Labs/Ubiquity/Meetings/2009-02-25 Weekly Meeting
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Contents
Details
Time
Location
- IRC channel: #ubiquity
- Dial in:
- +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 201 (US Toll Free/Skype)
- +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 201 (US/International)
- +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 201 (Canada)
Agenda
- The Herd - getting it back online
- Automatic bug reporting
- Logistics of pushing a release every 2 weeks
- Level of support for FF3.0 once FF3.1 is out
- Create new types of videos like http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails
Attendees
- Blair
- Mitcho
- Abi
- Atul
- Jono
- Ray
- Zac
Notes
The Herd
- Taken down shortly after 0.1.6
- Due to slowness of server - needed trac/hg more
- Atul has been spending some time trying to make umc go faster
- Some trouble is:
- Standard feeds getting hit very often
- Trac sessions not expiring
- The Herd needs to be on separate machine?
Bug reporting
- Automatic bug reporting, via report-bug command
- Atul implemented simple webservice
- Need to add a link/button to submit bug report from about:ubiquity
Quick-release logistics
- Only Mozilla employees (Atul/Jono/Aza/Blair) can do releases
- But only Atul really knows how and isn't scared by it
- Actually, Aza does too, but Atul didn't mention this during the meeting...
- But only Atul really knows how and isn't scared by it
- Schedule
- Beta released very often
- Prodution releases every 2 weeks (preceded by 1 or more RCs)
- Need central page for history + older revisions?
Supporting 3.0 when 3.1 is out
- While many people will upgrade, many also won't
- Compatability with 3.0 very important
- We current support 3.0, 3.1, 3.2pre - with no troubles
- Nothing major missing by supporting 3.0
- No issues with binary components
- nsIUbiquity (binary component) is optional, and only relevant to 3.0
- nsIUbiquityDesktopIntegration is still highly experimental + only for mac
- Nore buildbots - all OSes, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2
- Try servers too? Blair to ask IT about it
New tutorial videos
- Style similar to http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails
- Need feedback on this style
- Ray to play with a greenscreen with creater of above video
- Use usability videos as a type of reference
- What people have trouble with, when they get bored, etc
International relations
- Start international mailing lists/group for localizers, etc
- Need feedback on [mitcho.com/blog/projects/writing-commands-with-semantic-roles/ mitcho's semantic roles blog post]
- Mitcho doing intro video for linguists/localizers + call for help
Ubiquity 0.1.7
- Oops, we're late!
- 0.1.6.1 is being pushed ASAP
- Hotfix to unbreak ubiquity for many people
User Experience with network lag
- Network lag/congestion - leads to bad user experience of blank screen while things load
- Need indicator of waiting for the network
- No technical limitations in doing so?