DevTools/2012-09-13

Meeting Details

• Thursday Sep 13, 2012 - 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99459
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99459 (US)
• Vidyo room link: https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=kJp7HpENLMjj
• #devtools on irc.mozilla.org for backchannel

Standups

• Panos:
  • helping get the profiler working over the remote protocol for B2G and Fennec
  • fixed a bug with stepping into a frame
  • fixed charset encoding issues with the debugger's editor

• Victor
  • the way in which the debugger was checking if it was a chrome/remote debugger was broken and hiding some pretty nasty bugs, hopefully fixed now
  • experimented with collapsed panels by default when debugger starts
    • pretty hard not to surprise the user
  • no more hardcoded stuff in XUL
  • messed with the parser API a bit, quite close to having functions search operators/ click to jump etc.
    • this work should also help with the hover-something-to-inspect-its-value bugs
  • landed a bunch of search related patches
  • i did a 2200+ csets merge which bloodbathed builds on fx-team :)

• Joe
  • https://etherpad.mozilla.org/devtools-framework-jsm
  • Using git:
    • https://etherpad.mozilla.org/devtools-content-workflow
    • https://github.com/joewalker/devtools-window
  • Optimizers screenshot code
  • Surrogate (post Meeting)

• Mike
  • Fixed a gazillion copy / paste issues (dcamp to review)
  • Fleshed out the toolbox API
  • Reviews, reviews, reviews

• Mihai
  • wrote a document that explains the Web Console remoting.
    • https://gist.github.com/3691691
    • feedback is always welcome!
  • a bunch of web console remoting work:
    • patch part 4: cleanups, removed all obsolete code.
    • performance investigation: the debugger protocol overhead has a big impact. see bug 790202.
    • various updates for all patches, mainly i'm now addressing Panos's review for part 3 (network logging).
    • adding a new NetworkEventActor.
  • a bunch of reviews for patches - can't remember which. :)

• Honza, Firebug
  • Firebug 1.11a3 later today
    • - 19 issues fixed (e.g. showing stack trace for function-logs)
  • Progress on JSD2, the prototype is:
    • - Using promises for asynchronous data access
    • - Able to eval user expressions
    • - Able to explore objects in frame environment (scope-chain)

• Heather
  • Light theme - making generic for reuse + gutter, selection colors

• Tanvi
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Features/Add_Security_Developer_Tools

• Optimizer:
  • Revert to last saved state in Scratchpad
  • Screenshot extension patches coming through
  • Web console should open JS/CS in Debugger/Style Editor patch coming up.

• Dave
  • Debugger oranges have been going down dramatically
  • Jetpack debugging

Roundtable

• For meetup the week after next
  • https://etherpad.mozilla.org/devtools-septmeetup
  • bugzilla free triage
  • are there extra hack sessions that anyone wants add
    • We're going to narrow them down at the start of next week
    • Hopefully next thursday we'll know what we're doing

• https://etherpad.mozilla.org/devtools-surrogate