Webdev/Meetings/2016/June

Webdev Meeting
Date:	June 7th, 2016
Time:	10:00 AM Pacific
How to Join
Vidyo:	Room webdev Public Vidyo Air Mozilla
Teleconferencing:	Room 9 798
IRC:	#webdev on irc.mozilla.org

Webdev Extravaganzas are open to the public and serve as a gathering point for anyone in the Mozilla community who is interested in web development and what Mozilla has been doing in it.

The meeting will be streamed and recorded on Air Mozilla: https://air.mozilla.org/webdev-extravaganza-june-2016/

Shipping Celebration

What did we ship this month? Alternatively, what didn't we ship to spare the world the horror?

• (globau aka Byron Jones)(shobson) Firefox addon for fixing SSO
  • https://github.com/globau/firefox-mozilla-okta
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/moco-sso-tweaks/
• (peterbe) Timenails (to edit chapters)
  • E.g. https://air.mozilla.org/webdev-extravaganza-may-2016/edit/chapters/
• (shobson and hoosteeno) viewsourceconf.org
  • Metalsmith-generated static site
  • TODO: Implement service workers to enable offline access, particularly of schedule pages
• (emceeaich and dylan) Readable Bug Statuses in bugzilla.mozilla.org
  • NPM package
  • Deployed in bmo for bugs in Firefox, Core, Toolkit, and BMO
  • Module issues in GitHub
• (erikrose) DXR:
  • JS support (billm, pelmers)
  • Case-sensitivity inference (pelmers)
  • Many improved C++ analysis corner cases, including the beginnings of proper template support (tomklein)
  • XPIDL support is turned on in prod. (pelmers)
  • Memory use is 20% lower. (pelmers)
• (erikrose) peep 3.1.2, with support for pip 8.1.2
• (erikrose) Fathom

Open-Source Citizenship

Any updates with our libraries or with libraries we use? Anyone looking for help with a library they maintain?

• (peterbe) Blog post about how to do really simple Google Analytics from Python
  • https://www.peterbe.com/plog/ga-pageviews-on-non-web
• (peterbe) Domainswitcher addon for webdevs
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/domainswitcher/?src=ss

New Hires / Interns / Volunteers / Contributors

Anyone new that we want to induct into the secret order? Paid, unpaid, contract, doesn't matter!

• (bcase) Benton Case, Intern on Run the Tools, working on SHIELD

Roundtable

Anything else to talk about?

• (irc nick) Topic
• (Osmose) https://mozillalondonallhands2016.sched.org/event/746X/web-dev-day
• (jgmize) Shameless plug: http://mozillalondonallhands2016.sched.org/event/73Ch/continuous-delivery-with-docker-and-deis