Hello February,How was your Tet Holiday? Can't think of anything but Chung cake & Tet cake with plenty of beers on the table. Moodiness is in full swing. I hope you have had a wonderful time relaxing with families. Let get back to work with more enthusiastic and pump up your energy into new achievements. |
Happy Birthday...
to our employees born in February: Oanh (11.2), Sang (20/2), Trung (25/2) “A wish for you on your birthday, whatever you ask may you receive, whatever you seek may you find, whatever you wish may it be fulfilled on your birthday and always. Happy birthday!” |
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Human resource
Hoan is leaving..It's truly sad to announce the resignation of Hoan (SRE team) effective on 01/03/2019. Since her joining in 2013, Hoan was a valuable member of our team. Her contribution was essential to our development, which we very much appreciate. Thank you for used to be a Magnolian, this is such a great loss for us.
With her courtesy, intelligence, and great work ethics, we wish her all success on her forward career. She will be deeply missed at Magnolia. Please join us on 06/03/2019 at The Gangs - Grill & Beer - 131 Nguyễn Phúc Nguyên, P. 10, Quận 3, TP. HCM for farewell party and to thank for her dedication and efforts over the past years. |
Congratulations to Thien!We love welcoming new talents into the team here at Magnolia Vietnam, and are proud to be growing the team dedicated and passionated people for Magnolia.
This week we would like to say a huge congratulations to Thien on successfully completing his probation under the mentorship of Dai. Keep up the outstanding work and we hope he will continue working and providing valuable contribution. Recruitment updates
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PD UPDATE
CORE
Update to Maintenance / LTS Versions:
- Work in progress, reviewed concept & finalising proposal.
- As discussed in the last PD meeting:
- M 6.1 will be out as soon as possible (customers on 6.0, get market feedback, required for add-ons, etc.)
- The completion of the new UI FW will not be part of the 6.1 scope (major and complex task, buy ourselves time, we can release 6.2 any time later whenever we are ready, etc.)
- 162 tickets, 97 closed, 5 security (was 160/97)
- With the given split of epics, the remaining work for 6.1 is unbalanced between Core Foundation & Core Features, more story points are remaining for the Features team.
- In order to speed up the release of 6.1, both streams will share the epic “Resurface finalisation” (https://jira.magnolia-cms.com/browse/MGNLUI-4797 , roughly 70 SP)
Foundation (Hieu)New feature:
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Features (Sang, Dai)Improvement: (M6.1)
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CLOUDX
- Clould Bundle 5.7.2 and Magnolia Clould Bundle 6.0 have been released
- Working on custom domain management to support for multisite.
SRE
Training Magnolia Cloud Platform by Nicolas
Testing Magnolia 5.7 and 6 with JDK11 and latest Ubuntu 18 LTS, with focus on cloud scenarios
Testing Magnolia 5.7 and 6 with JDK11 and latest Ubuntu 18 LTS, with focus on cloud scenarios
SERVICES
- SwissRe has been released V1.03
- Starting new feature of Usage Reports in order to track the history of each element in a specific period of time
SUPORTS
JDK 11 support is requesting and discussing during the week. Finally it is officially supported in our Certified stack by the end of February
- Solr search, PDF and binary files indexing topic has emergency from different customers also from CMA upgrade project - working on by ChrisRing
- SUPPORT-9641 - Since the upgrade to magnolia 5.7 variants are being cached incorrectly - Need your attention on cache related modules refactoring
- Cloud support - HTTPS auto configuration is under development, but we are having requests from Liberis / Konstructive - so Duy is doing manual support
- Cloud support - redirect "where did you find info about this address pls? (3.121.148.202)" → Wiki update required
- Best practice: deprecate DTD, XML validation and try to avoid using XML if possible, replaced by YAML or JSON.
- Inputs re support flatform 2.0
- Overall statistic from license estimation application
ADD-ONS
- E-Commerce MVP is to connect Magnolia with some popular eCommerce solutions like Magento or CommmerceTools is on the progress of finalising.
- Some outcome of the investigation, UI dependencies will need to co-ordinate with Core team
- Sprint Review (Demo) and Sprint Retrospective is set on Thursday 21.02.2019
- After the demo & feedback, POs will review and finalise the roadmap for the next priorities.
Role Changes
Khiem Do who's part of the SRE team members is taking a new role and responsibilities in our organization.
From January 2019 Khiem is acting on top of his basic SRE duties as Cloud Architect.
In Short, Khiem will
Working with Product Management, Software Architects and Services consultants.
Coaching and mentorship will be a key part of the job therefore you will see Khiem more often (as other SRE members) as embedded into the development stream.
A huge congratulations to Khiem on his appointment and wish him every success in his new duties.
From January 2019 Khiem is acting on top of his basic SRE duties as Cloud Architect.
In Short, Khiem will
- Act as a coach and mentor to the other team members.
Concretely doing pair programming, reviewing code, providing constructive and positive feedback … - Be a cloud advocate globally in the company, promoting cloud best practices and technical knowledge.
Concretely be involved upfront of the value chain.
Participation to KT sessions and Geeky/Whoopy.
Involvement in pre-sales process.
Involvement in PD/Services design phases (rebuild of the connected service)
- Cloud deployment models for Magnolia (How to deploy and operate Magnolia in the cloud, how to scale etc …)
- Cloud security
Working with Product Management, Software Architects and Services consultants.
