Radar 19

[chadwhitacre]

What are you working on this week and why?

last week

[chadwhitacre]

Queues (what?)

N	Queue	Description
0	Violations	private communication amongst the safety team
10	Security	private communication with security researchers
4	Legal	private communication with our counsel
12	Support	private communication with users
8	Applications	public review of applications for new teams
109	Errors	production errors
2	Vendors, etc.	private communication with our vendors (also includes low-volume mailboxes: safety and security)
13	Balanced Shutdown	a milestone
20	Pivot	a milestone
9	Milestones	all milestones
7	Review	work in the final stage before deployment
29	PRs	all work in progress
761	Issues	public communication with contributors

[chadwhitacre]

Roadmap (what?)

[chadwhitacre]

I tweaked the roadmap a bit. The red column are laws and best practices, external forces acting upon us. The dark green is our current milestone, the Pivot (I'm not sure exactly where Balanced Shutdown is on here). The light green collects potential future milestones.

[chadwhitacre]

Notable notes as I review the queues:

• We've got a burst of PRs ready for review, including big ones from @rorepo (https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/pull/3675) and @pjz (https://github.com/gratipay/aspen-python/pull/481). !m *
• The Security queue is a little clogged up because of the final bit of work on https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/255, which I'd like to land this week.
• @mattbk is a thrilling wonder-beast for stepping up to the plate and solving https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/279#issuecomment-117342222. !m @mattbk
• I'm conscious of a mounting backlog of escalated user issues that require my attention, scattered between Support, Applications, and Issues.
• I'd like to make some good progress on the Pivot this week to stay on track with refunding 1.0 balances.

Inbox 15, GitHub 2.

[chadwhitacre]

Inbox 2, GitHub 0, Support 8. Heading to an eye exam (lost my :eyeglasses: in the river last week!), then back for more support+applications and/or PR reviewing ...

[chadwhitacre]

Phew! Closed another one. Support 5.

@mattbk Can we try having you assign things to me in Freshdesk? I think that'll make it easier to track what's blocking on me.

[mattbk]

Sure thing.

[chadwhitacre]

Thanks. :)

[chadwhitacre]

Applications 9, Support537 0

[mattbk]

Applications 12, Support 4

[chadwhitacre]

Inbox 4, GitHub 22, Support537 0, Applications 12

[rohitpaulk]

Support 537????

[chadwhitacre]

@rohitpaulk Support537 refers to support requests assigned to me. :blush:

[chadwhitacre]

I suppose Level 2 Support would be more descriptive.

[chadwhitacre]

Support (Level Two) would avoid the digit confusion.

Support 5, Support (Level Two) 0

[pjz]

L2 Support is the usual abbreviation, I think.

[chadwhitacre]

If that's common enough then sure, let's use it.

[chadwhitacre]

/me downloads https://desktop.github.com/.

[chadwhitacre]

/me realizes it doesn't include issues, loses interest.

[chadwhitacre]

Review 6.

[chadwhitacre]

Lunch 1.

[chadwhitacre]

Lunch 0. Coffee 1.

[chadwhitacre]

Coffee 0. Review 6.

[chadwhitacre]

Review 8.

[kzisme]

Coffee++

[chadwhitacre]

Blam! https://github.com/gratipay/applications/issues/11

https://gratipay.com/sqlalchemy/

And there was much rejoicing! :dancer:

Applications 11. :-)

[chadwhitacre]

Saw an awesome meteor last night. The trail lasted 10+ seconds. Anyone else catch the Perseids?

[chadwhitacre]

Payday today: https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/310.

Can we land @rorepo's PR for charging in arrears first?

Monthly Aspen call in 1.5 hours.

Inbox 4, GitHub 0, L2 Support 0.

[chadwhitacre]

Vendors, etc. 2.

[chadwhitacre]

Yikes!

"Google Announces Plans for New Operating Structure"

https://abc.xyz/

[chadwhitacre]

Inbox 1, Vendors, etc. 0.

[tshepang]

why the yikes

[kzisme]

@whit537 I saw some last night! I'm happy it was so clear out.

Other than that I've just been busy with other things lately going to be getting a Mac soon and I have one week left at my internship.

[chadwhitacre]

@tshepang Dunno, just struck me as a big change, I guess.

@kzisme Nice! Any chance before school starts up again to meet for coffee/coworking? :-)

[chadwhitacre]

Just wrapped the Aspen call. Gonna look at https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/pull/3675.

[kzisme]

@whit537 I'm going to get in the burgh the 22nd helping my sister move in, but other than that I have MWF off of school (I have all my classes crammed into T/TH. So we could figure something out for sure.

[chadwhitacre]

Awesome! Monday is usually good for me. Let's figure something out in September after school starts. :)

[chadwhitacre]

Applications 5.

[chadwhitacre]

Erm, Applications 6, I guess.

[chadwhitacre]

I just gave the @gratipay/gratipay team permissions on the Applications repo.

[chadwhitacre]

I'm off working on other things today. :-(

!m *

[chadwhitacre]

Security 9.

[chadwhitacre]

Email (what?)