Labs/Jetpack/Weekly Meeting/2011-12-20

Agenda

• Flightdeck
• SDK
  • SDK Q4 Goals
• Roundtable
  • 2012 Roadmap being written - shift in audience. Goals also being worked on. Neither are complete! be patient!
  • We have started using P4 in bug triage for those bugs which are 'personal work list' bugs
  • Do we want access control for the stabilisation/release branches?
  • No meeting next week (Dec. 27th)! Enjoy your preferred year-end holiday of choice - Next meeting 1/3/2012
  • status of stabilization branch; extra eyes wanted
  • ownership and refactoring of the Add-on Builder Helper
  • what about cfx upload / cfx source-package ?

Attendees

• Wes
• Eddy Bruel
• Jeff Griffiths
• Jorge
• DCM
• Dbuc
• Alex
• Matteo
• Gabor
• Will

Minutes

Flightdeck

• sending email to gather AMO accounts for super users
• next release tomorrow
• keyboard shortcuts coming back next week

SDK

• 2011 Goals
  • l10n
    • big discussion on 1st landing, negative comments
    • should press forward and land something
    • 'on track'
  • mobile:
    • unit tests, written, create pull request, landing tomorrow?
  • html localization
    • proposal being worked on, Thurs?
    • driving proposal unlikely to happen this year
    • 'risky'
  • indexDB
    • new patch sent, hopefully landed this week
    • 'on track'
  • addonTab
    • 'at risk'
    • underestimated work
    • implementation done, code needs to be reviewed
    • need strategy for code updated over multiple addons
      • details on bugzilla, pull requests
  • unpacking xpis
    • 'at risk'
    • close, does all of the right stuff
    • needs review, fix some tests

• Question: table of version compatibility between firefox and SDK versions? Will can add it to the schedule table, should be easy to reference for users.

• Release process: Brian made some changes, Myk agrees. We now look at the git tag to set version, this affects the release process on the wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jetpack/Release_Process

Roundtable

• 2012 Roadmap
  • initial sketch of goals & roadmap on the wiki
  • shift of audience for the SDK, start targeting 'deep integrators', please review explanation in the roadmap: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jetpack/Roadmap and Goals: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jetpack/Goals/2012-Goals

• Comment from Will: 3rd party modules on the roadmap? Not included yet, but in the goals for Q4.
• no metrics yet, suggestions welcome?
  • AMO fast track review queue as a metric
• simplify reviews of addons that use common modules
• AMO-validator data is updated?
  • Jeff: will follow-up with AMO on validator updates

• Use of P4 priorities
  • personal / work item bugs, given P4 stats in triage.
  • engineers should be managing them
  • putting these bugs means 'not subject to triage any more', engineers should challenge P4 status when appropriate
  • makes sense to prioritize your own bugs P4 if they fall into this bucket

• Github access controls, prevent people from committing?
  • possible in future
  • various techniques to prevent unwanted pushes

• Extra eyes on stabilization branch?
  • make sure it looks okay after the last few days

• Ownership of builder helper add-on
  • needs refactoring?
  • newer features in Fx could simplify codebase
  • who owns this?
  • Alex will take a look

• cfx upload / cfx source-package

• upload source package to AMO
• helps repacker, possibly Flight deck
• will help l10n as well, to have non-packed version
• devtools team is looking at source mapping?
• various workflow options could be opened up, e.g. commit to github refreshes source package on AMO

• Myk is spinning 1.4b3 today, anything that needs to get into this, ping him.
• Matteo: Fennec patch landed tomorrow, goes in 1.4?
• Myk: no, 1.5.
• Jeff: how to test?
• Myk: we need docs
• Matteo: will do.