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== Features == | == Features == | ||
* '''Places infrastructure (performance, stability, toolbar drag & drop)''' | * '''Places infrastructure (performance, stability, toolbar drag & drop)''' | ||
** | ** ben is porting bugs over to branch, plan to turn it on by default tomorrow | ||
** | ** ui is known to be annoying, but internals seem solid enough for a developer preview | ||
* '''Undo Close Tab''' | * '''Undo Close Tab''' | ||
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* '''Extension Blacklisting''' | * '''Extension Blacklisting''' | ||
** Extension Manager code reviewed. XUL / JavaScript code to be reviewed. Should land soon dependent on it getting reviewed. | ** Extension Manager code reviewed. XUL / JavaScript code to be reviewed. Should land soon dependent on it getting reviewed. (mscott in queue to do reviews) | ||
** going to implement darin's review comments | |||
* '''Extension Dependencies''' | * '''Extension Dependencies''' | ||
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* '''Search Plugin Format Changeover (with sherlock import)''' | * '''Search Plugin Format Changeover (with sherlock import)''' | ||
** | ** made some Sherlock fixes | ||
** new patch to be posted today, will need review | |||
* '''Spell-As-You-Type (english only)''' | * '''Spell-As-You-Type (english only)''' | ||
** we are clear to ship en-US with the product | ** we are clear to ship en-US with the product | ||
** all other dictionaries must be downloaded explicitly as XPIs, mscott maintains a [http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/dictionaries.html list of these extensions]; these are the same dictionaries/problems that OpenOffice has. (cbeard: we can do better! ;-) perhaps we can license or buy dictionaries and release under a compatible license? rebron is going to dive into this. we should continue on the current path regardless.) | ** all other dictionaries must be downloaded explicitly as XPIs, mscott maintains a [http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/dictionaries.html list of these extensions]; these are the same dictionaries/problems that OpenOffice has. (cbeard: we can do better! ;-) perhaps we can license or buy dictionaries and release under a compatible license? rebron is going to dive into this. we should continue on the current path regardless.) | ||
** | ** started porting this to branch, to be finished today or tomorrow | ||
** shouldn't need that much bake time before we make A1 | |||
* '''Instrumentation Infrastructure''' | * '''Instrumentation Infrastructure''' | ||
** | ** code landed on trunk and on branch | ||
** nothing for it to talk to, still blocked on server-side & storage space | |||
** in parallel, modifications are made on the client | |||
** hope to test server by end of the month | |||
* '''RSS parser''' | * '''RSS parser''' | ||
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* '''RSS content detection (?)''' | * '''RSS content detection (?)''' | ||
** | ** landed on trunk and branch | ||
** there is another piece of work about how to resolve conflicts between multiple sniffers, but that can land in parallel | |||
** with API there, some UI can be created when we detect that a page is a feed. Robert Sayer is interested in doing this. | |||
== Release Issues & Timing == | == Release Issues & Timing == | ||
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** trunk will become browser/3.0a1, 1.8_BRANCH will become Bon Echo/2.0a1 | ** trunk will become browser/3.0a1, 1.8_BRANCH will become Bon Echo/2.0a1 | ||
* plan is to promote this as developer only release, low-key announce | * plan is to promote this as developer only release, low-key announce | ||
* '' | * need 3-4 days after code complete | ||
** '''action:''' schrep to talk to preed about when we could push an alpha1 | |||
** '''action:''' need to test 1.5->2.0 update behaviour (darin to send timr testcases) | |||
*** Axel: is this codepath or UI testing? should l10n be concerned? | |||
*** darin: it's both, so there may indeed be localization concerns | |||
*** rob_strong: remember that right now the check for extension compatibility check only returns extensions that have compatibility updates, not full upgrades | |||
*** cbeard: do we want to have a mirror of AMO to have a better bring-up experience for extensions? | |||
*** rob_strong: let me think about that, but we can probably accomplish the same effect on AMO at the moment. | |||
*** '''action:''' rob_strong to co-ordinate with shaver on this | |||
** '''action:''' need to get 1.8 nightly updates for the branch again | |||
= Status Updates = | = Status Updates = | ||