Platform/2009-06-09
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Notices / Schedule
- Schedule on the wiki
- Currently 34 unfixed blockers. If you're on that list, you own a blocker.
- Code freeze is in one week! June 16 at 11:59pm (but don't perendinate too long!)
- closed mozilla-central to all but approved patches and blockers on May 21
- only a few blockers (mostly Javascript correctness) remaining
- delivered "Firefox Preview" update to 800k+ beta users to get more feeedback and testing on the changes we've made over the past month
- build and QA are waiting on cutoff, ready-to-roll
- RC will be built when it's ready
Blocker Report
- 7 blocker nominations
- 3 code blockers left without a fix, 11 non-code blockers
- 18 total outstanding blockers not marked fixed1.9.1/verified1.9.1 (6 of which are code-related)
- 14 patches approved over the last week
Summary
- excluded the rest of the stats; they're not really relevant
- we are fixing blockers very quickly, our test suites keep running further and finding that "one more issue"
- very strict on approvals now
- triage should be done at least twice a day
- need to only block on absolutely can't-ship-without-it issues
- need to think about backing out regression sources instead of trying to fix
Browser / Front End
- Blockers: 1 remaining & 0 nominations
- remaining bug is done, really - holding open in case any late-breaking locales go green
- oh yeah, we have a new product icon thanks to the hard work of Alex, Anthony at the IconFactory, and our distributed visual design team who helped us work through the iterations
- 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 the Firefox.Next plan and add your comments/feedback on the discussion page or in the dev-apps-firefox thread
GFX Update
- 1.9.1
- GFX team working on finishing up Q2 goals and starting on 1.9.2 work
- Windows 7 integration work, including jump lists.
- Question: will the drivers want Windows 7 patches backported to 1.9.1.x?
- Pixman maintenance and performance - different image scalers
- @font-face spec work, fixed Firefox 3.5 firstrun page by discovering broken font
- Imagelib API work
- Investigational work on multiprocess graphics
- Multiprocess graphics definitely impacts HW accel, both in schedule and functionality. Ramifications aren't clear. Joe in MV next week for multiprocess meetings, should know more after then.
- Canvas3D integration status - in trunk next week!
- Windows 7 integration work, including jump lists.
Layout Update
Content Update
- Content Blockers: None!
- Work on HTML 5 parser
- First patch landed. Might affect web compat.
- Actual parser changes being reviewed.
- Slim wrappers
- Multiprocess
- Starting work on XBL2
Mac OS X Update
JS 1.9.1
General 1.9.1
These are bugs that fall outside of components covered by the Gfx, Content, Layout and JS groups:
Mobile 1.9.1 Update
- blocking-fennec (1.0b2+, 1.0b3+ & 1.0+) [bugs]
Security
Multi-Process
- RPC communication is up
- plugins: load and initialize in a separate process, chat with parent process. not much "hard" work left (on Linux/Windows)
- more detailed update forthcoming, to be posted at mozilla.dev.tech.dom
Tree Management
- No more missing entities in l10n nightlies since 29may - details in bug 478436
- needed for doing l10n nightly updates
- let us know if you see problems
- Been holding off making any changes until FF3.5beta99 went out.
- now making first set of infrastructure fixes; explicit *non*-downtime
- bug 491298 rename win32 slaves
- bug 474572 OPSI production rollout
- bug 495533 upgrade java on win slaves
- bug 494971 add ten new slaves to talos try (well 8 really until 2 are reimaged)
- bug 495610 Clean up whitespace in factory.py
- once all thats in, we'll figure out what other queued changes we can roll out in production later this week, before tree is reopened. Stay tuned
