Agenda

• followups from 1.0b4 Release
• FlightDeck 1.0a9 status
• FlightDeck 0.9.2 status
• SDK 1.0b4 review
• SDK 1.0b5 planning, status
• Alex present his javascript cfx
• Feature Pages
  • Structure
  • List
• roundtable

Minutes

followups from 1.0b4 Release

• nobody has heard about anything needing to be done
• bug triages going well

SDK 1.0b5 planning, status

• Dave copied 1.0b4 missed items to 1.0b5
• update the 1.0b5 list and add things you're working on

feature pages

• Mozilla teams starting to use feature pages
• by end of next week, we should come up with priorities for 1.0 release and post-1.0
• not just a list of features, but also specs describing each feature
• helps folks (outsiders, developers on related projects) understand features and where we're going
• specs are collaborative effort, everyone contributes, Dave will make sure they're clean
• everyone should take a look and see the ones the Firefox team has done to get a sense of how to do them
• Deb will split them up by individual project
• take a look at that, think of what you're working on, what you want to work on

• for 1.0 or post-1.0?
• Q about whether to do them for features already implemented
• probably not necessary, Dave to talk to Jay

• Firefox team discussed, determined that feature pages are for things that take two or more bugs to accomplish

• discussion about whether these are feature pages vs. project pages

• most remaining 1.0 work is bug fixes rather than features, so there probably isn't much to do for that release
• Myk is worried about making this a requirement for 1.0 features given the work we have left for that release

• Dave's goal is to have list of things we're going to write up by end of next week
• making sure we're on the right path

Alex's JavaScript cfx tool

[Alex demonstrates JavaScript implementation of cfx]

• implemented as an SDK-based addon
• web page (URL: "jetpack:") you open in browser tab with GUI for browsing, testing, running, and packaging addons and XULRunner apps
• you can test/run in the current Firefox process or a separate one
• the tool finds all Firefox binaries on system and lets you pick between them for testing/running in a separate process
• it would be possible to develop a command-line application like cfx with xpcshell or XULRunner
• Alex to provide XPI that can be installed for testing

• we might do something like this in the future; Python is a pain to install if you don't already have it
• or maybe we decide that folks for whom Python is a pain should be using Builder
• Builder might be able to use this via Node rather than relying on a Python installation and cfx on the server side

• the addon can download packages, but they can also be shipped with the addon itself
• this enables Builder to be an offline application
• Daniel would love to have integration with the documentation

FlightDeck 1.0a9 status

• pretty much hit everything
• encountered a snag with keyboard bindings on Mac
• delayed the release a few days
• pushing to production on Thursday at 2pm PT

FlightDeck 0.9.2 status

• restyle based on graphic design by Sean Martell that resembles global AMO design
• search, based on UX mockup from chowse
• a new messaging (notifications) class that gives users a log of errors and provides a passive message indicator
• new versioning scheme that is similar to AMO's
  • this version is 0.9.2
  • subsequent versions will increment the last number (0.9.3, 0.9.4, etc.), whether they are additional alphas or betas
  • the final version will be 1.0
• thaws Thursday, March 27 (three days late due to 1.0a9 delay)
• freezes Friday, April 29
• ships Thursday, May 5