Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2015-02-03

Jan Odvarko, Florent Fayolle, Alistair Laing, Christoph Dorn

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

Firebug 2

• DONE Issue 7724: Firebug Breakpoint exception in current FF Nightly
• DONE Issue 7721: Limiting the number of dynamic scripts to list in the script panel
• Firebug 2.0.8 waiting for review

Firebug 3

• Beta phase set for 1st of March
• Honza: release Firebug 3 alpha 8 this week

• Developing with no JPM (bootstrap.js + install.rdf needed)
  • It's faster, no profile cloning
  • Easier for new contributors (no JPM installation needed)
  • But we need bootstrap.js and install.rdf (should it be part of repo?)

• Honza: Firebug 3 auto update FIXED
• OS-X - Use arrow style for twisties #30
  • Honza: take a look at Alistair's changes

• We need to customize Markup View (the same way as events icon does)
• We need to have API for registering new commands
  • Honza: talk to Brian

• We need more good-first-bugs
• Simplify error tracing API #17 (perhaps for Adam?)

• Test API
  • Should we copy DevTools API?
  • Florent: file a new issue and start exploring how test API are loaded by test harness.

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

Task List

• Florent: tests for animation panel (implies make a npm module to expose DevTools head.js files)
• Honza: Platform API, actors, Net Export, packet exchange viewer, XHR Spy
• Alistair: #277 solved (needs a link to the commit), #302 Firebug Options (put into the Options panel),
• Anurag, analyses #257, Fixed: #249

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