Platform/2009-08-18

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Firefox 3.0.13

Firefox 3.5.2

Firefox 3.6a1

• Active Daily User numbers stabilized
  • 13,000 on Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1
  • 5,000 on Namaroka nightly builds (2k on mozilla-central nightlies)

Firefox 3.6b1

• string-frozen (need dates and deadlines)
• co-ordinated with Fennec RC?
• component leads need to identify P1 issues for this beta

mozilla-1.9.2

• branch took place on August 13th, 2009
• mozilla-central re-opened for checkins at noon PDT
• last common changeset is c95ef80a5f20
• first divergent changeset is 93a7af291db1 (the ones before that landed on both branches)
• if you started using a trunk nightly before August 13th, 2009, you are now a mozilla-1.9.2 nightly user; to get back on to mozilla-central nightlies, get a fresh latest-trunk build

Blocker Report

Gecko 1.9.2 / Namoroka

• Release Blockers (flag: blocking1.9.2 or blocking-firefox3.6)
  • 100 OPEN
  • 104 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2
  • 178 nominations (most in blocking-firefox3?)
• Approvals
  • 23 requests
  • 3 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2

GFX Update

• Decode-on-draw is getting close to review-worthy. bug 435296
• Mark Steele starting work on WebGL implementation.

Layout Update

• 24 open blocking1.9.2+ bugs in Layout
  • 7 are regressions from ireflow (there's also 1 in Widget)
  • 1 is a regression from compositor phase 1 (there's also 1 in Plugins)
• dholbert making progress on code to be shared between SMIL animation of CSS and CSS transitions (bug 504652)
• first parts of zwol's frame poisoning work now landed on mozilla-central (but not the main patch) (bug 497495)
• roc's scroll optimization patch landed on mozilla-central and 1.9.2 (bug 507334)

Content Update

• 1.9.2:
  • 13 open blocking1.9.2+ bugs in Content
  • 12 nominations, will triage...
• Investigating twitter bug bug 510985.
• Making progress on multi process networking.
• peterv is making progress on ibench numbers, but not clear how heavily to invest there.
• HTML5 parser work ongoing, including some 1.9.2 blockers there.
• First pass at a Jetpack security model done.

Startup Performance

• jreymont read up on previous optimization efforts and will start running Firefox in Shark very shortly.
• landed mmap jar io (bug 504864), combined startup jars (bug 468011). Looks like decent Talos improvements across the board.
• Working on moving res/ stuff to a jar bug 508421
• Up next, moving app prefs into jars bug 507288, optimize jar io further [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510611 bug 510611), etc

Electrolysis

Necko:

• Close to having necko IPC protocol hooked up and initialized
• Some high-level design progress (from conversation with BZ)
  • IPC probably "main chrome thread <-> content process", not "Socket transport thread <-> content process"
  • Probably use "if(ContentProcess)" within existing necko code, rather than create new set of classes for Content-side necko.
• Issue: which protocols (network; file?) need IPC?
• Issue: goodbye standalone necko?
• Set up design discussion for workweek

Roundtable

• Project metrics charts (timr)
  • 1.9.2/3.6 snapshots: Blockers and nominations.
  • 1.9.2/3.6 blocker and nominations trends
  • These are automatically updated every morning before 6am Pacific time
• Who is allowed to mark approval1.9.2+ ? (dbaron)
• should we mark the set of bugs that are fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 by virtue of branching as fixed1.9.2+ (beltzner)
  • Core/Toolkit/Firefox: 6034 bugs FIXED since Dec-01-2008 and Aug-13-2009 (warning: takes a while to load)
  • this would miss some NSS and NSPR bugs, but they're harder to query
  • it would also cause a good deal of bugspam :)