Platform/2009-07-28

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.13

• work on your blockers
• code freeze on August 4
• please request approval before landing

Firefox 3.5.2

• targeting next week for release
• please land your patches!
  • if you don't land by 11:59pm tonight, your patch will not make it
• please fix your blockers!

Firefox 3.6a1

• code freeze tomorrow EOD or thursday AM
• builds on thursday
• release targeted for Friday
  • There are several bugs related to ireflow that bz must fix.
  • Phase I of Compositor is to land after dbaron finishes review.
  • All bugs that block the branch must be marked blocking-1.9.2+ and have P1 priority status. Please mark immediately.

Blocker Report

Gecko 1.9.1.2 / Firefox 3.5.2

• 32 blocking1.9.1:2+, 3 nominations
• 6 1.9.1:2+ blockers left without a fix

Gecko 1.9.2 / Namoroka

• 92 open blocking1.9.2?, 93 open blocking1.9.2+
• 82 open blocking-firefox3.6?, 3 open blocking-firefox3.6+

Browser / Front End

• Asynchronous location bar:
• Focus rewrite:
• Form awesomecomplete: bug 370117 landed, and bug 446247 should be coming later today
• Responsiveness:
• Ctrl-tab: moved behind pref

GFX Update

• Please update me.

Layout Update

• Compositor phase 1 landed; a few regressions, fixes in hand for all but perhaps one or two
  • Removing widgets from <deck> for 1.9.2
• Feature logjam for 1.9.2: background-size, CSS gradients, -moz-image-rect
• fantasai patches for removing float continuations; probably not to land on 1.9.2

Content Update

• mrbkap's COW wrappers landed and no one noticed, which is exactly what we wanted!
• bz is done with interruptible reflow crash regression fixing. Still some functional tweaks to do, but nothing super urgent.
• bnewman making progress improving the Java-to-C++ HTML5 parser translator (reducing generated code [bug 505602] by ~15kloc, addressing perf issues [bug 506090]).

Platform-specific Support Update

• Mac OS X fullscreen capabilities landed. Just needs Firefox UI to enable.
• Cocoa NPAPI in review.
• Steven on vacation for a bit.

JS

• Concurrent sweep added to GC. helps with animations.
• 11-13% additional dromaeo improvement on TM tree right now.
• Graydon et al. have a huge nanojit merge ready. What do we do with it?

Electrolysis

• all multi-process activity preffed off by default to make unit tests go green and separate plugin and tab work
• Joe working on tilebrowser graphics... ETA?
• Other project spinning up, but slowly due to existing 1.9.2 sprints and security work

Roundtable

• string freeze on mozilla 1.9.2 for mobile