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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.11

• respin due to bug 495648
• no new schedule yet; will know more after QA starts

Firefox 3.0.12

• Schedule on the wiki
• If your name is on this list, you own a blocker
• Code freeze is June 16 at 11:59pm (but don't perendinate too long!)

Firefox 3.5 RC1

• closed mozilla-central to all but approved patches and blockers on May 21
• build and QA are waiting on cutoff, ready-to-roll
• looks like we will close up on Wednesday, June 3

Blocker Report

• 3 blocker nominations (-5 w/w)
• 10 code blockers left without a fix (-2 w/w), 12 non-code blockers (+1 w/w)
• 21 total outstanding blockers not marked fixed1.9.1/verified1.9.1 (+5 w/w)

Since 1.9.1 branch ...

Past 2 weeks ...

[ Platform Blocker Queries | Front End Blocker Queries ]

Summary

• our ability to move fixes from mozilla-central to mozilla-1.9.1 is impressive, due largely to better sheriffing practises and attention to [oranges]
• need to keep an eye on small performance regressions
• need to ask ourselves: fix regression or backout original fix?

The Breakdown

• 40 blockers marked fixed1.9.1 over last week
• 3 bugs nominated for blocking over last week (-6 w/w)
  • blocking-firefox3.5+: 0 new unresolved (-7 w/w), 3 new resolved blocking-firefox3.5+ added (-2 w/w)
  • blocking1.9.1+: 12 new unresolved (-0 w/w), 29 new resolved blocking1.9.1+ added (-4 w/w)
• 39 patches approved for 1.9.1 over last week
• 8 bugs with approval1.9.1+ that are not yet landed on 1.9.1

Browser / Front End

• Blockers: 1 remaining & 0 nominations
  • remaining bug is changesets, all done, really

• Firefox.next
  • moving on to TSnap bugs which aim to make Firefox observably faster
  • also returning to polish bugs and exploratory sprints
  • reminder to review and add your comments/feedback on the discussion page or in the dev-apps-firefox thread

• Polish update: Firefox is 56% shiny (0% change)
  • Thanks go to: Ehsan
  • Also Dao and Ehsan have been landing lots of icon
  • 46 remaining easy polish bugs (whiteboard [polish-easy])
  • 42 remaining hard polish bugs(whiteboard [polish-hard])

GFX 1.9.1 Update

• 0 blockers open, 0 blockers remaining to be landed on 1.9.1
• 0 nominations

Layout Update

• No blockers, no noms, no worries

Content Update

• 1.9.1: Content Blockers:
• jst on vacation from 6/3 through 6/23.

Mac OS X Update

• No 1.9.1 blockers.
• Steven working on a new JEP to fix regression, bug 495278.
• Most major work (filesystem, plugin, and 64-bit) waiting for trunk to open and Neil's focus patch to land.

JS 1.9.1

• JS Blockers:

General 1.9.1

These are bugs that fall outside of components covered by the Gfx, Content, Layout and JS groups:

• blockers
• untriaged nominations

Mobile 1.9.1 Update

• blocking-fennec (1.0b2+, 1.0b3+ & 1.0+) [bugs]

Multi-Process

• Chromium IPC library building on Linux and Mac
  • Hilariously hacky fixes for building without -fshort-wchar landed
• Test app building/working
  • Linux crash figured out
  • Multiple event loops on mac == multiple dock icons, input event issues?
• cjones updating bent's out-of-process plugin prototype for new IPC glue
• bent beginning to look at launching windows and communicating with them in test app

Tree Management

• mobile builds now on try server (linux-arm, WinCE).
  • let us know if problems
  • watching try server for load
• added 10 win32 slaves to try server yesterday; more linux try slaves coming
• two win32 try server talos slaves offline for graydon testing
• mobile tree closed fri (and mon?) for office move
• sequence of downtimes immediately after FF3.5rc1 builds and updates are handed to QA
  • keeping tree closed, will do in stable blocks and then watch, rinse, repeat.
  • unittest-separate-from-build, pooled-talos-machines, new ref platforms, central config management, mobile talos changes, new graph server changes, netapp disk upgrades full list here
  • can stop and do respin if needed