Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2007-05-01
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This wiki page embodies two separate meetings (Firefox 3 on Tuesday then Gecko 1.9 on Wednesday), listed below, which detail the progress of Firefox 3, code named: Gran Paradiso, and the Gecko 1.9 progress. Previously, these meeting notes where separated and we sometimes covered the same information twice with conflicting results. The date/time/channel/number is listed in each meeting's section.
Contents
Firefox 3 Meeting
Meeting Details
- Tuesdays - Firefox 3 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern
- Mozilla <option> conference room
- Wednesdays - Gecko 1.9 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern
- Mozilla <table> conference room
- 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
- irc.mozilla.org #granparadiso for backchannel
PRD Status Update
- We have started to implement the change management process for the PRD
- Outstanding Requests to review: bug 379313
- AI: Basil to add microformats requiremenst to staffed PRD.
- PRD has been wiki-fied - thanks Deb - Firefox3/Product_Requirements_Document
Open actions for PRD progress
- AI: All. Potentially enabling HTTP Pipelining - Decision
- Inform the decision:
- Wikipedia Article - Mozilla Article - W3C Spec
- Do any web sites use it? Doesn't appear to be
- Is it enabled by default with Apache? Yes, part of HTTP/1.1 protocol
- Does it break the web - proxy servers? Anecdotally, yes
- Technical risk: what is involved?
- Any other browsers supporting it?
- Inform the decision:
- Working list has been closed - Firefox3/Firefox_Requirements_Meetings/Follow_up_Actions.
- AI: Mconnor to post to blog - Find an owner for "Get all Linux distros involved in Firefox development" - ubuntu, suse, redhat, fedora, etc
- AI: Myk/Mconnor - "Rich search results"- proposal, including adding proposed PRD items. What's the resolution?
Work in progress
- Places Bookmarks
- 16 open blockers (bug 370099) for turning on bookmarks by default.
- Password Manager
- JS rewrite up for review (bug 374324). mconnor is working through the review still (650k diff!). hopefully landing by Friday
- next step is design work on other PRD items
- Content Handling
- Fusion prototype getting pushed to Labs soon, other work ramping up soon
- Security UI
- Page info updates landed for a4, more things coming in a5 (johnath on vacation this week)
Schedule
- Proposed Schedule
- Added Alpha 5 detailed deliverables and cut-off dates
- How can we use the BZ field: "Target Milestone" to help track what gets delivered in Alpha 5 and subsequent Alphas?
- AI: Mconnor to write up proposal for how to use Target Milestone and blocker flags for tracking release.
QA Status/Topics
Localization Topics
- Proposal for L10N cut-off dates
Round table
- Other business?
- Don't forget to add changes that may impact documentation to the Firefox 3 for developers page.
Gecko 1.9 Meeting
Meeting Details
- 11:00am PDT (18:00 UTC)
- Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
- 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
- join irc.mozilla.org #granparadiso for backchannel
General Discussion
- HTTP Pipelining above: Need more details from the Platform team whether or not this will break backward compatibility.
- We need to answer whether or not this works.
- Is it worth breaking things for the speed?
- Target milestones in BZ need to be set for all 1.9 blockers (at a minimum).
- Sheriff/tree management update?
Blockers and Noms
(Schrep to update with numbers here).
See: [1]
GFX Update
- Progress made last week (Blockers resolved last week)
- (vlad) landed border rendering rewrite patch with some regressions (fixes 4 or so blockers)
- What we're working on this week (Blockers this week).
- (vlad) regressions from borders (Txul in particular)
- (vlad) patch reviews for Masayuki's linux perf patches, should see that land this week
- (vlad) Mac performance (image rendering in particular)
- Issues/Concerns/Requests
Layout Update
- Progress made last week (Blockers resolved last week)
- Roc: working on new-textrun-cache patch, fixed gtalk regression
- dbaron: finished up big round of writing style system mochitests
- smontagu: finding and fixing bugs in international text with new textframe
- What we're working on this week (Blockers this week).
- Roc: split up new-textrun-cache patch for review
- dbaron: work on list of reflow branch regressions
- smontagu: fixing more bugs with international text with new textframe
- Issues/Concerns/Requests
Content Update
- Progress made last week (Blockers resolved last week)
- peterv, dbaron, sicking, graydon: cycle collector performance improvements
- What we're working on this week (Blockers this week).
- Issues/Concerns/Requests
Mac Update
- Progress made last week
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- Josh worked on native theme stuff, buttons in particular (bug 379297)
- Colin removed nsINativeScrollbar and associated code, looking into blocker bug 376808
- What we're working on this week
- Josh working on native theme issues
- Colin working on assorted Cocoa bugs
- Stan working on drag'n'drop
- Issues/Concerns/Requests
- Josh will need to talk with layout people about layout issues with popup menu buttons
Build Tools Update
- Firefox --enable-libxul can now be packaged like regular builds
- The Linux refplatform machine performance issues are unresolved and there isn't a good plan going forward