Platform/2011-07-19

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Notices / Schedule

• The Firefox 3.6.20 (used to be called 3.6.19, which was then used by the 10.7 out-of-band release) schedule is now posted
  • Shipping at the same time as Firefox 6 (August 16)
  • Code freeze for non-blockers: 2011-07-25
  • Code freeze for blockers: 2011-08-01

• The next source code migration is August 16th

• Check out Johnath's post (also on the channels blog) detailing the release schedule if you are unclear

Firefox Development

• Telemetry work for front end bug 671038
• Drew's dynamic e10s analysis work has r+, but there's a crasher in mochitest that needs debugging before he lands it bug 666713

GFX

• Cross-origin WebGL textures using CORS (bug 664299) landed last week (and a bug in the implementation, bug 671906, landed over the weekend).
  • WebGL Angry Birds works again!
  • Note: DO NOT VISIT THAT LINK YOU WILL NEVER DO ANY WORK AGAIN

JS

• IonMonkey ran its first program, a tiny program with a & operator.

Layout

• New platform hires:
  • Scott Johnson --- layout
  • Ralph Giles --- video/RT
  • Randell Jesup ("new") --- RTC/general
  • Mats Palmgren (""new"") --- layout
  • Jean-Marc Valin --- codecs

Multi-Process

Electrolysis/Short-Term Goals

• Firefox starting up landed to m-c: set pref "browser.tabs.remote" to true to try it out!
• Windows accessibility experiment appears to be successful: we're using a dummy window to provide the accessibility tree and NVDA appears to be able to navigate it
• Discussion about responsiveness metric ongoing: are we going to measure UI interactions such as new-tab and new-window, or content effects on responsiveness, or both?

Tree Management

• Starting Wednesday morning, we will only generate nightlies when something has changed
  • If no code change and no locale string change for any locale, then do not generate new nightlies.
  • If any code change, or *any* locale change, we'll still generate new nightly builds for *all* locales.
  • details in bug 650258
  • This means no updates for aurora unless there are code/l10n changes. Need to advertise this on the channels blog?

Stability Report

• Trunk Stability Report
  • 51,266 ADU yesterday - 2.35 crashes per 100 ADU.
  • Trunk Daily Report
  • Top Issues:
    • Bug 670058 - fixed but people still crashing with old builds
    • Bug 672262
  • New bugs filed
    • Bug 672262
    • Bug 672361

Roundtable

• Mobile/Desktop combined Product meeting (tomas)
• JS help for crasher in bug 666713? (johnath)
  • Will email Dave M
• Orange factor for last 7 days has been at or below 2
  • http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/orangefactor/?display=OrangeFactor&endday=2011-07-19&startday=2011-07-13&tree=mozilla-central