{"id":374,"date":"2010-09-07T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/374"},"modified":"2010-09-07T23:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T03:00:04","slug":"mozilla-platform-meeting-minutes-2010-09-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/374","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Platform Meeting Minutes: 2010-09-07"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1>Platform\/2010-09-07<\/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\/2010-08-31\" title=\"Platform\/2010-08-31\">\u00ab previous week<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\" title=\"Platform\">index<\/a> | <a class=\"new\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/index.php?title=Platform\/2010-09-14&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"Platform\/2010-09-14 (page does not exist)\">next week \u00bb<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Notices \/ Schedule <\/span><\/h1>\n<p><b>Firefox 3.6.9 and 3.5.12<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Releasing today\n<li> In 4-7 days plan to refresh the 3.0\/3.5 \u2192 3.6.9 update offer\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Firefox 3.6.10 and 3.5.13<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Schedule draft will be sent around today\n<li> Tentative plan is to release on October 12th\n<li> Please nominate and work on any blockers! No need to wait until the last minute when FF4 work is even more intense\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Firefox 4 Beta<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> beta 5 will likely ship later this afternoon or tomorrow\n<li> beta 6 code freeze is scheduled for <b>FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li> based on the number of blockers left, this date is at risk\n<li> would actually estimate code freeze to be a week after the 10th\n<li> can and should discuss more in roundtable\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Blocker Report <\/span><\/h1>\n<p><b>Firefox 4 Beta<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> a handy list of <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/4\/Triage\" title=\"Firefox\/4\/Triage\">triage queries<\/a> is available for all!\n<ul>\n<li> Beta 6: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=blocking2.0%3Abeta6\" rel=\"nofollow\">114 blockers<\/a>\n<li> Beta: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=blocking2.0%3Abeta\" rel=\"nofollow\">406 blockers<\/a>\n<li> Final: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=blocking2.0%3Afinal\" rel=\"nofollow\">303 blockers<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li> TOTAL: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=blocking2.0%3Afinal,beta\" rel=\"nofollow\">709 blockers<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<li> nominations: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=OPEN%20blocking2.0%3A%22%3F%22\" rel=\"nofollow\">217 nominations<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Firefox 3.6.10<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL%20blocking1.9.2:.10%2B%20-status1.9.2:.10-fixed\" rel=\"nofollow\">20 open blockers<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Firefox 3.5.13<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL%20blocking1.9.1:.13%2B%20-status1.9.1:.13-fixed\" rel=\"nofollow\">18 open blockers<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox Development <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>(from our <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Goals\/2010Q3\" title=\"Firefox\/Goals\/2010Q3\">goals<\/a>):\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[NEW]<\/span> Feature complete Firefox 4\n<ul>\n<li> <span style=\"color: green;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[DONE]<\/span> Switch to Tab\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> Extension Manager &#8211; Bug list is converging, still a lot of work to do.\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> Notification UI &#8211; Geo and EM notifications done, http auth next.\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> New Theme &#8211; Windows and Mac good, Linux lagging.\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> App Tabs &#8211; Scope for 4.0 reduced (non-global), near feature complete.\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> TabCandy &#8211; Dropped &#8220;all windows&#8221; work to constrain risk\n<li> <span style=\"color: orange;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[AT RISK]<\/span> Silent updates on Windows\n<li> <span style=\"color: orange;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[AT RISK]<\/span> Web Console\n<li> <span style=\"color: purple;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[DROPPED]<\/span> Inspector\n<li> <span style=\"color: purple;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[DROPPED]<\/span> Account Manager &#8211; WIP patches posted, but we can&#8217;t contain the review load and code risk.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <span style=\"color: orange;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[AT RISK]<\/span> Dirty profile startup within 20% of clean profile startup (modulo extensions, plugins; on windows)\n<ul>\n<li> Current status: Lots of data has been collected and analyzed, but no solid conclusions have shaken out.\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Projects\/2010Q3_Dirty_Startup_Reduction\" title=\"Firefox\/Projects\/2010Q3 Dirty Startup Reduction\">Details page<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/shawnwilsher.com\/archives\/465\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shawn has an updated blog post<\/a>.  Read it for more info.\n<li> Bugs on file that help:\n<ul>\n<li> <strike>Excessive cookie i\/o bug <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=572223\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 572223<\/a><\/strike> (fixed)\n<li> Session Restore negatively impacts startup time based on the number of tabs loaded <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=582005\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 582005<\/a>\n<li> <strike>Suboptimal SQLite page size <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=416330\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 416330<\/a><\/strike> (fixed)\n<li> Provide a global VACUUM component <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=541373\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 541373<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Platform <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>(there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2010-Q3-Goals\" title=\"Platform\/2010-Q3-Goals\">team-by-team goals breakdown<\/a>, as well)\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> 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.)\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> 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.\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> 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.\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> security: zero reproducible high\/crit &gt; 30 days\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> Support multi-process Fennec.\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> Support Jetpacks running in separate processes and never blocking the Fennec UI.\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> JS <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>JM looking good on TM tree, a few blocking things remain: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=592960\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 592960<\/a>, regex problems. Some possible problems related to lack of compartments.\n<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> GFX <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Accelerated compositing using Direct3D 9 (on Windows) has been turned on by default on mozilla-central!\n<ul>\n<li> If you notice problems with Direct3D 9, please report them in Bugzilla. You will want to accompany your bug report with the Graphics section of about:support, so we can more easily work out what&#8217;s wrong.\n<li> To narrow down whether a problem is caused by Direct3D 9, you can set the about:config pref <code>layers.accelerate-none<\/code> to true, and restart your browser.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Layout <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> calc() basically done (see <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/dbaron.org\/log\/20100905-calc\" rel=\"nofollow\">dbaron&#8217;s blog<\/a>)\n<li> Q3 goals done\n<li> Still targeting feature freeze: SVG images, async plugin painting\n<li> document presentation swapping on track\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Content <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Virtual properties (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=499201\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 499201<\/a>) support at risk for beta5\u00a0\ud83d\ude41\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Tree Management <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Roundtable <\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2010-09-07\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2010-09-07<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div id=\"catlinks\">\n<div class=\"catlinks catlinks-allhidden\" id=\"catlinks\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platform\/2010-09-07 From MozillaWiki &lt; Platform \u00ab previous week | index | next week \u00bb Notices \/ Schedule Firefox 3.6.9 and 3.5.12 Releasing today In 4-7 days plan to refresh the 3.0\/3.5 \u2192 3.6.9 update offer Firefox 3.6.10 and 3.5.13 Schedule draft will be sent around today Tentative plan is to release on October 12th Please [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"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\/374"}],"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\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}