Platform/2009-12-01

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

• builds made, on track for mid-December release

Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7

• proposed schedule online
• tree is open!
• please work on your blockers

Blocker Report

See more Firefox 3.6 related blocker queries, or learn about the new status and blocker flags

• Release Blockers (flag: blocking1.9.2 or blocking-firefox3.6)
  • 27 OPEN (-19 w/w)
  • 7 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-16 w/w)
  • 15 nominations (+3 w/w)
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • email beltzner if you have approval requests needing attention
  • 86 requests (-14 w/w)
  • 9 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (+2 w/w)
  • Charts: Nominations snapshots

Browser / Front End

(Progress reports every weekend on Planet Firefox)

• see our active projects and get involved / propose others
• Namoroka/mozilla-1.9.2 front end development:
  • 0 blockers left, though there are some crashkill nominations to deal with
• mozilla-1.9.3 front end development:
  • Unfocused has tryserver builds up with tab match in awsomebar
  • David Dahl has a new Places query API
  • Mossop is updating the extension manager API and Boriss is looking at the UI
  • Faaborg and the Places team are starting into the UI changes they proposed and discussed earlier
  • Rob Strong is analysing several potential updater fixes
  • Limi is looking at the resource packages issue
  • Paul is updating the tab opening order heuristic
  • Marco is moving Places expiry I/O off the main thread
  • Drew is making asynchronous containers for Places operations
  • Horlander is driving forward the theme change work
  • (links forthcoming)

GFX Update

• 3 blockers.
  • The long pole continues to be Stuart's subpixel positioning/kerning bug (latest ETA: "later this week").
• 0 noms.
• Jim Mathies' out-of-process windowless plugins on Windows patch is undergoing review, as is Bas Schouten's Direct2D Cairo backend.
• Bas has had quite a number of downloads of his Direct2D build of Minefield, providing a lot of great feedback and bug reports. Unfortunately some of the bug reports are of the sort we feared, driver- or hardware-dependent. We're hoping to get Direct2D into mozilla-central as soon as possible, preffed off, for wider-spread testing.
• Bas also posted a great writeup on measuring performance of his Direct2D builds: how to do it, how not to do it, and when it's useful.
• Chris Jones' Electrolysis shared memory support is undergoing review, for future use in Fennec+Electrolysis. Work for shared memory tilebrowser is waiting on this.
• The WebGL standard goes to Khronos review this week. More public information will be forthcoming once the Khronos board approves it.
• Topcrashes and blockers are consuming the rest of our time.

Layout Update

• 0 noms
• 2 new blockers
  • bug 531810 roc will debug this today
  • bug 531075 needs review/help from Neil Deakin
• bug 527280 looks like it could be Flash video randomly corrupting browser memory ... very difficult to reproduce/analyze, could use some help trying to reproduce on Windows

Startup Performance

Summmary

• Read the latest weekly update. (none last week)
• View snapshot results for startup and all other tests.

Activity

• Rob Strong put up a detailed post about his startup improvements to the update service, the effect on mobile, and points out some other front-end services that could benefit from the same treatment.
• Now that Joel has a fully-static Firefox working (bug 525013), he's moved on to improving code locality (bug 531406). However, time-ordering of symbols doesn't seem to improve the sequentiality of the page-ins by much. More data on the bug.
• Ben is making progress on the fastload replacement in bug 520309. Some fastload/invalidation discussion in this dev.platform thread.
• Taras has patches up for service caching (bug 516085, needs review bsmedberg.
• Super-fast-path-ing of Components.* needs some JS team help: (bug 512584).
• bug 519445, for reducing Mac startup time spent in font system initialization, is ready to land when the tree re-opens.

More

• More details on the project page.
• Join us on IRC in #startup.

Electrolysis

• Plugins: landing preffed-off in mozilla-central as soon as practical. Two potential blockers:
  • need mochitest-ipcplugins enabled on mozilla-central, bug 530522 (catlee)
  • Tp4 test intermittently hanging, possibly tab-related and doesn't need to block (smaug)
• blockers for turning OOPP on by default, especially note
  • Talos process tracking, bug 529137... needs review by Alice and then landing (will require downtime)
  • bug 531860: .drawWindow with OOPP fails, needs owner
  • bug 519541: need to collect crash statistics from the plugin process; don't necessarily need the final UI, but stability statistics will be very important... ted do you have time?
  • Would like to get this turned on and an alpha/beta out by mid-December, though workweek activities may delay that.
• Networking: jduell has channels working in a primitive way (not yet landed): beginning to ramp up other help (fred) to help hook up loadgroups and get fennec working. Honza posted initial patches for async redirect handling in necko: bug 513086

Tree Management

• Help with bug 523385
• 3rd try: this week will reset try repo.