Updates

Status updates from members of the jQuery Team.

Mobile: April 30, 2012

Posted by Todd Parker

The jQuery Mobile team has been working on the following items:

* Expanding alpha testing of the forthcoming download builder, addressing issues

* Fixing bugs for a forthcoming 1.1.1 release

* Refining the API and design of the new popup widget for 1.1 (see popup-widget branch)

* Coordinating with Microsoft on their new Metro theme for jQuery Mobile

Testing: April 27, 2012

Posted by Jörn Zaefferer

QUnit’s composite addon is now using the new callback registration mechanism, making it a lot more compatible with other code using those callbacks. Rerun links to open the individual testsuite.

The QUnit website is coming together, with a docpad-based repo at https://github.com/jquery/qunitjs.com. Contributions welcome! For now this is deployed via GitHub pages at qunitjs.com, but will soon migrate to the WordPress-based deployment that all other jQuery properties will use.

TestSwarm 1.0 is basically done, but still waits for updates on BrowserStack and Jenkins integrations. Once those are done, TestSwarm 1.0 will be official. In the meantime, we’ve revived the @TestSwarm Twitter account.

Core: April 23, 2012

Posted by Dave Methvin

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

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

Mobile: April 23, 2012

Posted by Todd Parker

The jQuery Mobile team has been collecting feedback on the 1.1.1 release and planning for 1.2. Key activities this week:

* Updating the docs with richer information

* Triaging bugs for a future 1.1.1 release

* Fixing a tricky issue with blinking transitions inside a fullscreen web view or PhoneGap app – now fixed in master, will be 1.1.1

* Refining our 1.2.0 release goals – we’ll be focusing on adding popup as the only full new widget to speed the release; fetch link will be released in a future release to give us more time to refine the API

Mobile: April 23, 2012

Posted by Todd Parker

The jQuery Mobile team has been collecting feedback on the 1.1.1 release and planning for 1.2. Key activities this week:

* Updating the docs with richer information

* Triaging bugs for a future 1.1.1 release

* Fixing a tricky issue with blinking transitions inside a fullscreen web view or PhoneGap app – now fixed in master, will be 1.1.1

Core: April 16, 2012

Posted by Dave Methvin

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?

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?

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 Jory 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:

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

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.