EngineeringProductivity/Meetings/2017-01-09

Notices, Highlights, Roundtable

• Significant Contributions
  • B-Team would like to thank Sebastin Santy for the ongoing work on a custom form example
• Welcome Israel Madueme!
• Our cost center is now 5680 ("Firefox Platform Operations"), not 8200
• Matthew Frassica is now our HRBP
• Google Summer of Code, https://wiki.mozilla.org/Community:SummerOfCode17:Brainstorming
  • Deadline to submit proposals is February 6
• Mozilla Data Collective
  • Should consider reporting metrics here
• Deadline to submit Global Wellness expenses is this Friday, January 13
• Deliverables and OKR's in 2017
  • Release & Productivity OKR's for 2017
  • Engineering Productivity OKR's for Q1
• Looking for 2-3 more JS interviewers to help choose an A-Team summer intern:
  • Internship offer (look for "Engineering Productivity Intern")
  • Jan will mentor, Maja and Will already volunteered for interviews (thanks!)
• RFCs (see newsgroup post below): What and why, additional clarifications (wlach)
• [end of meeting] ActiveData - Kyle presents ActiveData, what is it?, what should the future be?
  • Detailed document
  • Presentation (PDF)

Newsgroup and Blog Posts

• Changing the default bug view for BMO (dkl) (also cross-posted to dev.platform)
• How To Tag Comments in Bugzilla So We Can Respond Appropriately (emceeaich)
• Changes to etiquette.html in bugzilla.mozilla.org (emceeaich)
• BMO Roadmap for the 1st Half of 2017 (emceeaich)
• BMO in 2016 (mcote)
• Moratorium on custom bug-entry form development (mcote)
• New process for Release & Productivity in 2017: RFCs (wlach)
• Treeherder no longer uses or depends on Datasource (wlach)
• Several leak failures have slipped passed continuous integration (ahal)

Holidays and Trips

• armenzg gone for parental leave from January 13th (this Friday) and back on March 27th
• jgriffin in Toronto Jan 16-19th for Release & Productivity Management Team Planning
• jgriffin in Mountain View Jan 24-25