DevTools/2010-09-08

Meeting Details

• Wednesday Sep. 8, 2010 - 9:00am Pacific, 12:00pm Eastern, 16:00 UTC
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 275
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 275 (US)
• #devtools on irc.mozilla.org for backchannel

Notices

• Inspector in Firefox.next
  • With our current set of patches, the Inspector is looking really good and useful
  • However, it looks like we won't quite get the tool we ultimately want in the Firefox 4 timeframe
  • We're excited about what the feature will look like in the next version of Firefox
• Web Console
  • We are wrapping up some key bugs for beta 6.
  • Want to improve the appearance on Windows and Linux, plus with Personas
  • New console backend service will likely land in beta 7, based on the landing of new platform features in beta 6
• Skywriter update
  • Bespin is now officially Mozilla Skywriter
  • Project homepage is now at http://mozillalabs.com/skywriter
  • Twitter: @MozSkywriter
  • #skywriter on irc.mozilla.org
  • Repository is moving to GitHub after stabilizing: http://github.com/mozilla/skywriter
• Firebug update from Honza
  • Styling work - making it look better across platforms
  • Identifying Jaegermonkey problems
  • Automated test improvements.
    • you can run tests coming from Firebug extensions
  • Two branches: 1.6 in beta
  • 1.7 is the active branch
    • some patches will backport from 1.7 to 1.6
  • Firebug t-shirts, mousepads, etc. for the community

Roundtable

• Preparation for Electrolysis?
  • What is the impact, and when do we need to think about this?
  • RobC: likely after the next release of Firefox
  • need to start looking at it the middle of next year