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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7

• shipping today
• adjusted schedule to go for early January release to update users with fix for bug 534090 which affects major updates
• also took a fix to the NTLM regression as well as for the #1 topcrash on branches

Firefox 3.0.18 / Firefox 3.5.8

• new proposed schedule at links above:
  • code freeze January 19th
  • release Feb 16th
• tree is open, please work on blockers during this quieter RC period
• schedule tracks to three weeks later than original 3.0.17/3.5.7 schedule
• will try to coincide with a 3.6.1

Firefox 3.6 Beta Testers

• approaching 800,000 ADUs, stayed stable during the holidays
• about 20 nominations came in through the holidays, a few new code blockers were found

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate

• one JS blocker left, should be landing today
• would like to co-ordinate RC builds with the Fennec guys to see if we can make sure we're both using the same gecko content in our relbranches

Firefox Future Releases

• please see the discussion in the newsgroups about the plan for a release code named "Lorentz", to be delivered early in Q1 with a focus on delivering out of process plugin support for at least Flash on Windows. We'll also discuss this in today's roundtable.

Blocker Report

Firefox 3.6 RC Code Completion

• 0 nominations to be triaged
• 1 code blocker remaining

All Blockers (includes website, release management, etc)
See more Firefox 3.6 related blocker queries, or learn about the new status and blocker flags

• Release Blockers (flag: blocking1.9.2 or blocking-firefox3.6)
  • 10 OPEN (-1 w/w) (8 are non-code, 2 are Fennec-only)
  • 0 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2
  • 0 nominations
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • email beltzner if you have approval requests needing attention
  • 32 requests
  • 5 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (+1 w/w)
  • Charts: Nominations snapshots

Browser / Front End

• no blockers
• you're going to see some UI churn on trunk, get used to it
  • This will cause change. Things will not be the same as before.
  • IF YOU SEE A CHANGE YOU DON'T LIKE: Please sit with it for at least 48 hours before blogging/tweeting/irc pinging to tell us how terrible it is.
  • Change is hard, but important. We value input more than insults.

• this quarter our big targets are:
  • starting UI changes for Firefox 4
  • reducing I/O on the main thread (performance)
  • supporting out of process plugins work (UI and integration work)
  • continuing to drive startup time
  • integrating jetpack, weave and iterating on personas

GFX Update

• No blockers
• Some interesting things we're working on:
  • Hardware Layers implementations (DX10 and OGL) (Bas)
  • CoreAnimation plugin support (Ben Girard, our new co-op!)

Layout Update

• No blockers
• Things quiet due to holiday
• Basic layers infrastructure coming up [roc, bas]
• DPI rework [roc]
• CSS calc() [dbaron]

Content Update

• no 1.9.2 blockers
• slow going due to holidays...
• investigating one regression in plugin code bug 536020.
• benjamn writing xpcshell unit tests for CPOWs (f.k.a. JPWs).
• Jonas is changing nsIAtom (API compat)

Platform-specific Support Update

JS

• finishing last few blockers
• ramping up work for future releases, more on this next week
• landed Object.definePropert{y,ies}, Object.create in TM repository
• just before last platform meeting landed a change to align behavior of setting properties with getters but not setters with ES5; blogged to anticipate any potential bustage out there

Startup Performance

Security

• Zack landed a patch for Cross-domain data theft using CSS parser, an issue that affected all browsers because it is almost a hole in specs. But it breaks some web sites; do we want a more conservative (but more complicated) fix for branch?
  • We had a long discussion about this.
• Please complete the triage of crash bugs in your component. Over the second half of 2009, the number of open crash bugs was reduced by 25%, largely through the security team's aggressive GTD-style triage (which also identified at least three security bugs among the heap). The remaining bugs should have a high usefulness density.

Electrolysis

• Crash reporting the major blocker for turning OOPP on by default
  • "Dumb" crash reporting almost done: no UI
  • Needs UI help: josh to work on objectframe differentiation to get rid of the default plugin, bug 533891.
  • Need Firefox UI help, bug 519541
• mozilla-runtime not executable on Linux, need help with bug 535090: releng bug?
• bent re-examining hangs on Windows, bug 535036

• Networking bug tree created. jduell needs review (bz/biesi) on bug 530952 so that additional work can begin on a stable base.

• Volunteer wanted: record-and-replay investigation of xpcshell oranges, bug 535585

Tree Management

• New Talos HW coming. ETA end of January.
  • Likely OSes: Windows XP, Windows 7, OSX 10.5.8, OSX 10.6, Linux 32-bit, Linux 64-bit
    • NB win7 will be replacing vista
    • Will be updating to a more recent Linux distro (hardy heron or fedora 12)
  • Will run on 1.9.0, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, trunk

Roundtable

• Major or minor update from 3.5 to 3.6?
  • A: Throttled major update on the day of release