Labs/Jetpack/Weekly Meeting/2011-11-22

Agenda

• Flightdeck
• SDK
  • We have revised Q4 goals!
    • l10n
    • mobile
    • Add-on Tab API
    • Platform support for IndexDB
    • No need to unpack XPIs
• Roundtable
  • http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2011/11/firefox-android-add-ons-in-a-native-world/
  • SDK Hack day, Chico State Open Source Team
  • Property hiding via namespaces
  • Bug 612726 - bypass content script for document from data folder

Attendees

• jorgev
• ochameau
• myk
• canuckistani
• kwierso
• dcm
• gozala
• warner
• mossop
• arron
• krizsa
• dbuc
• ejpbruel
• wbamberg
• dhorner
• dveditz

Minutes

FlightDeck

• ochameau's bug 697973 has been identified

• no push to production this week due to holiday

• the rest of the "jinja" templatization and some additional "shipyard" frontend MVCization work is ready to be pushed to production

SDK

• project drivers have adjusted quarterly goals
  • localization API for strings in code
  • content-based mobile addons
  • Addon Tabs API
  • platform support for IndexedDB
  • addon XPIs that don't need to be unpacked
  • help Erik Vold land Preferences API

• no known blockers for SDK 1.3 release

Roundtable

• http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2011/11/firefox-android-add-ons-in-a-native-world/
  • we should provide these APIs in the SDK
  • particularly support for the context menu

• SDK Hack day, Chico State Open Source Team
  • hack day on Saturday
  • relatively small number of attendees, 20 signups, 12-13 attendees
  • John Nagle showed up (inventor of Nagle Algorithm, wrote addon for his SiteTruth site)
  • John's feedback: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/sdk-hackday-nagle-feedback
  • doubletap (Adam) from IRC showed up and demoed his API for developing addons across browsers
  • Chico State team showed up

• Property hiding via namespaces
  • gozala plans to refactor codebase using this approach

• Bug 612726 - bypass content script for document from data folder
  • huge improvement in APIs
  • ochameau plans to land for 1.4