Platform/2010-09-28

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 4 Beta

• still waiting on code freeze for beta 7 (see blocker report)
• will be doing triage again at the end of this meeting
• roundtable discussion to be held on whether or not to keep tree closed

Blocker Report

Firefox 4 Beta

• a handy list of triage queries is available for all!
  • Beta 7: 32 blockers
  • Beta: 483 blockers
  • Final: 388 blockers
    • TOTAL: 871 blockers
  • nominations: 223 nominations

Firefox Development

Q3 Goals Redux:

• [DONE] Feature complete Firefox 4
• [AT RISK] Dirty profile startup within 20% of clean profile
• [MISSED] API-Complete, E10s-aware Jetpack

Q4 Goals Preview:

Firefox

• [NEW] Finish Firefox 4 (0 Firefox/Toolkit blockers)
• [CARRY OVER] API-Complete Jetpack
• [NEW] Stand up basic Firefox with Electrolysis

Developer Tools

• [NEW] Finish Firefox 4 developer tools (0 blocking developer tools bugs)
• [NEW] Ensure that Firefox 4 ships with a compatible version of Firebug
• [NEW] Publish a roadmap for integrated developer tools in Firefox, including console, inspection, and js debugging
• [NEW] Develop long term plan for Skywriter maintenance/support

Platform

(there is a team-by-team goals breakdown, as well)

• [DONE] 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.)
• [DONE] 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.
• [DONE] 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.
• [MISSED] security: zero reproducible high/crit > 30 days
• [DONE] Support multi-process Fennec.
• [DONE] Support Jetpacks running in separate processes and never blocking the Fennec UI. NOTE: jetpack team hasn't actually integrated this code yet, but it works in small test environments.

Layout

• people working on blockers
• as of 6:45pm Monday, 169 total blockers (includes layout, editor, widget, audio/video), including 25 ready to land, 14 waiting for review

Tree Management

• Moving test machines to new colo
• gcc-4.5 switchover (take 3!)

Roundtable

• [beltzner] mozilla-central tree status
  • proposal A: tag for beta7 now or soon, re-open mozilla-central to blockers, dual-land remaining 32 bugs
  • proposal B: keep mozilla-central closed to blockers and topcrash fixes only
• Triage beta 7 blockers (sort by ID)