Agenda

• followups from last meeting
• SDK 0.9 status
  • RC1 yesterday
  • RC2 today?
  • release Thursday?
• FlightDeck 1.0a6 status
• SDK 0.10 planning
• roundtable
  • Firefox 4.0b6 is reference version for SDK 0.9
  • Question: What new Fx UI will existing APIs take advantage of? - ex. new Aero-skinned pointy panels for Windows
  • contribute to 0.9 release notes! (especially for breaking changes)

Minutes

• no followups from last week
• 0.9
  • shipped RC1 yesterday, no feedback yet, somewhat unnerving. dbuc will bang on it this afternoon
  • drew found docs bug in Context Menu API, should be updated before release. landed earlier today. will spin RC2 later today.
  • might be another one about using "postMessage" instead of "sendMessage", from dbuc. myk will check it out.
  • wbamberg is working on better docs on content-scripts (not for 0.9, yes for 0.10)
  • release now scheduled for thursday, one day late

• Flightdeck
  • did new release ("1.0a5.1", somewhat between 1.0a5 and 1.0a6), now compatible with minefield
  • 1.0a6 tasks are coming along
  • wbamberg will send a suggested api-parser patch to brian today
  • Chowse will do UX review early next week, hopefully results available by tuesday meeting
  • security review: several bugs found, 6 still open

• 0.10
  • myk will ping individuals to figure out time commitments, what features each developer will have time for
  • when tree thaws for 0.10, we'll thaw the Git repo, not the Hg one. The switch to git is now.

• roundtable
  • FF4.0b6 is target for 0.9 - GC compartments changes are making trunk change too fast to keep up with
    • warner will find out what's the deal with the buildbot project and report back next week. It'd be nice to have one. Might help keep track of jetpack-vs-FF-trunk.
  • dbuc: new Fx UI elements. Yes, the plan is to have Panel API create "pointy panels" on windows (upside-down speech bubbles)
  • myk says: please help write 0.9 release notes: add to wiki page
  • are people ready for git? do people know what to do? what ssh key should be used for the git->hg bridge?
    • plan is to maintain hg tree, only changed by git->hg robot, to avoid changes to releng/buildbot infrastructure
    • new git repo will be mozilla/addon-sdk, myk will create it
    • brian will check with github crew to make sure the new repo is seen as a parent (renaming repo and changing username at the same time, might mess up github 'network' / fork heritage)
  • 0.10 will try to be compatible with nightlies but it won't be a blocker
  • selenium test for flightdeck: should it use FF3.6 or 4.0b6? answer: do 4.0b6 first. Aim for same criteria as SDK: latest FF4 beta, then nightlies if possible.
  • goodbye to Nick.. thanks for everything!

Followups