Living in the World of Nightly - Nightly Workshop recap
This weekend we gathered a small group of Mozillians to work on activities related to Nightly. You can see the goals we intended to accomplish on our wiki. Our event was held along with the l10n team's Workshop, which was a great mix of different communities who were focused on improving the localization of Firefox in their respective languages. The Nightly group worked on the first floor, but we shared meals with the rest of the participants, which was a great way for all of the various communities to meet each other.
Pascal and Arnaud exploring the Mozregression tool.
Here are some of the things we accomplished during the course of the weekend:
MozActivate: Sunday we spent almost the entire day brainstorming a MozActivate activity that we could build a template around. Flore had an event in Lyon, and we used some of the feedback from her event and built that into the template design. I am happy to say that thanks to our hard work that we actually came up with a good template for an activity - we are currently getting some feedback and hope to have an activity on the site shortly. Even better, the template can be used for other events related to Nightly, especially when we need to have specific features tested as we continue work on Project Quantum.
Flore and Christophe during the Nightly Workshop in Paris
Other areas we covered during the course of the weekend:
Installing Nightly - We advertised on the Telegram channel and invited participants to come down and get Nightly installed on their laptops.
Triaging Bugs - We did a little bit of group triage, looking at some of the latest UNCO bugs and trying to bucket the in the correct component.
MozRegression Tool - Pascal showed the participants how to set up MozRegression and use it to find a regression range.
Tracking Flags - Marcia talked about how to mark bugs so that they get the attention they need, and the importance of this as we work on Project Quantum and Photon.
Project Dawn - Axel and Marcia gave a short presentation to the entire group explaining Project Dawn
Nightly Community - Pascal shared his presentation about Nightly to the entire workshop group, giving participants an inside view of his work on Nightly and how community can help get involved and promote Nightly.
You can find more pictures of the event here, and the entire group photo here. Overall it was a great event, with lots of interaction and lots of discussion.
