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Attendees

curtisb, honza, steves, johnb, robc, ?

Upcoming/Recent events

Steve Souders mentioned the Velocity Conference in San Jose for June, calls for topics in the air.
- attending so far, honza, robc
  - Honza to present 10 minute feature on Firebug
  - may have 30-45 minute workshop on website performance testing, robc and/or honza volunteered
- tentative attendees, jresig, johnjbarton
honza attended FOSDEM last week

Firebug 1.3

1.3.3b1 on getfirebug.com release on AMO in a week or two
2 problems, first with encodings other than UTF8, other with (net) spy
- both fixed, issues on file
wait 2 days and release

Firebug 1.4

beta soon
few changes to port forward from 1.3 to 1.4
a13 finish prototype for new activation system. When complete, strip old activation code. Getting confusing - jjb
Hans Hillen to start implementing keybinding mechanism, to follow up on discussion group

Firebug 1.5

an old copy of 1.4, needs to be updated before work
UI changes, tab-strip location todo curtisb
export data from net panel, honza working with steves, and httpwatch for format
- options include xml, html, json
- html may be a strong contender since it's displayable easily

Fireunit

honza has solved the loading files from chrome problem
jjb came up with a mechanism to run a set of sequential steps to put the debugger into a testable state
currently has clipboard export support, need to work on console output - todo robc
sendKey method. Can it send, modifier keys? (doesn't look like)
multiple versions, multiple browsers, need to keep coverage minimized
- stick with 1.3 on 3.0 for now
- 1.4 on 3.1, possible 3.0
honza to investigate prototype of FireUnit in chromespace todo
- packaged xpi?

Firebug lite

FireUnit for Firebug lite?
- rewrite required
code guidelines
- work on trunk according to azer
- mike r to forward email to group / pedro
azer to release final versions on getfirebug
honza suggests fbug lite could use DOMPlate if wanted to re-use code
- probably some significant effort to do, but likely possible

Extensions

jjb adding to docs
honza: new api for l10n. extensions can register string bundles. todo
keybindings API + l10n support
honza started http://groups.google.com/group/firebug-working-group/web/firebug-extension-points
wishlist - http://groups.google.com/group/firebug-working-group/web/firebug-1-3-extensions
identify and prioritize features todo
lots of existing extension points - need better documentation
christoph to rewrite firePHP and document the process on his blog, wants to keep track of extension points and changes to them, create test-cases that exercise these extension points should be a priority. todo
simplify process of creating tools or extensions using DOMplate. There should be a way to prototype an extension using a wizard-like interface or walkthrough.

Activation UI

changes in new 1.4 alpha - try 'em out!
simple activation in 1.4 or 1.5?

Firefox

jsd2 work can begin - jjb
bugzilla cleanup for 2.0-only problems.
chromebug in firefox 3.1 is opening 0-size windows
bug 465993 Blocks chromebug on FF3.1
- todo need someone to install the test case and verify - robcee
new jsd tests: /fbug/chromebug/tests/jsdTests@johnjbarton.com
need someone to install this extension in an clean Firefox profile (no Firebug) and try it.
bug 379410 (jsdICompilationUnit) First work in progress patch. reworked the test case: fbug/chromebug/tests/jsdTests@johnjbarton.com/content/jsd/jsdIDebuggerService2/bugzilla-379410.js
bug 449454 Work abandoned, Lower priority now since 379410 will do the work.
Bugs against jsd:
- Top priority, causes erroneous application behavior: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463239
- Causes un-debuggable code: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462704
- Both of these have test cases in fbug/chromebug/tests/jsdTests@johnjbarton.com/content/jsd/jsdIScript

March of the Firebugs

updated

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 == Attendees ==
-johnb, curtisb, steves, honza, mikec, hansh, pedros, miker, robc
+curtisb, honza, steves, johnb, robc, ?
-== Upcoming events ==
+== Upcoming/Recent events ==
 * Steve Souders mentioned the Velocity Conference in San Jose for June, calls for topics in the air.
 ** attending so far, honza, robc
+*** Honza to present 10 minute feature on Firebug
+*** may have 30-45 minute workshop on website performance testing, robc and/or honza volunteered
 ** tentative attendees, jresig, johnjbarton
+* honza attended FOSDEM last week
 == Firebug 1.3 ==
-* 1.3.1 beta on getfirebug.com release on AMO in a week or two
+* 1.3.3b1 on getfirebug.com release on AMO in a week or two
-** console tied to script panel, overall perf good - jjb
+* 2 problems, first with encodings other than UTF8, other with (net) spy
-** one more fix to include
+** both fixed, issues on file
-** jquery lightbox problem seems to have gone away
+* wait 2 days and release
-** to look into wp/tinyMCE reload problem '''todo''' jjb
-** beta this aft
-** l10n issue, 1.4 has fewer strings than 1.3, but babelzilla might not support removing them. need to followup with axel
 == Firebug 1.4 ==
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 * few changes to port forward from 1.3 to 1.4
 * a13 finish prototype for new activation system. When complete, strip old activation code. Getting confusing - jjb
-* Hans Hillen ready to commit code for a11y
+* Hans Hillen to start implementing keybinding mechanism, to follow up on discussion group
-* topcache needs to work if fbug is disabled '''todo''' - honza
-* chromebug 0.5a1
 == Firebug 1.5 ==
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 == Fireunit ==
+* honza has solved the loading files from chrome problem
+* jjb came up with a mechanism to run a set of sequential steps to put the debugger into a testable state
 * currently has clipboard export support, need to work on console output - '''todo''' robc
 * sendKey method. Can it send, modifier keys? (doesn't look like)