Platform/2009-04-21

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Firefox 3.0.9

• Shipping today at 3pm-ish

Firefox 3.0.10

• Please work on your blockers
• Code freeze is tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11:59pm PDT

Firefox 3.5 Beta 4

• code freeze: day-by-day
  • 7 P1 blockers need resolution
    • bug 442059 - Native JSON: needs new patch & reviewer on deck
    • bug 469237 - Assertion failure: progress hard to intuit
    • bug 471214 - Brand function variables: needs patch & reviewer on deck (is this really a P1?)
    • bug 480301 - fixed, needs to land on mozilla-central
    • bug 488690 - fixed, needs to land on mozilla-central
    • bug 488329 - shipped-locales patch, will land on relbranch
    • bug 488497 - server-side (webpage work)
  • 20 P1 blockers need to land on mozilla-1.9.1
• QA start: day-by-day
  • can engineering help qa by running tests to speed up QA cycle?
• release: late in week of April 20th

Blocker Report

• 38 blocker nominations (+2 w/w)
• 84 blockers left without a fix (+5 w/w)

Since 1.9.1 branch ...

Past 2 weeks ...

[ Platform Blocker Queries | Front End Blocker Queries ]

Summary

• blockers going up again (boo!)
• we're falling off of blocker triage

The Breakdown

• 101 blockers marked fixed1.9.1 over last week (+61 w/w)
• 31 bugs nominated for blocking over last week (+1 w/w, tracemonkey merge!)
  • blocking-firefox3.5+: 8 new unresolved (+8 w/w), 7 new resolved blocking-firefox3.5+ added (+7 w/w)
  • blocking1.9.1+: 21 new unresolved (+1 w/w), 44 new resolved blocking1.9.1+ added (+7 w/w)
• 110 patches approved for 1.9.1 over last week (+46 w/w)
• 78 blockers are FIXED but not yet landed on 1.9.1 (-52 w/w)
• 25 bugs with approval1.9.1+ that are not yet landed on 1.9.1 (-120 w/w)

Browser / Front End

• Blockers: 7 remaining (+1 w/w) & 5 nominations
  • really nothing challenging or risky here
  • big props to Johnath and Dietrich for getting bug 486236 handled

• Polish update: Firefox is 53% shiny (+1% over last week)
  • Thanks go to: joe and zeniko
  • 45 remaining easy polish bugs (whiteboard [polish-easy])
  • 37 remaining hard polish bugs(whiteboard [polish-hard])

GFX 1.9.1 Update

• Bug status:
  • 6 blocking 1.9.1+
    • mostly under control
    • bug 470487 - the nsWindow plugin destroying topcrash. Tried a bandaid, didn't work.

Layout Update

• Layout
  • 6 blockers (4 with patches or probably will be fixed by other bugs)
  • 2 untriaged noms (1 with a patch!)
  • dholbert: progressing with animation of CSS properties via SMIL
  • roc: hoisting plugin widgets to toplevel, working on windowless IFRAMEs
  • zwol: frame "GC"
• SVG
  • 1 blocker
• Video/Audio
  • 17 blockers (could be pruned, should not delay our schedule)
  • doublec: Splitting the current "decode video + play audio" thread into separate threads to fix jitter playing 720p and 1080p
  • kinetik: gfx-level performance improvements
  • chrisp: getting married

Content Update

• 1.9.1:
  • One remaining P1 blocker bug 475864 Quickstubs allow pages to mess with native anonymous content. Patch almost ready, but neads some tweaks.
  • 9 other blockers
    • bug 483915 Workers: Use new JSAPI to limit tracing code cache size -- Trivial, but needs bug 474497 first.
    • bug 481566 Content sink needs to be more responsive -- Did a touch-and-go, but needs updated patch.
    • bug 462853 "Assertion failure: slot < (obj)->map->freeslot" during T... -- Needs more work, hard to reproduce.
    • bug 485125 Crash on close [@ libflashplayer.so@0x4110d ] -- Likely fixed, or fixed enough, by Karl's recent gtk widget destruction fix.
    • bug 483672 Permission denied for <http://localhost:7080> to call met... -- Won't block on a fix here, Firebug workaround on hand instead of taking this fix.
    • bug 487695 Decide what to do with localStorage when using session only cookies.
    • bug 479880 Security bug.
    • bug 480205 Security bug (remainder of mrbkap's wrapper work).
    • bug 461861 Security bug.

• • 9! untriaged nominations (will triage today)
• 1.9.next:
  • Henri Sivonen getting close to landing the HTML5 parser in mozilla-central (off by default to begin with).
  • Chris Jones making good progress on his lock API work.
  • (josh) OJI removed (bug 485984)
  • (josh) disabling XPCOM plugins soon (bug 488042)
  • (jst) removing LiveConnect soon (bug 442399)

Mac OS X Update

• Josh making good progress on the 64-bit port. Optimistically within 4-6 weeks of being able to build 64-bit on trunk.
• Steven Michaud back from working on major JEP update, mostly for 10.6 Java compatibility in FF 3.5.
• Looking into major modal dialog work for 1.9.2, outlined in bug 478073.
• Cocoa NPAPI well under way, will finish after Neil Deakin's focus re-factoring lands since it involves a bunch of focus work in the object frame. Have also been waiting on some last-minute spec changes being worked out with Apple.

JS 1.9.1

• 28 blockers
• 5-7 untriaged nominations. Looking at regressions.

General 1.9.1

These are bugs that fall outside of components covered by the Gfx, Content, Layout and JS groups:

• 2 blockers
• 5 untriaged nominations

Mobile 1.9.1 Update

• Big perf things we need to land soon
  • bug 485426 ARM simd rgb24->565 optimizations
  • bug 482676 Neon pixman optimizations
  • bug 483409 Use XShm for pushing to the screen
  • bug 482689 Optimize background displaylists for opaque images
  • bug 67752 Interruptible Reflow
    • We would really like to see this land on trunk as soon as possible so we can try to decide if it could go back to 1.9.1 for mobile.

• In progress
  • bug 422540 Continued work on gstreamer backend

Security

Security Reviews

Still outstanding / to be scheduled

• native JSON
• Windows TSF Integration
• DNS prefetching

Tree Management

• headsup nthomas/bhearsum traveling
  • so if we drag into late wed, will need to haggle
• wait times on try+production build/unittest machines
  • please file bugs for long wait times between landing patch, and start of build
  • still trying to figure out talos wait times, but its long
• win32 depend builds and bigger disks,
• splitting unittest to run in parallel chunks;
  • suggestions on how to display on waterfall?
  • will post to tree mgmt, but no-one in meeting cared, everyone just using mstrange's UI instead.
• win32 buildtimes (disk changes to moz2-win32-slave01, 03, 06)
  • increasing disk size reduced depend compile/link from 3h->17mins
  • need help with msys and network mount drives
• powering off Firefox2 machines at last

Roundtable

• Platform planning is ongoing. Please participate in the dev.planning threads Javascript, GFX, Layout, and Content.
• Firebug compatibility
  • need bug 483672
    • we're going to work around this at the loss of XHR results in the console tab
• Tracing across DOM methods for 1.9.1? Do we have a good risk/reward metrics? See e.g. bug 480187, bug 487134. Seems hard to call these blockers.
• status of memory leaks (dbaron)