Platform/2010-01-19

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.18 / Firefox 3.5.8

• code freeze January 19th
• there are 13 blockers remaining for 1.9.0.18
  • owners are: smaug, dbaron, ddahl, dholbert, Enn, honzab, igor, jimm, jst, mrbkap (x5), roc, surkov, wtc
• there are 29 blockers remaining for 1.9.1.8
  • owners are: smaug, dbaron, ddahl, dholbert, dolske, Enn, gal (x2), honzab, igor, jimm, joe, jst, kaie, matsp, mrbkap (x8), rs, roc, surkov, wtc and 3 unassigned (XPConnect, 2xDOM)
• release Feb 16th

Firefox 3.6

• new RC available as of Sunday night, announced yesterday
• reviewing blocker nominations daily
• proposed release dates: Thursday, Jan 21 or Monday, Jan 25

Blocker Report

Firefox 3.6 RC Code Completion

• 6 nominations to be triaged
• 0 code blockers remaining!

All Blockers (includes website, release management, etc)
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)
  • 8 OPEN (-1 w/w) (7 are non-code, 1 is Fennec-only)
  • 0 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2
  • 0 nominations
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • email beltzner if you have approval requests needing attention
  • 28 requests
  • 4 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (all releng)
  • Charts: Nominations snapshots

Platform-specific Support Update

• [Josh] The plan for Java for Mac OS X on the 1.9.3 branch.
  • Apple should be releasing another Java update beta soon, which should have an updated NPAPI Java plugin (JavaPlugin2). We are hopeful that they'll ship something good enough to replace JEP by March. We'll be monitoring the situation closely.
  • So that we don't depend on Apple, Steven will begin porting the JEP to NPAPI ASAP. This should take 4-6 weeks of dedicated work. We'll abort the JEP port if/when we see a good enough Java plugin from Apple.

Startup Performance

Summmary

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

Priorities

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Estimated win	Bug #	Summary	Owner	Status	Notes
>10%	bug 512584	Super fast paths for Components.classes and Components.interfaces	Taras Glek	in progress	Taras is traveling, says he'll close it out when he returns.
~8%	bug 525013	Investigate a more static build configuration of Firefox	Joel Reymont	in progress	Lots of progress! Joel has a patch for Mac and Linux working on the tryserver, and numbers to confirm a partial static build gets ~8% improvement on Mac, with no compat problems. Zach added a bunch of number crunching to validate Joel's numbers. On the Windows front, Taras has a patch in progress now.
up to 25%	bug 514083	Per-file HFS+ compression on Mac OSX 10.6	Joel Reymont	in progress	Conclusion is that we need to make this happen via the installer, as well as the updater, since modifying files results in decompression. Conversation on the bug has expanded into turning on JAR compression.
TBD	bug 520309	Startup cache: replacement for fastload cache	Ben Hsieh	in progress	Ben is looking into a perf regression that arose after some major changes.
TBD	bug 503483	Turn on --enable-faststart for Firefox by default	Dietrich	needs testing	No update, need to test still. Heated conversation on the bug.
TBD	bug 513149	Speed up CSS parsing by using a machine generated lexer	Zack Weinberg	Zack's blocked on other work	No update.Taras says about 6% of startup spent parsing CSS.

More

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

Electrolysis

• Really close to on-by-default: three test failures remain
• Broke OOPP users with this morning's nightly, but we're respinning nightlies
• Coordination meetings continue Wednesday, 1PM PT

Tree Management

• 100 new minis!
  • 60 have been imaged with Windows XP, Windows 7, and OSX 10.5.8

Roundtable

• Release plans?