Labs/Jetpack/Weekly Meeting/2011-11-22
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Agenda
- Flightdeck
- SDK
- We have revised Q4 goals!
- l10n
- mobile
- Add-on Tab API
- Platform support for IndexDB
- No need to unpack XPIs
- We have revised Q4 goals!
- Roundtable
Attendees
- jorgev
- ochameau
- myk
- canuckistani
- kwierso
- dcm
- gozala
- warner
- mossop
- arron
- krizsa
- dbuc
- ejpbruel
- wbamberg
- dhorner
- dveditz
Minutes
FlightDeck
- ochameau's bug 697973 has been identified
- no push to production this week due to holiday
- the rest of the "jinja" templatization and some additional "shipyard" frontend MVCization work is ready to be pushed to production
SDK
- project drivers have adjusted quarterly goals
- localization API for strings in code
- content-based mobile addons
- Addon Tabs API
- platform support for IndexedDB
- addon XPIs that don't need to be unpacked
- help Erik Vold land Preferences API
- no known blockers for SDK 1.3 release
Roundtable
- http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2011/11/firefox-android-add-ons-in-a-native-world/
- we should provide these APIs in the SDK
- particularly support for the context menu
- SDK Hack day, Chico State Open Source Team
- hack day on Saturday
- relatively small number of attendees, 20 signups, 12-13 attendees
- John Nagle showed up (inventor of Nagle Algorithm, wrote addon for his SiteTruth site)
- John's feedback: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/sdk-hackday-nagle-feedback
- doubletap (Adam) from IRC showed up and demoed his API for developing addons across browsers
- Chico State team showed up
- Property hiding via namespaces
- gozala plans to refactor codebase using this approach
- Bug 612726 - bypass content script for document from data folder
- huge improvement in APIs
- ochameau plans to land for 1.4