Firefox2/StatusMeetings/2006-04-11

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Meeting Details

• 11:00am PDT (18:00 UTC)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 866 216 2181
• join irc.mozilla.org #bonecho for attendance taking

Agenda

1. Bon Echo Alpha 2 (Tracking & Status)
2. Development Roundtable
3. Any other business

Bon Echo Alpha 2

• proposed release for May 9th, code freeze for May 5th
• tracking against requirements
• shaver/brendan to discuss what platform pieces are being targetted
• any other release-related issues to start tracking? update channels?

Developer Roundtable

Add notes about work being actively done at the moment, areas where you'll need help/review, or things which the rest of the team should be made aware of. Leaving the section blank or linking to current discussion threads in dev.apps.firefox is perfectly acceptable.

Visual Refresh: Chrome Polish

• jhughes has created a tracking bug for "lame dialogs" which equates nicely to the P3 targetted at B2 for polish issues; beltzner to go through the polish list and attach more on there and then start cutting through those
• there's still a lot of dispute about the worthiness of the proposed chrome structure changes in d-a-f, right now it's netting out to the following changes beyond what's already been changed so far:
  • moving the reload button to a combined reload/go (not reload/stop!) button at the right of the URL bar (mconnor has issues with this, as do many others)
  • changing the progress meter from being a bar in the status bar to a pie inside the throbber (beltzner to file bug)
  • moving the home button to the bookmarks toolbar (a little resistance here, still)
  • keeping tabs at a fixed width after one is closed until the mouse is moved away from the tab bar (tab closebuttons and tab widths are (still!) very contentious changes)

Visual Refresh: Theme Polish

• response in the newsgroup has been slow
• some discussion of leveraging free graphics such as the Tango library where possible
  • quick sidenote: we'll fold the default theme discussion back into d-a-f from d-a-themes; it's a little fractured atm, separating it out didn't work :(
• we've contacted a few design firms to see if they'd be interested in submitting some concepts for new default themes (asked to see 6 or so ideas from each)
  • once those concept designs are in, we'll review and post them for public comment and then follow up for implementation

Bookmarks and History: Places

Making good progress:

- 58 a2 issues open... annie 14 brettw 14 ben 10 joe 13 pam 3 - annie 19 brettw 13.5 beng 16 joe 15 - focusing on feature complete & major "functionality broken" bugs.

User Experience: Session Restore

• Patch available for testing at bug 328162
• Currently working on fixing Ts regression

User Experience: Microsummaries

Landed first patch: bug 333052, which makes the bookmarks toolbar observe the "bookmarks/generatedTitle" annotation. When the microsummary service sets or updates that annotation for a particular bookmark, the toolbar now uses the content of the annotation as the bookmark's label.

Currently working on patch implementing microsummary service.

Feeds: Parser

Robert sayrer needs to address peterv review feedback and get sr asap.

Needs to complete feed parser js component (beng reviewing)

Feeds: UI

Blocked by prereq (feed parser)

Search: UI

• Search engine manager patch to be submitted this week
  • Got sidetracked by some 1.0.8 regressions

Search: Plugin Format

• Little bug fixes and cleanup has been reviewed and will land soon
• Format changes delayed until b1

Infrastructure: Platform Uplift

• JS 1.7 to arrive by end of April ("or bust" per Brendan): generators, iterators, array comprehensions, let, block scope, destructuring assignment
• Canvas interface and optimizations (bug 333177): vlad needs to decide to land them on trunk first for baking prior to a2. Would be good to get 1.8+patch experimental builds up somewhere for canvas-developers to test.
• vlad and jst are doing whatwg storage, apparently! (What subset? Need more details, hope to get them soon.)
• no update on Darin/vlad minimal timer work (need a bug on file)
• no update on mento's main-loop work (bug 332579), but still plausible for May 9.
• shaver: still concerned about getting the right hooks in place for extensions, esp. WRT Places, Session Saver, and notification area (if it happens).
• 1.8.1 nomination triage meeting: is it scheduled?