Agenda

• followups from last week
• SDK 0.4 status
• FlightDeck 1.0a2 planning
• SDK 0.5 planning
• rundown of first developer survey
• Google I/O update
• example extensions for 0.4
• Page Mods API
• multi-process & schedule
• branding update
• roundtable

Minutes

• Follow-Ups
  • Brian will find a piece of string to nail down the DVI adapter in GIGO
• 0.4 Status
  • froze Tuesday, broken, fixed regression, broke again, fixed again
  • rc3 today, will ship Thursday (+2d) unless more blockers found
  • one day late overall
  • tree thaws for 0.5 today
• FlightDeck 1.0a2 Planning (2nd preview)
  • Piotr needs the ID generator code from Brian
  • want to release June 14th
  • will announce to Jetpack-discussion group, but not marketing yet
  • want public beta by end of June, so need 2nd preview to be really good
• 0.5 planning (big list of stuff, but well distributed among people)
  • SDK search path (Brian): P2 behind Brian's other stuff, needs discussion
  • Electrolysis integration (Atul): high priority right now, platform team is engaged
  • app compatibility handling (Atul) (how do modules declare that they are compatible with Firefox/Thunderbird/Fennec/etc): community patch exists, not yet reviewed
  • DOM manipulation library (e.g. jQuery) (Atul): depends on E10S work, so need to figure out an answer to E10S first. Removing from 0.5
  • marking chrome modules, implementing (Brian): also depends on E10S
  • single UI element Phase 2 (Dietrich): waiting on Boriss for design, can make some progress before then, slightly concerned but mostly on track
  • Tabs API (Dietrich): new rev of patch is up, still on track
  • Life-Cycle API (drew): not started yet but straightforward, on track
  • Selection API (Eric Jung): on track
  • Localization API (Gandalf):
  • Panel API (Myk): no progress yet, will either make progress this week or it needs a new owner. at risk.
  • Page Mods (Nickolay?): at risk, no owner yet. Needs API design discussion first (bsmedberg is in MV, we'll discuss it this week)
  • Docs cleanup (Noelle): looks OK, bugs+patches coming this week. In MV office 8-10th.
  • Docs restructuring (Noelle): also ok
  • Request API (Paul): on track. testing will block on mock-XHR.
    • mock-XHR (atul): deciding on API, slightly involved because it must be a drop-in replacement for normal XHR module
• E10S discussion

Once E10S stuff lands, Jetpack won't support FF3.6 anymore: users will have to use nightlies until FF4 is released (this is a big decision and needs a lot of discussion). Still figuring out a plan for E10S. APIs currently in development will ignore E10S stuff, once we have a plan we'll look at when to rewrite them.

• developer survey (dbuc): will publish pretty graphs soon. 349 responses.
  • some folks are waiting for FlightDeck, or for specific APIs
  • some folks (mistakenly) think they must wait for something to land in FF
• example extensions for 0.4 (dbuc)

Writing some samples: unread-email-counter, grab-images-from-page, reverse-image-search-frontend.

• PageMods api (bsmedberg)
• branding: FlightDeck and SDK now known as "Add-Ons Builder"

Followups