ParticipationSystems/TuringDay

Turing Day

In late November 2016 the Participation Systems team started a Small Uncontrolled Experiment: Turing Day

We aim to have a Turing day every second Friday. During these days we:

On Turing Day we try to be as distraction free as possible, so please apologize for delay on email and chat responses.

(Nemo) Implement OIDC in AWS lambda
(Nemo) Prometheus time series and logs
(Yousef, Nemo) FOSDEM infrastructure talk proposal/preparation
(Tasos) Progressive web apps: add service workers to Moderator
(Nikos) Bugzilla REST API fun: build a dashboard similar to Bugs Ahoi
(Viorela, Yousef) Access emails via python for automated testing (reuse for SSL certificates)
(Henrik) Beautify the TuringDay page
(Henrik) 1-minute story on why Henrik refers to a particular person's microphone as "Heal the World mike"

(Henrik) Collapsing content on a Wiki page is not trivial. Failed miserably.
(Henrik) Heal the World --> We Are The World ... Mission completed. Check out the background story to that "microphone laugh".
(Nikos) Mentored bugs dashboard gets initial shape.
(Nemo) Learned about AWS Lambda, AWS ALB and how restrictive AWS is :)
(Nemo) Investigated how we can implement the authentication part of the automated tests (using auth0 API, by parsing emails, by automating the process with AWS Lambda + AWS SES)
(Viorela) Imaplib (python library) seems to be a good option for accessing and getting email content. I created a python script that was able to access gmail and zoho accounts and get content from emails with different parameters.
(Tasos) Played around with service workers. First take on caching assets for offline access. Next steps: Full offline access + sync functionality

4.8

(Henrik) Iterate the Google Data Studio ParSys Dashboard
(Yousef) AWS per-tag billing metrics
(Yousef) Per-app metrics with linkerd-viz
(nemo) Try to build a load balancer (how hard could it be)
(Viorela) Investigate and fix stale element reference exceptions caused by switching to latest Firefox driver version
(Tasos) Continue work on service workers in moderator app.

(Henrik) Google Data Studio is still cool. Data source debugging sucks (especially if you are trying to identify a PEBCAK typo). The "share without requiring a login" function does not work. Curious to see if we get any feedback on the Discourse post.
PS: I also put together a quick Equal Rating Innovation Challenge Data Studio report.
(Viorela) New Firefox driver versions (>48) don't have support for implicit wait checks on click that causes another page load. Github issue were there are discussions regarding this topic: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/issues/308. Bugzilla bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1309231

Sorry, forgot to measure.

(Henrik) Skipping Turing Day because of the upcoming PLR and a general mess in my inbox. Might take a hit to post/discuss something to #conferences on Mozilla's Slack later on.
(Nikos) Learn about ReactJS
(Viorela) Auth0 rules + session information
(Nemo) KOPS + k8s cluster deployment
(Tasos) Skipping this Turing Day.
(Megan) Begin to learn Framer which can help improve UX/UI design output time & early stage demo capabilities.

(Henrik) I hate myself when I am too busy to improve.
(Nikos) Impressed by ReactJS capabilities. Need more time to get more in-depth knowledge.
(Megan) Was only able to spend 1.5hrs with Framer, tutorials I engaged with confirmed that this is worth investing future time to.

1.75, overall today some of us were too busy to improve. :-(

(Henrik) Out for the Ground Control Conference. Yay!
(Megan) Will be doing intro work for my 8 week Codeacademy course, looking to fill gaps in my code knowledge with some focused learning. :)
(Yousef) Add python-decouple in mozillians.org (and try not to break everything)
(Yousef) Experiment with linkerd-tcp
(Viorela) Take a look over the ISTQB documentation foundation level
(Nemo) Kubernetes deployment + KOPS
(Nikos) Check/Evaluate Frontend testing frameworks and tools
(Leo) Write some automated tests for Discourse plugins, and learn how to integrate them with Jenkins (if I get that far!)

(Nikos) Most mozilla webdev projects have no frontend unit tests. Jasmine seems to be the best framework and currenty used at Bedrock together with Karma.
(Yousef) Mozillians docker documentation is super helpful. python-decouple is super easy so far.
(Nemo) Figured out how awesome KOPS is! Tried various different setup combinations (bastion node, private network, overlay network). Also learned about the different types of app notions k8s has. Good stuff!!
(Viorela) Started with a sample test which didn't work so well (<50% pass rate), then went through almost half of the ISQTB documentation syllabus.

5 (nemo) 4 (Viorela)