Platform/2009-10-13

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4

• Firefox 3.0.15: builds made, were targeting beta for Wednesday, but have to re-spin for one issue
• Firefox 3.5.4: builds made, beta on Friday, caught two issues which require a re-spin

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.5

• no schedule yet
• please work on your blockers though!

Firefox 3.6b1

• all blockers done!
• waiting for green cycle, then can go to build

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)
  • 118 OPEN (-25 w/w)
  • 24 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-52 w/w)
  • 37 nominations (+19 w/w)
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • 92 requests (+20 w/w)
  • 34 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (+3 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:
  • Paul is pretty confident we can improve session restore speed for 1.9.2
  • now moving into bug fixes and closing down for ship

• mozilla-central front end development:
  • the team is now prioritizing feature work for 1.9.3
  • you can see the list of projects on the wiki
  • we've already started on async Places expiration, better find in page, showing already open tabs in the awesomebar, enhanced history UI (see faaborg's blog post for more), and ongoing work with improving the video controls

GFX Update

• 0 beta blockers; 3 1.9.2 blockers
• Jeff got his 0x0 stack unwinding improvement, bug 519616, landed in upstream breakpad; we're waiting on that fix to be taken into our instance of breakpad, bug 521231.
• Bas is starting a DirectWrite font backend for Cairo's GDI backend, which will make it possible (on Windows 7, and whenever it's backported, on Windows Vista) to have better-quality antialiasing on text.

Layout Update

• 1.9.2 blockers
  • 17 unfixed in layout, 4 with patches
  • 3 in video, all with patches
• CSS Transitions landed (dbaron)
• Added support for animating float values in transitions/SVG (dholbert)

Roundtable

• these notes [added by beltzner]