Electrolysis/Tasks

This is a task list for the Electrolysis project, listing work areas, owners, mentors, etc. To volunteer for a project, please contact Benjamin Smedberg

Core

Project	Owner	Mentor	Bug	ETA	Notes
Statically check IPDL specs and C++ implementations	cjones
Dynamic fuzzing/checking of cross-process infrastructure		bsmedberg			Fuzzing for bad data, closed sockets, crashed processes
Systematic dynamic checking of C++ code implementing IPDL protocols	robin_bb	cjones	bug 506303		It should be possible to generate pretty exhaustive unit tests from IPDL specs...

Plugins

Project	Owner	Mentor	Bug	ETA	Notes
NPObject-over-IPC	paritosh	bent/josh
Clean up plugin processes when we don't need them	bent				Needed so we don't orphan processes on unit-test machines
NPStream implementation	bsmedberg			15-Sep	Strange race conditions with stream closing are fun to debug
windowless plugins (Win+Linux)					Chromium experience is that synchronous drawing is unacceptably slow... they maintain pixel buffers and asynchronously ship pixels across
Mac plugin remoting (graphics work)		josh			Experiments may be necessary

Mobile

Project	Owner	Mentor	Bug	ETA	Notes
Async canvas.drawWindow for remote content	joedrew		bug 505847		Important for the Fennec UI
Forward mouse and keyboard events from the parent to the child					For the fennec canvasbrowser
Implement readonly remoting of preferences (nsIPrefService/nsIPrefBranch)	Tibor Mezei	bsmedberg	bug 506269		Relatively easy, good beginner project.
Remote all network access to the parent process	jduell/ehsan	jst/biesi			Need smaller subtasks!
Asynchronous and remote resolution of history queries	sdwilsh	bz			At least the asynchronous part should land on mozilla-central
IPDL/runtime support for shared-memory buffers	Rohit	cjones/bsmedberg			Probably needed to make networking and canvas.drawWindow efficient
Session history for remote tabs		bz			Need to figure out what information the parent process/UI actually use/need
Clean up tab process(es) when we don't need it	fred23	bent
Present prompts from the chrome process if necessary (not the content process)		bsmedberg			There aren't significant security concerns with just presenting prompts other than the ability to DOS somebody in a loop, but this is probably a good place to do some thinking about the prompt architecture we actually want to end up with.

Firefox

Project	Owner	Mentor	Bug	ETA	Notes
Link targeting for remote tabs	bz
<browser> and <tabbrowser> basically working on remote tabs		bz			May involve some significant rearch: data which is currently available synchronously will not be!
Refactor the Firefox context menu to work with remote tabs	dolske				Events don't bubble through the content tabs the same way... will probably involve collecting necessary information on the child side and passing it to the chrome process in a trusted manner.
Implement find-in-page for remote tabs	Josh Matthews	bz	bug 514925
Implement session restore for remote tabs
Crash reporting + multiple processes		ted			Breakpad has existing support for client/server exception handling that we're not currently using. This should fit perfectly here. (Also probably being used in Chromium.)
Multi-process dashboard					Shows CPU/memory usage/etc for tab and plugin processes
Form and password autofill					Needs careful security architecture!
Mac implementation of remote tabs		josh			Or we could just use tilebrowser in Firefox, which means that the content process wouldn't draw directly to the screen