The Sheppy Report: August 22, 2014

This week looks slower than usual when you look at this list, but the week involved a lot of research.

What I did this week

• Reviewed and made (very) minor tweaks to Chris Mills’s doc plan for the Gaia web components and QA documentation.
• Created an initial stub of a page for the canvas documentation plan.
• Spent the weekend and a bit of Monday getting my broken server, including this blog, back up and running after a not-entirely-successful (at first) upgrade of the server from OS X 10.6.8 Server to 10.9.4. But most things are working now. I’ll get the rest fixed up over the next few days.
• Pursued the MDN inbox project, trying to wrap it up.
  • Asked for feedback on the current state of things.
  • Added a subtle background color to the background of pages in the Inbox.
• Started discussions on dev-mdc and staff mailing list about the documentation process; we’re going to get this thing straightened up and organized.
• Filed bug 1056026 proposing that the Firefox_for_developers macro be updated to list both newer and older versions of Firefox.
• Redirected some obsolete pages to their newer, replacement, content in the MDN meta-documentation.
• Created a Hacker News account and upvoted a post about Hacks on canuckistani’s request.
• Updated the MDN Administration Guide.
• Installed various packages and add-ons on my Mac and server in preparation for testing WebRTC code.
• Forked several WebRTC projects from GitHub to experiment with.
• Found (after a surprisingly length search) a micro-USB cable so I could charge and update my Geeksphone Peak to Firefox OS 2.0’s latest nightly build.
• Re-established contact with Piotr at CKSource about continuing work to get our editor updated and improved.
• Removed a mess of junk from a page in pt-BR; looks like someone used an editor that added a bunch of extra <span>s.
• Successfully tested a WebRTC connection between my Firefox OS phone and my iMac, using my Mac mini as server. Now I should be ready to start writing code of my own, now that I know it all works!
• Filed bug 1057546: we should IMHO strip HTML tags that aren’t part of a string from within a macro call; this would prevent unfortunate errors.
• Filed bug 1057547 proposing that the editor be updated to detect uses of the style attribute and of undefined classes, and present warnings to the user when they do so.
• Fixed a page that was incorrectly translated in place, and emailed the contributor a reminder to be careful in the future.

Meetings attended this week

Monday

• MDN dev team meeting on security and improved processes to prevent problems like the email address disclosure we just had happen.
• MDN developer triage meeting.

Tuesday

• Developer Engagement weekly meeting.
• 1:1 with Jean-Yves Perrier.

Wednesday

• 1:1 with Ali.

 Thursday

• Writers’ staff meeting.

Friday

• #mdndev weekly review meeting.
• MDN bug swat meeting.
• Web API documentation meeting.

So… it was a wildly varied day today. But I got a lot of interesting things done.