Weekly Firebug Status Meeting, Sept 30, 2008
month of notes
Just wanted to post a quick run-down from the weekly firebug meeting to present some status and plans for the near future. You can read the full meeting notes in all their bulletized glory on wiki.mo.
This week, we’ll be pushing out a Firebug 1.3 alpha 3 to test some of the recent changes that have gone in including a major console rewrite. We’re hoping these and some CommandLine changes John Barton is still working on will disappear the annoying Console Undefined error messages that have been annoying some users intermittently since 1.2. The alpha release will be posted on http://getfirebug.com/releases/firebug/1.3/.
If you’re more adventurous or are interested in extension development, feel free to take a look at the corresponding alpha 3 release in the firebug/1.3X directory. This version includes the excellent TraceConsole that honza’s been hard at work on. This hand-crafted tool provides a debugging console for tracking some of the internals of Firebug and we’re hoping will eventually become part of an extension development version of Firebug itself. Users of Chromebug will also see a spiffy new TraceConsole there as well.
Later in the week or early next, we hope to ship Firebug 1.3b1. Final release is planned to coincide with the next point release of Firefox 3.0.
As part of the 1.3 release cycle, we’re going to try to get some automated testing running either through the still growing FireUnit extension John Resig’s been working on or through human testing. The eventual plan is to have automated build and unittesting of Firebug in version 1.4. We’re also looking forward to providing better extensability for extension authors in that release.
