jQuery Core Team Meeting – Dec 10 2012


December 10, 2012
Minutes (Notes) of the meeting of jQuery
Location: #jquery-meeting on Freenode
Attending: DaveMethvin, rwaldron, gibson042
Time: Noon ET

Official Agenda:

Early beta of 1.9 on December 12:

Ticket review (links below)

http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/11290 “looks like HTML” rule

  • .charAt(0) === “<” for now
  • may allow whitespace depending on feedback
  • compat plugin needs to restore old behavior

http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/13011 (“type” attribute)

  • dave will land

http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/12336 (options.length = 0 for $select.empty())



Pull Requests https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pulls

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/1066

  • timmywil thinks maybe .defaultChecked can save us

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/1065

  • zowie, let’s land it if this works everywhere

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/1063

  • look into using .defaultValue

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/1051

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/1027

  • timmywil to create a test from jQuery perspective

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/1060

  • can’t land b/c causes errors in testswarm

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/1047

  • GitHub’s a mess; close and request a fresh PR

jquery-compat plugin supporting removed features and behaviors

Documentation – Upgrade guide

Mergatron

Unassigned tickets

Assigned tickets review for 1.9; need volunteers for open tix