Firefox/Input/Meeting Notes
Meeting Notes
1.8
9-9-2010
What's been completed:
- Fred
- Dave
- Ryan
- Mobile search came in
- Michael
- Hamilton
- Demo'd on LDA Topic Modeling per Platform & Type
- Stephen
- Filed/verified bugs
- Some data loss
- Aakash
- Was on vacation
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- Dave
- Ryan
- Hands tied with family and socorro, will take small bugs if available
- Michael
- Fix 1.8 bugs related to Sites, 9/16
- Hamilton
- Working on LDA Topic Modeling
- Stephen
- File/verify bugs
- Check it out with Android
- Aakash
- Work on blog post for 1.8, 9/16
- Figure out dev estimation on 2.0, 9/14
8-31-2010
What's been completed:
- Fred
- Working on Mobile Dashboard, will commit 8/31
- Dave
- Michael
- Getting fennec set up with sites
- Andres
- --
- Ryan
- Pushed last 1.7 bug, there was a regression
- Will try to pick up some 1.8
- Stephen
- Filed/verified bugs
- Aakash
- Setup 2.0 meeting
- Filed some bugs
- 3 Created 1.7 blog post
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- Complete UX overhaul of mobile dashboard, 9/6
- Ryan
- Fix assigned 1.8 bugs, 9/6
- Dave
- Michael
- Fix 1.8 bugs related to Sites, 9/6
- Andres
- --
- Stephen
- file/verify bugs (swamped with other projects)
- Aakash
- Talk to folks in platform meeting about Input, 8/31
- Hold the 2.0 planning meeting
- Help Stephen get set up on his mobile device, 8/31
1.7
8-26-2010
What's been completed:
- Fred
- 1.7 Bugs Fixed
- L10n notified
- Dave
- Themes up on Sites
- Michael
- Fixed Sites bugs for 1.7
- Andres
- --
- Ryan
- Fixed last bug, need a push
- Stephen
- Finishing up QA Completeness
- Aakash
- Done with 2.0 PRD (on the wiki)
- Created 1.8 wiki
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- Complete UX overhaul of mobile dashboard, 9/6
- Ryan
- Get bug pushed by Dave
- File all necessary bugs needed to complete 1.8 milestone, 8/27
- Dave
- Push Ryan's bug, enjoy the weekend
- Work on 1.8 bugs
- Michael
- Fix 1.7 bugs related to Sites, 8/24
- Andres
- --
- Stephen
- file/verify bugs
- Aakash
- Hold a planning meeting for 2.0
- on vacation (not available) from 9/1-9/5
- Work on communication effort to promote Input after 1.7, 8/31
- Create 1.7 release blogpost, 8/26
Additional Notes:
- We're going to be in Firefox Proper
- We're planning to be in Nightly Builds
8-24-2010
What's been completed:
- Fred
- Fixed remaining P1/P2 bugs
- Need follow-up with michaelk
- Dave
- Done with Themes UX Overhaul, need to have tests automated
- Andres
- --
- Ryan
- Fixed 1 of the bugs
- Stephen
- Verified some bugs and filed some more
- Aakash
- 3/4 done on 2.0 PRD
- Created 1.8 wiki
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- Finish P1/P2 bugs, 8/24
- Ryan
- Fix last bug and work with wenzel on committing process, 8/24
- Dave
- Themes UX Overhaul, 8/24
- Michael
- Fix 1.7 bugs related to Sites, 8/24
- Andres
- --
- Stephen
- file/verify bugs
- Aakash
- Finish Input 2.0 PRD, 8/24
- Talk to mrz about release time
- Update 1.8 wiki, 8/24
- Work on communication effort to promote Input after 1.7, 8/31
- Create 1.7 release blogpost, 8/26
8-19-2010
What's been completed:
- Fred
- Only 1 P1 bug left
- Assigned 2 bugs to Ryan
- Working on RTL support
- Dave
- Michael
- staging site now has sites dump coming in on a daily basis
- fixed P2 bugs for Sites
- Andres
- Ryan
- Been busy with Socorro, but will work on bugs today and tomorrow
- Stephen
- Verified some bugs and filed some more
