Agenda

• Flightdeck
• SDK
• Roundtable
  • l10n updates
  • MozCamp followup
  • flightdeck-as-app, SDK-in-browser, future plans
  • ejpbruel: what is the status of prioritizing platform bugs?
  • Jetpack forum: https://forums.mozilla.org/addons/viewforum.php?f=27 is sad
  • status of Preferences API?

Attendees

• warner
• gozala
• Mossop
• ochameau
• canuckistani
• ZER0
• krizsa
• KWierso
• dhorner
• wbamberg
• myk
• dbuc
• arron
• ejpbruel
• erikvold
• jorgev

Minutes

SDK

• 1.3rc1 to be spun today
• if something needs to ship in 1.3, it's now or never (unless it is a true blocker)

• potential changes to cherry-pick for 1.3:
  • clean up workers after they are invalidated to suppress exceptions
  • XUL migration guide

• we decided not to ship fix for content script scope sharing issue

FlightDeck

• release this week
  • jinja templates
  • search enhancements: facets will show up in search results (library size, dependencies)
  • ability to sort by recency
• changes are a step toward helping you find the best twitter library

• working on getting shipyard (modular frontend framework) integrated
• working on 2012 plan, focus is on making app a client-side open web app accessible from Firefox Tools menu

• dbuc having difficulty reproducing ochameau's issue with addons not being updated

Roundtable

• l10n updates
  • ochameau got great feedback from mozcamp attendees about issues with using JSON format to store localizations
  • other options include .properties files and YAML files
  • -> ochameau to post to discussion group about issues with JSON and the other options

• MozCamp followup
  • it was awesome
  • got tons of feedback about localization from various folks, including prominent addon developers
  • canuckistani attended meeting of AMO editors group and learned about their issues
  • most addon developers there are doing deep integration with traditional addons
  • issues they raised included bloat (addon size, startup performance) and a desire to use XUL to create interfaces

• • bloat issues are part reality, part perception; need to know specifics
  • we can address bloat issues in various ways: disentangle dependencies, minify code, land code in Firefox
  • -> jorgev to measure startup performance again

• flightdeck-as-app, SDK-in-browser, future plans
  • we should figure out the schedule for making the SDK an addon
  • FlightDeck will benefit from that
  • dcm should drive this
  • we should figure out how we want jetpack to look a year from now
  • -> myk to add to agenda for next week, when dcm will be in attendance

• ejpbruel: what is the status of prioritizing platform bugs?
  • all bugs have been prioritized
  • bugs in the SDK product have priority field set
  • bugs in other products have [jetpack:Pn] in status whiteboard field

• Jetpack forum: https://forums.mozilla.org/addons/viewforum.php?f=27 is sad
  • folks who post often don't get responses
  • folks in the Jetpack discussion (i.e. Google) group do get responses
  • stackoverflow questions get answers because Wladimir Palant answers them all

• • we decided to have two forums, one for project discussion, one for user support
  • but we probably don't have enough traffic to justify two groups
  • and AMO seems unlikely to fix issues that make it hard to track the support forum
  • so we should shut down the support forum and consolidate to the google group
  • and if we change our minds later, set up a support forum using different technology (f.e. Stack Overflow)
  • -> canuckistani to propose shutting down group

• status of Preferences API?
  • peregrino requested a pull while working as an intern last summer
  • myk reviewed the pull and identified some issues
  • the pull request needs to be adopted, issues addressed, and rereviewed
  • erikvold is interested in taking this on
  • -> canuckistani to follow up with him