Platform/2009-06-23

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Notices / Schedule

• Firefox 3.0.12
  • missed code freeze
  • please work on your blockers
• Firefox 3.0.13 schedule and blocker list coming soon

Firefox 3.5 RCs

• rc1 released to beta channel early last week
• rc2 released to beta channel and posted on web
• will likely need an rc3 for very localized fixes (no additional qa cycle)
• making a call on shipping at tomorrow's meeting

Browser / Front End

• Polish update: Firefox is 60% shiny (+2% change as some were set invalid)
  • Thanks go to: faaborg (prioritized 193 bugs)
  • 41 remaining easy polish bugs (whiteboard [polish-easy])
  • 38 remaining hard polish bugs(whiteboard [polish-hard])

Priority levels:

The polish priority is based on a combination of UI location / frequency / severity.

• UI location: is the polish issue in the main interface, a secondary interface, or even deeper into our UI?
• Frequency: how often the user is likely to encounter the issue?
• Severity: when the user encounters the issue are they even able to notice it?

Here are general descriptions of the levels:

• P1 - Polish issue that appears in the main window, or is something that the user may encounter several times a day.
• P2 - Polish issue that is in a secondary interface, occasionally encountered, and is easily identifiable.
• P3 - Polish issue that is in a secondary interface, occasionally encountered, or is not easily identifiable.
• P4 - Polish issue that is rarely encountered, and is easily identifiable.
• P5 - Polish issue that is rarely encountered, and is not easily identifiable.

Electrolysis

Multiprocess tabs are very basically working! See cjones' video.

Stage I is almost complete. We're finishing up small tasks so that phase II can begin:

• sub-protocols and protocol management (cjones)
• removing the writable string buffers/ldscript/short-whcar hack (??)
• integrate IPIDL into the build system (bsmedberg)
• landing the code into the project repository, with basic review and TODOs clearly marked (bsmedberg)
• working on Windows again (bent)
• IPIDL and general IPC documentation (cjones)

Phase II is where we can begin parallel hacking of different subsystems. The immediate list:

• networking (jduell)
• global history... needs async history (sdwilsh)
• docshell hookup, session history, and link targeting (bz)
• preferences (bsmedberg)

Additional items to spin up as we get more comfortable.

Multi-process plugin work needs love. cjones got something hooked up, but the plugins are not drawing, and it needs a lot of fleshing-out (kinetik?)