Labs/Jetpack/Weekly Meeting/2011-12-6
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Agenda
- Flightdeck
- SDK
- Roundtable
- (dcm) need a volunteer to present jetpack update at tomorrow's Fx Planning Meeting
- (alex) l10n big picture
- (dbuc) Builder as an app and the timing for transitioning to a JS-based SDK packager
Attendees
- ochameau
- ejpbruel
- myk
- ZER0
- jorgev
- dcm
- canuckistani
- krizsa
- dbuc
- wbamberg
- arron
- shorlander
- limi
- boriss
- warner
- mossop
- gozala
Minutes
FlightDeck
- release happening Wednesday
- nearly all of search goals met
- transition to frameworks complete
- will publish 2012 roadmap draft today
- includes high-level goals and actions
- includes rough estimates of dates
- this release includes the ability to mark addons as examples
- examples are called out in search UI, and you can filter based on them
- satisfies request by wbamberg
- SDK 1.4 release includes a new XPI layout
- piotr is going to take a look at the extent of changes
- SDK 1.4 ships on Tuesday, January 10
- FlightDeck should be ready for it by then
SDK
- Q4 goals
- Build a prototype SDK that can build add-ons that use non-UI based features for Fennec
- ZER0 has prototype based on 1.3, but it needs updating for 1.4
- not sure we'll be able to finish that work this quarter
- Build an API that developers can use to localise JS strings
- ochameau should have patch for review this week
- Create a plan for extending that API to allow localising HTML content
- myk working on related subject: short-term solution for localizing HTML pages in SDK-based Firefox features
- myk to take on this goal, although it is at risk
- Create a new Add-on Tab API
- gozala has split the work into several chunks, working on one of those at the moment
- it should be on-track
- Support community member(s) landing Prefs API
- erikvold landed the patch, so the feature is done
- it has received some testing to date, and erikvold has been responsive to bug reports
- it needs lots of testing to make sure we stabilize it and ship a great feature
- Make it no longer necessary to unpack/repack XPIs
- warner knows what needs to be done
- on track
- Continue to release new versions of the SDK periodically with new features and bug fixes
- SDK 1.3 released!
- Land the platform support side of an IndexDB API to be ready for the developer-facing API in Q1
- seems on track, one issue remains, krizsa should have patch soon
- the time it takes to get review could be an issue
- Build a prototype SDK that can build add-ons that use non-UI based features for Fennec
- myk to spin 1.4b1 today
- contact a driver if there's something you think should go into the beta
Roundtable
- UX team is doing a redesign that makes addons more core to the product
- to make it obvious how to extend firefox, add capabilities to the product, and uninstall addons
- UX team will write up what they're trying to accomplish over next couple of weeks and solicit jetpack team's input
- it will include both a grand vision and identifying steps to make progress iteratively
- we have existing plan to move widgets to navigation bar
- that work took a back seat to mobile support and l10n this quarter
- dcm will be in bay area next week to work on 2012 jetpack roadmap
- dcm will raise this during roadmap planning process
- we need a volunteer to present latest update at planning meeting tomorrow
- gozala to do it
- ochameau has posted an etherpad presenting the big picture for localization
- please give him feedback!
- any update on when we might implement a JS-based packager?
- we've previously talked about 2012 Q3/Q4
- no update, but we'll revisit the question after we update the jetpack roadmap