Platform/2010-09-14

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.6.10 and 3.5.13

• Quick-turnaround updates for 3.6.9 and 3.5.12
• Bug 594699 (1.9.1 and 1.9.2) and bug 590978 (1.9.2 only)
• Building in an hour
• Plan to release asap, likely Thursday
• Support is emailing users with the crash for Bug 594699, trying to get reproduction steps.

Firefox 3.6.11 and 3.5.14

• Schedule has been on hold while dealing with the above
• Still approving and marking bugs as blockers
• Existing approvals / blockers will be marked correctly when bug 596293 is fixed

Firefox 4 Beta

• inserting a beta 6 to fix two regressions from beta 5
• this means that what you thought of as “beta 6” is now “beta 7”
• this means that beta 7 is the feature freeze milestone
• this does not mean that we’re altering the schedule, still aiming for code freeze tomorrow

Blocker Report

Firefox 3.5.14

• 19 blockers

Firefox 3.6.11

• 20 blockers

Firefox 4 Beta

• a handy list of triage queries is available for all!
  • Beta 6: 73 blockers
  • Beta: 410 blockers
  • Final: 329 blockers
    • TOTAL: 739 blockers
  • nominations: 246 nominations

Firefox Development

(from our goals):

• [NEW] Feature complete Firefox 4
  • [DONE] Switch to Tab
  • [DONE] App Tabs – Scope for 4.0 reduced (non-global), near feature complete.
  • [ON TRACK] Extension Manager – Bug list is converging, still a lot of work to do.
  • [ON TRACK] Notification UI – Geo and EM notifications done, http auth next.
  • [ON TRACK] New Theme – Windows and Mac good, Linux lagging.
  • [AT RISK] TabCandy
  • [AT RISK] Silent updates on Windows
  • [AT RISK] Web Console
  • [DROPPED] Inspector
  • [DROPPED] Account Manager – WIP patches posted, but we can’t contain the review load and code risk.

• [AT RISK] Dirty profile startup within 20% of clean profile startup (modulo extensions, plugins; on windows)
  • Current status: Lots of data has been collected and analyzed, but no solid conclusions have shaken out.
  • Details page
  • Shawn has an updated blog post. Read it for more info.
  • Bugs on file that help:
    • Excessive cookie i/o bug bug 572223 (fixed)
    • Session Restore negatively impacts startup time based on the number of tabs loaded bug 582005
    • Suboptimal SQLite page size bug 416330 (fixed)
    • Provide a global VACUUM component bug 541373

Platform

(there is a team-by-team goals breakdown, as well)

• [ON TRACK] Javascript performance near or even with Chrome 5 on their benchmarks (within 20% on SS, 30% on V8), with substantial wins on our benchmarks. (Windows, in-browser.)
• [ON TRACK] Hardware acceleration of video and other HTML and SVG content, as well as user interface, on by default for compatible hardware on all Tier-1 desktop and mobile platforms.
• [ON TRACK] Fully support the WebGL 1.0 spec, with support turned on by default in a Firefox 4 beta on platforms that support OpenGL or OpenGL ES.
• [ON TRACK] security: zero reproducible high/crit > 30 days
• [ON TRACK] Support multi-process Fennec.
• [ON TRACK] Support Jetpacks running in separate processes and never blocking the Fennec UI.

GFX

• OpenGL accelerated layers on Mac *very close* – one bug remaining. Should land today.
• OpenGL accelerated layers on Linux much futher out. Will definitely miss beta 7.

Layout

• All goals completed already — Fixing regressions/blockers
• SVG images landed
• Removed -moz prefix from box-shadow and border-radius properties
• Async plugin painting making progress, should land soon for Linux, needs Windows/Mac love

Multi-Process

• cjones update on remote layers and puppet-widgets: close to landing
  • initial “fake” widget work went in bug 582057
  • merging from project twig to m-c blocked on reviews for bug 591047 and bug 576192

Video

• Landed ‘buffered’ support for WebM (Q3 goal)

Tree Management

• New record # checkins in August (2,707); 38% higher then previous record;
  • http://oduinn.com/blog/2010/09/09/infrastructure-load-for-august-2010/
• Last month, 45% of load was on TryServer.
  • If you use TryServer, make sure to CHOOSE what exactly you want
  • do not waste cycles on “default” unless you know thats exactly what you want
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Build:TryChooser

• IT downtime this weekend; 650castro offline means tree closure

• Most of the new IX machines in production
• New data center nearly ready for use

Roundtable

• Need extra eyes after code landings? Let us know and we can post it to the nightly tester list – http://blog.mozilla.org/tomcat/2010/08/15/introduction-of-the-nightly-testers-list/ — tomcat