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+[[!meta title="Developer Weekend (Jan 2014)"]]
+[[!meta author="Kyllikki"]]
+[[!meta date="2013-12-18T11:25:18Z"]]
+
+
+[[!toc]]
+
+When
+----
+
+To be held afternoon of 3rd to afternoon of 5th
+
+Who
+---
+
+Anyone interested in contributing to NetSurf, we generally have small
+discussion times and a great deal of hacking time. Previous events have
+crammed in excess of 20 hours working time into the weekend.
+
+You **must** confirm your attendance no later than the 2nd of January
+2014 so i can update the security list. We cannot offer travel
+sponsorship to the event and free accommodation is limited (and basic).
+
+Currently confirmed are
+
+-   Vincent Sanders
+-   Michael Drake
+-   Daniel Silverstone
+-   Rob Kendrick
+-   John Mark-Bell
+
+Where
+-----
+
+At the Collabora Cambridge offices: Kett house Station Road Cambridge
+
+CB1 2JH
+
+<http://goo.gl/maps/iOb9R>
+
+This venue has easy access from the railway station and is a twenty
+minute walk from the city cenre where national express coaches stop.
+Nearest airport is Stanstead and the railway provides good links.
+
+Vincent has arranged to have accommodation for two people. More might be
+accommodated if they do not mind sleeping bags on the floor. Vincent
+also has a car and will be designated driver.
+
+Agenda
+------
+
+List of ideas to consider and/or work on, if they've not already been
+addressed:
+
+-   Forms to use LibDOM
+-   New layout engine discussion
+-   State of JS discussion
+-   More LibCSS work (style interning & sharing)
+-   Release process was a mad rush for 3.0
+    -   Do we need to sort anything out?
+    -   Non RISC OS platforms still haven't had a 3.0 release on our
+        site.
+    -   Sort out the autobuilder generating releases
+-   Can LibDOM be optimised?
+-   Hubbub is years behind spec, and causing real bugs.
+-   media and GStreamer 1.0 integration
+-   libjpeg turbo
+-   haru pdf integration
+-   printing
+-   Any other 3.1 blockers?
+-   Urgent bugs?
+
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+[[!meta title="Developer Weekend (Mar 2010)"]]
+[[!meta author="Tlsa"]]
+[[!meta date="2016-09-21T10:30:48Z"]]
+
+
+[[!toc]]
+
+Goals for NetSurf
+-----------------
+
+     1. Complete jmb/newcache
+     2. Fix favicons, godsdamnit
+     3. Refactor initialisation to unthread it slightly
+        -- Make ParserUtils build aliases in, and refactor Hubbub and thus netsurf to not pass it in.
+     4. Plan the 2.5 release -- RM=vince
+      -- RISC OS, Gtk/Linux (Ubuntu/Debian packages?), Framebuffer?, Amiga (if Chris is ready).
+      -- Bug François about BeOS/Haiku port
+      -- Check libraries and prepare releases for them
+     5. Consider renaming /my_?realloc/i
+     6. Plan the abstract IO streams thingy
+
+
+
+    If we have time for the following, we've not done the above properly:
+
+
+    Examine use of libxml tree thingy and see if we can magically replace them with lwc_string
+      -- If we can, hubbub string interning is worth doing at this time.
+
+    Bring hubbub up to html5 again
diff --git a/developer-weekend/nov-2012.mdwn b/developer-weekend/nov-2012.mdwn
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+[[!meta title="Developer Weekend (Nov 2012)"]]
+[[!meta author="Kyllikki"]]
+[[!meta date="2012-11-01T16:00:28Z"]]
+
+
+[[!toc]] List of ideas to consider
+and/or work on, if they've not already been addressed:
+
+-   <about:testament> to include library versions
+-   Release automation
+-   Purge LibXML usage
+-   Migrate previous release tags in git repo
+-   Handle LINK, META, STYLE, etc tags as they're added to the DOM.
+-   Examine porting spidermonkey to RO
+-   LibDOM optimisation
+    -   <http://www.netsurf-browser.org/temp/Profiles>
+    -   \_dom\_node\_dispatch\_event takes \>8% causing some of
+        post-libDOM speed regression
+    -   CSS selection still dominates
+    -   CSS parse takes some time too.
+-   More?
+
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+[[!meta title="Developer Weekend (Nov 2014)"]]
+[[!meta author="Tlsa"]]
+[[!meta date="2014-11-21T17:41:48Z"]]
+
+
+[[!toc]] There will be a NetSurf
+developer weekend on 14, 15, 16 November 2014 in Manchester, hosted at
+the offices of Codethink.
+
+People
+------
+
+-   jmb
+-   Kinnison
+-   kyllikki
+-   rjek
+-   tlsa
+
+Stuff
+-----
+
+Some things that may be discussed or worked on include:
+
+-   Review, fix and merge GSoC Hubbub work
+-   Testing
+    -   Layout: bitmap export via framebuffer frontend, and comparison
+    -   Browser: scripting monkey front end
+-   Current state of JS
+    -   Duktape? (Quack.)
+-   URLdb rewrite
+-   Current state of core browser API
+-   New layout engine planning
+-   Squashing old bugs
+-   Filterable logging stuff
+-   Performance
+-   NetSurf to core buildsystem
+
+Discussions
+-----------
+
+### Libraries
+
+-   Vince recently split out utf8proc and all present hurrahed.
