Platform/2011-05-10

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Notices / Schedule

• Merge from mozilla-aurora to mozilla-beta still planned for May 17 (next week!)
• Beta meetings are already happening, Mondays at 2pm. See dev.planning for details.
• Migration of beta users from old FF4 betas has begun – progress updates next week (or at the Wednesday, 11am product call)
• Merge from mozilla-central to mozilla-aurora still planned for May 24 (2 weeks!)
• New blog for tracking updates to the channels process (think logistics): blog.mozilla.org/channels

Firefox Development

• DevTools/Features/Workspaces feature landed
• Much nicer tab drag/tearoff animations coming soon bug 455694
• DevTools/Features/Debugger feature page in-progress.

Platform

GFX

• Moar feature pages!!!1
  • New this week:
    • Accelerated composition of layers on mobile using OpenGL ES.
    • Accelerated composition of content process layers (e10s).
• Nothing much else to report.

JS

Layout

• Starting work to get SVG text to reuse our CSS block/inline text layout code, to bring most CSS text features to SVG (Cameron McCormack)
• Nothing else significant to report. Zzzzzz

Plugins

DOM

Network

Tree Management

• mconnor’s thread about changing landing workflow

Stability Report

• Crash rate on the trunk has been pretty steady.
• 2011-05-09 – 46K ADU with 2.33 crashes per 100 ADU.
• We would like to see some of the new regressions looked at.
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/Nightly#Top_Browser_Crashes

Roundtable