DevTools/2011-01-26

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Meeting Details

  • Wednesday Jan. 26, 2010 - 9:00am Pacific, 12:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC
  • 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 275
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 275 (US)
  • #devtools on irc.mozilla.org for backchannel

Notices

  • Web Console status
    • Track the bugs here: http://mzl.la/dtbugs
    • See the report for details
    • This week:
      • 9 blockers (1 hard blocker, 2 more for Firebug)
    • Last week:
      • 12 blockers (2 hard blockers)
    • security bug has several different fixes for it
      • fix in main bug has advantage of getting rid of a __noSuchMethod__ use
      • other platform fixes will get there
  • Firebug update
    • 1.7a9 is out
    • Many critical bugs in Firefox fixed, so Firebug should be working pretty well now
    • Problem with JSD being initialized, especially in automated tests
    • onError hook in JSD is not being executed (break on error is broken)
    • IndexedDB bug: if you try to inspect a window with an IndexedDB object on it, it will crash Firebug or the Web Console
    • working with the author of the testbot to try to figure out why the tests fail under the testbot but not when they're run normally
  • Skywriter update
    • ace transition announced
      • positive feedback
      • lots of mentions on the net
      • new project activity
      • need to get a release out
  • Post-Firefox 4 developer tools

Roundtable

  • Vlad has joined this week in order to learn more about our workflow and wants to help out with testing.
    • Talk to Vlad or Juan if we have anything we need for testing
    • doing exploratory testing based on pushlogs, putting together lots of functional tests for the web console