Platform/2009-06-16

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.12

• Please work on your blockers
• Currently have 26 blockers that need patches
• Code freeze scheduled for tonight!
• Reminder: All patches require approval on 1.9.0. Blockers do not have automatic approval

Firefox 3.5 RC1

• froze and started RC1 builds on Friday last week
• rebuilt RC1 yesterday to correct a problem with the updater code, won't affect QA results or timing
• so far the rest of the RC1 QA work has looked great
• aiming for following schedule:
  • Tuesday,June 16th - ship RC1 update to Firefox 3.5 Beta users
  • Friday, June 19th - pending QA approval, ship RC1 on all-beta download page
  • Thursday, June 25th - make launch decision for following week

Blocker Report

• 3 blocker nominations - none look like they'd hold RC
• 0 code blockers left without a fix
• 11 total outstanding blockers not marked fixed1.9.1/verified1.9.1 (0 of which are code-related)
• 14 patches approved over the last week

Browser / Front End

• Spending time this week helping QA with RC1 verification work

• Firefox.next
  • moving on to TSnap bugs which aim to make Firefox observably faster
  • also returning to polish bugs and exploratory sprints
  • Reminder to review the Firefox.Next plan and add your comments/feedback on the discussion page or in the dev-apps-firefox thread

• Polish update: Firefox is 58% shiny (+4% change)
  • Thanks go to: Dao (5), boriss, ventnor
  • 46 remaining easy polish bugs (whiteboard [polish-easy])
  • 41 remaining hard polish bugs(whiteboard [polish-hard])

GFX Update

• New Windows pixman span rasterizer is just about ready to land; gives Windows performance potentially greater than that of Mac. Only thing left is Linux, which is hampered by XRender.
• Windows 7 jumplists are coming along. This will be a toolkit/widget feature, so other products (eg Thunderbird) will be able to take advantage of it.
• Landed a fix to image caching that ended up regressing Tp memory use and performance. Have some theories about this which we're going to test.
• Working on finishing up Q2 goals and defining Q3 goals; look for a post to dev.planning today.
• Other small things; see GFX meeting notes for more details.

Layout Update

• One potential ridealong: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496684 Some Ogg files do not play
• Otherwise, people focused on 1.9.2 work
• What is the 1.9.2 schedule?

Content Update

• Content Blockers: None!
• Work on HTML 5 parser
  • No reports of webcompat problems.
  • Actual parser changes being reviewed.
  • Having perf problems on talos when parser is enabled.
• Slim wrappers
• Multiprocess
• Starting work on XBL2
  • Have plan for attachment/detachment and insertion points here.

Mac OS X Update

• Josh working on Cocoa NPAPI drawing model.
• Steven Michaud working on various Mac OS X bugs.

Tree Management

• pushing FF3.5rc1build2 to mirrors; ready to start FF3.5rc1build3 when we get "go"
• changed tracemonkey talos slaves from dedicated to pool-of-talos-slaves
• started producing Fennec desktop builds today
• WinCE signing goal dropped while requirements being figured out.