jQuery Core Team Meeting – Feb 28 2011

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

Official Agenda:

• 1.5.1 Post mortem

  • Went well!

• 1.5.2 Status

  • Blockers (none at the moment):
    http://bugs.jquery.com/report/77

  • Possible blockers:

    • .is(“div”) on disconnected nodes:

      http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8381

    • Special events are not being cloned properly

      http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8397

    • try/catch in resolveWith

      http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8353

    • Issues with focusin/focusout

      http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/7340

      • Joern says: “The fix that was in 1.4.4 was reverted in 1.5.x and now breaks things in the validation plugin testsuite. It seems to be mostly an issue when trying to trigger focusin on the target element, but is hard to pinpoint.”

  • Possible release date
    End of March.

• 1.6 Feature Proposal Discussion

  • https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AuWerG7Xqt-8dDcwNUlSaWltOWJrNE5tOUlIbkVJbGc&hl=en&authkey=CIjOo7UK
  • Todo: Pull in highly voted feature requests from the Tracker to the spreadsheet
  • We’re shooting for a beta release of 1.6 mid-April (jQuery Conference)