Details

• Time: Friday, 2012 May 18, 9:05 - 9:50am PT (16:05 - 16:50 UTC)
• Location:
  • Audio/Video: Jetpack vroom
  • Audio Only:
    • US Only: +1-800-707-2533, password 369, conference number 99449
    • US/Intl: +1-650-903-0800, extension 92, conference number 99449
• Notes: etherpad

Agenda

• actions from previous meeting
  • gozala to create priority list of individual modules to land in Firefox
  • gozala to prepare mozilla-central patch implementing loader
  • mossop to review gozala's patch implementing loader
• roundtable

Attendees

• dietrich
• dveditz
• gozala
• mixedpuppy
• myk

Minutes

actions from previous meeting

gozala to create priority list of individual modules to land in Firefox

• didn't happen because it is more complicated than simply moving modules to Firefox
• question of how we continue to develop APIs in the SDK repository
• started to document how the synchronization process will work
• https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/wiki/JEP%20SDK%20in%20Firefox
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743359

gozala to prepare mozilla-central patch implementing loader

• https://github.com/mozilla/mozilla-central/pull/2
• decided to create a pull request that mossop will create a patch from
• mossop is going to review the change
• took some time to figure out where things go in mozilla-central
• that is now figured out, and gozala will update the notes with a reference to a wiki page about synchronization and how loader will have to change

mossop to review gozala's patch implementing loader

• hasn't happened yet

roundtable

gozala made some changes to scratchkit experiment

• now it complete in the sense that it can be used with all the modules jetpack comes with
• you no longer have to be on about:addons, you can just open scratchkit with a jetpack context with a keybinding
• you can mess up firefox, but when you close the editor, it undoes everything you did
• you can save what you have in scratchpad as a file and then make it an addon
• https://github.com/Gozala/scratch-kit/
• Add-on SDK example -> scratchpad being planned for future!

mixedpuppy did an experiment

• took an overlay manager that asaf created a while ago and made it load manifest and set up chrome references and import overlays and unload overlays
• it also sandboxes the overlays
• you can't add new XPCOM interfaces
• haven't tried loading any XBL
• makes it possible to have an addon that looks like a regular patch and can be loaded without being restartless inside firefox but can also be a restartless addon
• independent from SDK stuff, fully contained in bootstrap.js file
• could be redone to fit into SDK or added to SDK's bootstrap.js file
• if it was a module, it could be added to https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/wiki/Community-developed-modules
• https://github.com/mozilla/socialapi-dev/blob/55ba90358e56b7123b4f997a5b76b839ac235eb2/bootstrap.js

the loader in Firefox

• mixedpuppy would really like loader to be in Firefox
• gozala will show pull request to mixedpuppy and solicit his feedback
• mixedpuppy intending to land socialapi in Firefox 15
• gozala intending to land loader in Q2

Actions

• mossop to review gozala's patch implementing loader
• gozala to update loader landing spec with details about module synchronization and loader changes to prepare loader for landing in Firefox
  • and file or reference a bug requesting a Security Review (link to form at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Reviews/Review_Request_Form#Security_Assurance_Security_Review_Request )
• gozala and security team to conduct security review of loader