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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

• everything's signed off, releasing today

Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7

• proposed schedule at links above, tree is open, please work on blockers
• may adjust schedule to go for early January release to update users with fix for bug 534090 which affects major updates

Firefox 3.6 Beta Testers

• approaching 600,000 ADUs
• getting good feedback through various channels
• Beta 5 builds are being tested by QA now, targeting a Thursday release unless we get to RC first

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate

• we are really, really close to being code-complete (see blocker report)
  • only need 8 more patches, and a tracemonkey merge
• need all hands on deck for those patches and on incoming nominations
• if we can go to build today or tomorrow, QA will scrap Beta 5 and we'll release RC to the beta audience ASAP

Blocker Report

Firefox 3.6 RC Code Completion

• 4 nominations to be triaged
• 25 code blockers remaining:
  • 20 in JavaScript: 13 are fixed on tracemonkey (ETA on final 7)
  • 5 others: 1 is fennec-only, 1 needs a patch, 3 can land (who's landing them?)

All Blockers (includes website, release management, etc)
See more Firefox 3.6 related blocker queries, or learn about the new status and blocker flags

• Release Blockers (flag: blocking1.9.2 or blocking-firefox3.6)
  • 16 OPEN (-9 w/w) (7 are non-code)
  • 16 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-1 w/w)
  • 4 nominations (-11 w/w)
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • email beltzner if you have approval requests needing attention
  • 35 requests (-51 w/w)
  • 10 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (+1 w/w)
  • Charts: Nominations snapshots

Browser / Front End

(Progress reports every weekend on Planet Firefox)

• see our active projects and get involved / propose others
• mozilla-1.9.3 front end development (see planet firefox for quick overview):
  • Drew's made Places data visible in a content window
  • Blair's tweaking tab match in awesomebar, should land on trunk soon
  • Rob Strong is fixing the updater for unprivileged windows users, and finding wins in JS startup time (see more)

GFX Update

• 2 blockers
  • As usual, subpixel positioning bug is the long pole, but we won't block 3.6 on it. No ETA on that bug.
• 1 nom
• 2010 Q1 GFX goals - Performance!
• Looking to land direct2d acceleration on mozilla-central "before Christmas."
• We have a Talos test for scrolling that Jeff's working on; ETA also before Christmas. bug 534819

Layout Update

• 1.9.2 report
  • No layout blockers, no layout noms
  • 1 widget blocker (roc)
• Reviewing syncbase timing for SMIL (birtles)
• Making new assertions fatal on Tinderbox? (dbaron)
• Exhortation to tackle orange bugs using record+replay

Content Update

• One 1.9.2 blocker left, fixed on trunk.
• JavaScript inter-Process Wrappers (benjamn, bug 516522):
  • Refactored to represent each JSObject with an actor pair.
  • frameLoader.attachChildGlobal(node, "propertyName") to create a property on |node| corresponding to the child's global object, thereby exposing the wrapper.
  • Grass-roots support (mrkbap, peterv) for a change in terminology: Cross-Process Object Wrappers (CPOWs)?
• Clone-documents-for-printing landed (smaug)
• HTML5 parser work moving along, talos problem figured out (problem in talos page set, not in the parser).

Platform-specific Support Update

JS

• Most blockers fixed on TM. Newly added debug builds are orange, will fix today.
• continuing to land performance improvements

Startup Performance

Summmary

• Read the latest weekly update. (none last week)
• View snapshot results for startup and all other tests.

Priorities

More

• More details on the project page.
• Join us on IRC in #startup.

Security

Electrolysis

• OOPP has landed and appears to have stuck!
• Minor issues abound (IPC on only): e.g. any plugins installed to a path with spaces are broken
• Need to get Talos changes landed (bug 529137) so that we can enable OOPP by default on E10s tree, and then once blockers are fixed, on mozilla-central (blocker tracking).

To turn on IPC plugins, set the pref dom.ipc.plugins.enabled in nightlies starting this morning.

Tree Management

• Stopped sending test results to *-Unittest trees. bug 534252 Scraping will need to be turned on as new columns show up.
• Enabled mochitest-ipcplugins tests on m-c, places, tracemonkey bug 530522
• Turned on optimized and debug packaged tests on tracemonkey bug 524176
• Still need to do extended downtime so IT can do database maintenance bug 528573. All trees that report to talos will be need to be closed.

Roundtable

• Need to discuss adding a null deref to make add-ons fail early, i.e., Relevant Knowledge uses the a11y API in a non-threadsafe way. We should block the dlls, but also keep add-on developers from using this in a way that will eventually crash. The problem is we don't know how many add-ons this will break (and will it matter?). Also, is there a patch ready to make this happen? If not, can we get one ready so that we are prepared to pull the trigger? Peterv has the details. (damons)