Labs/Jetpack/Weekly Meeting/2011-06-07

Agenda

• FlightDeck 0.9.5 status
• SDK 1.0 status
• Roundtable

Minutes

FlightDeck 0.9.5 status

• release is planned for Tuesday, June 21
• the name of the release will be Add-on Builder Beta
• four major tasks remain
  • search index polish, f.e. excluding "initial" addons
  • looking for ways to speed up the test, download, and other URLs that aren't performant
  • finishing and testing the repacker service; should be able to start testing it this week
  • adding a few more user feedback elements to the UI to give people more activity feedback
• Daniel has been creating addons and libraries every day to test out the app, and it seems to work pretty well

SDK 1.0 status

Non-code blockers:

• Obsolete Jetpack SDK documentation should point to the new
  • on track
• SDK docs should be hosted on AMO
  • everything is done for that to happen, but it hasn't actually happened yet
  • Will thinks we should persuade Wil to test this in advance
  • Daniel to talk to Wil about that today
• Create release notes for Add-on SDK 1.0
  • Will to draft that today
• Create FAQ for the Add-on SDK 1.0 release
  • drafted, up for review
• also, Will looked at Jetpack wiki and noticed there is stuff that seems obsolete
  • Dave and Myk talked about it and have agreed to create new project pages on the wiki
  • Dave to talk about Will about this offline

Code Blockers:

• don't append @jetpack to IDs that already have @ in them
  • Brian has code that is passing tests right now, he just needs to get Irakli to review it
• jQuery("#someEl").animate(); warning: tried to proxify something other than an object: function
  • there is a patch that needs review
  • Myk to review today
• Annotator's text content has become invisible in 1.0RC
  • Irakli has patch, needs review from Myk
  • Myk to review today
• Myk and Dave are doing daily triage, will do that again this afternoon
• Myk to spin second RC2 once we bounce off zarro boogs again, hopefully today

Roundtable

• bug with reviewed patch for carrying URL from package.json into install.rdf
  • sounds like a low-risk fix that could land in RC2
  • Myk to look at patch and approve

• Alex posted to release bug about panel documentation
  • already has requested review
  • would like to see that land
  • Brian to review today
  • Dave agrees that such documentation changes can land for RC

• there's a bug we want Dietrich's followup on
  • bug 661108
  • Brian thinks a syntax error in Dietrich's code was causing the problem
  • the problem went away for Dietrich, no longer reproducible
  • Dietrich to comment in the bug

• Eddy got an email from Myk with stuff from Irakli about OOP addons
  • especially interested in Irakli's proposal to use promises
  • interested in talking to Irakli about it this week

• Eddy working on prototype for doing IPC between chrome and addon processes
  • problem with doing synchronous calls from chrome to addon process
  • possible solution, but would need to be implemented in Spidermonkey
  • Eddy to talk to Brendan today about it
  • if it cannot be done, probably the problem is unsolvable
  • because registering event listeners in the addon process requires it

• Dietrich: there's a guy in the MV office named Felipe Gomez
  • working on model for event listeners for OOP in Firefox
  • meeting this week to talk about it; Eddy should join
  • Myk to introduce Eddy to Felipe

• Dave: if you guys find yourselves with extra cycles and want something fun to do, we could use more good examples of simple but well-written addons with either SDK or Builder
  • good time to test the Builder as well
  • write some addons, share them with Will or Dave, we can show them off

• Dietrich: put up wiki page with list of examples
  • Eddy: if we're going to put examples online, they should get review
  • Will: existing page is Labs/Jetpack/Examples
  • Dave: let's find a new spot once we build out a new wiki presence

• Hernan: starting to work on preferences API
  • Dietrich raised concerns about making instal.rdf extensible
  • Hernan looked into it, not as easy as it seems
  • simple preferences API has two possibilities: options.xul file or put it somewhere else and reference it in install.rdf
  • but the latter option requires a resource URL, and you can't get it in the RDF file
  • it's computed later, and it isn't stable
  • Hernan was thinking of putting the XUL file in the root
  • someone: restartless problems? no, it works pretty well with them
  • Brian: we should come up with proposals for additions to package.json

• Myk: it's a bit more complicated than that, we don't want developers to create the XUL file themselves
  • we need to create a file out of package.json

• Brian: currently no mechanism to create extra files in XPI, but we could create some mechanism for it to do so
  • f.e. package.json option that triggers generation of options.xul

• Hernan: Dietrich came up with option of decoupling from install.rdf
  • there are some issues (f.e. l10n issues)
  • perhaps we should warn in the documentation that if you add description in package.json and want it localized you will end up with mixed results