I like the idea of making space to pay down technical debt. But I also want to make sure that we're taking advantage of the together-time to work on things that we couldn't do effectively while scattered around the globe.
Do we have any technical-debt items that would really benefit from some close synchronous collaboration? Ryan On 18/11/16 02:34, Phil Booth wrote: > Oh Vijay, that's a great shout! > > I have so many open quality issues on the back-burner, which I never > seem to make time for but really want to work on. Maybe I'm just bad at > prioritising stuff but having some official technical-debt time would be > brilliant I reckon. > > +1 > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Vijay Budhram <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I think having a focused 2-day hack sprint would be great. However, > I have a counter proposal. > > > What should we try to do > > I think it would be cool to help reduce some of the technical debt > that has accumulated. These are things that we normally don't get to > make explicit time for but would make our lives better in the long run. > > 1) More stable testing environments > 2) Faster functional tests > 3) Migrate projects to Yarn? > 4) Build trigger to test entire stack against specific commit in any > project > > I'm sure there are more things that could be added but that is off > the top of my head. > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Sean McArthur > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > The Hawaii work week is only 3 weeks away! We're starting to see > more and more that can be part of our schedule, and we could try > to plan something FxA-related that we want to get done that > week. With travel days, plenary and other required bigger-org > meetings, we could have around 2.5 days to be together and get > something done. > > Would you all be interested in planning some sort of sprint > thingy, similar to what happened in Toronto? Maybe we can plan a > 2-day hack sprint where on Friday afternoon we can show off a > working thing-a-ma-jig. > > What should we try to do? Should we continue on the idea that > was brainstormed in Toronto? Or is there some other small > experiment someone has wished we could just make happen with > some concentrated effort? > > _______________________________________________ > Dev-fxacct mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct > <https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev-fxacct mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct > <https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev-fxacct mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct > _______________________________________________ Dev-fxacct mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct
