Webdev:Meetings:2010-03-30

Open Items

• Q1 in review
  • Transition, Agility, Balance (morgamic monologue)
  • How do you think we did?
• Q2 goals
• On-site stuff

Roundtable

buchanan

• Mozilla.com Mobile pages - thanks sgarrity
  • new mobile landing page
  • new features page
  • new firstrun page
  • still working on tying device detection to the download button
• mozilla.org l10n
• Cleaned up mozilla.com Selenium tests, now running python
  • Trying to find a way to automate tests for Javascript User Agent detection code. Selenium 2 (alpha) might be an option
• Mozilla.com A/B tests - thanks wenzel, bcutler, and sgarrity
  • ie.html perf - after 1 day, we're seeing a 14% improvement in download conversions at 99.999% confidence. With conservative estimates, that's about 1 millions downloads a week
  • Blake just reported that number is up to 30% currently, ~70 million downloads a year
  • Other tests have finished and results are being processed. One result showed that less pieces of flair meant more downloads.
• Mozilla.com Information Architecture review (via Happy Cog) is coming up soon.
• Lots of mozilla.com odds and ends: legal copy, broken download buttons, etc etc
• Moved to Portland! woo woo
  • working from some shared office space with skeen, dietrich, and others
• Favorite appetizer: crab cakes

chowse

• AMO + Personas
  • 5.9 gallery work (prototype)
  • Administration and migration (mocks, prototype)
• Early L10n Portal work (IA)
• Lorentz promo? [1]
• Nothing like some good bruschetta.

dd

• Used this to figure out what the top issues with Firefox are...
• zAMO API is out...
• zAMO Search is in progress
• Favorite App: Chicken Wings

jsocol

• Trying to get http://support-stage-new.mozilla.com running Kitsune. Hopefully making progress.
• Working on a small number of particularly nasty bugs.
• Worked out a rough development schedule for SUMO in Q2.
• Next up is pushing (finally) SUMO 1.5.3 tomorrow and focusing on polish work for Kitsune.
• I hate to pigeonhole it as an appetizer, but fresh calamari rings.

lars

• lots of Socorro 1.6 stuff
  • realized that one data upgrade may take 24 hours
• working on Metrics goal of a Socorro Processor/Monitor system that uses 100% hbase
  • trying to not leave non-Mozilla uses of Socorro behind
• wistful for the cowboy programming days
  • when significant progress could be seen in one day
  • when stake holders applauded feats programming as performance art
  • when development to production cycle could happen in ten minutes

laura

• Started life on Socorro, read tons of docs, talked to people, installed everything
• Closed first bug! bug 554970
• Reviewed patches (bug 543605, bug 546009)
• Came up with a more formal dev process Socorro:DevProcess
• Worked with stephend to come up with a test plan Test Plan just for the webapp at the moment
• Currently bug 555729
• Planning 1.6 and points beyond
• Appetizer? Saganaki

lorchard

• Getting over a cold / plague
• Spent way too long building a BYOB bookmark customization UI with jQuery for bug 538888
  • On BYOB staging now, create a browser and switch to the Bookmarks tab.
  • It took 8 days including a weekend.
  • Thinking about blogging it to get input on where I might've gone astray, because I expected it to take a screenful or so of code.
• Returning to Plugins:PluginDirectory to address security bugs and improvements.
• I <3 spinach & artichoke dip with plentiful hot sauce and tortilla chips

morgamic

• Recruiting; interviews for MoFo and webdev. Lots of good leads.
• Meetings; goals meetings last week (about 7 hour worth). Speaking with other groups about Q2.
• Blocklist stuff.
• Working on a draft blog for web conservation. It still sucks, but hopefully for not much longer.

neilio

• SUMO Forum UX meetings, wireframe iteratin' [2]
• BYOB bookmark manager mockup, planning, home page wireframin'
• I like me some edamame

paulc

• kitsune work, learned a lot
• spent a day or so dealing with character character encoding issues
• got tons of help from james, dave and jeff
• Appetizer: fried calamari

rdoherty

• Chipping away at Cesium
• Personas
  • Updating review guidelines with legal
  • Adding documentation to SUMO
  • Working with the awesome Chowse on mockups
  • 2.6 release Weds or Thurs.
  • Attempting to solve our 7k unreviewed personas problem
• Baconitos

wenzel

• Working on Zamboni Personas stuff
  • got a whopping -100 points on Hudson today due to a rogue .pyc file -- fail!
• getting ready for Bouncer deployment on Thursday
• helped out with Firefox download page performance test
• Friday and Monday holidays (Good ~ and Easter ~, resp.)
• favorite appetizer: Chicken Wings. Or Nachos. Or Olives. Let me summarize this to "I like food".

wil

• AMO 5.8(.1) is out
  • some URLs are live
• AMO 5.9: 49 open bugs, 30 closed
• Q2 planning; AMO Migration Progress
• interviews
• AMO now has application logging
• wrote a library to flush objects from Zeus
• from the NotAllTalk department, made a webdev VM last night. lorchard (and whoever else was in #webdev this morning) is checking it out
• I made inari a few weeks ago which is a great appetizer