Platform/2009-03-31

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.9

• Aiming for April 21 release

Firefox 3.0.10

• Scheduling a release for mid-late May
• Went through nomination list yesterday
• Blocker owners will be emailed today

Firefox 3.5 Beta 4

• string freeze: Thursday, March 19th at 23:59 PDT
  • 140+ strings landed between b3 and b4
• code freeze: Monday, April 6th
  • not looking feasible with current number of blockers
• QA start: Wednesday, April 8th
• release: week of April 13th

Blocker Report

• 34 blocker nominations (+13 w/w)
• 97 blockers left without a fix (+7 w/w)
  • 219 left to be resolved

Since 1.9.1 branch ...

Past 2 weeks ...

[ Platform Blocker Queries | Front End Blocker Queries ]

Summary

The Breakdown

• 5 blockers marked fixed1.9.1 over last week (-14 w/w)
• 22 bugs nominated for blocking over last week (-12 w/w)
  • blocking-firefox3.5+: 2 new unresolved (-2 w/w), 1 new resolved blocking-firefox3.5+ added (+0 w/w)
  • blocking1.9.1+: 23 new unresolved (-10 w/w), 24 new resolved blocking1.9.1+ added (+1 w/w)
• 98 patches approved for 1.9.1 over last week (+34 w/w)
• 124 blockers are FIXED but not yet landed on 1.9.1 (+28 w/w)

Browser / Front End

• Blockers: 9 remaining (-1 w/w) & 0 nominations
  • 3 need patches (eta 3 days of development time)
  • 6 need landing (bug 475066 needs testing on w32 and linux

• Polish update: Firefox is 51% shiny (+2% over last week)
  • Thanks go to: rstrong, jim (polish hard), and Dao (4)
  • 46 remaining easy polish bugs (whiteboard [polish-easy])
  • 36 remaining hard polish bugs(whiteboard [polish-hard])

GFX 1.9.1 Update

• Bug status:
  • 4 blocking 1.9.1+
    • Mostly crash bugs
    • Bug 470487 is a crash on plugin destruction, needs repro
    • 1 bug on triage list, waiting on response from Mats

Layout 1.9.1 Update

• 1.9.1 query:

unfixed 1.9.1 blockers

• Layout
  • 12 blockers (6 with patches or probably will be fixed by other bugs)
  • No beta4 blockers
  • 4 untriaged noms
• SVG
  • 2 blockers
  • No beta4 blockers
• Video/Audio
  • 16 blockers (most have patches or work-in-progress)
  • Media cache blocks beta4, but is ready to land
  • Video perf improvements (720p running smoothly, probably just one bug away from smooth 1080p on reasonably decent machines)
• Beyond 1.9.1
  • Plugin testing patches done, moving on to actual compositor hacking!

Content Update

• 1.9.1:
  • 12 blockers
  • 1 untriaged nominations
• 1.9.next:

JS 1.9.1

• 31 blockers
  • 16 P1s including upvar bug 452498. Tryserver builds of upvar passed linux/mac perf, mochi, reftest, crashtest. Failed TUnit, browser-chrome, with what looks like a single bug.
  • 15 P2s
• 1 untriaged nomination

General 1.9.1

These are bugs that fall outside of components covered by the Gfx, Content, Layout and JS groups:

• 16 blockers
• 2 untriaged nominations

Security

Security Reviews

Still outstanding / to be scheduled

• native JSON
• DNS prefetching

Booked but not yet completed

• localStorage (today)

Tree Management

• Crash stacks for tests:
  • Needs to happen on try server still bug 483111
• Run unit tests on packaged builds bug 421611, bug 383136
  • Build config bits are done
• Greener-Tinderbox: work ongoing, machines still running. Updating to new changeset this week. Will have more results this week - many less reftest failures now that the color depth is set properly on the win32 boxes.

Roundtable

• Consider localStorage feature land on 1.9.1, bug 422526
  • How did the security review go?
  • see dev.planning thread on the topic
• Platform planning is ongoing. Please participate in the dev.planning threads Javascript, GFX, Layout, and Content.