Places/Status Meetings/2009-03-23

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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 468305 - nsINavBookmarksObserver has no "onBeforeRemove" callback. (sdwilsh) Just need to land it
• Wanted (36, no change, http://tinyurl.com/cg78qy)
• Possible Wontfix (28, +10 change, http://tinyurl.com/ajqgm7)
• Places bugs on m-c but not yet on 1.9.1 (45, no change, http://tinyurl.com/686pp9)

• Bug Triage (1381, -33 change), http://tinyurl.com/a3j9p6)

QA Issues

Status updates

• sdwilsh
  • Working on some weave-impact bugs for 1.9.1
    • bug 468307 Multiple observer events fire for addition, removal (needs review from dietrich)
    • bug 468305 nsINavBookmarksObserver has no "onBeforeRemove" callback (needs branch landing)

• mak
  • bug 390614: fully landed on trunk, will bake for at least 24 hours before asking approval, eta is end of the week.
  • bug 484263: Smart bookmarks upgrade policy, need to discuss about what we want to do on smart bookmarks version change.
  • bug 457708: most of apis added back and tested, need to allow nested dynamic containers, eta is end of the week.
• adw
  • Places stats sprint: got a blog (http://blog.mozilla.com/adw/), will publicize this thing today
  • Clear recent history sprint (bug 480169): strings-only patch finished for string freeze, still helping Johnathan and Alex with this

• ddahl
  • Will be posting a blog post about places db generator later today. bug 480340
  • Cleaned up patch for 410196 bug 410196 - copy/paste historty to tag container
  • Started FK support for MozStorage js ORM bug 394732
  • Finished bug 431011 - linux key command to open places (finally!) This is checked in and built in Shiretoko.

• dietrich
  • about:me - didn't make string freeze, so deprioritizing for now
  • query result chunking

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

• Sprint ideas
  • Perf
  • better cut&paste (don't remove on cut)