notes.
• Looked at celery for its scheduling and delay features, but its fairly complex setup wasn't worth it for the simple mailing tasks I'm doing at the moment. Unlike gearman, it is python only.
• Anyplace I can completely escape the sights, sounds, and smells of Homo sapiens is my favorite.

ozten

• Cross Browser Support for PluginCheck in QA.
• At SXSW learning how to monetize my followers augmented reality in real-time based on their physical context.

rdoherty

• Personas avalanche
  • 3 million uniques, 40 million page views in 1 day (>400 req/sec)
  • Pushed over 12Gb/s
  • Added master/slave support friday and sphinx search tonight
  • Pushed db load to 78
  • Added 10 reviewers
• Working on cesium in spare time
• Lots of interviews
• Xianhang Zhang from Bumblebee Labs is presenting on Thursday: Designing for Narratives
• Maine

wenzel

• The MPL Update Website is out and people are happily playing with it!
• The Zamboni Add-ons details page is now up to par with its Remora sibling.

• Favorite place in nature, probably the Oregon Coast. But it's hard to pick.