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* Big, invasive, destabilizing changes.  These are the sort of tasks that don't respond well to compression (e.g. throwing more people at it) and touch large pieces of the code and/or can destabilize other parts of the development.  These are the sort of changes that once landed into the mainline development tree can become the long-pole for release and are difficult to unwind.  From the Moz2 meetings it appears the following are in this category:
* Big, invasive, destabilizing changes.  These are the sort of tasks that don't respond well to compression (e.g. throwing more people at it) and touch large pieces of the code and/or can destabilize other parts of the development.  These are the sort of changes that once landed into the mainline development tree can become the long-pole for release and are difficult to unwind.  From the Moz2 meetings it appears the following are in this category:
** mmGC (including XPCOMGC) *already underway*
** mmGC (including XPCOMGC) *already underway*
** "Strings" -- sharing strings with JS or moving to STL, moving to UTF8, sanifying the existing string classes
** Exception support *already underway for tooling at least*
** Exception support *already underway for tooling at least*
** deCOM
** deCOM
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