Places/Status Meetings/2009-05-11

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Places Team Meeting Details

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

Work Priorities

• Blockers (1, 0, http://tinyurl.com/dgbhmn)
  • bug 489038 - Selecting and/or deleting tags in the Library causes Firefox 3.5b4pre to hog the CPU and become unresponsive (dietrich)
  • bug 481767 - Tag field overlay issue when 2 or more bookmarks in the same tag (mak)
  • bug 490035 - "Script is busy" warning from places flush script on initial migration (mak)
  • bug 490068 - leak window after showing bookmarks panel (mano)
  • bug 491520 - Tag autocomplete prevents changing the case of tags, when adding tags (mak)
• Needs branch landing (0, 0, http://tinyurl.com/c4droh)
• Wanted (34, +1, http://tinyurl.com/cg78qy)
• Possible Wontfix (45, -1, http://tinyurl.com/ajqgm7)
• Places bugs on m-c but not yet on 1.9.1 (31, +2, http://tinyurl.com/686pp9)
• Waiting for approval1.9.1 (4, -2, http://tinyurl.com/cs2gng)
• Requiring tests (in-testsuite?) (82, +1, http://tinyurl.com/d3eqav)

• Bug Triage (1400, +12 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
  • Working on some weave-impact bugs for 1.9.1
    • bug 483980 Allow history/bookmark observer components to register with a startup category (trying to help; hard bug)
    • bug 468307 Multiple observer events fire for addition, removal (approach changed; needs work)

• mak
  • bug 488966 - Add a last_visit_date column with an index to moz_places, patch mostly done, looking at a small issue and toward further improvements.
  • bug 491269 - Test that editing folder name in bookmarks properties dialog does not accept the dialog. Missing test.
  • bug 483980 - Allow history/bookmark observer components to register with a startup category. Need to look into for Fennec.

• adw
  • bookmarks initialization is not fault tolerant bug 478912 - posted new WIP; would appreciate fly-by
  • async query containers bug 490714 - WIP patch up; didn't work on this at all last week
  • some clear recent history fallout: bug 489700, bug 490655 (filed some other bugs also but am working on these two)
  • clear recent history/privacy blockers
    • CRH deletes places, not visits bug 491883; Places toolkit bug 491983 (removeVisitsByTimeframe) blocks this; posted a WIP to the latter
    • selected option in privacy pref pane not sticky bug 490199

• ddahl
  • bug 489897 New WIP patch. Statement.row work in storage. This will make results iteration easier
  • bug 410196 Working on a new patch based on Marco's feedback. I am starting to think Marco's initial concept is better after all. (Just turn off the command when focused on these "root" nodes)
  • bug 489513 Timing Harness working off of sdwilsh's examples

• 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