- Has some sites questions that should be answered with chowse's
- Got another free load test report
- Aakash
- Finished 2.0 definition
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- Finish P1/P2 bugs, 8/23
- Contact l10n, 8/19
- Ryan
- Fix assigned bugs, 8/23
- Dave
- Themes UX Overhaul, 8/23
- Michael
- add (unit) tests for sites generation as soon as I find the time
- Fix 1.7 bugs related to Sites
- Andres
- --
- Stephen
- file/verify bugs
- Aakash
- Finish Input 2.0 definition, 8/24
- Work on communication effort to promote Input after 1.7, --
- Create 1.7 release blogpost, 8/24
8-17-2010
What's been completed:
- Fred
- Working on UX Overhaul
- fixed most P1 bugs
- won't be ready for tomorrow, but we'll need a few days
- Dave
- Brought up a half-done sites for the ux overhaul
- Michael
- made the changes to the sites process that were needed for Bugs 587616, 587588, 586915
- added an IT ticket (Bug 587942) to regularly run migrations for sites on stage
- Andres
- Ryan
- Sandbox is up and running
- WIll pick up bugs
- Stephen
- Verified some bugs
- Ran LoadImpact and Jmeter
- Got some 500 errors on staging
- Running 40 requests/sec and 300kb/sec with no issue
- Aakash
- Start communication effort for Input Dashboard
- Filed some bugs
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- UX overhaul
- Give heads up when pages are ready to be QA'd
- Ryan
- Work with Fred and fix assigned bugs
- Dave
- Themes UX Overhaul
- Michael
- - make sure the sites production db is migrated before 1.7 goes online (please notify me when code freezes)
- add (unit) tests for sites generation as soon as I find the time
- Fix 1.7 bugs related to Sites
- Andres
- --
- Stephen
- file/verify bugs
- try to look into happy/sad load testing
- Aakash
- Finish Input 2.0 definition, 8/24
- Work on communication effort to promote Input, --
- Create 1.7 release blogpost, 8/24
1.6.2
8-12-2010
What's been completed:
- Fred
- Working on UX Overhaul
- Dave
- Almost fully sandboxed
- Andres
- Stephen
- Verified some bugs
- Load testing as well
- Aakash
- Finished data flow, its on the wiki now
- Created 1.6.2 blogpost
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- Will release on branch by end of today
- Give an update on possibility of release on Wednesday, 8/16
- Ryan
- Take a look at bug queries, pick up a few bugs, 8/13
- Fix assigned 1.7 bugs, 8/16
- Dave
- Fix assigned 1.7 bugs, 8/16
- Andres
- Stephen
- vacation, vishal verifying bugs
- Aakash
- Input 2.0 definition
- Create 1.7 release blogpost
8-10-2010
What's been completed:
- Fred
- Dave
- Hudson is up, coverage is kinda crap - 67%
- Individual pieces of feedback linked
- Andres
- Michael
- Sites is up
- Stephen
- verify some bugs
- load testing as well
- Aakash
- finished data flow
- github commits are working
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- UX overhaul, 8/16
- Ryan
- UX Overhaul, 8/16
- Dave
- Take a look at 1.7 bugs, 8/12
- Andres
- Michael
- Maintain Sites, 8/12
- Stephen
- vacation, vishal verifying bugs
- Aakash
- Prepare 1.6.1 blogpost, 8/5
- input 2.0 definition
1.6.1
8-05-2010
What's been completed:
- Fred
- Held UX Overhaul meeting with chowse
- Atom Feeds
- Dave
- Worked on Hudson and removed smiley face from dashboard
- Andres
- introduced us to Hamilton
- Michael
- Don't have access to prod db, need help from IT
- need uptake with dmoore
- code is r+'d by fwenzel
- Stephen
- load-testing being worked on
