{"id":221,"date":"2009-08-25T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T03:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/221"},"modified":"2009-08-25T23:00:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T03:00:06","slug":"mozilla-platform-meeting-minutes-2009-08-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/221","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Platform Meeting Minutes: 2009-08-25"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1>Platform\/2009-08-25<\/h1>\n<h3 id=\"siteSub\">From MozillaWiki<\/h3>\n<div id=\"contentSub\"><span class=\"subpages\">&lt; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\" title=\"Platform\">Platform<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2009-08-11\" title=\"Platform\/2009-08-11\">\u00ab previous week<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\" title=\"Platform\">index<\/a> | <strong>next week \u00bb<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Notices_.2F_Schedule\" name=\"Notices_.2F_Schedule\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Notices \/ Schedule <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Firefox_3.0.14\" title=\"Releases\/Firefox 3.0.14\">Firefox 3.0.14<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Firefox_3.5.3\" title=\"Releases\/Firefox 3.5.3\">Firefox 3.5.3<\/a><\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> in QA, builds available\n<li> targeting release for early\/mid September\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Firefox_3.0.15\" title=\"Releases\/Firefox 3.0.15\">Firefox 3.0.15<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Firefox_3.5.4\" title=\"Releases\/Firefox 3.5.4\">Firefox 3.5.4<\/a><\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> schedule set\n<li> please work on your blockers\n<li> code freeze is September 22\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Firefox 3.6a1<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Active Daily User numbers stabilized\n<ul>\n<li> 13,000 on Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1\n<li> 5,000 on Namaroka nightly builds (2k on mozilla-central nightlies)\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Firefox 3.6b1<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> string-frozen (need dates and deadlines)\n<li> co-ordinated with Fennec RC?\n<li> component leads need to identify P1 issues for this beta\n<\/ul>\n<p><a id=\"Blocker_Report\" name=\"Blocker_Report\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Blocker Report <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>Gecko 1.9.2 \/ Namoroka<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Release Blockers (flag: blocking1.9.2 or blocking-firefox3.6)\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=flag%3Ablocking1.9.2%2B,blocking-firefox3.6%2B\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=flag%3Ablocking1.9.2%2B,blocking-firefox3.6%2B\">95 OPEN<\/a> (-5 w\/w)\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=FIXED%20-!fixed1.9.2%2Cverified1.9.2%20flag%3Ablocking1.9.2%2B,blocking-firefox3.6%2B\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=FIXED%20-!fixed1.9.2%2Cverified1.9.2%20flag%3Ablocking1.9.2%2B,blocking-firefox3.6%2B\">9 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=flag%3Ablocking1.9.2%3F,blocking-firefox3.6%3F\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=flag%3Ablocking1.9.2%3F,blocking-firefox3.6%3F\">196 nominations<\/a> (+20 w\/w)\n<li> Handy charts: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/~mnandigama\/openBlockers.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/~mnandigama\/openBlockers.html\">Blocker snapshots<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/~mnandigama\/openBlockersTrend.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/~mnandigama\/openBlockersTrend.html\">Blocker and Noms trends<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<li> Approvals\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;keywords_type=nowords&amp;keywords=fixed1.9.2%20verified1.9.2&amp;field0-0-0=flagtypes.name&amp;type0-0-0=equals&amp;value0-0-0=approval1.9.2%3F\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;keywords_type=nowords&amp;keywords=fixed1.9.2%20verified1.9.2&amp;field0-0-0=flagtypes.name&amp;type0-0-0=equals&amp;value0-0-0=approval1.9.2%3F\">46 requests<\/a> (+20 w\/w)\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;keywords_type=nowords&amp;keywords=fixed1.9.2%20verified1.9.2&amp;field0-0-0=flagtypes.name&amp;type0-0-0=equals&amp;value0-0-0=approval1.9.2%2B\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;keywords_type=nowords&amp;keywords=fixed1.9.2%20verified1.9.2&amp;field0-0-0=flagtypes.name&amp;type0-0-0=equals&amp;value0-0-0=approval1.9.2%2B\">8 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2<\/a> (+5 w\/w)\n<li> Charts: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/~mnandigama\/openblockersNominated.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/~mnandigama\/openblockersNominated.html\">Nominations snapshots<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a id=\"Browser_.2F_Front_End\" name=\"Browser_.2F_Front_End\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Browser \/ Front End <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> see our <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Projects\" title=\"Firefox\/Projects\">active projects<\/a> and get involved \/ propose others\n<li> published initial <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Roadmap\" title=\"Firefox\/Roadmap\">draft roadmap<\/a> for product deliverables through the end of 2010\n<li> for Namoroka\/mozilla-1.9.2:\n<ul>\n<li> looks like it will be possible to <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Projects\/Personas_Uplift_Exploration\" title=\"Firefox\/Projects\/Personas Uplift Exploration\">integrate Personas<\/a> for Firefox 3.6\n<li> also looking at protecting users with out of date plugins, see our <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Projects\/Plugin_Update_Referrals\" title=\"Firefox\/Projects\/Plugin Update Referrals\">current ideas<\/a>\n<li> also looking at Ts and Tsnap priorities\n<\/ul>\n<li> for future\/mozilla-central:\n<ul>\n<li> last call for comments on the multitouch JS API prototype work (see <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Projects\/Multitouch_Polish\/DOM_Events\" title=\"Firefox\/Projects\/Multitouch Polish\/DOM Events\">proposed DOM events<\/a>)\n<li> identifying places where animation in the browser would help the UX (blog post coming)\n<li> new UI mechanism for application notifications (see <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Projects\/Doorhanger_notifications\" title=\"Firefox\/Projects\/Doorhanger notifications\">the spec<\/a>)\n<\/ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/~beltzner\/VDiFnxcd52-latest.