Firefox2/StatusMeetings/2006-02-07

In Attendance

phone: mpilgrim, axel, bsmedberg room: schrep, cbeard, timr, rebron, rob_strong, jesse, dietrich, timr, davel, beng, darin, bryner, annie, brettw, linus, maria, beltzner, mconnor, pgreen

Status Updates

Places

• organized bugs into four categories:
  • a1/dogfood
  • a2/feature complete
  • b1/feature frozen
  • b2/future
  • these are target milestones
• still working through performance problems and not-working things
• not sure if things will be ready for current A1 target
  • want to ensure that there's no dataloss or instability problems before a1
  • hoping to be ready no later than 2 weeks from now
  • might want to cut alpha1 without --enable-places
• davel: be sure to include pointers to test plans and tools and hooks
• changes are being checked into trunk and 1_8_BRANCH at the same time

Tabbed Browsing

• close-buttons-on-tabs currently on trunk (ready for A1)
• undoCloseTab hacked up solution in place, need to figure out UI
• still working on tab overflow solutions, focusing on making it feel right
  • solution in progress seems to be to use [<<] / [>>] buttons at each end
• won't be ready for current A1 target

Extension Manager Enhancements

• working on blacklisting, extension dependencies and support for locale packs, all of which are intertwined
  • on track to hit A1 target
• some of the UI designs required a browser-notification system which isn't going to hit, so we'll need to revisit the UI
• plans in place to change the extension manager UI, but haven't started work on that yet

Installer

• w32 only, moving to nSysInstaller (nullSoft/OSS), saves us 130K on the installer size, gets rid of our previous solution which was pretty messy
• pretty much ready to go, just need to merge to tree
• mpilgim: there's an existing bug on file for supporting installers in high contrast themes, be sure to test your new solution on that, too.
• axel: what's the impact for l10n repackaging?
  • when it lands, it will be no different than our current solution for repackaging
• bsmedberg: we can still land this in an installer2 directory for now
• should be ready for A2
• need to create a single tracking bug
• axel: what's the license
  • mpilgrim: seems to be ZLIB

Search Engine UI

• gavin sharp is pursuing this, will be granted ownership
• ben has asked him to triage the bugs and set target milestones
• starting from the prototype from last year
• not ready for current A1 target date
• axel: are we changing the format for the searchplugins for 2.0?
  • ben: yes, to an XML format that is similar but not necessarily identical to OpenSearch
  • mconnor: and we'll provide a converter

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- autoupdate bugs - polish bugs