****June 4, 2012
Minutes (Notes) of the meeting of jQuery
Location: #jquery-meeting on Freenode & Chat on Google Docs
Attending: DaveMethvin, gnarf, rwaldron, gibson042, rworth, danheberden
Time: Noon ET

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(IRC issues during the meeting;  #jquery-meeting did not log everything)

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Official Agenda:****

Getting help for infra and new docs sites?

• rworth:

Schedule for 1.8 release

• beta before the conf
• bug triage meeting – Wednesday noon?

Unit test failures

http://swarm.jquery.org/job/208

• effects in IE? gnarf can’t look right now – can someone else -mikesherov

http://swarm.jquery.org:8080/job/jQuery%20Core/

strip_iife branch ready to land – if we want to

• line numbers in errors are for the built code – not the src/files.js
• We seem to think that the benefits outway the debugging/development minor hassle
• source maps?
• LAND IT!

JHP for serving – land it?

• Need to coordinate with testswarm – Krinkle?
• Can’t land until jenkins issues are resolved

Need update to README to reflect current build process

• There is a “draft” of these instructions in the strip_iife branch
• LAND IT!

Closure Compiler Advanced Optimizations (CCAO)

• Talk with Chad Killingsworth
• He will rebase against 1.8 later this month
• We will land most of the CCAO unit test changes
• timmywil, did CCAO changes land in Sizzle?

Manual modularity

Landed gibson042′s modularity for effects

Others?

• ajax?
• css and dimensions – mikesherov

Compat repo for deprecated/removed stuff? – dave

• Separate plugins including compressed versions
• Combined plugin with everything
• “Debug” version with console.warn msgs?
• We can host these on code.jquery.com, perhaps other CDNs

Documentation

Deprecations – dave created tickets, will finish docs

Animation hooks Tween etc. — gnarf to outline

Other things needing docs?

.css(‘width’) respects box-sizing, .width() doesn’t; dimension setters – mikesherov

vendor prefixing

• automatic – ‘boxSizing’ will get ‘MozBoxSizing’
• can create cssHooks for vendor-prefixed, which get priority over non-prefixed

Remaining 1.8 items

• http://goo.gl/ewuKx

New items?

• Adding new callbacks for animations – http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/11797 – gibson

May 21, 2012
Minutes (Notes) of the meeting of jQuery
Location: #jquery-meeting on Freenode
Attending: DaveMethvin, gibson042, mikesherov, rwaldron, Krinkle, scott_gonzalez
Time: Noon ET

Official Agenda:

Unit test failures

• Safari 5.0
• http://swarm.jquery.org/index.php?action=runresults&run_id=990&client_id=7222
• dave Y U CLOSE PULL https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/728
• Browserstack is having issues
• after the fix above, only IE6 problems remain

JHP for serving – land it?

• Need to coordinate with testswarm – Krinkle?
• Can’t land until swarm issues are resolved

Need update to README to reflect current build process

Manual modularity

effects – gibson042

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/786
• grunt option to include/exclude modules, reusable

jaubourg can do ajax part?

Can we deprecate Boolean attrHooks? — probably not

• http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/11734
• jQuery(“<input type=checkbox>”, { checked: true }); — patch to make it work
• Deprecate jQuery(html, props)  too? — nope

Compat repo for deprecated/removed stuff?

• Separate plugins including compressed versions
• Combined plugin with everything
• “Debug” version with console.warn msgs?
• We can host these on code.jquery.com

Documentation

• Deprecations – dave created tickets, will finish docs
• Animation hooks Tween etc. — gnarf can you outline?
• Other things needing docs?

Remaining 1.8 items

• http://goo.gl/ewuKx
• Sizzle? (reminder: land CCAO changes there)

FYI: wycats trying to get standards to help our selector impl

• https://gist.github.com/c1d6c49873bbba3589b7

May 14, 2012
Minutes (Notes) of the meeting of jQuery
Location: #jquery-meeting on Freenode
Attending: DaveMethvin, mikesherov, rwaldron, timmywil, gnarf
Time: Noon ET

Official Agenda:

1.8

Need to knock down the list of remaining 1.8 items

• http://goo.gl/ewuKx
• Sizzle? (reminder: land CCAO changes there)

Manual modularity

• Allow build without effects, ajax, css even?
• Opened a ticket: http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/11767
• gnarf will look at animation modularity
• jaubourg can do ajax part?
• dave will look at grunt

Documentation

• Deprecations – dave created tickets
• Animation hooks Tween etc. — gnarf can you outline?
• Other things needing docs?