- random numbers for search query terms brings down
- Aakash
- talked to Hamilton about things we're working on and our needs
- finished another rev of data flow chart
- sent out inquiries about 2.0 definition to triagers
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- Wait on chowse UX Overhaul, 8/10
- Dave
- Hudson for 1.7
- Andres
- continue with parsing through adjectives; modeling by topic
- Michael
- Sites, 8/4
- Stephen
- load testing, 8/4
- verify bugs
- Aakash
- work on data flow, 8/5
- work on Input 2.0 definition, 8/16
- Prepare 1.6.1 blogpost, 8/5
- figure out why my github commits to master are not working, 8/5
8-03-2010
What's been completed:
- Fred
- Took a look at the designs
- Dave
- Started on hudson, build is failing
- Andres
- parse through adjectives; modeling by topic
- Michael
- 1st review completed
- manual SQLs -> django to access db needs to be changed
- is thinking about pre-processing the data before Sites is
- Stephen
- verified some bugs
- Aakash
- Set up a meeting UX Overhaul
- Set up a meeting with Load Testing
- created the first draft of a data flow chart
- Sent out 1.6 blogpost
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- Have meeting with chowse about UX Overhaul
- Start on UX Overhaul
- Dave
- Fix Atom Feed, dashboard smiley face and hudson bugs, 8/4
- Andres
- Sites, 8/4
- Introduce Hamilton to the group
- continue with parsing through adjectives; modeling by topic
- Michael
- Sites, 8/4
- Stephen
- load testing ramp-up meeting, 8/4
- help out with UX Overhaul
- Aakash
- work on data flow, 8/5
- work on Input 2.0 definition, 8/16
- Push 1.6.1 release back (After word from mkurze), 8/3
- Prepare 1.6.1 blogpost
1.6
7-29-2010
What's been completed:
- Fred
- Finished all remaining (and found) P1/P2 bugs
- Dave
- Cluster
- Finished all remaining (and found) P1/P2 bugs
- Andres
- Sites prototyped on a local server
- Met with IT for Sites set up with metrics db cluster
- Michael
- Sites prototyped on a local server
- Met with IT for Sites set up with metrics db cluster
- Stephen
- Couldn't get a hold of oremj, will meet with him next week
- Aakash
- Worked on promoting out Input 1.6's and future releases
- Worked on new UX with chowse
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- UX Overhaul
- Dave
- 1.6.1 bugs
- Andres
- Sites, 8/3
- Michael
- Sites, 8/3
- Stephen
- load testing ramp-up, 8/2
- Aakash
- Set up a meeting UX Overhaul, 7/29
- Set up a meeting with Load Testing, 7/29
Additional Notes:
- Need time on working on better code
- Get hudson up
- Let's not fight fires
7-27-2010
What's been completed:
- Fred
- Finished Mobile
- URL submission on happy reports
- Dave
- Cluster
- Andres
- Sites prototyped on a local server
- Get PDF for Sites info over the past week
- Michael
- Sites prototyped on a local server
- Stephen
- Found Grinder, JMeter and ran them
- Need another sphinx node to run it against
- Aakash
- Get the new Cluster/Sites buttons
- Worked on new UX with chowse
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- Dave
- Andres
- Get PDF of Sites report, 7/29
- Michael
- Get term-matching onto trends box, 7/29
- Stephen
- Work on optimization of production sphinx node with oremj, 7/27
- QA 1.6 Changes
- Aakash
- Work on UX overhaul with chowse, 7/29
- File a bug on removing sites buttons, 7/27
Additional Notes:
- Are clusters and sites filtering by the product version? [aakash]
- There's no mixing, so we'll only get beta 2 information.
