Compatibility/Meetings/2017-06-work-week

This is the agenda and logistics page for Web Compatibility Team Work Week meeting in San Francisco (USA) from June 26 - June 30, 2017.

• Previous Work Week: Berlin, Germany - April 2017.
• Next Work Week: (not known yet)

Logistics

• Location: San Francisco, USA
• Hotel: Hilton Hotel

Attendees

Hotel	Attendee	Arrival	Departure
Parc55	Adam Stevenson	Monday 3:38pm	Saturday, 11:55am
Union	Dennis Schubert	Monday 6:15pm	Sunday, 2:05pm
Union	Eric Tsai	Monday 2:25pm	Sunday 1:40am
Union	Guillaume Demesy	Monday 12:30pm	Saturday 03:10pm
Parc55	Karl Dubost	Monday 10:30am	Saturday 11:25am
Parc55	Mike Taylor	Monday 3:44pm	Friday, 11:59pm
Union	Ola Gasildo	Monday 7:05pm	Saturday 3:05pm
Parc55	Tom Wisniewski	Monday 7:03pm	Saturday 7:55pm
_	Carol Chung	_	_
_	Beatriz Machado	_	_

Agenda

Mon, Jun 26, 2017

Evening

Reception event

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Tue, Jun 27, 2017

Evening

• Karl: already booked.

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Wed, Jun 28, 2017

Evening

Team Dinner, somewhere, somehow Let's eat together as a team, for one evening. The rest are up to you.

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Fri, Jun 30, 2017

Evening

Bye Event.

Topics Bank

Use the following template in one of the section below:

 ==== Topic ====
 Description with [http://example.com links] when necessary

webcompat.com bug form required fields validation

Get info about why selecting the Description triggers validation for Problem type/category field.

webcompat.com - architecture overview

Info session to learn about how data flows through the system (end to end). Other questions?

webcompat.com - deploys

Hack session to work on the work left to get someone else to deploy the site (other than Mike).

webcompat - VPNs

How useful? Should we consider getting a team plan, or something? Or just a few designated peeps?

webcompat - H2 planning

What are the projects we will continue to work on for the rest of 2017? What should we kill? What new projects?

webcompat - team meetings

A quick discussion on all our current meetings to decide if what we do works for us.

go faster - H2 planning

What's the current status for webcompat gofaster and what comes next?

Google Tier 1 planning

Review bugs filed by SoftVision and plan how we can move forward.

webcompat - transparency on what the team is working on

As Dennis mentioned a few weeks back, it's hard to keep track on who is working on what right now. Maybe we can find a good way to make things more transparent as a short brief in our meetings on everyone's status or making everyone's quarterly goals transparent (if possible).

webcompat.com - Living Style Guide (LSG)

With the refactor, we'd like to work on a Living Style Guide to build a base for the upcoming refactor of the page. This will include - a "grid system", - website modules that will be build upon the grid system including defined HTML semantics, - the structure for the LSG (usage of modules, documentation of colors, fonts etc), - Tests (How much do we need to change due to CSS / semantics refactor) - Visual Regression Testing for LSG (http://webdriver.io/guide/services/visual-regression.html) - Ownership of LSG

With the LSG we will be on the same page to proceed with the refactor remotely as well as be able to manage small releases plus have a clearer entry point for new contributors.

webcompat.com - Discuss LSG related questions

A few questions need to be discussed before we start working on the LSG: - How do we want to handle SVG's? - How do we want to handle font loading as we will probably switch to Open Sans (Example: http://webcompat.github.io/design/)? - How should the naming conventions for CSS look like? - We would need to decide on the audience of contributors for the LSG, so we know how the documentation should look like. - How do we want to handle the CSS development (e.g. pull from webcompat.com in LSG for testing purpose) as the same CSS should serve both (webcompat.com & LSG), so we can run manual / automated visual testing for it.

