Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2014-06-03

Jan Odvarko, Florent Fayolle, Simon Lindholm, Joe Walker, Christoph Dorn, Steven Roussey

Firebug 2 Release

• Firebug 2 final next Tuesday!
  • Honza: planning to blog for: getfirebug.com, utest.com, softwareishard.com, bughuntress.com
  • AMO review (planning in advance with Jorge)
  • Honza: getfirebug.com updated with new features (blocked by Bug 1019051)
  • All: make sure our wiki is up to date with Firebug 2
  • All: ping Honza if you want to make sure a new feature is mentioned in a blog post.
  • Simon: planning to do the wiki docs for the Events panel
  • Issue 7445: Check extensions for breakage in combination with Firebug 2.0
  • Honza: put list of contributors in etherpad
  • Honza: create "firebug2.0" branch
  • Florent: will have a blog ready next week Tuesday, we can blog there too.

• Firebug 2.1 will probably follow soon
  • Issue 7155: Add a shortcut for toggling an element's display
  • Issue 6341: Addition of "display" property in Layout Side Panel
  • Issue 7044: Source lines in console should be shown even when Script panel is disabled

Firebug.next

• Honza continues leading the team
• Honza: created a new repo:
  • https://github.com/firebug/firebug.next
  • installation steps would be great
  • Simon: I'm not 100% enthusiastic, but it's an okay decision
  • Christoph: already working on an extension (tty console, socket.io)
  • Joe: we can use Mozilla infrastructure for testing (tests based on Jetpack)

• Planning: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/firebug-next
  • We should have a great demo done for the meeting in London!

• Next steps:
  • All: prototyping Firebug 3, Firebug theme, SDK

• Things to reimplement in Firebug 3, suggestions:
  • Florent: Command Editor
  • Florent: Event side panel
  • Simon: .% syntax for the command line
  • Simon: "Use in Command Line" (as part of devtools?)
  • See more: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/firebug-next