Firefox2/StatusMeetings/2006-02-21

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Agenda

1. Alpha 1 Status
2. Feature Status Updates
3. 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 1.6a, should it be 2.0a?
  • beltzner needs to file patch to set branding to "Bon Echo"

Release Requirements

• Typical RC/Beta release is 4 business days (includes time for packaging, basic smoke testing, and configuring the update channels).

Status Updates

Extension Manager Enhancements

• Extension Dependencies - phase 1 landed. For details on what is and is not included see Extension_Dependencies.
• Extension Blocklisting - about 90% completed. Name will be blocklisting per cbeard. Need an owner for the Blocklist details web page. A couple of ui elements still need to be finished / run by beltzner and the wiki needs to be consolidated. Extension Blacklisting and Extension Manager Blacklist
• Extension Locales - nothing new. Bug 285848, Bug 324189, and Language Pack UI.
• Extension Update Notification - need to rethink the how we are going to provide notification - on startup is problematic due to requiring a check for only items that haven't been notified in a previous notification (e.g. avoiding notification on each startup). Bug 307358
• Extension Manager UI - if I have time I am planning on a few changes to the ui. Will get with beltzner.

Installer

Nothing new. Bug 326580

Search Engine UI

• Backend (a1 targetted) patch has been posted, awaiting review from mconnor and/or ben
• Want to address any review comments and land that ASAP for a1
• Need feedback on search parameter requirements (rebron?)
  • Are parameters hardcoded in the search plugin file sufficient for a1?
• discuss Namespace/OpenSearch-support (Axel)

Visual Refresh

• updated wiki documentation with requirements
• opening up discussion via blog entries and posts in dev-apps-firefox@lists.mozilla.org this week

Platform Uplift

• SVG textPath has a patch for the branch in [1]. Need to figure out what the test plan looks like, but it looks like we're in good shape here.

• Unicode-aware path management in XPCOM, [2]. Need a patch here, and to figure out the test plan, but we would really like to get this resolved for FF2.

• Need to set a deadline for platform uplift "feature completion", possibly more aggressively than Fx2 general feature completion. Some desired areas (WHATWG storage API and E4X DOM wiring f.e.) are still unplanned and unstaffed, and therefore at risk. That deadline will be set and communicated by next week's meeting, to allow us to schedule larger uplift patches to better isolate unintended regressions and last-minute conflict merges.

Instrumentation / Exit Surveys

• Decided on XML data format with bzip2 compression for uploading user event logs
• Client and server work ongoing
• Tracking bug for enabling feature in alpha 2: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328064

Session Saver

• Using a modified JS XPCOM service from the CrashRestore extension, working on getting it hooked up to bon echo.

Offline mode / better use of cache

Christian suggested a better overall solution for bug 189570, but I may still go with my solution for now. I plan on landing something this week. --Darin