Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2009-01-13

Attendees

Steve Souders mentioned the Velocity Conference in San Jose for June, calls for topics in the air. Steve to send Jresig an email.

~~clobber production?~~
- sync trunk with production DONE
update for 1.3.0
- todo
documentation updates
Adam Peller asked about documentation for fbug, people still finding it hard to get involved and access what documentation there is.
- robc suggests using fbug project page wiki (jjb recommended firebug working group wiki) for generating documents and rolling them up to getfirebug.com as they coalesce

move to beta when 1.3 released todo
move to beta in early january, currently works in 3.1 in its alpha state
honza mentioned an extension contributed by a tufts university student consisting of a JSON panel. After some discussion, decided to included it in 1.4 core for trials.
outstanding issues in fbug 1.4 in firefox 3.1,
- bug 465993 window opened 0 size, may be fixed?
- http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/list?q=label:FF3.1

need a UI to locate list of tests
- startNet.html?
need to be able to run a single test
- startNet.html has single links, probably a decent model
lists in chrome: ?
UniversalXPConnect?
JJB- division between fbug project test cases and fireunit makes them harder to use in automation, need to bridge this gap

honza started http://groups.google.com/group/firebug-working-group/web/firebug-extension-points
wishlist - http://groups.google.com/group/firebug-working-group/web/firebug-1-3-extensions
identify and prioritize features todo
lots of existing extension points - need better documentation
christoph to rewrite firePHP and document the process on his blog, wants to keep track of extension points and changes to them, create test-cases that exercise these extension points should be a priority. todo
simplify process of creating tools or extensions using DOMplate. There should be a way to prototype an extension using a wizard-like interface or walkthrough.

jsd2 work can begin - jjb
bugzilla cleanup for 2.0-only problems.
chromebug in firefox 3.1 is opening 0-size windows
bug 465993 Blocks chromebug on FF3.1
- todo need someone to install the test case and verify - robcee
new jsd tests: /fbug/chromebug/tests/jsdTests@johnjbarton.com
need someone to install this extension in an clean Firefox profile (no Firebug) and try it.
bug 379410 (jsdICompilationUnit) First work in progress patch. reworked the test case: fbug/chromebug/tests/jsdTests@johnjbarton.com/content/jsd/jsdIDebuggerService2/bugzilla-379410.js
bug 449454 Work abandoned, Lower priority now since 379410 will do the work.
Bugs against jsd:
- Top priority, causes erroneous application behavior: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463239
- Causes un-debuggable code: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462704
- Both of these have test cases in fbug/chromebug/tests/jsdTests@johnjbarton.com/content/jsd/jsdIScript