Coaching and mentorship will be a key part of the job therefore you will see Khiem more often (as other SRE members) as embedded into the development stream.
A huge congratulations to Khiem on his appointment and wish him every success in his new duties.
CORPORATE SERVICES
Whoppee Friday Restart |
Office Absenteeism |
In order to fulfill office communication and feedback loop, Viet and Zdenek are working on the project to reiterate Whoopee Friday sessions. This is a communication channel where we can get updates from HQ and you are able to be listened your feedback, ideas, innovations, and so on up the stream. This could be organized weekly or bi-weekly based on actual updates. In the meantime, this will be our channel for public announcements, policy updates, personal concerns, etc.
The important is, getting information, giving constructive feedback, and inspiriting all people to join & sharing working experiences is a part of responsibilities for everyone of us. Thus, we are expecting people get excited to join us in WF sharing session. The first session will be triggered as soon as the confirmation from Philippe and Linh as presenters in late of February or early of March. Last but not least, this activity will be a part of KPI, we plan to have each individual run a certain number of presentations (with variety of topics from technical to non-technical) over a fiscal year. Rationale and process could be found in https://wiki.magnolia-cms.com/display/VN/Whoopee+Friday A sample upcoming session is here https://wiki.magnolia-cms.com/display/VN/22-02-2019 Stand-up MeetingPlaying a role as a part of Magnolia culture, it will be back soon in March. Initially, Eric will lead the Stand-up Meeting and then following by Philippe and Zdenek will takeover.
- Duration : 5minutes only - keep the meeting short and to-the-point - Who : assigned speaker per team who will summarize tasks progress/activities of his/her team; - What: + What did we accomplish yesterday/last week? + What will we do today/this week? + What issues do we meet? OfficevibeOfficevibe survey will be sent to each of employee every month to share/provide his/her feeling, ideas or recommendations regarding VN office (all are anonymous) with the aim of fully understanding, ensuring all are in the same page and having the same goal.
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Something's not new but very essential of every office culture, we bring it up again for a transparent and clear message for everyone to follow with an aim of generating a better cooperation and efficiency among team members:
From 02 to 03 days off - At least 01 week advance notice From 04 to 05 days off - At least 02 weeks advance notice For 06 days off or more - At least 01 month advance notice People for approval when taking leave:
Shift 1: from 07:00 to 16:00 Shift 2: from 08:00 to 17:00 Shift 3: from 09:00 to 18:00 Shift 4: from 10am to 19:00 The default shift is 09:00am to 18:00am. Employee can either choose the suitable shift plan and register it on wiki page for HR evaluation purpose (the page will be officially introduced to you soon) |
Meetup February -27.2.2019 |
Java Training - Getting started with Java 9, 10-12 |
Abstract:
With Java's switch to a six-month release schedule, the community needs to step up its game to stay up to date. Instead of having a year or more to prepare for a new release, it's a mere three months - we need to be better informed about what's going on to see changes coming before they're out. This talk:
Afterwards, attendees will not only know about the immediate future but also how to stay up to date without much effort. Speaker: Nicolai Parlog —Developer (mostly #Java), blogger (http://codefx.org/ ), author (http://tiny.cc/jms ), trainer (http://courses.codefx.org/ & https://www.youtube.com/c/codefx ) |
Trainer: Nicolai Parlog
Course 1: Getting Started With Java 9 | January 14-15, 2019 |
Course 2: Getting Started With Java 10-12 | February 25-26, 2019 |
The courses mix presentations with practical exercises. Slides, exercises, and solutions will be available for self-studying after the training concluded. The training is helpful and enriches our knowledge about the new versions of Java language. Through the training, we’ve learned many new features of Java from version 9 to 12 which are applicable in practice " - Minh |
UPCOMING EVENTS
M6.0 release - Thank you party!
Thank you for all your tremendous contributions during the M6.0 release. Without your diligence, hard work, we would not have been able to complete the job and to meet the deadline. Even though, M6.0 has been released for months but we will not forget to express our gratitude to each and everyone of you for your great commitment. Please join us for a buffet dinner for celebration and congratulations your wonderful efforts.
At D'Maris Buffet - Cong Hoa
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| Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 at 18:00 |
Address: Pico Plaza, 20 Cộng Hòa, Phường 4, Tân Bình, Hồ Chí Minh
At D'Maris Buffet - Cong Hoa
|RSVP|
| Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 at 18:00 |
Address: Pico Plaza, 20 Cộng Hòa, Phường 4, Tân Bình, Hồ Chí Minh
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Basel Exchange Announcement
Basel Exchange this summer 2019 - guess who?
Congratulations to Khiem, Thanh Le and My who will go to Basel on this April - May.
Khiem will spend a little bit of more time at HQ office for almost a month.
Thanh Le and My will exchange for two weeks.
Wish them have a great time in Basel.
Congratulations to Khiem, Thanh Le and My who will go to Basel on this April - May.
Khiem will spend a little bit of more time at HQ office for almost a month.
Thanh Le and My will exchange for two weeks.
Wish them have a great time in Basel.
Next Visit
Eric: 2 March - 15 March
Ilgun: 16 March - 29 March
Ilgun: 16 March - 29 March
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