Places/Status Meetings/2009-06-29

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Places Team Meeting Details

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

Work Priorities

• Blockers (0, 0, http://tinyurl.com/dgbhmn)
• Blockers Nominations (0, 0, http://tinyurl.com/qdglq2)
• Needs branch landing (0, 0, http://tinyurl.com/c4droh)
• Wanted3.5 (14, -1, http://tinyurl.com/cg78qy)
• Wanted3.5 Nominations (4, +1, http://tinyurl.com/rajq4e)
• Possible Wontfix (53, +2, http://tinyurl.com/ajqgm7)
• Places bugs on m-c but not yet on 1.9.1 (34, 0, http://tinyurl.com/oxno27)
• Waiting for approval1.9.1 (1, -1, http://tinyurl.com/qbxnjy)
• Requiring tests (in-testsuite?) (87, +1, http://tinyurl.com/d3eqav)

• Bug Triage (1429, +6 change), http://tinyurl.com/a3j9p6)

QA Issues

• Tracy
  • keeping up with 3.5rc churn
  • recent test days have about produced about 35 BFT level litmus results to triage.

Status updates

• sdwilsh
  • bug 483980 - Allow history/bookmark observer components to register with a startup category (help wanted)

• mak
  • working on TSnappiness bugs

• adw
  • Async query containers bug 490714
    • Working on pushing sorting down to SQL: bug 499990 - adding locale-aware collation to Storage (patches up, working with sdwilsh) and bug 499985 - the Places portion, using the new collation
    • Blogged about it a few weeks ago.
  • Jetpack simple storage stuff: bug 499871 and bug 499872
  • Met with andyed over the weekend. He's been really interested in Places stats. Analysis wiki page up at Places/Stats.

• ddahl
  • Beltzner tricked me into working on some memory tests/ talos code on Windows Vista and IE8 as well as FX 3.5 (it was fun actually - ALL PYTHON)
  • bug 492379 Downgrade script nearly finshed, still needs more attention!
  • Working with Vlad on "startup timeline" bug 480735 timing all startup code to improve ts. Started working on visualization parts.
  • Linux Firefox icon - Just polishing this off - worked on it yesterday. bug 495250
  • Pair programmed some jetpack storage with adw: bug 496694

• 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