jQuery Core Team Meeting – Apr 20 2011

Minutes (Notes) of the meeting of jQuery
Location: #jquery-meeting on Freenode
Time: 2pm ET
NOTE: This meeting has been moved to Wednesday to avoid conflicts with the jQuery Conference.

Official Agenda:

• jQuery 1.6 RC

  • Problems with the beta?

  • Docs status

  • Blocker Status

    • http://bugs.jquery.com/query?status=!closed&milestone=^1.6&report=207&order=priority
    • Duplicate mouseover and mouseout events added to cloned element.
    • Setting checked to true on a disconnected checkbox does not carry over after attaching to DOM.
    • live(“hover”, … ) broken in 1.5.1
    • Leak with events in IE

  • Release Dates:

    • RC: Tuesday the 26th
    • Final: Tuesday the 3rd

• 1.7 spreadsheet will be available with 1.6 release

• Pull Request Review

  • Fix 6782 – Optimize regex for innerHTML to allow more html snippets to use faster method

    • Patch appears to be in limbo? Dave, do you have this one?
    • http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/6782

  • Fix for bug 6593

    • John: Needs some tests and code cleanup
    • http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/6593

  • #7061 – In IE form isn’t submitted when disabling submit button in submit callback

    • John: Seems like this might do the trick? Recommending a possible code reorg.
    • http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/7061

• Possible 1.7 Pull Requests

  • Synchronousslots

    • Is this a 1.7 thing? Is this needed with the recent effects changes?
    • http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/6281

  • Ticket #8498: Animating margin/padding can cause flashes when margins are set using left/right/top/bottom

    • Sounds like this should be converted into a “CSS shorthand” thing used by both .css() and .animate(). Push to 1.7?
    • http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8498

  • Bug 4446 – Add selector support to .andSelf()

    • Push to 1.7?
    • http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/4446

  • #5479 – Allow passing multiple attributes to removeAttr

    • Push to 1.7?
    • http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/5479

  • #7323 – Allow removing multiple data keys at once with $.fn.removeData

    • Push to 1.7?
    • http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/7323

  • Add support for registering jQuery as an AMD module

    • http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/7102

Best way to merge Pull Requests?
 
jQuery commit commands
 
git checkout master
git checkout -b bug1234
git pull http://url/to/otherrepo branchname
git checkout master
git merge --no-commit --squash bug1234
git commit -a --author="Original Author <author@email.example>"
 
To get the author:
git log | grep "Author" | head -1