Places/Status Meetings/2009-07-06

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Places Team Meeting Details

• Mondays at 9:00am Pacific
• irc.mozilla.org #places

Work Priorities

• TSnap bugs (56, +1, http://is.gd/1isPz)
• TSnap fixed (18, 0, http://is.gd/1isOe)
• Requiring tests (in-testsuite?) (84, 0, http://tinyurl.com/d3eqav)

• Blocking 3.5.0.x (0, -, http://is.gd/1ivgs)
• Blocking 3.5.0.x Noms (0, -, http://is.gd/1ivhd)
• Wanted 3.5.0.x (2, 0, http://is.gd/1ivdV)
• Wanted 3.5.0.x Noms (9, 0, http://is.gd/1ivcd)
• Needs 3.5.0.x approval (0, 0, http://is.gd/1ivFH)
• Trunk delta from branch (67, +3, http://tinyurl.com/oxno27)
• Possible Wontfix (72, +19, http://tinyurl.com/ajqgm7)

• Bug Triage (1390, +10, http://tinyurl.com/a3j9p6)

Status updates

• sdwilsh
  • bug 483980 - Allow history/bookmark observer components to register with a startup category (help wanted)

• mak
  • bug 500391: some Tsnappiness fixes here: get tags with subquery when searching for searchTerms, get parent with bookmarks queries, avoid getChild() XPCOM costs when rebuilding Places trees sections. Needs cleanup.
  • bug 457708: unbitrotted, added a test to check if we can use dynamic containers with async queries. should be ready for review soon, then will be possible to port livemarks to it (bitrotted patch available).
  • lazy working on Migration component JS porting in spare time.
  • Will be away 11-26 Jul

• adw
  • Async query containers bug 490714
    • Working on pushing sorting down to SQL: bug 499990 - adding locale-aware collation to Storage (patches up, working with sdwilsh) and bug 499985 - the Places portion, using the new collation
    • Blogged about it a few weeks ago.
  • Jetpack simple storage stuff: bug 499871 and bug 499872
  • Met with andyed over the weekend. He's really interested in Places stats from a cognitive psychology and HCI perspective, e.g., how do people use tags and folders? How is a user's session related to tabs and can we leverage that information to make a better experience? He's been keeping track of his analyses at Places/Stats.

• ddahl
  • memory tests/ talos code on Windows - testing all browsers, implementation is done. need to capture environment and blog about it.
  • Working with Vlad on "startup timeline" bug 480735 timing all startup code to improve ts.
  • Further work on bug 480430 places db generation. Alice is starting to automate it now. w00t!
  • Opened bug 500474 to play with an experimental schema in Places. Should be attaching some code this week. Designing the schema using Django.db: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Sprints/ExperimentalPlacesSchema

• dietrich
  • Firefox:FrontEndPerformance
  • reviews, blockers, etc.

Documentation

• Bugs with dev-doc-needed (http://is.gd/iVWS)

• MDC
  • the migration guide needs history api and dynamic container examples. (dietrich)
  • the design documents linked from MDC need to be written. can probably cull from the old design overview docs.
    • Bookmarks (dietrich, not started)
    • Annotations (sdwilsh, not started)
  • Documentation non-existent:
    • dynamic containers (MaK77)
      • will do as soon as they are working properly

• WMO
  • Places:Live_Bookmarks (decide on owner)
  • need documentation on how to write SQL queries against the places back-end, for core developers (Places/Places_SQL_queries_best_practices)
    • Invariants and triggers (sdwilsh)

• Needs porting from WMO to MDC:
  • Places:Transactions (decide on owner)

Roundtable

• A Places (or non-Places-specific that we use for Places...) dashboard that shows live changes, bugzilla queries, graphs would be nice to have
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Dietrich/Dashboard
  • http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=550

• bug 489173 Issue with size of places.sqlite and Google Toolbar