The Sheppy Report: May 29, 2015

[Eric Shepherd]

This week was another smorgasbord of random stuff getting done in
between WebRTC sample code work. This coming week will be a crazy busy one!

* Work continues on the next WebRTC sample.
* Added "NeedsUpdate" to the autocompletion suggestion list for tags.
* Added material to
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Contribute/FAQ to
explain how to add info about a new browser to compatibility tables.
Also, added Microsoft Edge to the browsers represented in the
prototype compatibility table on
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Contribute/Howto/Compatibility_tables.
* Fixed some compatibility tables for the compat database project
work; also, added some explanatory text on fixing some of these
problems to the importer docs.
* Scheduled a meeting to discuss compatibility table cleanup work
needed to improve the process of scraping data into the new
compatibility database. I may have been overly ambitious by
scheduling this meeting for Monday morning but doing so after
business hours on Friday. We'll see.
* Discussions held on how to handle adding Firefox iOS to
compatibility tables; for now, the decision is to change the Safari
column under mobile to something like "WebKit iOS (Safari/Firefox
iOS/Chrome iOS/etc" but less lengthy.
* Continuing discussion with Air Mozilla team about hosting MDN videos.
* Sent email to dev-mdc about the things that need to be done to
prepare compatibility tables for scraping.
* Filed bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1169673) to
implement a new RSS feed for new content revisions. The existing
feed is about to be removed, as its implementation is deeply flawed
in ways that make it unreliable and prone to running amok and
crippling site performance. This will not affect the revision dashboard.
* Tracked down bugs related to UDPSocket, which needs to be documented.
* Lots of copy-editing and cleaning up of docs, including...
o Cleaned up
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-size and
converted samples into live samples.
o Fixed grammar and typos on
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Contribute/FAQ
o Removed bogus HTML on
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/3.6
o Cleaned up
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Code_snippets/HTML_to_DOM
* Sent mail proposing moving the Web APIs documentation meeting to be
less badly timed than The current 7 PM on a Friday for our European
contributors (nearly all our major API doc contributors are in Europe).

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Eric Shepherd
Senior Technical Writer
Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/>
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