Revision as of 19:54, 28 February 2006

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In Attendance

Agenda

Alpha 1 Status
Firefox 2 Feature Status Roundtable
Any other business

Alpha 1 Status

Features

Places infrastructure (performance, stability, toolbar drag & drop)
Undo Close Tab
Tab Overflow
Extension Blacklisting
Extension Dependencies
Search Plugin Format Changeover (with sherlock import)
Spell-As-You-Type (english only)
Instrumentation Infrastructure
RSS parser
RSS content detection (?)

Blockers

version number / branding
- currently set at 1.5, should it be 2.0a1?
any others?

Release

should we start the countdown?

Status Updates

Places

update from ben

Brett: "Performance is good, no known data corruption issues."

Tabbed Browsing

update from mconnor

Extension Manager Enhancements

Extension Dependencies - phase 1 landed - no regressions so far
Extension Blacklisting - patch ready for review last Friday
Extension Locales - started
Extension UI - mockups and proof of concept started

Installer

Windows Installer - nothing new other than work on this will start again this week
Branding and Locale installer customization - nothing new

Search Engine UI

Back end work complete
Updated patch today or tomorrow - needs review from mconnor
- Addressed ben's SR comments
Code to remain in /browser per discussion on dev.apps.firefox
Re-factoring of the Sherlock parsing code to be completed seperately if time permits (low priority)
Need to discuss search plugin format further

Visual/UI Refresh

requirements for the visual refresh are on the wiki
- will be creating a new space for discussion of this theme (dev.apps.firefox.newtheme) and trying to figure out some place to provide hosting for mockups and images
met with ben and jhughes yesterday to discuss changes to the default chrome for the browser window, the outcome of which was posted to dev.apps.firefox

Platform Uplift

SVG textPath needs to get an answer and attention in the next 2 weeks, thus I make a commitment here that I will produce a landing scenario for them by March 10.

no new status on UTF-16 XPCOM I/O fixes.

schedule for platform uplift deadlines no longer clear due to schedule strategy shift; will try to build something new there for next week.

need to produce a plan for tracking 1.8.1 approval queues and setting expectations there appropriately.

Inline Spell Check

Waiting for clarification on licensing.

Instrumentation / Exit Surveys

Mostly working on server backend. Not much new status to report.

Session Saver

SessionStore service mostly working in Bon Echo
Currently pulling from cache or reloading, not dump/restoring DOM
This week: define and document API, finish code review and post patch

Branding & Update Systems

nothing new here

RSS