Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2007-01-31

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Meeting Details

• 11:00am PST (19:00 UTC)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• 650-903-0800 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
• 1-866-879-4799 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
• join irc.mozilla.org #granparadiso for backchannel

Agenda

• Action items
• Gecko 1.9 Alpha 2 Planning
• Gecko 1.9 Roundtable
• Firefox 3
• Any other business

Gecko 1.9 Alpha 2 Status

• Memory leak status
  • Linux only - graydon will check today (not Linux only --David Baron)
  • graydon/peterv/brendan working on it, at least 4 patches in the queue

• jst uber security hardening patch status (bug 355766)
  • needs extension testing, specifically those that use wrappedJSObject (AdBlock? Greasemonkey?)
  • side: would be useful to be able to "grep" through extension code on AMO, e.g. LXR for AMO

• Tree closure on Monday 5th, release 1.9a2 on Wednesday 7th
  • Code freeze is Monday, but no big risky stuff

• start on release notes

Gecko 1.9 Roundtable

• Triage report
  • schrep to look into creating triage report page
    • what data people want?

• bugzilla multi-state blocking flags need verification
  • schrep to create process-tools tracking bug

• platform optimization flags review
  • Tracked in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368854
  • Input needed on flags and we need to setup a test infra to try them out

• XHR
  • jonas will schedule meeting this week
  • Design document available at Cross Site XMLHttpRequest

• littlecms security review in progress
  • working with author

Testing

• work in progress reftest/unit test (rob)
  • should be close to being published

• perf stuff (alice)
  • will be looking at testing Places with infrastructure
  • working on getting code checked in

Firefox 3

• PRD discussion meetings in progress
• Review/discuss the Gecko/Platform line items in the Detailed Feature List

Here are the relevant bits from the Detailed Feature List:

• P1 - Improve printing support
  • P1 FR - Pages should break without dividing paragraphs
  • P1 FR - Print layout should look like rendered layout
  • P1 FR - Preview should look like print layout
  • P1 FR - Layout should be zoomed/cropped to fit desired page size
  • P1 NFR - Simplify the print preview dialog
  • P1 NFR - Printed material should match user expectations

• P2 - Save web pages as PDF documents

• P3 - Handling of back/forward with POST
  • P3 FR - Cache data from source of POST request
  • P3 FR - Return to cached data when going back/forward across POST requests
  • P3 NFR - Get rid of the "Do you want to resend the request?" dialog

• P3 - Provide infrastructure for an extensible Web page archiving system

• Px - TTS/Screenreader support
• Px - Pass ACID 2 test
• Px - Cairo mods for better, more native MacOS look and feel
• Px - CSS 2.1
• Px - Gecko 1.9 for standards support and room for performance improvements
• Px - Layout mods (roc) for xxxx (?)
• Px - Reflow branch for xxx (?)
• Px - SVG/Canvas