Platform/2009-09-08

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.14 / Firefox 3.5.3

• on track to ship tomorrow

Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4

• 3.0.15 has 8 blockers needing branch patches, 3.5.4 has 15 blockers needing branch patches
• please land your branch-approved patches (6 for 3.0.15, 19 for 3.5.4)
• code freeze is September 22 at 11:59pm, but don't delay!

Blocker Report

note: queries have changed to use new status1.9.2 flag

• Release Blockers (flag: blocking1.9.2 or blocking-firefox3.6)
  • 103 OPEN (+7 w/w)
  • 20 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (+5 w/w)
  • 175 nominations (-31 w/w)
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • 97 requests (+20 w/w)
  • 12 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (+6 w/w)
  • Charts: Nominations snapshots

Browser / Front End

• progress reports every weekend on Planet Firefox, which will get prettier (if you want to be added, please add your Firefox Development related feed tag to this list
• see our active projects and get involved / propose others
• published initial draft roadmap for product deliverables through the end of 2010
• for Namoroka/mozilla-1.9.2:
  • work underway on integrate Personas for Firefox 3.6
    • will need security review; who do we see about that?
  • on-idle vaccuuming of the Places DB waiting on review
  • Blair and Mossop have a plan for alerting users to out of date plugins
  • we're also going to warn users on the firstrun page they see with the upcoming Firefox 3.5.2 and Firefox 3.0.14 updates (see bug 512483
• for future/mozilla-central:
  • horlander will be creating a round up of the discussion of the theme update ideas

Layout Update

• Cocoa printing implemented (mstange)
• W3C reftest framework (jwatt, fantasai)
• Unfiled bugs? Plugin tearing, personas
• 1.9.2 approval requests
• cpearce experimenting with VMWare record+replay: stability much improved, some serious performance issues, new hardware may help

Content Update

• Slow week, not much to report (vacations, personal leave, ...)
• HTML5 parser update (hsivonen)

Platform-specific Support Update

• Still making steady progress on 64-bit Mac OS X builds, more issues like critical sqlite library conflict coming up.
• [rob] Aero peek patch has final reviews. Working on tests.
• [sid] Progress taskbar patches being updated to new interfaces.
• [jimm] Jump lists patches progress waiting on some DDE installer changes currently being worked on.
• [jimm] Completed Win7 image builds, need to get these tested this week.

JS

• Should move 1.9.2 branch to newer nanojit code. More secure (no Fragmento), better performance, merging getting really tough in the tracer.

• ES5 update:
  • Strict mode: jimb (tracking bug bug 445494), now with 19 sub-bugs --- track just the details you care about!
  • Meta-object interface: waldo (tracking bug bug 430133)

Electrolysis

• init code 98% done: Moving on to implementing HTTP Channel sub-protocol for simple HTTP requests.