Initial development focus

[Matthew N.]

Hey everyone,

There was recently a shift in development to the preference dialogs (perhaps partly my fault for things being blocked) but I don't think it's the best focus for our limited development resources. Preferences is in M1 so we can have profiles for testing (since we aren't implementing the doorhanger in this milestone) but that was also based on working on the core problem (autofill/autocomplete) in parallel. Since we only have two developers now, I think we should focus on getting the harder problems solved and laying the foundation for others to iterate on eventually. Steve and Luke have context on autofill/autocomplete that someone new to the team wouldn't have so I think leaving the more straightforward preference work for people new to the team would be ideal.

For example, I think focusing on bug 1300990 and 1304634 would be most valuable.

Does that make sense? We need to do the preference work eventually so it's not wasted effort to do it now but I think it's not helping us move forward on the core of the feature.

Let me know what you think,

Matthew

[vc...@mozilla.com]

Hi Matthew,

Yes I totally agree with you that we should use our limited engineering resources wisely and should focus on the core functionalities first. But I guess there must be some misunderstandings because somehow folks here got the impression that we ever discussed in one weekly meeting about what to do next and the conclusion is to work on Preference Dialog part first. We must have heard it wrong :)

So for the 2 bugs you mentioned, Luke has been and will be working on 1300990. As to 1304634, Steve will start to work on that. He will discuss with you off-line to figure out the details. And we can also discuss further about what more bugs we should work on first too.

Thanks!

Vance