MCS/Meetings/2011-12-09

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Attendees

  • Soumya "Having Sucky Internet" Deb
  • Leo "WIP" McArdle
  • Tomer "WordPress" Cohen
  • Jan Bambach
  • Tara Shahian

Agenda

  • Welcome and introduction
  • MCS Theme
    • Timescale?
    • Public vs Private
    • Subtheme vs Start From Scratch
    • Organisation (decentralization/delegation)
    • Ping WebDev team to take the repo to github.com/mozilla/mcs
    • MCS Themes Vs. Community Customization Packs [CCP]
  • We need a slogan, a vision, a goal!
  • What will we do with the wiki?
  • Meeting Schedule
  • Coding Style

Meeting Notes

Welcome and introduction

  • We have the aid of Tara from creative, huzzah!

MCS Theme

Timescale?

  • Will be done as part of the whole update of the visual style of mozilla.org/firefox and mozilla.org
  • Huge effort which won't happen till next year
  • Needs a lot of discussion to ensure we have a strong theme
  • Leo's mockups https://github.com/leomca/mcs
  • What should we do until the visual update?
    • Sort out the wiki

Public vs Private

  • Public being in the CMS's theme repo
  • Private being on our own site
  • Let's discuss this further when we know more about what the theme is going to look like

Subtheme vs Start From Scratch

  • The debate rages on...

Organisation (decentralization/delegation)

  • Mozilla generally works by delegation
    • This is where someone is given power over a sub-section of a project

Ping WebDev team to take the repo to github.com/mozilla/mcs

  • Let's not atm, since we're not making any official MCS theme

MCS Themes Vs. Community Customization Packs [CCP]

  • The CCP is, er, what it says on the tin - different things that allow communities to change the look 'n' feel of their website, slides, etc.
  • The theme is part of the CCP, so there's not really any 'vs' here
  • Let's discuss further on the mailing lists

We need a slogan, a vision, a goal!

  • Let's discuss on mailing lists

What will we do with the wiki?

  • Make it our homepage, much like what remo does
  • Start afresh and backport any articles we need to

Meeting Schedule

  • Weekly meeting
  • Let's discuss time on mailing lists

Coding Style

  • let's put this on wiki and discuss at a later date
  • 4-spaces tab indentation (and use spaces, instead of \t)
  • Don't leave unnecessary spaces in a blank-line or end of a line's code
  • Leave a blank-line at the end of each files (& always use Linux newline \n [LF])
  • Define variables at the 1st line of it's scope-block, as much possible
  • Preferably, use camelCase for variable names, in JS
  • Start branches from committing readme & then touch the files you need
  • Only commit the files immediately necesary, not the ones probably required for future
  • Never commit a massive ammount of code in one commit
  • Add/fix features & commit only that much (one commit per fix)
  • ...even if it's one character manipulation
  • Before committing code check the DIFF *very* carefully
  • Remove unnecessary modifications in line not related to that FIX
  • If you've done multiple fix, preferably remove others for next commit & do one commit per fix
  • Put *really* meaningful commit-messages (ever written a Telegram? ;)

Things to discuss on mailing lists

  • CCP
  • Slogan/vision/goal
  • Our meeting schedule
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