Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2007-06-26

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Firefox 3 Meeting

Meeting Details

• Tuesdays - Firefox 3 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
• Mozilla Building S - <script> conference room
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #granparadiso for backchannel

PRD Status Update

• Perma Links: Current PRD & Detailed Feature List & Firefox Next Requirements.
• Outstanding Change Requests to review.

Work in progress

• Visual Refresh Makeover!
• Firebug (sdwilsh)
  • No change - no word back from Joe
• Web-based protocol/content-handling
• Microformats
• Storage
• Places (Places team)
  • 8 open blockers for A6, looking pretty good to finish.
• Download Manager (sdwilsh)
• Password Manager (dolske)
• Site-specific prefs (myk)
• New quit dialog (mwu)
• Addons Manager (Rob Strong, Mossop, mwu)
• Malware (johnath, campd)
  • Front-end patch waiting on review bug 380932
• Identity UI (johnath)
  • Still revving UI (everyone install it from the sandbox!) but mconnor suggests getting it on trunk soon after A6, so that beta/nightly users can play.
  • Blocking on Neil's popup redesign (bug 279703), which is slated to land shortly after A6 (patch was too dangerous for A6, by the time it was done).
• HTTPS Error Pages (johnath)
  • KaiE thinks some existing work of his will help make this change easier, see bug for details. bug 327181.

Schedule

• Proposed Schedule
• Current BMO report for A6 blockers
• Reviewed Fx 3 noms & blockers [in progress - Monday 11:00 PST, Thu 1:00 PST - Conf #249

QA Status/Topics

• Draft Fx 3 Test Plan wiki is now available.

Localization Topics

• Schedule Proposal

Round table

• Don't forget to add changes that may impact documentation to the Firefox 3 for developers page.
• reminder to use #granparadiso on IRC for discussion of milestone-releated deliverables, features, QA testing, etc; it's to be the defacto location for chatter regarding Gran Paradiso releases

Gecko 1.9 Meeting

Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
• Mozilla Building S - <script> conference room
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
• join irc.mozilla.org #granparadiso for backchannel

General Discussion

• OS X 10.3 Support
• Are we _really_ focusing on blockers? Any non-blocker items that we need to discuss?
• Identify areas within Gecko and Firefox that need security & privacy reviews [AI: Window to help coordinate]
• Textframe Enabled?

Blockers and Noms

Blockers report:

Noms Blockers

Are there bugzilla components that aren't being triaged? I found bug 373512 and I've benn working on bug 352762 assuming it will be plussed but don't know who's responsible for it. --bsmedberg

GFX Update

• textframe turn-on (really!) this week
  • still need testing plan, because it's a short time between a6

• vlad
  • focus on a6 blockers; working on mac issues between now and a6 release

• stuart
  • last week: fixed: I checked in fixes for bug 384363 and bug 342466. Did lots of bug triage and testing and closed out a bunch of bugs.
  • next week: I'll be continuing on bug 382539(has partial patch now), and starting to work on bug 382542 and bug 382713

Layout Update

• Progress Last week:
  • Specific items worked on last week:
    • reflow branch regressions:
      • special height reflow issues (dholbert, dbaron)
      • text-indent and negative margins (dbaron)
    • prodded people into making some progress on memory leaks (dbaron)
• Work planned for this week:
  • further progress on memory leaks / bloat and on reflow branch regressions (dbaron)
• Issues/concerns:

Content Update

• Progress Last week:
  • Specific items worked on last week:
• Work planned for this week:
• Issues/concerns:

Mac OS X Update

• Progress Last week:
  • Josh and Colin at WWDC.
  • Colin now on vacation.
  • Fixed bugs 384448, 382883, 384509, 384511.
  • Josh got Firefox building on Mac OS X 10.5 beta.
  • Steven made good progress with obj-c exception handling situation.
• Work planned for this week:
  • Josh working on blockers. Hopefully the focus issue in bug 354768.
  • Steven working on blockers. Mostly exception handling and view hierarchy modification regressions.
  • Colin on vacation.
  • Stan working on drag and drop.
• Issues/concerns:
  • What's the status on bug 354768 [focus issues]? It's targeted at A6, but there's no sign of activity. This has been a significant dogfood problem, and Beta 1 is rapidly approaching... (dolske)
    • Haven't gotten to it. Getting close. -Josh

Platfrom/Build Tools Update

• work ongoing on refplatform upgrades, hopefully producing some builds this week
• need owner for bug 337761
• libxul on for mac again, looking at Tp2 spike (but no other metrics?!)
• 1.9a6 ship date: we'd really like a week of nightlies to iron out refplatform changes before ship
• linux breakpad client reviewed (to land today?) bug 380540
• fixing buildid generation so that performance machines no longer depend on talkback files containing the buildid (want to get some consensus from affected module owners, including dbaron and jst) bug 383167