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** JetPerf harness in beta form and wants feedback: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=717036 , http://k0s.org/mozilla/hg/jetperf
** JetPerf harness in beta form and wants feedback: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=717036 , http://k0s.org/mozilla/hg/jetperf
*** Next up: CI and graphserver bits, assuming there's no other architecture that needs to happen in the harness itself
*** Next up: CI and graphserver bits, assuming there's no other architecture that needs to happen in the harness itself
** FOSDEM feedback. Thunderbird questions, again! [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724276 bug 724276], welcome :whimboo as SDK contributor.


= Pending Requests=
= Pending Requests=
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= Attendees =
= Attendees =


= Minutes =
=== Flightdeck ===
* preparing for 1.0 release
** one blocker, bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724766 724766], otherwise looking good.
** dbuc is shooting a new tutorial video this week: let him know if there's any particular material that should be included.


= Minutes =
=== SDK ===
 
* we made another hotfix release: 1.4.3. Blogged it, drafted a press release.
* lessons learned? It's a worry that this bug was present for a while before we noticed. Our tests don't test that persistent storage isn't broken across releases. We can improve our testing here, and it would help a lot if we have more aggressive/widespread testing of our betas. We'll talk about this during the work week.
* we'll spin a 1.5 Release Candidate today. Builder should take it, because the 1.5b3 it is currently using does not have the 1.4.3 fix in.
 
=== Roundtable ===
 
* jetperf: ready for code review: http://k0s.org/mozilla/hg/jetperf
* Thunderbird support:
** lots of people want the SDK to work with Thunderbird. Ochameau opened a bug to help with this, and whimboo started work on the SDK. He's keen to get [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozmill/ MozMill] and other add-ons working with the SDK.
** we don't have the resources to officially support Thunderbird. However, we can at least not intentionally break it by throwing exceptions.
* it's not possible to pass XML between compartments without explicitly serializing it. We should raise a bug so we can at least find out why this is so.
* Dietrich blogged about plans in 2012 to use the SDK to deliver Firefox features: http://autonome.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/firefox-feature-development-in-2012/

Latest revision as of 17:08, 14 February 2012

Agenda

Pending Requests

  • Bugs with pending requests


Attendees

Minutes

Flightdeck

  • preparing for 1.0 release
    • one blocker, bug 724766, otherwise looking good.
    • dbuc is shooting a new tutorial video this week: let him know if there's any particular material that should be included.

SDK

  • we made another hotfix release: 1.4.3. Blogged it, drafted a press release.
  • lessons learned? It's a worry that this bug was present for a while before we noticed. Our tests don't test that persistent storage isn't broken across releases. We can improve our testing here, and it would help a lot if we have more aggressive/widespread testing of our betas. We'll talk about this during the work week.
  • we'll spin a 1.5 Release Candidate today. Builder should take it, because the 1.5b3 it is currently using does not have the 1.4.3 fix in.

Roundtable

  • jetperf: ready for code review: http://k0s.org/mozilla/hg/jetperf
  • Thunderbird support:
    • lots of people want the SDK to work with Thunderbird. Ochameau opened a bug to help with this, and whimboo started work on the SDK. He's keen to get MozMill and other add-ons working with the SDK.
    • we don't have the resources to officially support Thunderbird. However, we can at least not intentionally break it by throwing exceptions.
  • it's not possible to pass XML between compartments without explicitly serializing it. We should raise a bug so we can at least find out why this is so.
  • Dietrich blogged about plans in 2012 to use the SDK to deliver Firefox features: http://autonome.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/firefox-feature-development-in-2012/
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