Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2015-01-27

Jan Odvarko, Florent Fayolle, Alistair Laing, Christoph Dorn

Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/firebug

Firebug 2

• Issue 7724: Firebug Breakpoint exception in current FF Nightly
  • Honza: patch ready and verified
  • Honza: yet test conditional breakpoints
  • Honza: Release 2.0.8
• Issue 7721: Limiting the number of dynamic scripts to list in the script panel
  • Honza: review Florent's patch

Firebug 3

• Honza: release Firebug 3 alpha 8 this week
• Honza: test Firebug 3 update (Florent: report a new issue)

Task List

• Honza: Platform API, actors, Net Export, packet exchange viewer
• Florent: Properly style Animations side panel #283
  • Honza: post feedback
  • Use CSS variables
• Alistair: #277 solved (needs a link to the commit), #302 Firebug Options (put into the Options panel),
• Anurag, analyses #257, Fixed: #249

jQuery

• Alistair: file a bug with list of features we want for jQuery support

TODO

• We could perhaps maintain this page for release notes:
  • https://github.com/firebug/firebug.next/tags

• Honza: mention Browser Content Toolbox for child processes on wiki.
• Honza: mention https://github.com/Gozala/jpm-addon
• Honza: mention that Nightly is needed for Firebug 3

• Help to new contributors
  • explain that a lot of errors in the browser console is ok for now
  • swapping from cfx to jpm could be confusing

1Q 2015 focus on following extensions

• FirePHP: Christoph Dorn interested
• FireQuery: Alistair interested, we should create a list of main features, so it's easier to analyze what platform APIs we need.
• NetExport
• PixelPerfect