Places/Status Meetings/2009-04-13

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Places Team Meeting Details

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

Work Priorities

• Blockers (1, +1, http://tinyurl.com/dgbhmn)
• Needs branch landing (3, +2, http://tinyurl.com/c4droh)
• Wanted (33, 0, http://tinyurl.com/cg78qy)
• Possible Wontfix (40, +1, http://tinyurl.com/ajqgm7)
• Places bugs on m-c but not yet on 1.9.1 (31, -6, http://tinyurl.com/686pp9)
• Waiting for approval1.9.1 (11, -9, http://tinyurl.com/cs2gng)
• Requiring tests (in-testsuite?) (77, -3, http://tinyurl.com/d3eqav)

• Bug Triage (1356, -4 change), http://tinyurl.com/a3j9p6)

Status updates

• sdwilsh
  • Working on some weave-impact bugs for 1.9.1
    • bug 487660 Places depends on buggy behavior of SQLite's SUBSTR (needs branch landing)
    • bug 487511 nsINavHistoryObserver has no "onBeforeDeleteURI" callback (needs review dietrich)
    • bug 468307 Multiple observer events fire for addition, removal (approach changed; needs work)

• mak
  • New chrome and browser-chrome tests landed for Bookmarks dialogs
  • bug 422163 landed + null-pointers fixes
  • Working on Library regressions from "split history in sidebar" bug 422163
  • bug 484019 Fix roots titles with preventive maintenance

• adw
  • Clear recent history sprint (bug 480169) review requested
  • bug 430148 review requested
  • hasTag bug 399799 After asking for people's opinions, I'm inclined to leave it as it (wstring array)
  • bug 470314 review requested

• ddahl
  • Working on bug 416580 "Disable copying and other commands on "special" Library folders".
  • got sidelined by bug bug 473337 - creating branch patch and long drawn out testing, just to have Dao apply the patch anyway.
  • while I am on clipboard related bugs, also starting this: bug 301888

• dietrich
  • reviews, 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

• 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

• Places team in person meeting during All Hands week: Tracy would like to meet Thursday