+-   Libharu appears to be abandonware -- Do we want to take it on, or do
+    we want to drop it? Decision is to drop it for now, and worry about
+    it again when we have paginating layout
+-   Break out most of utils/\* and shunt the rest around? -- Non-urgent
+    but not vetoed (call it libnsutils)
+    -   Officially, John-Mark Bell acknowledges he's okay to re-license
+        his code as MIT/Expat
+    -   Officially, Daniel Silverstone acknowledges he's okay to
+        re-license his code as MIT/Expat
+    -   Officially, Rob Kendrick acknowledges he's okay to re-license
+        his code as MIT/Expat
+    -   Officially, Michael Drake acknowledges he's okay to re-license
+        his code as MIT/Expat
+    -   Officially, Vincent Sanders acknowledges he's okay to re-license
+        his code as MIT/Expat
+    -   Missing permissions: Chris Young, Achal-Aggarwal, Adrian Lees,
+        Adrien Destuegues, Andrew Duffell, Andrew Sidwell, Andrew
+        Timmins, Anthony J. Bentley, Chris Williams, François Revol,
+        James Bursa, James Shaw, Jeffrey Lee, John Tytgat, Kevin Bagust,
+        Matthew Hambley, Mike Lester, Ole Loots, Philip Pemberton, Phil
+        Mellor, Richard Wilson, Rob Jackson, Sean Fox, Steve Fryatt,
+        Sven Weidauer
+-   Toolchains
+    -   Atari is bugged
+    -   libcurl/openssl updates are often and annoying
+    -   We need to lorry all the things -- Daniel to assist
+    -   GCCSDK not compilable with modern ubuntu (14.04) currently
+        (maybe update?) (Wheezy works)
+-   Michael has a load of libcss stuff he hasn't pushed because he's a
+    silly moo.
+-   TODO: come back and think about hubbub
+
+### URLDB
+
+1.  URL (normalised fragmentless nsurl) -\> key/value store (avec
+    \$indices of various smells)
+2.  Cookie jar
+3.  Password bucket
+4.  Autocompletion database
+5.  hostname pattern -\> key/value store
+
+This should be part of libnsutils
+
+Further design discussion at that time.
+
+### Layout
+
+libfandango
+
+layout context hangs off a DOM document
+
+Needs:
+
+-   Render API (potentially extended with compositing)
+-   Font Metrics API
+-   Scheduler
+-   CSS handling
+-   Event injection API?
+
+Research:
+
+-   Text layout algorithms
+-   CSS3 features and impact vs. currently understood layout
+
+Deep thought:
+
+-   inlines
+
+### JavaScript
+
+Vince is concerned about nsgenbind -- He feels the idl vs. bnd thing
+might be a pain. There are two branches, one in nsgenbind and one in
+NetSurf which need finishing. Basically restructuring the output. This
+is idle from 12 months ago and needs adopting.
+
+A C mirror of the IDL object model has to be constructed in order that
+we can then bind to an engine.
+
+Duktape (finally released in October 2014) lacks a lazy evaluation
+model. This means that we'd have to build 400 prototypes up front on
+every engine initialisation. Expensive in time and memory (can we
+perhaps handle this with duktape threads?)
+
+Spidermonkey JSVERSION is not Spidermonkey's API version -- oopsie
+
+Our Spidermonkey API version is, unfortunately orphaned (1.7 is pre-NSPR
+and we use this everywhere but Linux) 1.8 and 1.85 are post-NSPR and are
+the last separable library releases of spidermonkey (and here is the
+orphaning). Between 1.7 and 1.8[5] we have significant API/ABI
+differences. We currently "patch" this with a header file full of
+macros. 1.85 actually refers to the javascript version not spidermonkey.
+We're not seeing API stability and we cannot build against more modern
+Spidermonkey
+
+We'd like to split out spidermonkey version and make the macros use
+those. Unfortunately pkg-config is a tad pants here due to missing
+version information.
+
+Perhaps we need someone (not Vince to save his brain) to research
+duktape's status, capabilities and write a mini report for Vince.
+
+Ultimate goal would be something like libnsjavascript which builds on
+top of duktape, contains the bindings, and abstracts all of that out of
+the netsurf repository, so that netsurf simply ends up gluing
+browser\_window, libnsjavascript, the dom it got content and fandango
+together.
+
+### Buildsystem
+
+1.  Core buildsystem -\> triplets
+    -   BUILD/HOST/TARGET
+    -   Move the warning flags into the core
+    -   If a platform lacks a triplet, inventorizificate one.
+
+1.  Port NetSurf to the core build system
+    -   May need extensions to core build
+        -   May be feature discovery stuff
+    -   Ensure that testrunner can run any of the random
+        mini-test-suites we have in NetSurf currently
+
+So core-buildsystem gains pkg-config.mk kinda thing
+
+Migration of NetSurf to core build system may be predicated on moving
+platform content from frontends into libnsutils
+
+### Core Window Thing
+
+Coalescence of all core vs. frontend window abstractions:
+
+1.  Browser Window
+2.  Treeviews
+3.  Local history
+
+Approaches:
+
+1.  Everything is a browser window (abuse Content model)
+2.  Have a 'Window' superclass, move most interaction to that
+    abstraction, browser\_window is effectively a subclass
+
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+[[!meta title="Developer Weekend (Nov 2016)"]]
+[[!meta author="Tlsa"]]
+[[!meta date="2016-09-21T10:04:30Z"]]
+
+
+[[!toc]]
+
+People
+------
+
+Confirmed:
+
+-   John-Mark Bell
+-   Michael Drake
+-   Vincent Sanders
+-   Daniel Silverstone
+
+Unknown:
+
+-   Rob Kendrick
+-   Chris Young
+-   ?
+
+Agenda
+------
+
+### Discussions
+
+-   urldb/metadata handling
+-   ?
+
+### Possible work items
+
+-   LibCSS media queries
+-   JavaScript
+