Platform/GFX/2009-Nov-23

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General

Status Updates

• Joe
  • Last week:
    • Fixed all my blockers, including the topcrash.
    • Made sure all gfx blockers got fixed (sadly other groups are still holding up the code freeze).
    • Diagnosed bug 528946 - intermittent orange due to a race between an iframe's onload and the page parsing the JS.
    • Came up with a fix for statically allocating image caches in bug 529949, which is the source of the scary-looking "imgCacheEntry is not thread-safe!" errors we sometimes see in tinderbox logs.
  • This week:
    • Electrolysis reviews.

• Jeff
  • Last week:
    • Scroll perf testing
    • Landing blockers
    • helped out with a crasher
  • This week:
    • Scroll perf testing

• Bobby
  • Last week:
  • This week:

• John
  • This week:
    • Testing and review of jkew's updated font initialization patch
    • Tried to reproduce TextRunWordCache top crasher (bug 527280)
    • Wrote scripts to analyze crash reports
    • Experimented with running with valgrind
  • This week:
    • Work on reproducing TextRunWordCache crashes
    • More work on font feature proposal

• Jim
  • Last week:
    • Tracked down rendering problems on windowless plugins on monday (raster operations and surface formats).
    • bug 487700 - debugged, conclusion: widget is doing what it's supposed to.
    • bug 520607 - finished reviews on last NTLM security bug, landed on trunk, 1.9.2.
    • bug 506108, bug 530070 - Started looking at GetParentWindow crashes that bubbled to the surface after bug 470487 was fixed on branch.
  • This week:
    • GetParentWindow crashes.
    • land windowless plugins.
    • scarf on some turkey.

• Mark
  • Last week:
    • rename arrays bug 529717
    • bogus args crash bug 525540
  • This week:
    • more validation/args crash fixes

• Bas
  • Last week:
    • Improved D2D backend correctness and performance
    • Created a D2D test build
  • This week:
    • Document new code and prepare for review
    • Further improve correctness where needed and performance

• Rob
  • Last Week:
    • Did some testing of Bas's D2D build
    • Discovered screen was not permanently broken, merely temperamental (though often angry).
    • VGA out works and my office has a spare external so hope for continued Aero Peek work in the next few weeks
  • This week:
    • Thanksgiving!
    • Getting ahead on schoolwork to get some large free chunks of time for Mozilla-hacking.

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