Blair’s Brain And Other Unfocused Things

Status update

I’m in beautiful Motueka for two and a half weeks, staying with Anne’s family; enjoying the scenery and generally relaxing. I’ll be working while up here (working remotely remotely – very meta), but don’t expect to see me on IRC as much as usual.

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Status

• Fixed unit tests, and fixed code breaking unit tests
• First code review done (epic job done by Marco) – very positive

Loose ends

• Need an icon made (no rush for this)

Next steps

• There’s a unit test that fails on the Tryserver Tinderbox but not locally on my machine – need to figure that out
• Fix reviewer’s recommendations, rinse, repeat

Target for next week

• Another round of reviews!

Extension Manager UI Redesign

Status

• Re-read all (?) existing material, studied mockups, etc
• Met with Mossop, who is designing and implementing the new API
• Started building initial (dumb, non-interactive) prototype based on Boriss’s mockups

Loose ends

• None

Next steps

• Non-interactive prototype based on mockups
• Start pulling info from new API, and provide Mossop with feedback from experience

Target for next week

• At least one mockup looking the same in XUL

Miscellaneous

• Bug 397937 (view-source on safebrowsing blocked pages) is ready to be landed (also fixes bug 435726)

Reflections

• Being stuck on a slow 3G connection may prove to be actually good for my productivity
• Hot weather is not good for my productivity (counteracting the above point)

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