{"id":467,"date":"2011-01-12T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/467"},"modified":"2011-01-12T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T04:00:08","slug":"mozilla-platform-meeting-minutes-2011-01-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/467","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Platform Meeting Minutes: 2011-01-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1>Platform\/2011-01-11<\/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 href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2011-01-04\" title=\"Platform\/2011-01-04\">\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\/2011-01-18&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"Platform\/2011-01-18 (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 9 has been built and handed off to QA (based on <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/hg.mozilla.org\/mozilla-central\/rev\/badef0f336d2\" rel=\"nofollow\">this revision<\/a>)\n<ul>\n<li> If you find any issues please email <a class=\"external text\" href=\"mailto:release-drivers@mozilla.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">release-drivers<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<li> Beta 10 doesn&#8217;t have a schedule yet and will likely be driven by content\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Firefox 3.6.14 and 3.5.17<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Code freeze for <i>non-blockers<\/i> is <b>today<\/b>, 2011-01-11\n<li> Code freeze for <i>blockers<\/i> is still 2011-01-17 (1 week away)\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<li> <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/office.smedbergs.us\/blocker-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/office.smedbergs.us\/blocker-report\/<\/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\/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\">45 blockers<\/a>, 15 hard blockers.\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Layout <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Blocker count has risen slightly over the last week (partly due to beta9 freeze making it hard to land stuff)\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Content <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> 22 hardblocker&#8217;s left, 57 total blockers\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Tree Management <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> We now have XP optimized unit tests &#8211; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/armenzg.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/xp-optimized-unit-tests-enabled-for.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">blog post<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li> could we now disable W2k3 *debug* unit tests? XP debug unit tests should be here in the next 3-4 weeks.\n<ul>\n<li> we improve wait times mainly on the try server Windows builds (since we would only do build jobs rather than build + tests)\n<li> we reduce random oranges due to running sometimes unit tests on Win2k3 VMs rather than fast IX hardware machines\n<\/ul>\n<li> <b>no objections<\/b>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> xpchsell and reftests are slower on Win7 (compared to XP) &#8211; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/armenzg.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/reftests-and-xpcshell-test-suites-run.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">blog post<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li> reftest: 50% slower (1,488 seconds on WinXP but 2,234 on Win7)\n<li> xpcshell: 75% slower (1,248 seconds on WinXP but 2,190 on Win7)\n<li> anyone can help? we would improve wait times for Win7\n<li> kudos to jim who already improved xpcshell on Win7 by improving it 40-50%\n<li> <b>nobody explicitly volunteered but some comments were made on bug<\/b>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> FYI DirectX &amp; drivers update on Win7 slaves &#8211; see newsgroup post\n<ul>\n<li> GFX team needs this\n<li> It <b>might<\/b> (further investigation) require a <b>downtime<\/b> &#8211; 2-3 hours at worst\n<li> It <b>might<\/b> have affect talos numbers\n<li> any questions? concerns?\n<li> <b>no objections\/questions<\/b>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> proposal for directory structure changes on ftp.m.o: see dev.planning, dev.tree-management and\/or <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/oduinn.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/11\/change-to-fennec-firefox-xulrunner-directories-on-ftp-m-o\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">this blogpost<\/a>\n<li> downtime this week for adding disks\/mount points to ftp.m.o\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Roundtable <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> CRASH REPORT\n<ul>\n<li> Beta9\n<ul>\n<li> A bunch of regressions fixed on the trunk yesterday and over the weekend.\n<li> No significant regressions due to GC check-in on Sat.\n<li> We will be monitoring fixed bugs over the next couple of days.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2011-01-11\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2011-01-11<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"catlinks catlinks-allhidden\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platform\/2011-01-11 From MozillaWiki &lt; Platform \u00ab previous week | index | next week \u00bb Notices \/ Schedule Firefox 4 Beta 9 has been built and handed off to QA (based on this revision) If you find any issues please email release-drivers Beta 10 doesn&#8217;t have a schedule yet and will likely be driven by content [&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\/467"}],"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=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}