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[chadwhitacre]

What are you working on this week and why?

last week

[chadwhitacre]

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

• Support @chrisdev @citruspi as they get ready for PyCon (go to PyCon 2015! #111, promote Gratipay users during PyCon #160, notify users of card charges gratipay.com#3301, integrate Explore and Search gratipay.com#3221). External pressure because PyCon starts this week!
• Get export UI out there (expose rest of export functionality in UI gratipay.com#3255). This would be an easy thing to land and an easy blog post to write. External pressure because US tax season is almost over. We haven't made a blog post in 7 weeks. We should make a blog post at least once every month.
• Formulate a plan for migrating away from Balanced (find a payments partner gratipay.com#67). External pressure because they're going out of business in 66 days and migrating is risky and a lot of work.
• Tweak our work process (let's talk about process #163). We almost landed this last week but then the pk id/username issue surfaced so there's still a bit more work to do here. Internal pressure because I'm torqued and embarrassed about Gratipay right now and I can't make it something I'm proud of all by myself. I need you. :-)
• 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.
• Solidify marketing plan (find next traction channel #177). Internal pressure because I want more people to be using Gratipay.
• Deal with Try to handle changes to type definitions liberapay/postgres.py#43. External pressure because @Changaco wants it and I'm the blocker.
• Clean out newly visible (because I just realized that we can use GitHub's global issue search) multi-repo PR queue. Internal pressure because I want clean queues.

[chadwhitacre]

IRC

[Changaco]

We've just landed two things that we should announce: the friend finder and the Italian translation.

[chadwhitacre]

Do we have a Twitter handle for whomever did the Italian translation? That sounds like a tweet to me.

Friend finder is blog-worthy but I think we should clean up the dashboard first.

[chadwhitacre]

I think we also owe our users a blog post about #67.

[chadwhitacre]

... because that's a significant "hazard" that deserves a little "outrage."

[rohitpaulk]

I think we also owe our users a blog post about #67.

That was merged almost a year ago, why do you want to blog about it now? How is it a 'hazard'?

[chadwhitacre]

Sorry, wrong repo: gratipay/gratipay.com#67.

[chadwhitacre]

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