Platform/2009-09-01

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.14 / Firefox 3.5.3

• going to beta at 1pm today
• targeting release in 1 week

Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4

• code freeze is set at September 22 11:59pm PDT
• please land your 1.9.1.4 patches (27 bugs need landing) and mark the ".4-fixed" option of the status1.9.1 flag
• currently 12 blockers for 1.9.1 and 7 blockers for 1.9.0 that need patches (request approval if a patch is ready)

Firefox 3.6a1

• still at about 16k users

Firefox 3.6b1

• toolkit string freeze Friday September 4th
• besides personas and out of date plugin checkin, anyone know of things that need to come in?

Fennec 1.0b4

• string freeze this Friday
• looking to hit 15th-18th

Blocker Report

• Release Blockers (flag: blocking1.9.2 or blocking-firefox3.6)
  • 96 OPEN (+1 w/w)
  • 15 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (+6 w/w)
  • 206 nominations (+10 w/w)
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • 79 requests (+33 w/w)
  • 6 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-2 w/w)
  • Charts: Nominations snapshots

Browser / Front End

• progress reports every weekend on Planet Firefox, which will get prettier (if you want to be added, please add your Firefox Development related feed tag to this list
• see our active projects and get involved / propose others
• published initial draft roadmap for product deliverables through the end of 2010
• for Namoroka/mozilla-1.9.2:
  • work started on integrate Personas for Firefox 3.6
  • Marco expects to have on-idle vaccuuming of the Places DB ready for Firefox 3.6
  • Shawn moved Session Restore writes to a background thread, would like to know if people still see chunky video performance with Flash
  • Blair and Mossop have a plan for alerting users to out of date plugins
  • we're also going to warn users on the firstrun page they see with the upcoming Firefox 3.5.2 and Firefox 3.0.14 updates (see bug 512483
  • had a meeting to prioritize and assign Ts bugs, more details on Ts project below
• for future/mozilla-central:
  • looking to land improved 404 pages sometime this week on trunk
  • starting standardization process for JS API prototype work (see proposed DOM events) - should we land this in trunk?
  • had some great meetings with Roc and Vlad about how to add animation to our UI
  • faaborg, horlander and limi met about new theme stuff, a discussion of their ideas has broken out
  • faaborg would like to eradicate startup dialogs and is looking for people to help him
  • marking bugs with killthem as a way of indicating UI that needs to be removed because it doesn't do anything (suppose we could have used useless-ui)

GFX Update

• Decode-on-draw is getting close to review
• WebGL update - big rename+arrays patch close to landing

Layout Update

• pointer-events:none landed (jwatt)
• identified problem with blocking httpd.js writes causing Tinderbox orange (cpearce)
• working on compositor regressions (roc); file bugs about plugin tearing on Windows, scrolling slowdown?
• proceeding with WOFF (jfkthame, jdaggett)
• Retiring web-tech in favour of hacks.mozilla.org
  • Need hacks posts on pointer-events:none and CSS gradients
• Ongoing gradient discussion on www-style

Content Update

• bug 506985 removed the "Disable Java" UI and hidden preference from Firefox/Gecko. This change will be in Firefox 3.6. Java is now treated like any other plugin for the most part, it should be managed from the Addons Manager.
• History.pushState patches are up for review. (bug 209275 and bug 500328)
• HTML5 parser splitup patch in the bug, getting ready for moving parts of it off the main thread. bug 499642
• Found and fixed a JS timeout problem that was slowing us down in some cases.

Platform-specific Support Update

• Rob Arnold will be handing off new build infrastructure work for RelEng to get Windows 7 SDK up and running
• Windows 7 tab preview stuff sitting on review, marked blocking
• Making progress on 64-bit builds for Mac OS X. Complex text input and printing remain as our big blockers.
• Trunk Mac OS X tinderboxes will be updated to build with gcc-4.2 and the Mac OS X 10.5 SDK. This will mean that trunk builds can no longer run on Mac OS X 10.4. This is unlikely to be reversed but we will be waiting a bit to actually remove code supporting 10.4 from the tree while we verify benefits.
• [roc] Markus says that Cocoa printing depends on APIs that aren't in 10.4
• Win7 sdk work for build progressing.

Startup Performance

• Weekly summary post

• Looking for owners for these high priority platform bugs.
  • xpconnect/component-loader for bug 512827
  • build-fu for bug 506392
  • some reflow feedback on bug 504858

Electrolysis

• Lots of planning happened last week; we're still writing up the full set of information in useful ways
• necko design work posted at Necko: Electrolysis design and subprojects
• some of the work, such as asynchronous redirect APIs, will take place on mozilla-central to reduce the risk and get earlier testing (scheduled for 1.9.3/Firefox 3.7)
• Planning on running Jetpacks in a separate process as well, which allows them to use a synchronous API to content and chrome and be somewhat isolated from the rest of the system
• Mac graphics for multi-process plugins designed... it may be 10.6-only, but we're certainly going to focus on 10.6 support first.

Tree Management

• nightly updates
  • recent landings (en-US prioritization, triggering l10n nightlies as soon as en-US completes) have improved turnaround time, still not as timely as before l10n updates, especially for Windows
  • works continues in bug 511967

Roundtable

• switch to using the status1.9.2 flag now that we have it?