DevTools/2011-01-26

Meeting Details

• Wednesday Jan. 26, 2010 - 9:00am Pacific, 12:00pm Eastern, 17:00 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

• Web Console status
  • Track the bugs here: http://mzl.la/dtbugs
  • See the report for details
  • This week:
    • 9 blockers (1 hard blocker, 2 more for Firebug)
  • Last week:
    • 12 blockers (2 hard blockers)
  • security bug has several different fixes for it
    • fix in main bug has advantage of getting rid of a __noSuchMethod__ use
    • other platform fixes will get there
• Firebug update
  • 1.7a9 is out
  • Many critical bugs in Firefox fixed, so Firebug should be working pretty well now
  • Problem with JSD being initialized, especially in automated tests
  • onError hook in JSD is not being executed (break on error is broken)
  • IndexedDB bug: if you try to inspect a window with an IndexedDB object on it, it will crash Firebug or the Web Console
  • working with the author of the testbot to try to figure out why the tests fail under the testbot but not when they're run normally
• Skywriter update
  • ace transition announced
    • positive feedback
    • lots of mentions on the net
    • new project activity
    • need to get a release out
• Post-Firefox 4 developer tools
  • 2011 roadmap posted
  • spec stubs up now, will be fleshing out

Roundtable

• Vlad has joined this week in order to learn more about our workflow and wants to help out with testing.
  • Talk to Vlad or Juan if we have anything we need for testing
  • doing exploratory testing based on pushlogs, putting together lots of functional tests for the web console