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/~beltzner\/VDiFnxcd52-latest.html\">drafting a set of core principles<\/a> for Firefox development; currently messy, hope to have something to publish later this week\n<li> building product feature roadmap through the end of 2010\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/planet.firefox.com\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/planet.firefox.com\">Planet Firefox<\/a> is up and a good source for posts about ongoing front-end development\n<\/ul>\n<p><a id=\"GFX_Update\" name=\"GFX_Update\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> GFX Update <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Decode-on-draw <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=435296\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=435296\">bug 435296<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li> Preliminary review done by joe and addressed by bholley\n<li> ready for formal review\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a id=\"Layout_Update\" name=\"Layout_Update\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Layout Update <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> CSS Transitions close to landing (dbaron)\n<li> Harfbuzz running on Windows (jfkthame)\n<li> Ongoing SVG animation improvements (birtles, dholbert)\n<li> Fixing compositor regressions (roc)\n<\/ul>\n<p><a id=\"Content_Update\" name=\"Content_Update\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Content Update <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> 1.9.2\n<ul>\n<li> 11 blockers left.\n<\/ul>\n<li> Trunk:\n<ul>\n<li> Fixed some COW wrapper followup bugs.\n<li> XBL2: Jonas is done with his GetDocument\/GetOwnerDoc\/GetCurrentDoc audit and changes to the layout code. Need to get this in soon to avoid severe bitrot.\n<li> Henri is continuing to make progress towards moving parts of the HTML5 parser off the main thread.\n<li> mrbkap&#8217;s got a proposal for a Jetpack security model.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a id=\"Platform-specific_Support_Update\" name=\"Platform-specific_Support_Update\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Platform-specific Support Update <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a id=\"JS\" name=\"JS\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> JS <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> just merged a bunch of things, should be perf wins and Google Docs regression fixes\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> nanojit merge almost complete, still a 500-line delta or so.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> tracing native getters almost landed\n<\/ul>\n<p><a id=\"Startup_Performance\" name=\"Startup_Performance\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Startup Performance <\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Weekly summary is <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/autonome.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/22\/weekly-firefox-startup-performance-roundup-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/autonome.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/22\/weekly-firefox-startup-performance-roundup-2\/\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Security\" name=\"Security\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Security <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a id=\"Electrolysis\" name=\"Electrolysis\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Electrolysis <\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Plugins:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> karlt and jmuizelaar will work on windowless plugins (linux+windows)\n<li> josh meeting with Safari\/webkit developers about OOP plugins on mac today\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fennelectrolysis:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> graphics still pending (joedrew)\n<\/ul>\n<p>Necko:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Still some hiccups with necko protocol init\n<li> design meeting this week\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> mrbkap to implement on a cross-process JS wrapper\n<\/ul>\n<p><a id=\"Tree_Management\" name=\"Tree_Management\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Tree Management <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> getting new n810s into production; uphill struggle\n<li> new small\/med dirty profile talos suites\n<li> removed tp3, fasttalos suites\n<li> l10n nightly updates\n<ul>\n<li> on m-c, 192\n<li> causing delays in en-US nightly updates\n<li> 191 on hold, while we sort out bottleneck, worried about looping the day\n<\/ul>\n<li> moved some fennec tests to VMs\n<li> splitting of production-master\/production-master02 went well\n<ul>\n<li> ironing out sharing of slaves, watching wait times\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a id=\"Roundtable\" name=\"Roundtable\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Roundtable <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Are we going to have a status192 flag or not? It&#8217;s not clear what the outcome of the last discussion was.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> compiler change: Linux m-c builds to move from GCC 4.1 to GCC 4.3.4 sometime when I can close the tree for a few hours (bsmedberg)\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2009-08-25\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2009-08-25<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platform\/2009-08-25 From MozillaWiki &lt; Platform \u00ab previous week | index | next week \u00bb Notices \/ Schedule Firefox 3.0.14 \/ Firefox 3.5.3 in QA, builds available targeting release for early\/mid September Firefox 3.0.15 \/ Firefox 3.5.4 schedule set please work on your blockers code freeze is September 22 Firefox 3.6a1 Active Daily User numbers stabilized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}