Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2012-02-21

Jan Odvarko, Christoph Dorn, Sebastian Zartner

Firebug 1.10

• 1.10.0a4 this week

• List of 1.10 blockers

• Multiline command line is based on Orion (color syntax).
  • Honza Done: Needs fallback to texteditor in case of SeaMonkey

Firebug 1.10 AMD

• • AMD Improvements: Christoph work-in-progress

• New loader, resources
  • Example packages: https://github.com/sourcemint/platform-nodejs/tree/master/examples/02-NodeJSLoaderFeatures
  • Static bundler: https://github.com/sourcemint/platform-nodejs/blob/master/examples/03-NodeJSLoaderFeatureBundles/main.js
  • Dynamic/middleware bundler: https://github.com/sourcemint/platform-nodejs/tree/master/examples/04-NodeJSPlatformFeatures/02-BundlerMiddleware

Firebug 1.10 Bootstrapped

• Activation needs to adapt delayed-load
  • Existing issue for this?

Automated Tests

• Test bot results
  • Some tests fail, they need to be fixed ASAP

Also waiting in the queue:

• Issue 5097: FBTest needs to set default UI size
• Different domains for automated tests
  • Helps detecting zombie compartments

Miscellaneous

• FWG has bunch of pending membership, what should we do?
  • Email to all asking why to join: Honza TODO

Moving to GIT

• Analysis, target GIT structure
  • Wiki: http://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Source
  • Thread: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/firebug/52hIQox_ISs/discussion

• Firebug, FBTrace and FBTest should be in one repo
• All firebug extension examples will be in one repo
• There will be one hello-world repo with recommended extension structure
• Christoph writing a script for preserving SVN history (commit messages, authors, dates)
• CSS styles for automated tests should be part of the tests/content/ directory

• The test-bot needs to checkout test files from GIT
  • Honza Done: send an email to Clint