Radar 4

[chadwhitacre]

What are you working on this week and why?

last week

[chadwhitacre]

Here's what's on my radar this week, and why:

• Start coding on the migration away from Balanced (find a payments partner gratipay.com#67). External pressure because Balanced is going out of business in 45 days.
• Keep big questions simmering: pivot #180. External pressure because apparently some companies think we're a compliance risk. Internal pressure because I want clarity.
• Work down our security queue. I want to get down to Security 0 and then write a blog post about it. "Security is important to us. We run at Security 0." Internal pressure because running at Security 0 to me is like cleaning the toilet or brushing my teeth or compiling with no warnings. It's just the right way to operate. I've seen some open-source projects with a lot of open security issues. It's a case of queue collapse (you're overwhelmed, you're never gonna dig out). I don't want to ever reach that point. Let's get to Security 0 while we still stand a chance, so we can stay there and be good citizens.
• Organize the redesign (redesign gratipay.com#3248). This is a big project. discuss roadmap based on information architecture gratipay.com#3220 and the new Product page were prerequisites. 3220 kicked out a number of issues, next step is to start organizing the work here. Internal pressure because I'm torqued and embarrassed about our product and I see this as the project that's going to turn it into something I'm proud of.
• Clean out multi-repo PR queue. Internal pressure because I want clean queues.

[kaguillera]

Working on (gratipay/gratipay.com#3171). Issue (gratipay/gratipay.com#2534) to be more specific.

[techtonik]

• merge Remove symlinks - fixes #3318 gratipay.com#3363
• find the reason jstests fail on Vagrant jstests fail in Vagrant/VirtualBox gratipay.com#3000 (Windows workflow)
• review Docker (Linux workflow)

Looking through other outstanding issues

Previous radar scan:

inside

• plumbing for Upgrading Aspen #133
• waiting for review for renaming "Colophon" page to "Tools" (Rename Colophon -> Tools #183), then do the same for the main site (Colophon | Source | Security --> Development gratipay.com#2850), also get back and twitter icons, add TL;DR to tools, try to fix design nits
• epic task - get a prototype app based on elsewhere to learn how to deal with OAuth - registration without email, query email, login with OAuth, request additional permissions per operation
• https://readthedocs.org/ - see if GP can provide an API to power such things
• add an Easy tag to labels and update http://inside.gratipay.com/howto/label-github-issues

[chadwhitacre]

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