Webdev:Meetings:2011-11-29

Meeting Info

In the Mountain View office in room PB&J

Or for remotees:

• PB&J via Vidyo
• or room 95346 via Teleconferencing

Open Items

• 2012 - A love story
• T-shirts and patches epiphany

Roundtable

adrian

• Socorro
  • Middleware reorganization landed!
  • Moving SQL queries out of the webapp, to the middleware
• I'll be in Mountain View next week!

Favorite Thanksgiving: The Addams Familly one.

andy

• App store developer preview.
• Standing up receipts and other app store things.
• https://github.com/andymckay/django-toolbar-statsd
• Paypal stats and logs for AMO: http://amckay-papal.khan.mozilla.org/
• Struggling to get anywhere on drywall: http://mozilla.github.com/drywall/
• Would like to do some on contributions too.
• Best part about American Thanksgiving? Really productive for the rest of us.

jlongster

• Rolled out email pref center, enhanced basket with async-ness (our email subscription API)
• Designing strategies for efficiently managing bedrock and the transition from PHP to Python for moz.org
• Helped a contributor join the moz.org team, get the site running locally and fixing bugs!

• Favorite thanksgiving thing: the sleep that incurs after the eating

jsocol

• Was out all of last week.
• Catching up yesterday and today.
• Getting SUMO/MDN Toronto POWWOW finalized.
• Reviews reviews reviews.
• Talking about Open Source on Saturday.
• Will be inaugural speaker for DjangoNYC Speaker Series this month.
• Want to help other webdevs, especially remoties, get involved in or start local communities.
• Working on Webdev of the Week blog series with Laura.
• Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. The family, friends, food, time together. The shopping and all that is pushed off till the next day. It's just an excuse to spend time with your family and friends and eat delicious pumpkin pie.

mkelly

• Wrapped up most Snippet Q4 goals (JS for tracking snippets is the only remaining one and is blocked by IT)
• Affiliates fixes, added new banners and locales
• Talked a lot about BrowserID being in en-US only currently

Best thing about Thanksgiving: SKYRIM

peterbe

• Working on Verbatim patches for L10n folks.
  • Code https://github.com/peterbe/mozilla-pootle-extras
  • Still haven't figured out how to actually translate the patches themselves
• Landed the "kill setup_environ() monkey patches" in playdoh
  • emailed you all about it (you can use ``--settings=...`` now)
• Finished version 1.0 of configman with Lars
  • https://github.com/mozilla/configman/commit/e77265be805be618bca5720716f4980d12295bd4
• Decided to put BrowserID on hold for Elmo
  • sasl-browserid still not ready (the browserid <-> ldap bridge)
  • too much UX confusion to do with legacy and browserid
  • would need to depend on people using the right email address so if you successfully log in with your Gmail address Elmo will have to say log in failed.
• Been actively participating in BrowserID with the identity team
  • blogged about using it in Tornado http://www.peterbe.com/plog/integrate-browserid-in-a-tornado-web-app

Thanks Giving: Got a puppy! http://www.peterbe.com/photos/puppy/photo.JPG/view

tofumatt

• Code-reviewing BrowserID for Mozillians -- want to get it in this quarter (this release if possible)
• Mozillians 1.2 -- basic location stuff, fixes, improvements, code reviews
• Mozillians UX work... lots of discussion and ideas about that
• The new Justice album is awesome -- just thought I'd mention that
• Interviewing interns
• Coordinating with our Flux team intern who is gonna do frontend work with me -- yay!
• Careers website stuff
• Nightly website tweaks
• I'll be in Mountain View next week with jlongster! flux team represent

Favourite thing about Thanksgiving? We have it first. Cooking turkey is fun too.

wenzel

• last week: vacation!
• The Flux team has a new member: Welcome Craig Cook!
• ... and we're also going to have an intern starting in January.
• Wrangled with MySQL’s default character settings. bug 703286.
• Just so I don't forget, got my fair whiff of code by reviewing a bunch of stuff for Input, People Tools, etc.

Favorite thing about Thanksgiving? The epic feast.