7-22-2010
What's been completed:
- Fred
- got the url (m.stage.input.mozilla.com) working
- submission pages are up, won't be completely done by 7/23
- Dave
- Finished RSS Feeds, working on Clusters
- Andres
- Finished algorithm, working on UI; targeting 7/26
- Got python on metrics db working
- Michael
- look up at Andres
- Stephen
- Jmeter is a bit complicated;
- Aakash
- Finished PRD 1.6 and re-uptake on Sites page
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- Finish Mobile, 7/27
- Dave
- Cluster, 7/26
- Andres
- Get prototype of Sites, 7/26
- Michael
- Get prototype of Sites, 7/26
- Stephen
- Investigate into load testing (talk to oremj), 7/27
- Figure out differences between staging and production for load testing
- Aakash
- UX Refresh with Chris Howse, 7/27
- Work with Lee Tom on new buttons, 7/27
1.5
7-20-2010
What's been completed:
- Fred
- On verbatim and have 7 locales already completed
- fixed all P1/P2 bugs that were blockers for 1.5
- Dave
- Almost done with RSS Feeds; Will go in a bit;
- Andres
- Working on "Sites";
- Q's: How do we analyze sites? Siphon the domains and then perform cluster analysis from there.
- Michael
- Last thursday/friday, worked on term-matching
- Setting up reporter project locally, will need Fred's help
- Q's: How do we write back into the tool? File an Input bug.
- Stephen
- Verified all bugs and filed some bugs.
- Aakash
- IT will help out in a big way
- PRD for 1.6 completed
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- Work on Mobile, 7/23
- Dave
- Cluster, 7/26
- Andres
- Finish up pseudo code of "sites", 78/
- Michael
- File Input Bug for data exchange workflow
- Get prototype of Sites, 7/26
- Stephen
- Investigate into load testing, 7/22
- Aakash
- Work through mock-ups and requirements with each feature, 7/26
- Figure out better triage techniques, 7/26
- UX Refresh with Chris Howse, 7/23
7-15-2010
What's been completed:
- Fred
- Completed Translate, l10n possible/not on verbatim
- Dave
- Changes haven't been made yet, got busy with AMO stuff
- Stephen
- Krupa is interested, but he'll be the only person needed for this release
- Aakash
- Talked to Chris Howse and he'll start on UX work next week with Input
- Worked with Metrics on Web Problems Page
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- Get on verbatim 7/19;
- Dave
- Complete RSS Feeds, 7/16
- Will try to get it in Clusters, 7/23
- Stephen
- Ready to QA and got updated on bug system
- Aakash
- communicate relative importance of Input to IT, 7/16
7-13-2010
Feeds:
- Django native cache; headers get picked up by Zeus and it doesn't hit the webhead.
L10n:
- Fred marked them as localizable and need to put them in verbatim. Will need strings separated for mobile pages.
Clusters:
- Aakash: Get a review from Chris Howse
- Warning Thing
- Doing a happy/sad report by version. It's a week's worth of data.
- Would rather prefer a week's worth of data because it's more useful and data won't get too large if we work on 3 week beta cycles.
Scheduling:
- 7/28: Searches with Feeds, L10n of Webpages, Translation Link and Clusters Beta
- String Freeze: 7/19
- Code Complete 7/21
- QA until 7/28
- Release 7/28
1.0
6-28-2010
Things we did well?
- Fred: requirements were very clear, mock-ups helped; execution was very much on-time;
- Aakash: pretty much what fred said; fred's coding was beast-like in its intensity; we got help from everyone we asked
Things we didn't do well?
- Fred: background changes a day before we launched; timeline was very short;
- Aakash: https stuff; blogposts were confusing since beta was not out yet to use the pages; VPN set-up 1 week after requested by fred
Things that are important to work on for next rev?
- get an idea about what marketing might want from Input early on
- When going live, Input needs an apache reload
Overall
- things were very good considering the timeline
6-22-2010
What's been completed:
- Frederic
- All remaining bugs fixed
- Aakash
- Tested Feedback Extension and identified nits to change
- Verified warning notification on submission pages
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- GO LIVE!
- Create blog post
- Aakash
- Create blog post/promotions as necessary and link Fred's stuff in it
6-21-2010
What's been completed:
- Frederic
- Pretty much all bugs fixed
- Filed bug 573468 to go live
- Aakash
- Done with Privacy Policy stuff
- verified fixes
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- fix remaining bugs
- Try out Lee Tom's next background image if he gets it in time
- Aakash
- Test out Jono's fix
- Verify warning notification on submission pages
6-20-2010
What's been completed:
- Frederic
- Fixed a bunch of bugs over the weekend
- Aakash
- talking to legal about implementation of privacy policy text on submission pages
- verified fixes
- promoted out input to a wider audience and got some testers (go kbrosnan!)
