Platform/2011-Q2-Goals

[ON TRACK] Transition front end development model to rapid release process
Support channel switching support for first Aurora/Beta/Release train, specifically:
- [DONE] Implement channel switching UI and updater support
- [ON TRACK] Move to no-notification update
[ON TRACK] Build and establish feature tracking system for coordinating development effort (joint with Product)
[ON TRACK] Resolve bottlenecks around front-end code review bandwidth

Developer Tools

[ON TRACK] Ship the Scratchpad tool in Firefox 6
[ON TRACK] Ship a collection of Web Console improvements in Firefox 6
[ON TRACK] Land the parts of the Command Line that allow tools to register commands (thus allowing us to iterate on the user experience) on mozilla-central
[ON TRACK] Land initial "design oriented" tools for shipping on mozilla-central
[ON TRACK] Have concrete javascript debugger plan and implementation of basic pieces

[MISSED] Fennec layers acceleration
- Use OpenGL ES on at least a subset of Android hardware in time for Firefox 6
- Still working on for Q2
[AT RISK] Electrolysis Accelerated Layers
- Land in Q2 on mozilla-central
- For non-sandboxed processes only
[DROPPED] NPAPI async drawing extension
- Back to the drawing board on plugin-futures traction
[DONE] Azure - D2D accelerated 2D canvas implementation
- Land on mozilla-central by June 21 preffed on
[MISSED] Mac Plugin Async Drawing
- Land in Q2 on mozilla-central

[DONE] Have a DOM object exposed to JS with new DOM bindings (*not* in mozilla-central).
[DONE] No more XPConnect between JS and C++ code in DOM workers.
[ON TRACK] Implement HTML5 form controls <progress>, <input type "number">, and <meter>.
[MISSED] Have cyclic reference leak debugging tools committed to mozilla-central and documented for others to use.
[DONE] Land WebSockets
[MISSED] Remove nsHTMLContentSink (in preparation for removing old HTML parser later on)

[ON TRACK] Implement Debug Object specification (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Debug_Object)
[ON TRACK] Implement Incremental GC (bug 641025)
[ON TRACK] Design new compiler and implement basic infrastructure (bug 650180)
[ON TRACK] Land type inference, pref'd off (Bug 608741)

[MISSED] Adjust accessibility plans to align with electrolysis desktop schedule. Begin multiprocess a11y impl.
[DONE] Work with product management to complete mobile functional accessibility requirements and priorities.
[DONE] Make all implemented HTML5 inputs accessible. Bonus: implement canvas inner DOM exposure.
[MISSED] Finish work for accessible text interfaces to include only cached text usage.
[MISSED] Remove 75% of existing XPCOMery from the accessibility module.

[PROPOSED] Deploy telemetry: submit cycle collector, memory usage and other stats to the metrics server. (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Features/Telemetry)
[PROPOSED] Android startup improvements (bugs 651889, 651890, 651892, 651894)

[ON TRACK] Develop test plan for the rest of 2011 and put at least one new network performance test into production.
[ON TRACK] Support at least websockets -06 on trunk (bugs 640213 and 640003), participate in -o7 development.
[ON TRACK] Identify two networking-related performance issues on mobile and implement solutions. Turning on a disk cache might be one of these.
[ON TRACK] Investigate the effectiveness of TCP preconnections as a performance enhancement. If the strategy is effective then implement it. (bug 634278).
[ON TRACK] Schedule and complete Firefox 6 networking feature security reviews.

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