Labs/Jetpack/Weekly Meeting/2011-11-15
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Agenda
- Flightdeck
- SDK
- Roundtable
- l10n updates
- MozCamp followup
- flightdeck-as-app, SDK-in-browser, future plans
- ejpbruel: what is the status of prioritizing platform bugs?
- Jetpack forum: https://forums.mozilla.org/addons/viewforum.php?f=27 is sad
- status of Preferences API?
Attendees
- warner
- gozala
- Mossop
- ochameau
- canuckistani
- ZER0
- krizsa
- KWierso
- dhorner
- wbamberg
- myk
- dbuc
- arron
- ejpbruel
- erikvold
- jorgev
Minutes
SDK
- 1.3rc1 to be spun today
- if something needs to ship in 1.3, it's now or never (unless it is a true blocker)
- potential changes to cherry-pick for 1.3:
- clean up workers after they are invalidated to suppress exceptions
- XUL migration guide
- we decided not to ship fix for content script scope sharing issue
FlightDeck
- release this week
- jinja templates
- search enhancements: facets will show up in search results (library size, dependencies)
- ability to sort by recency
- changes are a step toward helping you find the best twitter library
- working on getting shipyard (modular frontend framework) integrated
- working on 2012 plan, focus is on making app a client-side open web app accessible from Firefox Tools menu
- dbuc having difficulty reproducing ochameau's issue with addons not being updated
Roundtable
- l10n updates
- ochameau got great feedback from mozcamp attendees about issues with using JSON format to store localizations
- other options include .properties files and YAML files
- -> ochameau to post to discussion group about issues with JSON and the other options
- MozCamp followup
- it was awesome
- got tons of feedback about localization from various folks, including prominent addon developers
- canuckistani attended meeting of AMO editors group and learned about their issues
- most addon developers there are doing deep integration with traditional addons
- issues they raised included bloat (addon size, startup performance) and a desire to use XUL to create interfaces
- bloat issues are part reality, part perception; need to know specifics
- we can address bloat issues in various ways: disentangle dependencies, minify code, land code in Firefox
- -> jorgev to measure startup performance again
- flightdeck-as-app, SDK-in-browser, future plans
- we should figure out the schedule for making the SDK an addon
- FlightDeck will benefit from that
- dcm should drive this
- we should figure out how we want jetpack to look a year from now
- -> myk to add to agenda for next week, when dcm will be in attendance
- ejpbruel: what is the status of prioritizing platform bugs?
- all bugs have been prioritized
- bugs in the SDK product have priority field set
- bugs in other products have [jetpack:Pn] in status whiteboard field
- Jetpack forum: https://forums.mozilla.org/addons/viewforum.php?f=27 is sad
- folks who post often don't get responses
- folks in the Jetpack discussion (i.e. Google) group do get responses
- stackoverflow questions get answers because Wladimir Palant answers them all
- we decided to have two forums, one for project discussion, one for user support
- but we probably don't have enough traffic to justify two groups
- and AMO seems unlikely to fix issues that make it hard to track the support forum
- so we should shut down the support forum and consolidate to the google group
- and if we change our minds later, set up a support forum using different technology (f.e. Stack Overflow)
- -> canuckistani to propose shutting down group
- status of Preferences API?
- peregrino requested a pull while working as an intern last summer
- myk reviewed the pull and identified some issues
- the pull request needs to be adopted, issues addressed, and rereviewed
- erikvold is interested in taking this on
- -> canuckistani to follow up with him