Platform/2009-04-14

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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

• code freeze: Wednesday, April 15th
  • 12 P1 blockers without any fix
  • 64 P1 blockers that aren't fixed1.9.1
• QA start: Thursday, April 16th
• release: late in week of April 20th

Blocker Report

• 35 blocker nominations (+6 w/w)
• 79 blockers left without a fix (+2 w/w)

Since 1.9.1 branch ...

Past 2 weeks ...

[ Platform Blocker Queries | Front End Blocker Queries ]

Summary

• blockers going up again (boo!)
• we're falling off of blocker triage

The Breakdown

• 40 blockers marked fixed1.9.1 over last week (-8 w/w)
• 30 bugs nominated for blocking over last week (+4 w/w)
  • blocking-firefox3.5+: 1 new unresolved (0 w/w), 0 new resolved blocking-firefox3.5+ added (-1 w/w)
  • blocking1.9.1+: 20 new unresolved (+13 w/w), 37 new resolved blocking1.9.1+ added (+22 w/w)
• 66 patches approved for 1.9.1 over last week (+25 w/w)
• 126 blockers are FIXED but not yet landed on 1.9.1 (+13 w/w)
• 126 bugs with approval1.9.1+ that are not yet landed on 1.9.1

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 52% shiny (+2% over last week)
  • Thanks go to: jmorkel, highmind63, jdarmochwal, mstange, dao
  • 47 remaining easy polish bugs (whiteboard [polish-easy])
  • 37 remaining hard polish bugs(whiteboard [polish-hard])

GFX 1.9.1 Update

• Bug status:
  • 1 blocking 1.9.1+
    • bug 470487 - the nsWindow plugin destroying topcrash. Anything new from QA on reproducing?

Layout 1.9.1 Update

• 1.9.1 query: 27 unfixed 1.9.1 blockers
• Layout
  • 10 blockers (6 with patches or probably will be fixed by other bugs)
  • No beta4 blockers
  • 6 untriaged noms
• SVG
  • 2 blockers
  • No beta4 blockers
• Video/Audio
  • 15 blockers
  • No beta4 blockers
  • Media cache and Ogg library upgrades have landed

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

• 20 blockers
  • 8 P1s not! including upvar bug 452498.
  • 12 P2s
• 10 untriaged nominations. Looking at regressions.

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
• Windows TSF Integration
• 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.
• More slaves on try server, file bug if you see delays >15 mins again.
• johnath's dashboard now reconnected to talos/graphserver, file bug if you see breakage again.

Roundtable

• Platform planning is ongoing. Please participate in the dev.planning threads Javascript, GFX, Layout, and Content.
• Firebug compatibility
  • need bug 483672
• Security Sensitive source files code review recommendations [ Murali ]