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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.7

• Beta tomorrow
• On-track for release next Wednesday

Firefox 3.0.8

• Code freeze March 17

Thunderbird 2.0.0.21

• Code freeze for Gecko 1.8.1.21 this Friday (just a few blockers left)

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3

• we will go over the list of P1 blockers outstanding in this meeting and ensure they are being tracked

• Important Dates:
  • Code freeze was missed on January 25th, 11:59pm PST
  • QA Start on ??, 9:00am PST
  • Release on ??, noon PST

Blocker Report

• 31 blocker nominations (-1 w/w)
• 128 blockers left (-19 w/w)
  • 250 left to be fixed on branch (+5 w/w)

Since 1.9.1 branch ...

Past 2 weeks ...

[ Platform Blocker Queries | Front End Blocker Queries ]

• stats breakdown
  • 31 blockers marked fixed1.9.1 over last week (+11 w/w)
  • 31 bugs nominated for blocking over last week (-8 w/w)
    • blocking-firefox3.1+: 4 new unresolved (+0 w/w),3 new resolved blocking-firefox3.1+ added (+1 w/w)
    • blocking1.9.1+: 26 new unresolved (+10 w/w),16 new resolved blocking-firefox3.1+ added (+5 w/w)
  • 26 patches approved for 1.9.1 over last week (+16 w/w)
  • 100 blockers are FIXED but not yet landed on 1.9.1 (+23 w/w)

Firefox 3.1 Update

• Blockers: 20 remaining (-7 w/w) & 9 nominations
  • 0 Blockers to be fixed for Beta 3 (P1)
  • 20 Blockers to be fixed for RC (P2) (-5 w/w)
    • will try to knock these off this week, almost all have in progress patches
  • 2 blockers need 1.9.1 landing (waiting for after string freeze)

• Polish update: Firefox is 38% shiny (0% over last week, fixed and added both increased)
  • Thanks go to: Ehsan, Ventnor and Dao!
  • 47 remaining easy polish bugs (whiteboard [polish-easy])
  • 32 remaining hard polish bugs(whiteboard [polish-hard])

GFX 1.9.1 Update

• Bug status:
  • 4 blocking 1.9.1+
  • 2 bug fix followups to imglib changes, both with patches
  • 1 libpng upgrade (with patch)
  • 1 Security
  • 0 nom
• Focus:
  • Finishing remaining blockers
  • Continuing performance work on desktop and mobile
  • Cairo upgrade (lots of new stuff, we're behind)
  • Font work, including getting CoreText in

Layout 1.9.1 Update

• Layout
  • 5 blockers
  • Current work: multiple backgrounds (dbaron), frame constructor (bzbarsky), Cleartype ink issues (jkew), CSS gradients (ventnor)
  • Phantom popup command firing fixed (hopefully)
• SVG
  • 2 blockers
• Video/Audio
  • 12 blockers
  • Major items remaining: A/V sync (doublec), block cache (roc), new load algorithm (cpearce), other spec updates, codec code audit issues
• 7 untriaged noms
• TSF landed, will be enabled soon

Content 1.9.1 Update

• 23 blockers
  • Two P1 blockers, bug 479143 and bug 479490, JS timeout related crash regressions. bent and smaug are finalizing this.
  • There are 12 bugs that need landing (including the P1s). They've got all the needed reviews, and most if not all are ready to go. -- Not sure if this is good or bad, will go through and make sure we're going ahead and landing and closing bugs that are actually fixed.
  • Smaug has a patch up for event suppression during sync XHR loads (bug 333198), waiting for review from bz and jst
  • There's two networking bugs that will need biesi review. He's been pinged more than once, so may need to look for alternatives here.
  • 7 blocker bugs without patch.

• 4 untriaged nominations

JS 1.9.1

• 47 blockers
  • 8 P1s
  • 35 P2s
  • 5 P3-5s
  • 2 unprioritized
• 4 untriaged nominations
• bug 452498 - upvar, remains tricky, being worked

Mobile 1.9.1 Update

• Now have WinCE builds mobile tinderbox is here, YouTube Video review of it on an HTC touch is here ;)

General 1.9.1 Updates

• 4 blockers
  • 0 P1
  • 4 P2
• 2 untriaged nominations
• untriaged nominations outside of Firefox/Core/Toolkit

Security

Security Reviews

Still outstanding / to be scheduled

• native JSON
• DNS prefetching

Booked but not yet completed

Roundtable

Greener tinderbox

• clint to set up 3 machines (one for each platform) and run it for a week to log random-oranges; clint will also compare VM to native to see if there are problems caused by that
  • clint to file bugs to get machines set up
    • win2k3 machine - bug 479086
    • centos machine - bug 479088
    • mac os x machine - bug 479091
    • cent os VM - bug 479092
    • (I already have a win2k3 ref platform hosted VM)
  • clint to talk to alice about her experience

Getting crash stacks from unit tests

• ted checked in breakpad clients into the tree and has build system uploading symbols to the ftp servers
• sayrer is going to make a python hook in the event of the crash

Move from VS8 -> VS9? (joduinn)

• New requirement from mobile for VS9
• Can we move mozilla-central/mozilla1.9.1/tracemonkey to use VS9 also? Code dependencies? Schedule?
  • may will need to recreate the jemalloc code patches, see bug 416117 (vlad)
  • please do not switch compilers on the active 3.0.x branch (dveditz)
  • should run performance numbers to see if things change (dbaron)
  • see if we can figure out how to make the slave pick the compiler based on the source tree