Size and “bloat”, call for participation on CCAO

mikesherov asks: what browser “versions” do we support?

• versions are a shorthand for focusing support effort?
• specific bug was http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/11696
• only in Safari 5.0.x
• Only about 15% of Safari is 5.0.x and Safari total is ~15%
• http://www.statowl.com/web_browser_usage_by_subversion.php?1=1&timeframe=last_6&interval=month&chart_id=4&fltr_br=&fltr_os=&fltr_se=&fltr_cn=&holder%5B%5D=safari&limit%5B%5D=5&lock_date=1
• Not worth a lot of effort

Bug triage meeting Thursday 8pm eastern time #jquery-dev

• all the cool kids will attend

April 23, 2012
Minutes (Notes) of the meeting of jQuery
Location: #jquery-meeting on Freenode
Attending: DaveMethvin, rwaldron, timmywil, gibson042, sindresorhus, gnarf, jaubourg
Time: Noon ET

Official Agenda:

new team member – gibson042

Triage

• http://goo.gl/fbZD3
• Need a sweep of bugs and assign to 1.8
• Please look at tickets related to rewrites if you’re doing one
• Dave will ping people on specific tickets if needed

1.8

Beta schedule?

• Need solid final release by end of June
• Work backwards from there
• Beta?
• RC? Want a month given the changes

Unit tests need to work better – Dave will ping jzaefferer

Ready to land animations?

CCAO – can we land the Sizzle CCAO changes as-is? (Timmy says yes)

• mostly quoting of args … not sure of the size impact
• could commit to a branch and have CCAO submodule that?

Timmywil has first cut at Sizzle changes

• https://github.com/timmywil/sizzle/compare/revamp
• currently -215

jQuery.quickReady – land it now? (yep)

Documentation

• New interfaces like quickReady?
• Animation hooks Tween etc.
• Other things needing docs?

Blogs and messaging (Dave)

• Deprecation — goo.gl/Vzaxa (team only)
• Size and “bloat”, call for participation on CCAO

Build process

• code will used shared_var
• Use “grunt watch” to auto-build

gnarf may try to move Trac to a new server

April 16, 2012
Minutes (Notes) of the meeting of jQuery
Location: #jquery-meeting on Freenode
Attending: DaveMethvin, sindresorhus, mikesherov, ajpiano, gnarf, gibson042, fleeting appearance by timmywil
Time: Noon ET

Official Agenda:

rwaldron has commit privs on github.com/jquery

• Congrats!
• Hide yo kids
• Hide yo wife

Triage

• http://goo.gl/fbZD3
• Meeting on Wednesday noon?

1.8

gnarf’s opus on animations

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/731
• gibson042 kicked lotsa bytes out
• Need performance and memory leak sanity check
• Land this week? Still ~+200

Refactor to allow leaving animation/ajax/(others?) out

• Yehuda eliminated an ajax dependency in unit tests
• More work to do there

Land the grunt pull?

• mikesherov and DaveMethvin to figure out Windows issues

Chad Killingsworth’s CCAO changes

https://github.com/dmethvin/jquery/tree/ccao

needs TLC on its build stuff for grunt

Proposed plan of action:

• Leave on a branch for 1.8
• Get unit tests and basic examples working
• Call for community input and help
• Further 1.9 integration contingent on that

What else needs to land?

• timmywil to get Sizzle changes

jQuery.quickReady

• Can we just always ignore state of iframes?
• can’t use window.load since it fires once
• perhaps flip the default state to allow for faster loading?

April 9, 2012
Minutes (Notes) of the meeting of jQuery
Location: #jquery-meeting on Freenode
Attending: dmethvin, gibson042, timmywil, gnarf, ajpiano, rwaldron
Time: Noon ET

Official Agenda:

Triage

• http://goo.gl/fbZD3
• Meeting? Or can we do comments on the tickets to resolve?

1.8 (April 9 Beta)

Landed many PRs on 1.8pre branch last week

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery/tree/1.8pre

garf’s opus on animations

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/731
• Team review, need to make it smaller

Chad Killingsworth’s CCAO changes

• https://github.com/dmethvin/jquery/tree/ccao
• needs TLC on its build stuff for grunt
• (General concern about size/complexity/maintenance)
• Waiting to land for another week for further discussion

What else needs to land?

