Places/Status Meetings/2009-05-04

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Places Team Meeting Details

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

Work Priorities

• Blockers (1, 0, http://tinyurl.com/dgbhmn)
  • bug 489038 - Selecting and/or deleting tags in the Library causes Firefox 3.5b4pre to hog the CPU and become unresponsive (dietrich)
• Needs branch landing (0, -1, http://tinyurl.com/c4droh)
• Wanted (33, 0, http://tinyurl.com/cg78qy)
• Possible Wontfix (46, +5, http://tinyurl.com/ajqgm7)
• Places bugs on m-c but not yet on 1.9.1 (29, +10, http://tinyurl.com/686pp9)
• Waiting for approval1.9.1 (6, +3, http://tinyurl.com/cs2gng)
• Requiring tests (in-testsuite?) (81, 0, http://tinyurl.com/d3eqav)

• Bug Triage (1388, +34 change), http://tinyurl.com/a3j9p6)

QA Issues

• Tracy
  • will get on track with verifying fixes as they land (next nightly)
  • focus will remain on 1.9.1 branch 'til final release.

Status updates

• sdwilsh
  • Working on some weave-impact bugs for 1.9.1
    • bug 483980 Allow history/bookmark observer components to register with a startup category (trying to help; hard bug)
    • bug 468307 Multiple observer events fire for addition, removal (approach changed; needs work)

• mak
  • bug 488966 - Add a last_visit_date column with an index to moz_places, patch mostly done, looking at a small issue and toward further improvements.
  • bug 491269 - Test that editing folder name in bookmarks properties dialog does not accept the dialog. Missing test.
  • bug 483980 - Allow history/bookmark observer components to register with a startup category. Need to look into for Fennec.

• adw
  • Library polish bug 430148 - review (still) requested from mano
  • hasTag bug 399799 - done!
  • bookmarks initialization is not fault tolerant bug 478912 - haven't looked at this since I posted a WIP, will revisit
  • async query containers bug 490714 - WIP patch up
  • some clear recent history fallout: bug 489700, bug 490655 (filed some other bugs also but am working on these two)
  • async storage patch bug 490867

• ddahl
  • fixed dependent bug bug 487012 of bug 473337 just the makefile for SeaMonkey builds
  • bug 485442 created xpcshell test and patch approved
  • Working on ORM - have I discovered a JS bug?
  • Looking at google chrome database schema and History/Bookmarks functionality

• dietrich
  • Firefox:FrontEndPerformance
  • reviews, 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