Platform/2010-01-12

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Firefox 3.0.18 / Firefox 3.5.8

• code freeze January 19th
• there are 17 blockers remaining for 1.9.0.18
  • owners are: smaug, dbaron, ddahl, dholbert, Enn, honzab, igor, jimm, jst, mrbkap (x5), roc, surkov, wtc
• there are 31 blockers remaining for 1.9.1.8
  • owners are: smaug, dbaron, ddahl, dholbert, dolske, Enn, gal (x2), honzab, igor, jimm, joe, jst, kaie, matsp, mrbkap (x8), rs, roc, surkov, wtc and 3 unassigned (XPConnect, 2xDOM)
• release Feb 16th

SeaMonkey 2.0.2/2.0.3

• 2.0.2 with Gecko 1.9.1.7 and a mail freeze fix released yesterday
• 2.0.3 planned in sync with Firefox 3.5.8

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate

• available last Friday, announced yesterday
• reviewing blocker nominations daily

Firefox Future Releases

• discuss now or roundtable, your choice!

Blocker Report

Firefox 3.6 RC Code Completion

• 5 nominations to be triaged
• 0 code blockers remaining!

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)
  • 10 OPEN (-1 w/w) (7 are non-code, 2 are Fennec-only)
  • 0 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2
  • 0 nominations
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • email beltzner if you have approval requests needing attention
  • 28 requests
  • % approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (all releng)
  • Charts: Nominations snapshots

Browser / Front End

• if you want to play with a preview of the new theme, install Strata40 and StrataBuddy
• sdwilsh is tracking his work on reducing main thread IO if you’d like to follow along

GFX Update

• NSID ended, and Joe did a silly thing.
• Ben did an awesome thing, and has a patch (still to be posted) on bug 497225, Core Animation plugin API support, required for fast cross-process plugins on OS X.
• DirectWrite (bug 527707) and Direct2D (bug 527707) patches are undergoing heavy review by the various stakeholders.
• Lots of work going on for out-of-process plugins on Windows.
• More in the GFX weekly meeting notes.

Layout Update

• No 1.9.2 issues
• Windowed plugins inside CSS transforms are not being displayed, intentionally
• Landed changes to move scrolling out of views (use nsIScrollableFrame for everything)
• Landed some rework of font backends, ongoing work to split font backends into gfx*FontList, gfx*Shaper, gfx*Font (rendering)
• Image layers taking shape, will be used by video. Next steps:
  • accelerated YUV conversion and scaling when using D3D and OpenGL layers (which we should enable for fullscreen video)
  • off-main-thread video rendering?
  • bc-cat texture streaming and YUV conversion for N900
  • integrating DSP decoder with swizzling for video on N900 with no CPU touch of the video data
• Need to really focus on view manager integration/widget removal next/now, we’ll need it for Fennec+layers as well as Jetpack and other chrome-over-content features
• Mozilla people at FOMS/LCA conferences this week and next

Content Update

• peterv is making good progress on speeding up unwrapping in quickstubs.
• Jason starting to spread out the workload on electrolysis networking work.
• OOPP work moving forward towards enabling it by default.
• Ben Newman has tests in the works for CPOWs.
• Jonas is working on tests for our atom table in preparation for landing the UTF8 to UTF16 changes for the atom table.
• Work on crashkill bugs ongoing.
• HTML5 parser update (hsivonen).

Platform-specific Support Update

JS

• ES5 changes landing
• Interpreter rearchitecture underway
• WebGL typed arrays landed

Startup Performance

Security

• Cross-domain data theft using CSS (bug 524223): the “complicated heuristic” is implemented but not landed anywhere. Waiting for dbaron / drivers.

Electrolysis

• Starting weekly meetings, 1PM (PT) Wednesdays
• Hopefully will turn on OOPP by default tomorrow or Thursday
  • Need Talos downtime 14-Jan (morning or evening?)
• Beta1 code-complete tentatively scheduled for next week, but we probably won’t quite hit that

Tree Management

• Adding delay to continuous building of FF3.0. Details in bug 539105
• Talos Rebasing (continued)
  • new hardware arrived, unboxed
  • xp image being installed
  • ubuntu changing to fedora32, fedora64
  • WinVista changing to Win7
• Splitting up ‘everythingelse’. Read post in dev-tree-management if interested.
• Downtime on Thursday (14th) bug 539135

Roundtable

• XULRunner branch release plan: We release XR on 3 branches. How long do we keep releasing a branch?
• Firebug at beta 9, have 3 smallish bugs to fix, hope to have beta / RC tomorrow (wednesday)
• 2010 Releases
  • Firefox 3.7
  • “Lorentz”
  • Firefox 4.0
• Blocklist bug 538302 before 3.6 release? (sicking)