Web Engineering/Team Meetup 2014Q1
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Contents
Dates
March 24-28 2014
Attendees
WebEng
- Laura Thomson
- Lonnen
- Peter Bengtsson
- Robert Helmer
- Selena Deckelmann
- Lars Lohn
- Erik Rose
- Adrian Gaudebert
- Daniel Maher
- Schalk Neethling
Extras
- Ted Mielczarek (A-team)
- Matt Brandt (WebQA) - already in town for WebQA work week
- Hal Wine (RelEng)
- Liz Henry (Desktop QA) (Monday and Tuesday)
- Lukas Blakk (Release Management) might drop by
Agenda
Monday
am
- Travel, Project meeting
pm
- Kickoff: Goals for the week (Laura)
- Review of systems and priorities for strategic work for the next year (Laura)
- etherpad
- What are we working on that isn't high value?
- What are we not working on that we should be working on/would love to do?
- What are we doing as side projects that we should elevate?
- Socorro architecture
- slides
- How it works today (groundwork for 100%, cross-functional training)
- DXR project review (Erik)
- slides
- Architecture, status, and plans
Evening activities
- Board Game Night
Tuesday
am
- PostgreSQL training: writing SPs, migrations, and tests (Selena)
- slides
- SPs (flow, new)
- Migrations (howto manually, automated stage deploys, upgrading production, separate repo)
- Tests
- Cost of Socorro infra
pm
- How do we make it easier/faster to build new reports on Socorro? (Lonnen)
- etherpad
- Plan and file bug for merging middleware and the public Socorro API
- Front end components
- User driven/built reports: how to tackle
- Crontabber tactical extraction (Peter)
- etherpad
- Make crontabber its own python module for easier reuse and deployment
- Building up contributors (Erik)
- Ongoing OPW mentorship (selena)
- DXR: what are the drivers of success?
- How to best support volunteer crash triage work
Evening activities
- Team dinner @ Nola, 535 Ramona St., Palo Alto, CA at 7pm.
- Car pool please!
Wednesday
am
- 100% processing project (Selena, Lars)
- slides
- Strategy, blockers, planning
- Data stores for crash-stats (Selena)
- Review of current options
- Symbols (Ted)
- Elmo project review (Rob and Adrian)
- Architecture, status, and plans
- slides
pm
- Benchmarking multithread vs single thread multiprocess vs greenlets (Lars)
- Breakouts/Working sessions:
1. Annual Epic Bug Triage (Laura)
2. Code Deprecation (Lars)
3. DXR hacking (Erik)
4. Free Crontabber (Peterbe)
5. Elasticsearch optmisation (Adrian & Phrawzty)
Evening activities
- Secret team activity involving coding. Bring a laptop.
- Magic happened: http://lqbs.fr/suchcomments/
Thursday
am
- Search hijacking (Lonnen, Laura)
- etherpad
- checkRemote API review
- FHR integration
- What else can we do to move the needle?
- Working with RelEng: how to maximize value (Laura, Rob, Hal)
pm
- Team Building
- Hike in Golden Gate Park
- Robots and cocktails
Friday
New MTV Office - room Firestorm
am
- Breakouts and bug work
pm
- Travel
