Webdev:Meetings:2010-03-16

Open Items

• Recruiting changes
  • Position description updates
  • Grab code samples earlier on first screen
• Conferences
• Q1 goals
• Radar walkthrough

Roundtable

buchanan

• Marketing website agenda

• mozilla.org l10n
  • setting up gettext and a way to preview translations without a stage site (.org pulls production from svn:trunk)

• mozilla.com
  • mozweb reorg.
    • marketing working on finding Information Architecture and design experts to contract
    • moving content from .com -> .org (e.g. Get Involved page)
    • mozilla.org l10n
  • mobile
    • features page redesign bug 549947
    • landing page redesign bug 551757
    • firstrun page redesign bug 551785
    • device detection bug 547810
  • nosetests running in hudson
  • 3.0.x, 3.5.x, 3.6.x releases this week
    • 3.0.19 end of life
  • A/B tests
    • IE download page results - less content had higher download rate

• browser choice
  • launched locale detection
  • translated in 28 locales

• open to choice
  • 1.0 done
  • 1.x - cleanup and minor tweaks

• Favorite nature place - Nedonna Beach on a clear night

dd

• Working on making testing sphinx not so darn slow.
• AMO bugz
• Volcano National Park, Hawaii - new land formed daily.

jsocol

• Last time, on jsocol's week...
  • Lots of interviews.
  • Lots of reviews.
  • Pushed SUMO 1.5.2 for Desktop last week—had to hold off on 1.5.2 for Mobile.
  • Hacked together a Sphinx-backed search engine for GetPersonas.com.
• Stay tuned for...
  • SUMO 1.5.2 for Mobile.
  • SUMO 1.5.3.
  • Kitsune (SUMO 2.0) up in staging.
• Favorite place in nature: Prospect Park, even though there's nothing remotely natural about it.

ianbicking

• Doing a big code fixup/refactoring of Silver Lining
• Ramp up on Weave Sync 2.0 server
• Need to continue (start) discussion with operations about Zamboni deployment

lars

• Metrics Collaboration
  • continues to provide hours of entertainment
  • collector breakdowns finally reproduced and traced to hbase setup
  • fixed just in time for a big NFS failure
  • in a role reversal, we can use hbase to backfill what was lost in NFS
    • writing and testing that now
    • hoping to run it tomorrow
• Socorro 1.6
  • top_crash_by_signature enhancement
    • rolled into trunk
    • need to write long upgrade instructions
  • yet to write the code that will garbage collect the materialized views

ozten

• Cross Browser Support for PluginCheck in QA.
• At SXSW learning how to monetize my followers augmented reality in real-time based on their physical context.

rdoherty

• Personas avalanche
  • 3 million uniques, 40 million page views in 1 day (>400 req/sec)
  • Pushed over 12Gb/s
  • Added master/slave support friday and sphinx search tonight
  • Pushed db load to 78
  • Added 10 reviewers
• Working on cesium in spare time
• Lots of interviews
• Xianhang Zhang from Bumblebee Labs is presenting on Thursday: Designing for Narratives
• Maine

wenzel

• The MPL Update Website is out and people are happily playing with it!
• The Zamboni Add-ons details page is now up to par with its Remora sibling.

• Favorite place in nature, probably the Oregon Coast. But it's hard to pick.