{"id":461,"date":"2011-01-05T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/461"},"modified":"2011-01-05T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T04:00:04","slug":"mozilla-platform-meeting-minutes-2011-01-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/461","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Platform Meeting Minutes: 2011-01-04"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1>Platform\/2011-01-04<\/h1>\n<h3 id=\"siteSub\">From MozillaWiki<\/h3>\n<div><span class=\"subpages\">&lt; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\" title=\"Platform\">Platform<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\n<a class=\"new\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/index.php?title=Platform\/YYYY-MM-DD&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"Platform\/YYYY-MM-DD (page does not exist)\">\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\/YYYY-MM-DD&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"Platform\/YYYY-MM-DD (page does not exist)\">next week \u00bb<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Notices \/ Schedule <\/span><\/h1>\n<p><b> Firefox 4 <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Beta 8 looks great! Thanks everyone\n<li> Plan to do a quick, date-driven beta 9 (for reals this time)\n<ul>\n<li> Plan to code freeze this <b>Friday, 2011-01-07<\/b>\n<li> Weekend will hopefully shake any issues out\n<li> Branch and build on <b>Monday, 2011-01-10<\/b> if no major issues are found\n<ul>\n<li> If issues are found, day-for-day slip on the builds\n<\/ul>\n<li> Release to beta audience on <b>Thursday, 2011-01-13<\/b>\n<\/ul>\n<li><i>If anyone has a problem with this plan, please speak up now or send an email to <a class=\"external text\" href=\"mailto:release-drivers@mozilla.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">release-drivers<\/a> later<\/i>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Firefox 3.6.14 and 3.5.17<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Slight change to the <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Firefox_3.6.14#Schedule\" rel=\"nofollow\">schedule<\/a>. Splitting up blocker and non-blocker freeze dates\n<ul>\n<li> Code freeze for <i>non-blockers<\/i> is now 2011-01-11 (1 week away)\n<li> Code freeze for <i>blockers<\/i> is still 2011-01-17 (2 weeks away)\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 class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/blocker-reports.brasstacks.mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/blocker-reports.brasstacks.mozilla.com<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>4.0.beta9\n<ul>\n<li>blocking: 136\n<li>fixed:  83\n<li>open:  53\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>4.0.betaN\n<ul>\n<li>blocking: 1427\n<li>fixed: 1170\n<li>open: 257\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>4.0.final\n<ul>\n<li>blocking: 1315\n<li>fixed: 1124\n<li>open: 191\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox Development <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>(from our <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Goals\/2010Q4\" title=\"Firefox\/Goals\/2010Q4\">goals<\/a>):\n<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> <span style=\"color: orange;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[AT RISK]<\/span> Finish Firefox 4\n<ul>\n<li> 160 <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=blocking2.0%3Abeta,final%20prod:toolkit,firefox\" rel=\"nofollow\">Firefox\/Toolkit blockers<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> API-Complete Jetpack\n<ul>\n<li> Joint with Jetpack team\n<li> Currently working towards feature-complete beta SDK\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> Stand up basic Firefox with Electrolysis\n<ul>\n<li> Joint with Platform\n<li> UI may not be functional, should launch and open a web page.\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Electrolysis\/Firefox\" title=\"Electrolysis\/Firefox\">Project tracking page<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Developer Tools <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[NEW]<\/span> Finish Firefox 4 developer tools\n<ul>\n<li> 15 <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=blocking2.0%3Abeta,final%20prod:firefox%20comp:developer\" rel=\"nofollow\">blocking developer tools bugs<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[NEW]<\/span> Ensure that Firefox 4 ships with a compatible version of Firebug\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[NEW]<\/span> Publish a roadmap for integrated developer tools in Firefox, including console, inspection, and js debugging\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <span style=\"color: grey;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[NEW]<\/span> Develop long term plan for Skywriter maintenance\/support\n<\/ul>\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: green;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[DONE]<\/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: green;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[DONE]<\/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: green;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[DONE]<\/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: red;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[MISSED]<\/span> security: zero reproducible high\/crit &gt; 30 days\n<li> <span style=\"color: green;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[DONE]<\/span> Support multi-process Fennec.\n<li> <span style=\"color: green;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[DONE]<\/span> Support Jetpacks running in separate processes and never blocking the Fennec UI. <b>NOTE: jetpack team hasn&#8217;t actually integrated this code yet, but it works in small test environments.<\/b>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> GFX <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=comp%3Agfx%2Cgraphics%2Cimage%2Ccanvas%20-comp%3Axul%20blocking2%3A%2B\" rel=\"nofollow\">34 blockers<\/a>, 0 beta9\n<li> Preliminary support for hardware-accelerated ClearType (subpixel anti-aliased text) has landed.\n<ul>\n<li> Currently only works for Direct3D 9, which is incompatible with Direct2D.\n<li> Pending work enables it for Direct3D 10 and OpenGL (Mac).\n<li> Net of this: much less frequent jaggy\/gross looking text.\n<\/ul>\n<li> Video Driver Black\/Whitelisting <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Projects\/VideoDriverBlacklisting\" title=\"Firefox\/Projects\/VideoDriverBlacklisting\">project<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Layout <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Down to 60 blockers\n<li> No beta9 blockers\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Tree Management <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Finally got tegras up *and staying up*\n<li> 17% drop in #checkins during the prolonged b7, b8 lockdown. For details, see <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/oduinn.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/30\/infrastructure-load-for-october-2010\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">[1]<\/a> and <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/oduinn.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/03\/infrastructure-load-for-november-2010\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">[2]<\/a>\n<li> expecting a lot of checkins this week (post vacation!)\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Roundtable <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Compartmental GC and beta 9?\n<ul>\n<li> Don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s on TM yet but generally done\n<li> We need a realistic assessment if we expect it in\n<li> Wouldn&#8217;t hold beta 9 for it\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> CRASH REPORT\n<ul>\n<li> Beta 8\n<ul>\n<li> Looks good ~ 2 crashes per 100 users\n<li> #1 crash &#8211; increase in js::mjit::EnterMethodJIT(JSContext*, JSStackFrame*, void*, js::Value*) signature.\n<li> #2 crash &#8211; new signature <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=620984\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=620984<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<li> Trunk\n<ul>\n<li> Spike in crashes before x-mas but now back to reasonable level.\n<li> #1 crash &#8211; old signature gfxContext::gfxContext(gfxASurface*) appearing again.\n<li> QA logging some new regressions.\n<\/ul>\n<li> 9 nominations to triage &#8211; <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/h4lIaA\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/h4lIaA<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2011-01-04\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2011-01-04<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"catlinks catlinks-allhidden\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platform\/2011-01-04 From MozillaWiki &lt; Platform \u00ab previous week | index | next week \u00bb Notices \/ Schedule Firefox 4 Beta 8 looks great! 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