Labs/Jetpack/Weekly Meeting/2010-07-13
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Agenda
- followups from last meeting
- SDK 0.6 plan and status
- FlightDeck.next plan
- roundtable
- Closing down the Jetpack Gallery: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/lnLROn2cue
- Ayan's demo
- Firefox version compatibility (dietrich)
- Feature-complete API set (dietrich)
Minutes
- SDK 0.6 plan: freeze next monday (jul-19). Since lots of stuff won't make it, so there's less in this release, so it needs less stabilization time (one week).
- Places is moving out to 0.7, the FF folks are busy with Fx4 work
- Context-Menu vs E10S: Drew will take it on this week. It's at risk for 0.6, we don't know what will be involved.
- Myk will draw up a sketch of how panel/page-worker/context-menu should interact with content (similar to google Chrome approach). Raw patch is in https://bug494238.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=456558
- complete docs APIs: Noelle is on it
- Panel API vs E10S: at risk, but Myk thinks the patch will be ready
- Page Mods vs E10S: also at risk, depends on code in Panel
- Widget vs E10S: similar to Page Mods, Myk will take it on, since it overlaps a lot with Panel
- Widget vs Fx4: mostly done (on the jetpack side), Fx4 side is not as far along
- lots of 0.6 things are at risk: release will ship even if they all miss, since we want to establish a regular cycle
- Brian made plea to make APIs confineable: API authors should make it easy for other modules to be written, on top of these APIs, which expose a limited subset. This generally means more explicit arguments and splitting functionality into separate objects/methods/modules.
- Flightdeck.next
- preview release shipped on june-25, big success, rave reviews in London workshop and at summit, hackathon contest went well
- we've talked about doing a public beta this month
- plan for ever-better releases to ever-wider audiences, rather than building up to a single huge loud release
- next release will probably be blogged on AMO, in addition to sending to the mailing list
- please email Myk if you see problems, he will find/file a bug for you
- roundtable
- closing down Jetpack gallery
- brian wants a tarball of the addons, to skim through and look for common patterns, API usage
- decided to put off shutdown a few weeks, synchronize with the 0.6 release
- Ayan's demo: python script which downloads latest SDK release, runs 'cfx testall', reports failures. Works on OS-X and Ubuntu, not yet on windows.
- would also be useful to run tests on a bunch of local addon trees against the new SDK before starting to use it for real
- closing down Jetpack gallery