Platform/2009-05-05

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.11

• • code freeze tomorrow at 11:59pm
  • only a few blockers left though

Firefox 3.5 Beta 4

• released last week
• contains lots of great stuff
• well received so far!

Firefox 3.5 RC1

• beltzner to discuss schedule, fill in notes

!!OMG TENTATIVE PROPOSAL DO NOT TAKE AS GOSPEL!!
Beta 4 Release:   Apr 27 - May 1st
RC1 Freeze:       May 26 - May 28th (4 weeks coding time)
RC1 Release:       June 10 - June 11
RC2 Freeze:       June 18
RC2 Release:       June 24 - June 25
RC3 Freeze:       July 2
RC3 Release:       July 8 - July 9

Blocker Report

• 30 blocker nominations
• 86 blockers left without a fix

Since 1.9.1 branch ...

Past 2 weeks ...

[ Platform Blocker Queries | Front End Blocker Queries ]

Summary

• slow week due to all hands
• need to keep pressure and pace up!

The Breakdown

• 6 blockers marked fixed1.9.1 over last week
• 21 bugs nominated for blocking over last week
  • blocking-firefox3.5+: 7 new unresolved, 2 new resolved blocking-firefox3.5+ added
  • blocking1.9.1+: 12 new unresolved, 7 new resolved blocking1.9.1+ added
• 14 patches approved for 1.9.1 over last week
• 77 blockers are FIXED but not yet landed on 1.9.1
• 38 bugs with approval1.9.1+ that are not yet landed on 1.9.1

Browser / Front End

• Blockers: 11 remaining & 5 nominations
  • two tricky things (undo close window fallout, tab drag and drop)
  • big props to Johnath and Dietrich for getting bug 486236 handled (again!)

• Polish update: Firefox is 55% shiny (+2% over two weeks ago)
  • Thanks go to: marco, dao
  • 44 remaining easy polish bugs (whiteboard [polish-easy])
  • 38 remaining hard polish bugs(whiteboard [polish-hard])

GFX 1.9.1 Update

• 5 blocking bugs
  • 4 of them are image rendering related, either perf or artifacts when zooming
  • 1 is the nsWindow destroy bug, which our bandaid attempt didn't fix

Layout Update

• Roc is not available today
• Layout
  • 5 blockers on trunk (3 with patches)
  • 10 untriaged noms (3 fixed)
• SVG
  • 0 blockers
• Video/Audio
  • 19 blockers (6 with patches) (could be pruned, should not delay our schedule)

JS 1.9.1

23 blockers, around 4 with patches in hand. 5 noms.

General 1.9.1

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

• 3 blockers
• 1 untriaged nominations

Security

• Security Reviews

Multi-Process

• Initial docs with phases and SWAG schedule available.
• Initial focus will be responsiveness/stability, not security sandboxing
• We're looking for places where chrome JS currently touches content DOM directly... see mozilla.dev.platform post for more details.
• Decisions need to be made about how to approach the network stack (should we switch to chromium's network stack wholesale?), but I don't know the right way to have that conversation/make that decision (it's hard to know whether switching would reduce or extend the total time of the multiple-process work).

Tree Management

• Fixed intermittent orange on talos, Tshutdown tests enabled in talos last week, details here
• infrastructure load for april
• more machines coming to help deal with wait times
• long downtime next week for firmware update on equallogic (held off from last week, and from before FF3.5b4).

Roundtable

• If you worked on a user facing feature, please make sure it is on this list (which will be used to generate the press reviewer's guide, mozilla.com content, etc):
• Blog funnel starting up: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Evangelism/Firefox3.5/35Days - will ask for help/writing
• New Firefox icon for RC1?