Webdev:Meetings:2013-03-26

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-2013-03-26

Open Items

• Q1 wrapping up, think about Q2 goals
• Time for peer feedback!
  • What is effective feedback
  • Why the *))(&!@# do we do this all the time?
  • How should I interpret feedback?
• LEAD summary - where morgamic was last week
  • Hero's journey, or the importance of faith and allies
  • some commentary on how 80s action films totally butcher this formula but somehow still work
• Maybe some Kanban stuff from Luke

Roundtable

adrian

• Socorro
  • Automatic emails are being sent to Firefox user that crash
  • elasticsearch is coming, currently testing on stage
  • Preparing a new search UI that will be super!
• Participated and helped organize another Game Dev Party in Lyon this weekend, I'll share more about the game we made soon (protip: game jams are awesome! )

Favourite science thing:

andy

• payments for marketplace
• api for marketplace
• trying not to hate on tastypie
• writing stupid little packaged apps for the marketplace on car journeys

jsocol

• Input v2 (fjord) is going out this week!
• onGameStart was a great one-day conference.
• Pushed new versions of waffle, statsd.
• Apps leads this month was productive.
• Favorite science thing: it's just a show, you should really just relax.
• UP dev servers should be going up this week.
• Q2 goals: in progress.
• Actual favorite science thing: everything and everyone you know is literally made up of the dust of past exploded stars. We are all stardust. Including the band Stardust.

laura

• Working out Q2 goals
• Slaving over a hot Firefox Health Report repo
  • You can see the prod placeholder in nightly. Try about:healthreport
• Up all night Saturday for an HBase maintenance window
• Scheming over a postmortem and telemetry reboot with taras
• Hired a new dev! Starting sometime in q2.
• Going to Boston (the NERD Center!) Thursday to give a talk on monitoring Socorro

lonnen

• Socorro
  • Cron systems visualization and general scheduling improvements
  • Ushering components into production
  • Wrapping up with Tony (internship ending)
    • Starting up with Tony + gang (senior year project to improve socorro)
• CISPA Action Week
  • FF Snippet
  • Moz.org frontpage link
• The sea is a nightmare without end

peterbe

• Built the prototype for Mozilla office sign-in sheet
  • to be run on tablets as a web app
  • code name Peekaboo https://github.com/mozilla/peekaboo
  • almost ready
• Added a new event suggestion wizard for logged in users of Air Mozilla
  • so you don't need file a bug to suggest an event
  • landed but not launched yet as we're tuning the tooltips
• Managed to get Pootle 2.5 (master actually) running in parallel on the Verbatim production server
  • awaits Milos to set up dev SVN and GIT repos
  • awaits some more testing
  • done using similar vendor tricks as playdoh https://github.com/peterbe/verbatim/tree/development
• landed quick re-tries for crontabber
  • so failing jobs are re-tried every 5 minutes until they work again

willkg

Good things:

• attended PyCon and talked django-browserid and elasticutils with other folks -- there's interest in django-browserid especially after Dan's talk
• worked on elasticutils: robhudson landed a middleware, hanno fixed some testing issues, I fixed the ElasticSearchTestCase (though I think I'm going to change how that works), I fixed the django tasks code, I thought about extending the query API, ...
• worked on updating kitsune search to the latest elasticutils
• helped MDN get elasticsearch working
• finished up a bunch of last-minute fjord fixes for the production rollout for Input (tomorrow!)

Bad things:

• made many promises about working on jingo-minify, django-browserid, tower, django-tidings, and other things, but have yet to do the work

wraithan

• PyCon was wonderfully amazing
• Discovered mkelly's geodude and am excited to use that.
• Feynman talking about rubber bands: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baXv_5z7HVY