View source for Jetpack/Features/2012-06-15

= Details =

* Time: Friday, 2012 June 15, 9:05 - 9:50am PT (16:05 - 16:50 UTC)
* Location:
** Audio/Video: [https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=W1xz8rcslKbR Jetpack vroom]
** Audio Only:
*** US Only: +1-800-707-2533, password 369, conference number 99449
*** US/Intl: +1-650-903-0800, extension 92, conference number 99449
* Notes: [https://etherpad.mozilla.org/jetpack-features-meeting-notes etherpad]

= Agenda =

* actions from previous meeting
* roundtable
** status of landing loader in Firefox

= Attendees =

* canuckistani
* gozala
* mixedpuppy
* myk
* pike

= Minutes =

== Roundtable ==

=== Addon Train ===

* mixedpuppy suggested addon train
* exposing collection of Labs addons for new users on AMO
* like Gmail Labs features in Google Mail
* Frank Yan suggested using Test Pilot
* seems like it'd be better to use Test Pilot
* and fix it if it doesn't work the way we want it to
* Test Pilot is being rewritten by Gregg Lind to use the SDK

* Shane intends to look into it
* but Social API is attracting much attention
* and it'll suck up his attention for a while
* at least through the Firefox 16 "central" development cycle
* next 3-4 weeks

=== Landing the Loader ===

* mossop reviewed the loader code
* he was planning to land it this morning
* he should land it very soon

=== L10N ===

* pike noticed that the jetpack api for plurals is not compatible with the firefox l10n infrastructure
* if jetpack addons want to upstream into firefox, they'll need to use the toolkit plurals api
* in theory addons shipped on amo are not affected, although amo's l10n tests might complain about missing strings
* it's hard to update l10n infrastructure because of all the different tools that would need to be updated

* it's hard to make changes to the l10n infrastructure
* all the tools suck so much that no one tool is the most popular
* the tools are maintained by people with different assumptions about l10n
* whenever a new paradigm is introduced by a new tool, it crashes the others

* new variable format with double curly braces (which pdfjs uses) is also problematic
* b2g is doing something similar to jetpack
* b2g's l10n scope is expanding

=== what's next after the loader lands? ===

* planning still in progress
* landing api-utils and addon-kit in firefox might be a high priority
* rewriting cfx in js
* changing package infrastructure to just modules
* otherwise there are two different paradigms in same project
* we'll need to see where we are by the end of this quarter

= Actions =