webcompat.com - Discuss roadmap for refactor in Q3 / 4

With everyone working remotely, it would be great to discuss a rough roadmap for the refactor of webcompat.com. A few questions that fall under that topic would be: - What needs to be done? - Who would like to help and take over which tasks? - What needs to go in which milestone? - When do we tackle the JS refactor?

webcompat.com - Discuss roadmap for refactor in Q3 / 4 (low prio)

Following questions can be interesting to discuss, but are not high priority as they can be discussed in a remote meeting at some later point: - Webpack rebuild - Tooling for JS refactor (Mostly framework discussion + tools for handling npm dependencies, test coverage...)

webcompat.com - testing

As we will change semantics and naming conventions for webcompat.com and the LSG, we will need to put some work in the tests. How much do we want to change? Just fixing the tests? Or do we want to make more improvements as we are on it already? How would those improvements look like? What is out of scope?

webcompat - lightning talks

We introduce a topic to the rest of the team in 5 minutes. A technique we used for coding. A way of working on something. A python dev issue. A devtools hack. An organization/management suggestion. Or maybe something completely different from your life. Your garden. Your cooking skills. Your reading.

webcompat.com - type-media

We receive a lot of type-media issues. We need to clarify a couple of things. - Do we push them in needs-diagnosis once identified? - Who is handling them in needs-diagnosis? alfredoyang? - We have the webhook being developed by karl. - Do we kill the handling of those?

webcompat.com - Atom feed for issues

Part of the SF Milestones on Github. I will work on this during San Francisco Work Week. https://github.com/webcompat/webcompat.com/milestone/35

webcompat.com - alexa top and priority

Handling alexa through webhooks by Eric

webcompat.com dev - committing on your repo

It seems there are two styles of coding for branches. Some people will commit on webcompat.com repo a branch, and some will do it on their personal fork. We pushed people to do it on their own repo in the past to avoid any kerfuffles on webcompat.com.

Communications channels and openess

There is a trend that we need to stop and fix. We have a tendency to use non-open communication channels for things which are not Mozilla-secret sensitive. Each time we share something on a private channel, each time we lower the sense of the community. Mundane stuff, simple links to geeky stuff, etc. All of that is useful for the community even if there are just peeping.

Triage Consistency

(Adam, Eric, Karl) When doing triage we need to define some consistent strategy. Examples: when do we close as incomplete? When do we move to non-compat and with which status? When it's a bug report for another browser, do we automatically move it to needsdiagnosis? Etc.

This Week Minutes

Let's make sure that we minute everything or have summaries for everything we discussed. Hawaii was a good work week but poorly minuted. We are usually good on the first day and then slowly with fatigue let things slip.

• Use the etherpad for minutes taking with the usual format.
• Minutes on the wiki by the end of each day. Karl will generate them.
• If working in smaller groups, write the minutes for your group on the etherpad at the usual place.
• Record clear Action items which can be understood out of context.
  • WHO to do WHAT in WHICH CONTEXT by THIS DATE
  • Example: Karl to do review peace in the world policy framework in webcompat-dev issue 6969 by 2020-03-16
• Send the minutes to the mailing-list. Karl will do it.

Webcompat.com Responsibilities Overview

How the responsibilities worked out since Berlin Meeting? Do we need to readjust the path? tweak? Do we sail as-is?

Webcompat.com San Francisco Milestone

We have a San Francisco Milestone for Webcompat.com. Let's try to tackle it before the work week.

GoFaster hacking time

(Dennis, Eric, Mike, (Tom)) Dennis is running into some difficulties while adopting the GoFaster addon to newer standards (especially bug 1371442) and would love an hour or two of concentrated Gecko-knowledge to discuss these in a group.

Half-day or evening team building

Let's do something not work related together. The bigger the team the harder it becomes but we will probably find out something. If you have ideas, propose them here.

Webcompat.com Localization

(Adam) In the past we have generally pushed back on this idea, due to the possibility of increased bug reports in languages we don't understand. We currently get bugs from many different countries, with no description of the problem. Can we somehow encourage users to leave descriptions in their native language without doing full localization? It's easy to Google translate and currently these reports are being closed anyway.