Updates

Status updates from members of the jQuery Team.

Mobile: April 13, 2012

Posted by Todd Parker

The jQuery Mobile team is happy to announce the release of 1.1.0.

This release has been a real labor of love, with hundreds of improvements, big and small, to make jQuery Mobile feel faster, smoother and more polished across the board.

The most notable improvements in 1.1.0 are true fixed toolbars, completely re-vamped animated page transitions and AJAX loader, refined form element design and feature set, and improved documentation.

Blog post:
http://jquerymobile.com/blog/2012/04/13/announcing-jquery-mobile-1-1-0/

New ThemeRoller Mobile tool to accompany the 1.1 release and easily upgrade 1.0 themes to the new version:
http://jquerymobile.com/themeroller/

We also announced that we have an alpha Download Builder for custom packages in alpha stage. More details to follow next week.

Events: April 13, 2012

Posted by Leah Silber
  • New sponsors: Telerik (KendoUI) and Adobe (Cold Fusion Team)
  • Previous sponsors posted on website
  • Ticket sales moving along nicely :)
  • As of yesterday, it looks like we’ve secured a training venue (and by we, I mean Jori at Bocoup — woot!). Will be working on solidifying that over this weekend, hoping to open registration early next week. One class, 50 people, likely an intermediate curriculum.
  • Still working on hotel room block.
  • Confirmed Kim (volunteer) to join us in SF
  • Added breakout room (~50 people) to venue contract

Core: April 9, 2012

Posted by Dave Methvin

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:

Testing: Status update

Posted by Jörn Zaefferer

Released QUnit 1.5.0:

* Modify “Running…” to display test name. Fixes #220
* Fixed clearing of sessionStorage in Firefox 3.6.
* Fixes #217 by calling “block” with config.current.testEnvironment
* Add stats results to data. QUnit.jUnitReport function take one argument { xml:’ * Add link to MDN about stack property

Krinkle working on TestSwarm, integrating phpbrowscap to replace manually updated useragents in database with external list, automatically updated. Overhauled theme using Twitter’s Bootstrap. Getting close to 0.3.0 release.

Mobile: April 6, 2012

Posted by Todd Parker

The jQuery Mobile team is happy to announce 1.1.0 RC2 today.

Blog post:
http://jquerymobile.com/blog/2012/04/06/jquery-mobile-1-1-0-rc2/

Demos & docs:
http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.1.0-rc.2/

Unless a major issue crops up during testing, this will be the code we will ship in about a week as 1.1.0 final.

Core: April 3, 2012

Posted by Dave Methvin

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
  • 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
  • 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)

Mobile: April 2, 2012

Posted by Todd Parker

The jQuery Mobile team is working on final testing for RC2 and plans to release this late this week. To preview the latest build, visit: http://jquerymobile.com/test/

Infrastructure: March 30, 2012

Posted by Dan Heberden

Week 7 of the infrastructure overhaul

  • Made node module for puppet that uses nave at https://github.com/danheberden/puppet-nodejs
  • Set up staging server for the plugins site to use node 0.6.14
  • Added sponsors to jQuery event page for SF conference
  • Continued work on getting wordpress and nginx installed together as a module

Events: March 30, 2012

Posted by Leah Silber
  • Venue is in order; contract signed
    • First change-order made, to add the room for a breakout track. Room accommodates ~50, and will include a projector and screen.
  • First batch of sponsors have been secured, including RIM, Jive Software, Microsoft and Automattic
  • Still working on securing a training space
  • Ticket sales are steady and going well; early-bird tickets are sold out
  • Video recording vendor has been booked; down-payment invoice is in the process of being paid
  • A total of 5 vendor booths have been allocated; working on finalizing Expo Hall layout this week to solidify actual capacity (we expect to be able to fit around 7 or 8 total vendor booths)
  • First Eventbrite invoice has been submitted to accounting for payment
  • Working on securing hotel room block for the jQuery Team
  • All but one of the team members attending have completed registration

Testing: March 30, 2012

Posted by Jörn Zaefferer

A few small fixes landed in QUnit: The testresult element now displays what test is currently running, which helps with lots of async test and “Hide passed tests” enabled. Update grunt.js to latest Grunt version.

Lots of work in progress on TestSwarm, thanks to Timo ‘Krinkle’ Tijhof. Still working on refactoring to page/action structure.