• timmywil to get Sizzle changes next weekend
• build process using grunt

April 2, 2012
Minutes (Notes) of the meeting of jQuery
Location: #jquery-meeting on Freenode
Attending: dmethvin, timmywil, mikesherov, gnarf
Time: Noon ET

Official Agenda:

1.7.2

New issues?

Bad TinyMCE .attr() duck punch seems to be resolved by their beta

• need to land https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/720 ? (no, close)
• Thanks mikesherov and rwaldron

Bug tracker misbehavin’ again last week

• Who knows why, but a reboot fixed it…

Style guide: Did we remove the ambiguous “space around quotes” rule?

• Dave to create epic email thread regarding this

http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/11539 Do we want to change our support for text nodes?

• gibson042: traversing is safe for text nodes, manipulation is not?

Triage

• http://goo.gl/fbZD3
• Dave to coordinate a meeting time this week if possible

1.8 (April 9 Beta)

Dev on master or branch? Consensus: 1.8 on Development Branch

1.8 Feature branch — we’ll land PRs there?

Specific process?

• Make standard PRs but against 1.8 branch (after I create it)
• https://github.com/jquery/jquery/branches
• Um, create 1.8 branch (BRANCH is 1.8pre b/c there was 1.8 subs?)
• WHY CAN’T I label PRs? (gnarf: maybe bc issues are off?)

Several PRs ready to land

jaubourg has been a good boy

Pinged Chad Killingsworth re Closure Compiler, he made a Sizzle PR for some issues to simplify CC work (haven’t reviewed it yet)

December 12, 2011
Minutes (Notes) of the meeting of jQuery
Location: #jquery-meeting on Freenode
Time: Noon ET

Official Agenda:

• Open bugs — jQuery 1.7.2? http://goo.gl/jYbsc

• 1.8 voting in tracker — http://goo.gl/sy3Ax

  • Suggestions boiled from list (see link from last week)
  • Team voting on 1.8 suggestions this week; Team vote here: http://goo.gl/lhKlz
  • Don’t add bugs to here unless you need to discuss them by vote
  • Landing contingent on final code review (size especially)

• Public link to suggestions spreadsheet (sans emails): http://goo.gl/9Ss0K

• Closure Compiler status — Chad working on string-defined methods

 

November 14, 2011
Minutes (Notes) of the meeting of jQuery
Location: #jquery-meeting on Freenode
Time: Noon ET 

Official Agenda:

• jQuery 1.7.1 Issues

  • Rework support.js, reduce startup time
  • http://bugs.jquery.com/query?milestone=1.7.1&col=id&col=summary&col=owner&col=status&order=status
  • Land fixes for unit tests so we aren’t STILL FAILING — DONE! (Dave)
  • 1.7.1 RC Tuesday, final shoot for Friday?

• Pull request process

  • Help is welcome but some PRs are more work than their value
  • How should we approach those? Leaving in the queue means they go stale
  • Ask ppl to engage us before making a PR?
  • Review current open PRs: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pulls

• Deprecation blog post feedback (Dave)

  • Followup blog post to address suggestions in blog comments

    • “Remove all IE support!”
    • “Break it into tiny little parts and have a download builder!”
    • “Wait until 2.0 to remove stuff”
    • “Make effects and/or ajax optional”

  • Need a a review to ensure we have marked deprecated in API docs (Dave)

 

October 31, Noon ET

• jQuery 1.7 Release

  • Open tix – http://goo.gl/d0nPr

  • Detached head IE8 crash (Halloween bug) blocker

    • http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/10613

  • .show() regression?

    • http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/10622

  • timmywil to rename jQuery.support.supportsFixedPosition

  • Do these fixes reopen any old bugs?

  • RC2 this afternoon?

  • Release on Thursday? (need to ensure we fixed this bug!)

  • DOCUMENTATION by 11/3 before we release

    • https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/1-7-docs

    • event property hooks — may come after release?

    • deferred.state() — done, pending review (get it?)

      • replaces isResolved, isRejected, etc booleans –dave

    • $.Callbacks — addy will write

      • http://addyosmani.com/blog/jquery-1-7s-callbacks-feature-demystified/

    • animate queues — hooks object. leave undocumented for now.

    • AMD –mention in the blog post for now

      • https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/bba3d610c7e3b611fe1eb89178c91106a156a5d