Platform/2009-11-10

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.5.5

• shipped on Thursday
• thanks again to everyone who helped get that release out

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

• Code freeze is tonight at 11:59pm!
• 3.5.6: 6 patches need to land, 11 need patches
• 3.0.16: 6 patches need to land, 4 need patches

Firefox 3.6 Beta

• Released on Friday, Oct 30th
• over 250,000 daily users
• beta 2 refresh shipping today:
  • DLL blacklisting patch (bug 524904)
  • syntax changes for CSS gradients (see bug 513395)
  • cycle-collector patch to stop cycle collection instead of crashing (see bug 521750)
  • over 190 other changes on mozilla-1.9.2 since we shipped first beta
• next refresh hoping to come soon with DLL component directory lockdown & whitelist (bug 519357

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate

• proposed code freeze November 18th (1 weeks)
• proposed release November 26th (Happy Thanksgiving)

Blocker Report

See more Firefox 3.6 related blocker queries, or learn about the new status and blocker flags

• Release Blockers (flag: blocking1.9.2 or blocking-firefox3.6)
  • 93 OPEN (-27 w/w)
  • 39 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-14 w/w)
  • 52 nominations (+12 w/w)
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • 115 requests (+9 w/w)
  • 11 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-28 w/w)
  • Charts: Nominations snapshots

Browser / Front End

(Progress reports every weekend on Planet Firefox)

• see our active projects and get involved / propose others
• Namoroka/mozilla-1.9.2 front end development:
  • 21 blockers left, 7 are crashkill, 7 need patches
  • not including crashkill and review-waiting, we're below 10 and will keep it there
  • per tab prioritization for session restore bug 514490 landed
  • windows 7 aero peek per-tab preview is now preffed-off as per bug 525475

GFX Update

• 13 blockers (-5 w/w)
  • Long poles right now are imagelib bugs (needs review from someone who knows imagelib) and a couple of Linux bugs (which have no patches yet).
• 5 nominations
  • All annotated with should block/should not block in whiteboard; need a driver to make the final call.
• Jeff is starting work on one of our quarterly goals, a scrolling interactivity benchmark. You can follow along in bug .
• Bas has built upon his DirectWrite font backend, bug 517642, with a Direct2D cairo backend, bug 527707.
  • The Direct2D backend depends on DirectWrite for fonts because GDI can't write to hardware-accelerated contexts.
  • This will be our second hardware-accelerated Cairo backend, after the OpenGL/DirectDraw backend used on the Tegra devices.
  • Along with DirectWrite, Microsoft has backported Direct2D to Windows Vista.
• Rob's still working on the bug reports that have resulted in us turning Aero Peek off in 3.6.
  • He needs UX input on a number of the bugs: bug 522035, bug 526618, bug 527015 (easy one), bug 527156, bug 527158.
• Jim's got an initial, prototype patch for cross-process windowless plugins on Windows. bug 522299
• Mark's WebGL implementation still coming along well.
  • One issue is that WebGL arrays are different from JS arrays, and that can cause perf issues. Mark's got some ideas.
• Blockers, topcrashes, electrolysis, performance.

Layout Update

• Blocker report
  • 1 nom (which will not block)
  • 7 Blockers:
    • 1 only needs branch landing (#501627)
    • 1 needs trunk and branch landing (#527306)
    • 1 needs review (#522787)
    • 1 has a patch, but maybe needs a better fix/to be reassigned (#525856)
    • 2 are frame poisoning improvements and probably should not block IMHO (#507294, #522088)
    • 1 is a crashkill bug that is still being researched, probably should not block IMHO (#492675)

Tree Management

• Talos downtime this week to:
  • bug 524169 Enable Talos on Electrolysis
  • bug 506772, bug 524089 Enable V8, Tsvg tests for group opacity
  • bug 523471 Stop running tiger talos on try builds that don't support tiger
  • bug 526026 Update minidump_stackwalker
• Power maintenance: all mobile devices will be off weekend.