Webdev:Meetings:2012-08-07

Meeting Info

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

Meeting notes

• Note-taker: <who>
• Meeting notes: <etherpad link>

Open Items

• performance feedback and compensation: schedule and updates
• positivity exercise - yeah, really
• open floor

Roundtable

adrian

• Socorro
  • Rapid betas in Socorro are going well, should merge into our master branch soon
• Trying to spend more time working on our game initiative
• Got almost drunk with excellent wkisky in a distillery in Scotland this weekend

arron

• Been working on x-tags
• Checkout x-tags.org and registry.x-tags.org to see the website and control registry.
• Awesomeness: Went to Moffett Field and watched the Mars Rover landing.

aricaud

• Bedrock bugs
• Bedrock infra

Nice stuff:

• Got 3 or 4 contributors showing up lately and I don't have many mentor bugs left to give to new ones!

bsavage

• Mediawiki-Bugzilla
• Dragnet
• Webtools on intranet
• Cool thing: I have an outside contributor to mediawiki-bugzilla who has no connection to Mozilla but found the project on Github

lars

• Socorro
  • investigated our broken staging environment
  • prototyped several ways of refactoring middleware
• Awesomeness
  • http://bit.ly/OKRVrE
    • outfitted as a mobile office

morgamic

• hiring
• goals
• went through leadership training week before last
• apps work week last week
• positive thing: the interns -- they never cease to amaze me

pmac

• Scrumbugs
• Bedrock l10n stuff

Saw NASA land a nuclear-powered car-sized rolling lab on a rock 350 million miles from here via a rocket-powered sky crane in exactly the spot they wanted, while being photographed by a satellite already orbiting said rock.

robhudson

• Finished up the bulk of the work on the reviewer tools for marketplace.
• Had an awesome vacation with family at Sunriver, OR.
• Ramping up to work on the marketplace side of packaged apps.

Positively awesome? Seeing Mozilla prioritize and organize around Firefox OS and web apps. The focus, determination, and skills being applied is amazing to watch unfold.

tofumatt

• Working on web apps server component
• Prepping for BrazilJS
• Met about privacy ad stuff

Coolest thing I saw AND worked on these past few weeks? Probably my new-to-me 1976 Honda CB400f.

wenzel

• hiring HTML5 Engineers (the job posting will soon be up on the careers page I am sure)
• tying tons of content together for the Marketplace Developer Hub
• performance reviews and other administrative things
• apps work week last week

Positively awesome:

• At the work week, was able to present all the great things we're working on for the developer ecosystem. I am very proud of the hard work everyone has been putting into this.

wil

• Was in MV for the apps work week, trying to get answers about packages and payments
• Plodding towards the Aug milestone, marketplace is looking great
• Doing the performance review stuff
• Awesome thing: Mars landing, I reckon. I mean, the apps team being all in the same place at once and aligning on goals and getting stuff done. :)

wraithan

• My first work week
• Had the first meeting of the Marketplace High Availability team that wasn't just an introduction.
• Worked on small bugs for Solitude.
• Everyone else has already said it, but the Mars landing is among the most amazing things humans have ever done.