Platform/2009-12-22

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

• released last Tuesday, a few hours late but otherwise on schedule
• contained regression for users with NTLM authenticating proxies (see bug 535193)
• at the same time as (but unrelated to) this release, Norton IPS extension updated and is causing startup crashes, see bug 535345

Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7

• adjusted schedule to go for early January release to update users with fix for bug 534090 which affects major updates
• also took a fix to the NTLM regression as well as for the #1 topcrash on branches
• builds available as of this morning

Firefox 3.0.18 / Firefox 3.5.8

• proposed schedule at links above, tree is open, please work on blockers
• schedule tracks to one week later than original 3.0.17/3.5.7 schedule

Firefox 3.6 Beta Testers

• approaching 600,000 ADUs, though lowering during the holidays
• Beta 5 builds shipped last week with over 130 fixes from Beta 4

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate

• gonna go through the blocker lists today
• long poles are now some JS issues and potential new crashes due to plugin architecture changes

Firefox Future Releases

• Proposed 2010 release roadmap written up after workweek discussions. Represents a change in plan where Firefox early next year “Lorentz” will come from 1.9.2, not 1.9.3. Ready for wider promulgation?

Blocker Report

Firefox 3.6 RC Code Completion

• 5 nominations to be triaged
• 9 code blockers remaining:
  • 6 in JavaScript: all have reviewed patches or are fixed on tracemonkey
  • 3 others: 1 is fennec-only, 1 needs a patch, 1 can land

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)
  • 11 OPEN (-5 w/w) (7 are non-code)
  • 7 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-9 w/w)
  • 5 nominations (+11 w/w)
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • email beltzner if you have approval requests needing attention
  • 32 requests (-3 w/w)
  • 4 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-6 w/w)
  • Charts: Nominations snapshots

Browser / Front End

• not a lot of news
• team’s working on personal projects and continuing existing work
• check Planet Firefox for updates!

GFX Update

• bug 533691 – Violation of Microsoft’s copyright in IENUMFE.CPP / IENUMFE.H – our only remaining blocker. Just needs landing.
• D2D not going to make it in to mozilla-central before the end of the year.

Layout Update

Content Update

Platform-specific Support Update

JS

Startup Performance

Security

Electrolysis

Plugin work continuing. Fairly quick turnaround on issues discovered since last week: except for bug 521377 the major issues have landed in e10s repo and should land in m-c today.

Major issues to resolve before turning OOPP on by default:

• crash reporting in the plugin process, bug 516759
• NPRuntime races, bug 521377
• Windows hangs, bug 535036
• Also need to deal with updater issues (mozilla-runtime not executable on Linux when delivered via partial update), bug 535090

Filed bug 536188 to create a project branch for Firefox “Lorentz” based off of 1.9.2. The intention is to do betas starting in mid-January and doing weekly betas until release in March or April.

In mobile-land, work starting to port e10s to the Qt event dispatch/widget system.

Tree Management

• Rebasing Talos machines in January
  • current hardware obsolete, starting to buy, rack new hardware
  • rebasing waiting until after FF3.6
• FF3.0.17, 3.5.7 wrapping up
• Waiting for go for: Fennec1.0rc1, FF3.6rc1.

Roundtable