Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2008-08-26

attendees: honza, robcee, dillon green (clearspring), steve, johnb, jresig

Steve: Firebug 1.0.5 may not be updating. To follow up with rc with response.

Testing
- looking at the various ways of testing firebug. One portion is going to be automated unittests. Won't cover all of the weird UI interactions.
- User testing through litmus. Should advertise and promote bugdays via irc and blogging. Could use getfirebug.com as another avenue.
- testing net panel (Honza): should test framework be part of firebug itself? Brief discussion about browser extensions vs. firebug extensions (no difference).
- FireUnit
  - Resig's extension to firebug includes a panel with a test harness. Individual tests are included in browser chrome files.
- steve: mentioned livecoder. Can use it to inspect chrome and UI state. Could chromebug be used for this? JJB: chromebug has no scripting facility currently.
- UI testing is hard.
actions
- robcee: working on getting manual testing up
- jresig: automated unittest framework

jjb: is this something to consider?
honza can't imagine going back to not having it. FBTrace currently dumps to system console. Have created a new window to replace the system console and dump()
action: honza to send email with hyperlinks for people to view.

jjb: new features already going in. script display code.
1.2.1 really was dependent on the inclusion of nsITraceableChannel which is going into 3.0 branch imminently.
honza thinks he can keep both versions in place for backwards compatibility
robcee to research timeline for 3.0.3 and whether inclusion into branch will happen. Email group.
jjb wants extra feedback on 1.3a1 script panel. Investigating timeline out from thursday to next tuesday.

jjb: broken things, need some fixes.
- Fix releases page pointing to 1.2 release. (JJB)
- Add documentation updates. (JJB)

honza would like to upload to babelzilla.com needs user and password to update localizations. Mailed sethb asking for help.

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