Platform/2014-Q2-Goals

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2014 General Goals

GFX

Layout

  • [ON TRACK] Table Rendering with DisplayLists
  • Layout to Moz2D
    • [ON TRACK] Migrate SVG to Moz2D (bug 703159)  
  • Improve Restyling Performance
    • [ON TRACK] bug 977991, and maybe bugs 804975/977594
  • GFx work items
    • [ON TRACK] E10S BasicCompositor
    • [ON TRACK] GFx tiling
    • [ON TRACK] Accelerated Filters
      • spec work
      • shader & support work
  •  CSS Flexbox  
    • [ON TRACK] pagination
    • recently-finalized spec changes (abspos, min-width, flex sizing) (874718, 984711, 985304)
  • Animations & Transitions
    • [ON TRACK] transitions/animations spec editing
    • [ON TRACK] transitions refactoring to match new spec (960465)
    • [ON TRACK] frame reconstruction (625289)
  • OMTA on non-B2G Platforms (980770)
    • [ON TRACK] test_animations covering OMTA
    • [ON TRACK] fix correctness bugs (cascading, etc.)
    • [ON TRACK] turning on on other OMTC platforms (Mac/Android)
  • Web animations:
    • [ON TRACK] Spec an API for querying basic properties of running CSS animations/transitions
  • Ship and/or unprefix:
    • [ON TRACK] position:sticky
    • [ON TRACK] Font-features that need fallback support (eg. small-caps)
  • 3D Transforms
    • interop bugs and spec improvement (bug 976365)
    • implement preserve-3d proposal
    • perf work
  • Font Inflation and Reflow-on-Zoom
    • both implementation bug fixing and spec work
    • -moz-text-size-adjust
  • CSS Projects with Adobe
    • [ON TRACK] CSS Filters
    • [ON TRACK] CSS Masking
    • [ON TRACK] CSS Compositing
  • ImageLib
    • [ON TRACK] RasterImage for multiple images

Media

DOM

[ON TRACK] Implement Xrays to 3 out of the following: Functions (bug 976148), Objects (bug 987111), Array/Array-like (bug 987163), and Error (bug 987669). [ON TRACK] Get rid of the long tail of C++ objects that are still exposed to the web using XPConnect

WebAPI

JS

Accessibility

Perf

  • Improve Firefox responsiveness & startup time:
    • Finish session-store work:
      • [ON TRACK] Improve session-store startup time bug 987592
      • [ON TRACK] Store less data in the sessionstore.js file bug 943352
      • [ON TRACK] Break up janky operations into smaller chunks bug 984886
    • Start eliminating top main-thread I/O offenders reported to Telemetry bug 572459:
      • 1. [ON TRACK] User dictionary (persdict.dat) read on the main thread bug 880864
      • 2. TBD
    • [ON TRACK] New storage system for prefs bug 897049
    • [ON TRACK] The add-on compatibility dialog should not interrupt startup unless strictly necessary bug 760356
    • [ON TRACK] Investigate feasibility of starting Flash plugin instances asynchronously
  • Fill gaps in test coverage (vs press benchmarks) and prevent regressions:
    • [ON TRACK] Create a Talos test for "cold" startup time bug 936617
    • [ON TRACK] Create a Talos test for time to restore a previous session bug 936630
    • [ON TRACK] Integrate our new power-profiling test into the test infrastructure bug 962715
    • [ON TRACK] Automatically detect new sources of main-thread I/O in tests bug 935482
    • [ON TRACK] Monitor & track regressions in important Talos tests during each release cycle
  • Partner with other teams on projects with big perf impact
    • [ON TRACK] Assist Necko team with measuring performance of new network cache
    • [ON TRACK] Make it easier to debug performance regressions by (optionally) capturing profiles during Talos tests bug 967619
    • [ON TRACK] Expand use of the T100 tablet/laptop as a reference slow device
    • [ON TRACK] Work with fx-team on ongoing regressions
    • [ON TRACK] Add performance tests for OMTC/APZC
  • Study impact of extensions on Firefox performance
    • [ON TRACK] Create a Telemetry dashboard to expose add-ons' impact on Firefox startup time
  • Grow community:
    • [ON TRACK] Mentor at least 5 new external contributors

Networking

  • [ON TRACK] Mitigate CSRF attacks against internal networks (block rfc 1918 local addresses from non-local addresses) (bug 354493) (sworkman)
  • [ON TRACK] HTTP/2: implement draft-11 of HTTP/2 spec and continue participating in spec development. (hurley / mcmanus)
  • [ON TRACK] Turn on new HTTP cache in nightly (honza / michal)
  • [ON TRACK] NetworkLinkService should be enabled so Necko can respond to network changes (bug 939318) (bagder)
  • [ON TRACK] B2G: Provide way to "set network offline" per app (bug 786419) (valentin)
  • [ON TRACK] Gather data and produce a report on performance wins vs resource costs of the seer on several desktop and mobile scenarios. (hurley)

Mobile

A*Team

full list: Auto-tools/Goals/2014Q2

  • B2G
    • [ON TRACK] Deliver v2 of the FxOS Certification Suite
    • [ON TRACK] Build a common harness for Python and NodeJS Marionette tests, and enable them to run on devices and emulators
  • Performance
    • [ON TRACK] Deploy a Talos dashboard that will allow Talos regressions to be more easily "sheriffed"
    • [ON TRACK] Improve Eideticker's ability to scale
    • [ON TRACK] Prototype Datazilla alerts for Talos and Eideticker data
  • Mobile
    • [ON TRACK] Move Android 2.3 reftests off of tegras
    • [ON TRACK] Designate autophone and/or Eideticker as official perf systems for Android 2.3
  • Bugzilla
    • [ON TRACK] Migrate BMO and upstream Bugzilla CI from Tinderbox to travis-ci.
    • [ON TRACK] Continue and deepen analysis of BMO perf data.
    • [ON TRACK] Determine list of possible improvements, estimate gains, prioritize, and implement.
  • Treeherder
    • [ON TRACK] Deploy a production version of Treeherder in coordination with Laura's team
    • [ON TRACK] Define and implement a sheriff transition plan to move from TBPL to Treeherder
    • [ON TRACK] Have Treeherder report data to OrangeFactor
  • Community
    • [ON TRACK] Refresh our list of "good first bugs" on a monthly basis
    • [ON TRACK] Review these and make sure they have adequate information for contributors to start with
    • [ON TRACK] Keep the numbers of open good first bugs steady or increasing
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