Places/Status Meetings/2009-07-27

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Places Team Meeting Details

• Mondays at 9:00am Pacific
• irc.mozilla.org #places

Work Priorities

• TSnap bugs (70, +12, http://is.gd/1isPz)
• TSnap fixed (19, +1, http://is.gd/1isOe)
• Requiring tests (in-testsuite?) (87, +1, http://tinyurl.com/d3eqav)

• Blocking 3.5.0.x (0, -, http://is.gd/1ivgs)
• Blocking 3.5.0.x Noms (0, -1, http://is.gd/1ivhd)
• Wanted 3.5.0.x (1, -1, http://is.gd/1ivdV)
• Wanted 3.5.0.x Noms (4, -9, http://is.gd/1ivcd)
• Needs 3.5.0.x approval (0, -1, http://is.gd/1ivFH)

• Needs 1.9.1.x landing (2, +2, http://tinyurl.com/mdhex3)

• Trunk delta from branch (73, +2, http://tinyurl.com/oxno27)
• Possible Wontfix (74, +2, http://tinyurl.com/ajqgm7)

• Bug Triage (1424, +27, http://tinyurl.com/a3j9p6)

QA Issues

Status updates

• sdwilsh
  • bug 455555 - Use asynchronous queries for places autocomplete (working on blocking bugs)

• mak
  • Just back from vacation, catching up with mails, some Tsnappiness bug and dynamic containers to unbitrot, would like to clean up existing patches by end of the week.
  • Need to publish proposal on m.d.a.f. for livemarks conversion sprint once dynamic containers are available.
  • Would like to start with some Migration components sprint (JS porting and removing of obsolete migrators).

• adw
  • No Places work at all. See Firefox/Sprints/Startup_Time_Improvements.

• ddahl
  • Focused on landing bug 480735, addressing review by bsmedberg and brendan, should have a new patch up this afternoon.
  • Also using shark to compare startup timeline logging with shark profile.
  • Starting Jetpack .toolbar component and writing a JEP for a Places api in jetpack.

• dietrich
  • Firefox:FrontEndPerformance
  • reviews, blockers, etc.

Documentation

• Bugs with dev-doc-needed (http://is.gd/iVWS)

• MDC
  • the migration guide needs history api and dynamic container examples. (dietrich)
  • the design documents linked from MDC need to be written. can probably cull from the old design overview docs.
    • Bookmarks (dietrich, not started)
    • Annotations (sdwilsh, not started)
  • Documentation non-existent:
    • dynamic containers (MaK77)
      • will do as soon as they are working properly

• WMO
  • Places:Live_Bookmarks (decide on owner)
  • need documentation on how to write SQL queries against the places back-end, for core developers (Places/Places_SQL_queries_best_practices)
    • Invariants and triggers (sdwilsh)

• Needs porting from WMO to MDC:
  • Places:Transactions (decide on owner)

Roundtable

• Places Branch
  • http://tests.themasta.com/tinderboxpushlog/?tree=Places
  • Need to discuss about changes to our workflow that the new branch will bring.

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Places:Plan needs to be updated and get better to show our roadmap.

• A Places (or non-Places-specific that we use for Places...) dashboard that shows live changes, bugzilla queries, graphs would be nice to have
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Dietrich/Dashboard
  • http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=550

• bug 489173 Issue with size of places.sqlite and Google Toolbar
  • Need to check if latest Google toolbar did fix the issue (and if eventually we need to push harder on having a vacuuming service)