Places/Status Meetings/2009-03-30

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Places Team Meeting Details

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

Work Priorities

• Blockers (1, http://tinyurl.com/dgbhmn)
  • bug 485100 - exchanging a letter of a tag name with its big/small equivalent removes tag from bookmark (dietrich, needs landing)
• Needs branch landing (8, http://tinyurl.com/c4droh)
• Wanted (33, -3, http://tinyurl.com/cg78qy)
• Possible Wontfix (39, +11 change, http://tinyurl.com/ajqgm7)
• Places bugs on m-c but not yet on 1.9.1 (38, -7, http://tinyurl.com/686pp9)
• Waiting for approval1.9.1 (18, http://tinyurl.com/cs2gng)
• Requiring tests (in-testsuite?) (83, http://tinyurl.com/d3eqav)

• Bug Triage (1360, -21 change), http://tinyurl.com/a3j9p6)

Status updates

• sdwilsh
  • Working on some weave-impact bugs for 1.9.1
    • bug 468307 Multiple observer events fire for addition, removal (has review; needs updated patch)
    • bug 468305 nsINavBookmarksObserver has no "onBeforeRemove" callback (landed on all branches)

• mak
  • bug 390614: on branch and trunk, working on a test for splitting library too, then looking at bug 485703 that sounds like a wanted improvement.
  • Worked on chrome browser-chrome tests for various bugs that are waiting for approval
  • bug 457708: no update from last week
  • bug 480873: need dietrich to look at possible approach to finish it up

• adw
  • Places stats sprint: blogged at http://blog.mozilla.com/adw/2009/03/25/places-stats/; 212 stats collected so far; gussied up table page with glossary, mouseovers
  • Clear recent history sprint (bug 480169): working hard on this; got solution to tree problem from last week; difficult stuff mostly done, polish and tests left

• ddahl
  • Checkin-needed for bug 410196 - copy/paste history to tag container
  • Started work on bug 416580 "Disable copying and other commands on "special" Library folders"
  • while working on the above, discovered a crash bug: bug 485442 - created reproducable test case
  • ongoing JS Orm tinkering
  • Looks like we have collected 212 sets of stats - the winner still has 12779 bookmarks. ready to build a min / max / avg places profile at any time to publish here or on the places-stats site. Blog post is here http://daviddahl.blogspot.com/2009/03/places-database-generator-stats.html

• dietrich
  • blocker bug 485100

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)

• TheOne says he finished his programmatic tree generation doc: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Places/Programmatic_generation_of_the_built-in_tree_view (noted by adw 03/16/2009)
  • adw: will link to it from https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Displaying_Places_information_using_views

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