Platform/2009-04-07

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.9

• Aiming for April 21 release

Firefox 3.0.10

• Please work on your blockers
• Code freeze is in two weeks

Firefox 3.5 Beta 4

• string frozen
  • any additional strings?
  • New Tab?
  • Geolocation?
• code freeze: Wednesday, April 15th
• QA start: Thursday, April 16th
• release: late in week of April 20th

Blocker Report

• 29 blocker nominations (-5 w/w)
• 77 blockers left without a fix (-20 w/w)

Since 1.9.1 branch ...

Past 2 weeks ...

[ Platform Blocker Queries | Front End Blocker Queries ]

Summary

• blockers going down again (yay!)
• moving more fixes over to branch (yay!)
• we're staying on top of blocker triage
• approval triage fell off a little

The Breakdown

• 48 blockers marked fixed1.9.1 over last week (+43 w/w)
• 26 bugs nominated for blocking over last week (+4 w/w)
  • blocking-firefox3.5+: 1 new unresolved (-1 w/w), 0 new resolved blocking-firefox3.5+ added (-1 w/w)
  • blocking1.9.1+: 7 new unresolved (-18 w/w), 15 new resolved blocking1.9.1+ added (-9 w/w)
• 41 patches approved for 1.9.1 over last week (-57 w/w)
• 113 blockers are FIXED but not yet landed on 1.9.1 (-9 w/w)

Browser / Front End

• Blockers: 6 remaining (-3 w/w) & 0 nominations
  • bug 486236 - regression on 10.4 OSX, looks to be caused by Talos change
  • bug 454363 - security bug, needs mrbkap's new wrapper
  • bug 484442 - needs support from bsmedberg or smaug
  • bug 475066 - needs work from Mano and Enn (maybe Jimm can help?)
  • bug 477014 - needs landing
  • bug 481598 - needs landing

• 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:
  • 5 blocking 1.9.1+
    • 3 landing soon
    • 1 gfxTextRun crash, being tracked down by jdaggett and roc
    • bug 470487 - the nsWindow plugin destroying crash.

Layout 1.9.1 Update

• 1.9.1 query: x unfixed 1.9.1 blockers
• Layout
  • x blockers (6 with patches or probably will be fixed by other bugs)
  • No beta4 blockers
  • 4 untriaged noms
• SVG
  • x blockers
  • No beta4 blockers
• Video/Audio
  • x 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
    • bug 483915 Workers: Use new JSAPI to limit tracing code cache size -- Trivial, but needs bug 474497 first.
    • bug 484107 Security bug. -- Has patch, needs small tweak.
    • bug 480713 nsDocLoader doesn't clear requests from mRequestInfoHash,... -- Ready to land.
    • bug 481566 Content sink needs to be more responsive -- Did a touch-and-go, but needs updated patch.
    • bug 483818 Leak when script appended via DOM does document.write -- Needs patch
    • bug 462853 "Assertion failure: slot < (obj)->map->freeslot" during T... -- Needs more work, hard to reproduce, might not block on this.
    • bug 486269 Security bug -- needs review.
    • bug 485125 Crash on close [@ libflashplayer.so@0x4110d ] -- Likely fixed, or fixed enough, by Karl's recent gtk widget destruction fix.
    • bug 475864 Quickstubs allow pages to mess with native anonymous content
    • bug 479560 Security bug (mrbkaps wrapper work) -- Making good progress
    • bug 480205 Security bug (mrbkaps wrapper work) -- Making good progress
    • bug 483672 Permission denied for <http://localhost:7080> to call met... -- Needs reviews, somewhat scary. Firebug workaround also a possibility here.

• • 1 untriaged nominations
• 1.9.next:

JS 1.9.1

• 31 blockers
  • x P1s not! 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.
  • x 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:

• 10 blockers
• 5 untriaged nominations
• localStorage (see bug 486654)

Mobile 1.9.1 Update

• Big perf things we need to land soon
  • bug 485426 ARM simd rgb24->565 optimizations
  • bug 482676 Neon pixman optimizations
  • bug 483409 Use XShm for pushing to the screen
  • bug 482689 Optimize background displaylists for opaque images
  • bug 67752 Interruptible Reflow
    • We would really like to see this land on trunk as soon as possible so we can try to decide if it could go back to 1.9.1 for mobile.

• In progress
  • bug 422540 Continued work on gstreamer backend

Security

Security Reviews

Still outstanding / to be scheduled

• native JSON
• DNS prefetching

Tree Management

• Crash stacks for tests:
  • Needs to happen on try server still bug 483111 (and bug 486123?)
• 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

• Platform planning is ongoing. Please participate in the dev.planning threads Javascript, GFX, Layout, and Content.
• Firebug compatibility