Labs/Jetpack/Weekly Meeting/2011-07-5

Agenda

• FlightDeck 0.9.7 status
• SDK 1.1 status (verbal catch up)
• Development Process
• Roundtable

Minutes

FlightDeck

• focus for next release is on stability, other polish fixes
• myk: roadmap for future releases?
• dbuc: yes, it's on wiki, 9-12 months planned right now

SDK

• dcm
  • when i finish new feature pages new roadmap, we're going to start tracking features rather than bugs

• Alex
  • bug 571049: ability to remove files, do other things on uninstall
  • currently we don't handle this case, will require significant changes
  • bug 561726: bypassing content scripts when panel/widget document is trusted
  • give documents access to self global
  • bugs around widget API
  • a lot of issues when you start customizing

• Irakli
  • been reviewing some code last week
  • issues assigned by Myk: hotkeys, errors in various APIs, other polish fixes
  • all reviews assigned to dietrich because myk was PTO last week
  • myk now back, will pick up reviews if dietrich doesn't get to them
  • now looking into P2s
  • working on adding 'use strict' all over SDK modules (bug 553434)

• Brian
  • PTO last week
  • catching up on reviews and discussions

• Eddy
  • mainly a lot of reading code and tutorials
  • finished some code that tests time to initialize jetpack processes
  • rest of the week, doing the same thing for content processes (spawn them as well, measure time to initialize)

• • warner: time to initialize jetpack process?
  • eddy: 40-70ms, pretty quickly

• Matteo
  • bug 581982 working on getting selection on text field
  • has fix, has been fighting with github the last few weeks, should have review request today
  • started to work on another couple of bugs; not much progress yet

• Myk
  • PTO all last week
  • this week, catching up

• Will
  • figure out migration guide, learning more about conventional addon development
  • some idea of what an outline will look like
  • spent time porting a conventional addon to the SDK, to learn about traditional addons and figure out what features the SDK might still need
  • will write something up, not sure if it's a blog post or other format
  • (not in any of the bugs)
  • ideas for fairly simple XUL-style addons that would be interesting to port to SDK? let Will know

• dcm
  • myk wrote drafts of feature pages
  • dcm in process of converting them to new feature page style
  • and expanding them
  • and updating the roadmap
  • at same time, create a vision statement for project
  • wants to make sure that, while working through features and priorities, we answer question of why we're doing this work
  • hope to have this all done by next week so we can use it when planning

• myk
  • didn't get much feedback on development process
  • if it's all good, then great, but if you have feedback, please provide it
  • still some outstanding questions to answer
  • take a look, or take another look, and let us know what you think!

• Hernán
  • posted Simple Prefs API on GitHub and requested review
  • Myk provided feedback
  • Drew provided feedback and asked several questions
    • why a new API vs. the existing Preferences Service API? -> wanted to differentiate between low-level API vs. high-level one
    • what about hidden preferences? useful, but may be hard to couple with the Simple Prefs API
    • when emitting changes on prefs, what about sending previous and new values of pref that has changed? not sure it's possible to emit data besides the name
    • instead of namespacing the API with .simple or .complex, moving the namespacing to package.json? seems like a good idea
    • decoupling JSON store from simple storage into an object storage API and then using that API for storing complex prefs or even simple ones?
  • Hernán to work on new patch based on Drew's suggestions
  • Hernán to post to discussion group regarding some issues