Places/Status Meetings/2009-06-1

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Places Team Meeting Details

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

Work Priorities

• Blockers (0, -4, http://tinyurl.com/dgbhmn)
• Blockers Nominations (0, -1, http://tinyurl.com/qdglq2)
• Needs branch landing (0, -1, http://tinyurl.com/c4droh)
• Wanted3.5 (15, -18, http://tinyurl.com/cg78qy)
• Wanted3.5 Nominations (3, NA changed, http://tinyurl.com/rajq4e)
• Possible Wontfix (51, +6, http://tinyurl.com/ajqgm7)
• Places bugs on m-c but not yet on 1.9.1 (34, -5, http://tinyurl.com/oxno27)
• Waiting for approval1.9.1 (2, -7, http://tinyurl.com/qbxnjy)
• Requiring tests (in-testsuite?) (86, +3, http://tinyurl.com/d3eqav)

• Bug Triage (1423, +15 change), http://tinyurl.com/a3j9p6)

QA Issues

• Tracy
  • will get on track with verifying fixes as they land (next nightly)
  • focus will remain on 1.9.1 branch 'til final release.

Status updates

• sdwilsh
  • bug 483980 - Allow history/bookmark observer components to register with a startup category (ready to land!)

• mak
  • working on blockers (see above for status)
  • done reviews
  • bug 483980 - Allow history/bookmark observer components to register with a startup category. Looking into this, fixed leaks and a possible Places bug.
  • bug 493538 - Crash in [@ nsNavHistory::RecalculateFrecenciesInternal(mozIStorageStatement*, int)]. Most likely blocker.
  • bug 392193 - first run migration / import from ie, opera and safari browser can be slow, migration should use "run in batch". Landed with awesome numbers.
  • bug 488966 - Add a last_visit_date column with an index to moz_places. Need to prepare unbitrot patch for 1.9.1.

• adw
  • Bookmarks initialization is not fault tolerant bug 478912 - First-pass review by Marco, need to address his comments.
  • Async query containers bug 490714
    • Been working on this, will post new WIP.
    • Will blog about it, include a tryserver build so people can try it out.
    • Need to file a Storage bug about locale-aware SQL collation.

• ddahl
  • bug 492379 Downgrade script nearly finshed, needs more attention!
  • Worked with Alice on setting up generated places sqlite dbs - ran into a snag with the Python build on the server.
  • Working with Vlad on "startup timeline" bug 480735 timing all startup code to improve ts.
  • Linux Firefox icon - may have to drop all for this (for a short burst) as the window for this patch is short - according to faaborg. bug 495250

• 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

• 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