DevTools/2011-02-09

Meeting Details

• Wednesday Feb. 9, 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:
    • 7 blockers (0 hard blockers, 2 platform hard blockers for Firebug still)
  • Last week:
    • 9 blockers (0 hard blockers, 2 platform hard blockers for Firebug still)
• Firebug update
  • Final 1.6 line release is out
  • New 1.7 alpha expected this week
  • New APIs for extensions to create new custom inspectors
    • This was a good community achievement with 3 or 4 people involved in the development of this API
  • some tests are a little flaky still, but the problems seem to be in the tests
  • wants to focus a little more on localization for Firebug
• Ace update
  • New Ace release (0.1.5)
  • Great community involvement
• Hiring
  • job posting
  • puzzle
• No meeting next week
  • Mozilla's devtools team on-site in Mountain View
  • We'll talk in 2 weeks more clearly about the immediate post-Firefox 4 work

Roundtable

• QA is launching hard testing against the new features like the web console
  • two new people are working on testing, including against the Web Console (Alex and George)