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* Firefox 4 and Firebug 1.7 shipped!
* Firefox 4 and Firebug 1.7 shipped!
** First new built-in Firefox devtools in a long time
** Web Console screencast
** Web Console screencast
** DevTools blog
** [http://blogs.mozilla.com/devtools/ DevTools blog]
*** more activity coming, weekly updates and such
* Firebug update
* Firebug update
** No negative feedback so far
** two blog posts in progress: bigger what's new in Firebug 1.7, changes to page load order between Firefox 3.6 and 4.0 and how you can use Firebug to see this
** Firebug 1.8
*** going to switch to modules architecture
*** would like to follow the same release cycle as Firefox
*** command line and tab initialization improvements planned
* Firefox.next priorities
* Firefox.next priorities
** See [http://mozilla.github.com/devtools/2011/status.html status page]
** Web Console improvements
** Web Console improvements
*** docking/undocking
*** docking/undocking
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*** Style Doctor
*** Style Doctor
* Reporting project status here
* Reporting project status here
* Landing code
** Patches need to be killable
** bugfixes and polish probably don't need kill switches
** something like workspaces will need to be able to be preffed out
** the sheriff needs to be consulted for any checkins for the next few days
** land directly on mozilla-central and merge back for these small things
** mechanism for preffing out?
*** makefile variables
*** or have things behind preference existence checks (if (somepref) { do this })
*** makefile variables have the downside of bad line numbers for exceptions
*** the preferences route is better because it's available in the product to try both paths
*** security problems should probably just be backed out


== Roundtable ==
== Roundtable ==

Latest revision as of 14:55, 24 March 2011

Meeting Details

  • Wednesday Mar. 23, 2010 - 9:00am Pacific, 12:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC
  • 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 9364
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 9364 (US)
  • #devtools on irc.mozilla.org for backchannel

Notices

  • Firefox 4 and Firebug 1.7 shipped!
    • First new built-in Firefox devtools in a long time
    • Web Console screencast
    • DevTools blog
      • more activity coming, weekly updates and such
  • Firebug update
    • No negative feedback so far
    • two blog posts in progress: bigger what's new in Firebug 1.7, changes to page load order between Firefox 3.6 and 4.0 and how you can use Firebug to see this
    • Firebug 1.8
      • going to switch to modules architecture
      • would like to follow the same release cycle as Firefox
      • command line and tab initialization improvements planned
  • Firefox.next priorities
    • See status page
    • Web Console improvements
      • docking/undocking
      • moving to bottom
      • console service
      • landing other fixes
    • Groundwork for the future
      • JSD2
      • memory profiling
      • Workspaces
      • GCLI
    • CSS help
      • Highlighter
      • Style Inspector
      • Style Doctor
  • Reporting project status here
  • Landing code
    • Patches need to be killable
    • bugfixes and polish probably don't need kill switches
    • something like workspaces will need to be able to be preffed out
    • the sheriff needs to be consulted for any checkins for the next few days
    • land directly on mozilla-central and merge back for these small things
    • mechanism for preffing out?
      • makefile variables
      • or have things behind preference existence checks (if (somepref) { do this })
      • makefile variables have the downside of bad line numbers for exceptions
      • the preferences route is better because it's available in the product to try both paths
      • security problems should probably just be backed out

Roundtable