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- fix remaining P1-P3's
- file bug to go live Tuesday night PST
- Aakash
- hash out implementation with legal and give Fred a solution
- talk to Jono to comment out URL inclusion on extension side
6-16-2010
What's been completed:
- Frederic
- finished all P1/P2's except 1
- received horlander's icons
- Aakash
- finished 2nd set of mock-ups for mobile firefox
- verified p1 and p2 fixes
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- fix vendor directory issue for IT to get up on staging
- load testing
- fix remaining P1's and P3's
- Aakash
- test Input on staging
- promote out input to a wider audience (i.e. key stakeholders: qa, marketing, ux, fx-team)
6-15-2010
What's been completed:
- Frederic
- finished all P1's except 1
- replied to horlander
- Aakash
- followed-up with stephen horlander
- worked on implementation with mobile firefox
- filed a few more bugs
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- p2 bugs and remaining p1 bug
- Aakash
- test changes after p1 and p2 fixes are done
- look into load testing
6-14-2010
What's been completed:
- Frederic
- got hosed due to late issue with the weave team
- Aakash
- sent graphics via e-mail
- extension created by jono and we're testing that side
- all bugs triaged
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- p1 bugs
- reply back to horlander about smiley icon sizes on submission pages & sentiment box
- Aakash
- test changes after p1 fixes are done
- look into load testing
6-10-2010
What's been completed:
- Frederic
- completed beta page
- wrote unit tests
- did not file bug since app is changing quite a bit
- Aakash
- gave list of user agents
- got VPN access and tested/filed bugs
- created bugzilla component
- gave mock-up for download page
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic
- fixing P1/P2's
- file a bug to staging when all P1/P2s are fixed
- Aakash
- follow up horlander
- lee tom for icons and graphics
- work on layout of search results
- file/triage bugs as needed
6-08-2010
What's been completed:
- Frederic:
- Search is working, pop-down for URLs, menu box options
- Aakash:
- Got Lee Tom to work on Dashboard and Thank You page graphics and Horlander to work on platform-specific icons
- Jono is going to incorporate button implementation with Feedback
- Metrics and TP will give info on riak implementation once its completed
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Frederic:
- create intermediary page to download beta (6/9)
- write unit test to make sure all cases are covered to send users to the download page
- file a bug on putting dashboard and submission pages to staging for input-stage.mozilla.com, input.stage.mozilla.com/happy input-stage.mozilla.com/sad (6/9)
- Aakash
- make a list of user agents 6/8
- get VPN access 6/8
- give text for download page 6/8
- get info on uservoice/survey api implementation with mktg on fx betas 6/10
6-01-2010
What's been completed:
- Fred:
- Working dashboard up (i.e. screenshot)
- swear word filter completed,
- Dashboard can be seen at http://fwenzel.khan.mozilla.org:8001/ (no search, urls are working, menuboxes for product/advanced options), admin panel (for deleting sentiment and hide terms)
- More screenshots: sad form, thank you page
What we aim to do next and when we expect to accomplish them:
- Fred (by Thursday 6/3):
- get search working
- pop-down for URLs when clicked ( go to page only when hyperlink clicked)
- implement in menu box options
- Aakash (by Thursday 6/3):
- get some designer love for happy/sad faces, dashboard header and follow-up buttons on thank you page
- start looking into client side
- getting info from metrics on implementation help for riak on rev 2
Additional Notes?
- Aakash: get set up with VPN for future demos
5-27-2010
Status Update:
- Fwenzel
- completed = forms (post positive and negative feedback), completed-ish user agent parser,
- questions = app that searches with riak?, interval on dashboard is? (1 day, 1 week, 1 month)
- aakashd
- getting info from metrics on implementation help for riak on rev 2
Next Steps:
- fwenzel = making django app/dashboard (late next week)
- aakashd = looking at list of swear words (mid-5/27)