Webdev/Meetings/2014/February 4

Webdev Meeting
Date:	February 4th, 2014
Time:	10:00 AM Pacific
How to Join
Vidyo:	Room webdev Public Vidyo Air Mozilla
Teleconferencing:	Room 9 798
IRC:	#webdev on irc.mozilla.org
Notes
Etherpad:	https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webdev-2014-02-04
Note-taker:	mkelly

Webdev Extravaganzas are open to the public and serve as a gathering point for anyone in the Mozilla community who is interested in web development and what Mozilla has been doing in it.

There is a recording of the meeting available.

Shipping Celebration

What did we ship this month? Alternatively, what didn't we ship to spare the world the horror?

• (erik) Rewrote the DXR rendering pipeline and shipped a raft of new features. Huge UI overhaul (including a new query parser, less modalness, and bug-free multi-tree support) is landing this week. Props to Schalk, Nick Cameron, James Abbatiello, and everybody else who worked on it.
• (mkelly) giorgos landed Android Snippet support on the snippets service, along with a bunch of other convenient fixes and features.
• (potch) Brick 0.10, soon to be 1.0RC1! New default styles, more pretty.

Open-Source Citizenship

Any updates with our libraries or with libraries we use? Anyone looking for help with a library they maintain?

• (erik) django-tidings master now supports Django 1.5, maybe even higher.
• (potch) https://github.com/dimka665/awesome-slugify on mailing list

New Hires / Interns / Volunteers

Anyone new that we want to induct into the secret order?

• (fill me in!)

The Bikeshed / Roundtable

Anything else to talk about?

• (erik/mythmon) We invented the re-leveling stream graph, which fixes the one disadvantage of the stream graph: the ability to tell when an individual slice is rising or falling. source
• (pmac) Discuss Playdoh and deployment future. Who is doing what that we could all benefit from.
• (potch) Use Promises! Use Promises/A+! Use ES6 Promises today! https://github.com/jakearchibald/ES6-Promises