Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2010-08-24

John J. Barton, Jan 'Honza' Odvarko, Pat Mueller, Mike Collins, Steve Roussey

Issues for 1.6

Time for b1
- Blocks 1.6
- FF b4 code freeze, fuzzy text solved: we should plan for 1.6b1 soon
- DONE One major bug left, issue 3327, needs a test case
- BON button, some BON test cases.
Completion
- DONE Linux problems Need to investigate for 1.6
- DONE New option to hide popup extensions.firebug.commandLineShowCompleterPopup
- DONE set true by default, false for linux on FF 3.6
- investigate on FF 4.0 (HONZA)
Accessibility Review (Hans out this week)
- new key shortcut mechanism proposed by Hillen,
- will create prototype on 1.7 branch for now
Need feedback on Swarm (jjb on another project this week)
- New Prototype: Swarms
- collect test list from extensions and run all
- contact extension authors,
The Firebug Swarm
- First run page
- one per alpha and beta
- donation page
- New support for testing extensions (Honza, kpdecker); need doc
- New tests for completion needed (Honza)

Branch and attack debugger.js/fbs to get a plan for refactoring work.
- New API between debugger.js and fbs to match CrossFire protocol
  - pmueller suggested looking at json schema
  - darin suggests looking at java remote debug for extensibility issues
- add support for JS debug to Firebug for Google Chrome
- prepares for jsdv2
- prepares for mobile web debug at least for JS
Refactor to support Firebug Embedded:
- Firebug in Firefox as jetpack
- Firebug in Google Chrome more complete, more common code
Darin making progress on Firebug.Middle
- Middle ? BrowserToolInterface ? BTI. DebuggerProxy
  - Sub objects.
- Event patterns.
  - Request scripts, callback handler
  - Register Handler, callback on event
- Call styles discussed in newsgroup
Firefox proposal window.console
Standards may based on Web IDL or [JSON Schema http://json-schema.org/]
First new feature: JS ReRun
- enabled on breakpoint
- Button left of Continue
- re-runs current stack from its first function.
- tested on click event handler
- needs key binding, FBTest, trial on a lot more cases....
Selectbug extension added to fbug SVN (jjb)
- Adds side panel to CSS panel, selectors
Mutation Recognizer needs to support removal of UI features
- eg remove breakpoint (HONZA)

Test Bot Page
- Many more failures, but new test config should solve some, wait to see.
Bug 559466 Integrate firebug test suite with automated tests
Triage Process
- Contact page, platform triage person?
Bug 532445 run unit tests (daily?) with Firebug installed in testing profiles
Add support for reporting that FF crashed (Honza)

Crossfire labeled issues
Webkit Inspector Protocol?
Testing of backend: FBTest?
- Darin
Listener client/server
- Browser Tools Interface
Socket startup and shutdown issues.
Avoiding context transfer?
- Leave all model info on server side
- Client side has "presentation model" (cache of info needed for panels)
Standards may based on Web IDL or [JSON Schema http://json-schema.org/]