Webdev:Meetings:2010-07-20

Roundtable

abuchanan

• Page performance
• Firefox Home
• Cleanup
• Favorite Summit moment? When Jay ditched Keynote for HTML5, CSS3, Websockets, and an N900.

dd

• Firefox Input - now powered by Sphinx
• AMO zamboni faceted search is live
• AMO Electric Bandwagon stuff.
• Other blog posts:
  • More fixture related stuff
  • Text clustering
• Music - Feist/Metric - via Pandora - my stations stream what I want when I need it.

lars

• continued work on Socorro 1.8
  • fleshing out the registrar and its services
• made emergency version 1.7.2
  • with extra retries to avoid HBase problems
• another fire drill about duplicate crashes in Socorro
  • defensive action - trying to prove that it isn't our fault
  • working with Metrics
    • finding some crashes repeated identically over 1000 times
• attended one day of OSCON for Hadoop Training
  • lecturer: "HBase is promising, but it's not ready for production deployment"
• favorite Summit Moment:
  • riding the Sea To Sky highway at 30kph over the speed limit
• most recent music:
  • Shostakovitch Symphony #11

laura

• Following up on all the Summit stuff took a chunk of last week
• At OSCON this week learning all about Hadoop and Python. Talking Thursday about Declaring Technical Bankruptcy (when to rewrite vs just refactor)
  • I learned Hbase isn't appropriate for production :P
  • Also, Hbase vs RDBMS moves effort back from the hardware to the programmer
• Working on Socorro 1.8, freeze in a week
• Shipped 1.7.2
• Looking into duplicate crashes
  • good news is it's not a new problem
• Preparing for jetpack and content crashes
• Have three blog posts in the works (1.7, crash spike, Socorro PRD)
• Finalizing Socorro PRD
• Favorite summit moment: world expo
  • Also, the bear which I forgot until I saw Les' update
• Last music I bought was a CD of Gaelic lullabies.

lorchard

• BYOB v1 launched, wheee!
• PluginDir bugfixes
• Pitched in on some Firefox Home issues (including an iPhone app patch)
• Started poking a Badger
  • Merit badges & achievements for people of the web
  • Inspired by the keynote slide of the Boy Scouts
  • Brief summit brainstorming with @dria and scribbling on the bus
  • Planned and working features
  • Prototype demo
• My last album downloaded:
  • Rush - Live in Rio, just to round out the listening marathon
• My favorite summit moments (a tie):
  • Multi-player asteroids deathmatch over websockets
  • The 3D spaceship demo
  • Paul Rouget's demos
  • Laura and I saw a bear running off with stolen hamburger buns on the way back from the dinner at the end.

malexis

• Fx4 redesign creative reviews and content gathering
• Fx4 redesign IA
• Web dev project initiation form
• Kickoff engagement email initiative
• Mobile beta 2 planning
• Last record: John Martyn, Live at Leeds
• Fave summit moment: The spirited conversations at the breakout sessions. Especially the Firefox UX breakout session (there was beer involved).

ozten

• Breakpad 1.8 work
• PFS (worked with mossop) Added API to discover plugins by mime-type
• Attended Federated Social Web Summit - worth checking out projects and buzz-words

Favorite summit memory was meeting many new faces

paulc

• on vacation in Romania for the 3 weeks preceeding summit, to celebrate graduation
• started full time last week, woot!
• lots of catching up
• SUMO 2.2
  • adding image syntax bug 569033 and image upload bug 578520 support in Kitsune
  • making user names and email addresses unique in Tiki bug 571343

Hard to pick a favorite moment, but I had a blast @ the Friday night party+dancing. Can't remember the last time I purchased or pirated music. I mostly listen online.

paulosman

• ozten and I were at FSWS in Portland on Sunday. Major outcomes: Private info discovery and SWAT test. Also managed to convince some people to contribute to Drumbeat rewrite.
• Django rewrite of Drumbeat (batucada) is in progress. Cobbled together locale middleware from AMO and SUMO. Should probably try to generalize that code.
• Working on user registration / signin. Have basic OpenID flow working. Next up is building basic social infrastructure (friends, groups).
• Need to set up test structure, add project to Hudson.

Fav moz10 moment: 2am scotch party on hotel lobby floor after the roundhouse party.

ricky

• SUMO 2.2
  • Adding features
  • Fixing bugs
  • Reviewing patches

• Favorite Summit moment
  • When Shaver's demo crashed?

rsnyder

• Jetpack Gallery is ready to be shutdown August 2nd
• Bespin Gallery is ready for launch and awaiting push by ops
• New Creative Collective challenge is live
• Socorro 1.8
• OSCON this week
• Favorite Moment - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryansnyder/4783798608/

wenzel

• MDN is taking shape
• Firefox Input is getting ready for Fx 4 Beta 2. (We've got 7 localizations so far, yay!)
• Preparing to move SSO forward with Ozten

• Favorite Summit moment: The awesome group photo. Holy crap there are a lot of Mozillians!
  • not unnotable either: Shotgun ;)