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 = In Attendance =
+annie, axel, autonome, beltzner, ben, bsmedberg, brakowski, brettw, darin, dveditz, gavin, jhughes, mconnor, markp, rebron, rob_strong, timr
 = Agenda =
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 == Features ==
 * '''Places infrastructure (performance, stability, toolbar drag & drop)'''
+** performance (Tp, Ts) has gotten better, close to status quo if not better
+** problems with memory leak on balsa that we're trying to track down; this is blocking us as we can't turn it on. We're not sure that this is even Places that's doing it.
+*** dveditz: the whole point of "WARN_IF_FALSE" was to warn instead of fail on an assertion.
+*** darin: I'm gonna rack that up to maybe a typo in nsDebug.h?
+*** ben: maybe we can flip places on?
+*** beltzner: will post to devnews tonight, then flip it on for Weds morning
 * '''Undo Close Tab'''
+** at a hard decision about what approach to take
+*** either hide-the-tab, try to leverage bfcache, or just try to preserve form data retention
+** will be able to get it ready for A1 based on one of these directions, assuming we still want to
+*** beltzner: I think we should get at least one of these directions in place
+** darin: why would we use bfcache?
+** bsmedberg: it might help persist full state while not allowing plugins and media to run in the background (which would happen with hide-the-tab)
+** darin: need to be careful about <code>onunload</code> handlers and other things that disable bfcache
+** mconnor: if I can't figure out a way to make it work consistently, we might want to push this off to A2 or even extension-land
 * '''Tab Overflow'''
+**
 * '''Extension Blacklisting'''
+** patch waiting for review
 * '''Extension Dependencies'''
+** landed, no regressions
 * '''Search Plugin Format Changeover (with sherlock import)'''
+** review going well, working through Ben's comments
+** not going to move to toolkit based on feedback in d-a-f
+** looking to have a new patch for review soon (today/tomorrow)
 * '''Spell-As-You-Type (english only)'''
+** it's on trunk already (without the dictionary) --enable-extension: spellcheck? there are instructions in the enable spell check bug
+** still blocked on licensing, who do I talk to about this? mscott for starters.
+** ben: where does the dictionary file? what needs to happen with the build system to get it included?
+** bsmedberg: point me to that please and we can get this started
 * '''Instrumentation Infrastructure'''
+** good progress on getting server infrastructure up and running
+** should move this off to A2
+** the exit survey will be in place for Firefox 1.5.0.2, morgamic is doing the final bits of work for the web app
+*** also thinking about entrance survey
+*** action '''beltzner''' cc darin on bug 314119
 * '''RSS parser'''
+** ben needs to check in with robert, think it's stuck waiting for a review
 * '''RSS content detection (?)'''
+** we ''think'' we're good here; not in darin's review queue anymore, at any rate
 == Blockers ==
 * version number / branding
 ** currently set at 1.5, should it be 2.0a1?
-* ''any others?''
+** benjamin: yes, that's what mscott's doing
+** dveditz: should we also change the trunk, which is currently 1.6a1?
-== Release ==
+** benjamin: mscott has all of these under proposal
-* ''should we start the countdown?''
+** '''action''' beltzner to take this as an action
+* davel: when we push 2.0a1 to the beta-update channel, will these users get a choice?
+** darin: yes, if we set something as a "major" release, they'll get a choice
+** bsmedberg: it would be a good idea to test this code path on the nightly?
+** annie: I think there's a lot of users who don't realize that they're on a beta channel right now, so we shouldn't be pushing the alpha onto the 1.5 beta channel
+** '''action''' for darin to synch up with preed(?) to make sure that everyone's up to speed
+** '''action''' for QA to test the 1.5.x update logic for user choice
+* ben: release notes? documentation for MDC?
+** promote it as a developer release
+** mconnor: do we even want to promote it as that? some of these APIs are going to change?
+** beltzner: but we want that feedback, don't we?
+** mconnor: I'm worried about getting dugg, and getting bug feedback that we don't really care about anyway
+** ben: maybe do it invite only?
+** mconnor: get the release download numbers from Asa
 = Status Updates =
 == Places ==
+* performance was good, no known data corruption issues
-''update from ben''
+* annie's prepared some solid estimates, I need to do that and get it from the rest of the team
+* '''action''' ben to meet with schrep next monday
-Brett: "Performance is good, no known data corruption issues."
 == Tabbed Browsing ==
-''update from mconnor''
+* nothing beyond what's been discussed
 == Extension Manager Enhancements ==
-''update from rob_strong''
+* 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 ==
-''update from rob_strong''
+* Windows Installer - nothing new other than work on this will start again this week
+** bsmedberg: is DOM Inspector part of the product or not?
+** first requirement is to be able to provide variable paths for distribution and packaging of our installer
+** now we're starting to talk about creating various levels of stub install: stub with full code, stub with all code but not optional code, stub with no code.
+*** bsmedberg: but do we consider DOM inspector part of the application or not?
+*** rob_strong: put it on AMO?
+*** beltzner: we need to figure out a way to make sure that it's there for users who need it, but not there for users who aren't there
+* Branding and Locale installer customization - nothing new
 == Search Engine UI ==
-''update from gavin''
+*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 ==
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 == Instrumentation / Exit Surveys ==
-''update from bryner''
+* Mostly working on server backend.  Not much new status to report.
+* {{bug|189570}} is fixed on the trunk.
 == Session Saver ==
-''update from autonome''
+* 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 ==
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 == RSS ==
-''update from ben''
+* need to check in with robert sayre
 == Offline mode / better use of cache ==
-''update from darin''
+* patch is in, waiting for branch approval
+* continuing to investigate low hanging fruit
 == Anti-Phishing ==
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 = Other Business =
+* annie: maybe use Google's QA to help us here
+** '''action''' annie and timr to talk about this