Platform/2010-12-07

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Firefox 3.6.13 and 3.5.16

• Created build #3 of 3.6.13, released to beta on Monday
• Still plan to release on this Thursday, December 9th

Blocker Report

Firefox 4 Beta

Blocker report for Firefox 4.0.beta8 (as of 2010-12-07 11:07:47.826151-08:00)

Overview
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4.0.beta8
      blocking: 193
         fixed: 181
          open:  12

Open Blocker Assignees
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   Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]:   5 +++++
                         Patrick McManus:   1 +
                  Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap):   1 +
              Michael Morgan [:morgamic]:   1 +
                        Myk Melez [:myk]:   1 +
                      Axel Hecht [:Pike]:   1 +
    Nobody; OK to take it and work on it:   1 +
                      ben turner [:bent]:   1 +

Outstanding Review Requests
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                         jst@mozilla.org:   1 +
                     mconnor@mozilla.com:   1 +
                   dtownsend@mozilla.com:   1 +

        Total outstanding flagged review:   3

Firefox Development

(from our goals):

Firefox

• [AT RISK] Finish Firefox 4
  • 160 Firefox/Toolkit blockers

• [ON TRACK] API-Complete Jetpack
  • Joint with Jetpack team
  • Currently working towards feature-complete beta SDK

• [ON TRACK] Stand up basic Firefox with Electrolysis
  • Joint with Platform
  • UI may not be functional, should launch and open a web page.
  • Project tracking page

Developer Tools

• [NEW] Finish Firefox 4 developer tools
  • 15 blocking developer tools bugs

• [NEW] Ensure that Firefox 4 ships with a compatible version of Firebug

• [NEW] Publish a roadmap for integrated developer tools in Firefox, including console, inspection, and js debugging

• [NEW] Develop long term plan for Skywriter maintenance/support

Platform

(there is a team-by-team goals breakdown, as well)

• [ON TRACK] Finish Firefox 4 blockers.
• [ON TRACK] Support Firefox Team to stand up a browser on Electrolysis.

• [DONE] Javascript performance near or even with Chrome 5 on their benchmarks (within 20% on SS, 30% on V8), with substantial wins on our benchmarks. (Windows, in-browser.)
• [DONE] Hardware acceleration of video and other HTML and SVG content, as well as user interface, on by default for compatible hardware on all Tier-1 desktop and mobile platforms.
• [DONE] Fully support the WebGL 1.0 spec, with support turned on by default in a Firefox 4 beta on platforms that support OpenGL or OpenGL ES.
• [MISSED] security: zero reproducible high/crit > 30 days
• [DONE] Support multi-process Fennec.
• [DONE] Support Jetpacks running in separate processes and never blocking the Fennec UI. NOTE: jetpack team hasn't actually integrated this code yet, but it works in small test environments.

GFX

• 119 betaN, final, and Fennec blockers (-4 w/w)
• OpenGL composited layers on Fennec update (jrmuizel)

Layout

• Blocker count slowly dropping, now 103
  • Many bug fixes in hand

Content

• Major remainders from compartment landing fixed (beta8 blockers). Many thanks to mrbkap and gal.

Tree Management

• Fallout from our fun last week hunting down new orange caused by zombo.com DNS:
  • Friendly reminder that the RelEng Sheriff can re-trigger tests or even builds of specific changesets for you.
  • Cutting off external network access to test machines. See dev.tree-management thread here

• IT needs to rearrange test minis in the new colo. Proposed dates are December 17th, December 23rd. This will require a full working day with little or no test coverage. bug 616658

• Win7 debug unit tests enabled
  • last known perma-orange for xpcshell - bug 610654
  • who can make xpcshell run faster on Win7? [1] It runs pretty slow. The other test suites did not get affected (except reftest a little bit)
    • xpcshell takes quite long on win7 and increases the end-to-end times
    • shall we keep on running xpcshell only on win2k3? shall we proceed with the switch? who can take ownership of making xpcshell faster on Windows 7?
    • we would like to stop running unit tests on win2k3 a couple of days after the last perma-orange on win7 gets fixed but this depends on answering the previous question.

Roundtable

• Pulling WebSockets for Firefox 4 due to a security problem with proxy upgrade negotiation.
• Infallible malloc (added to agenda by Jesse)
  • We talked about this for 10 minutes but decided it need its own meeting, Platform/InfallibleMalloc. Notes have been moved to that meeting's page.
• Crash Update
  • Significant regression found on the trunk over the weekend - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616723. We feel pretty strongly that this needs to be looked at for beta8.
  • There are about 4-5 other signatures that we don't quite understand. They started showing up on Saturday and had signatures like... nsCOMPtr_base::assign_from_qi(nsQueryInterface, nsID const&).
  • A few additional regressions were logged...
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616593
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617056
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617048
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617376
• Don't forget to file bugs when you see problems in nightlies.
• String freeze: [blocking with strings] has 10 bugs, 6 prelanded strings, 4 new strings. I'm loosing track, bug 616015 and bug 616014 were filed without/wrong whiteboard and blocking+. (Axel)