Platform/2009-05-12

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.11

• Code frozen! (Almost. A couple more bugs, maybe.)
• On schedule

Firefox 3.0.12

• Schedule coming this week
• Will send emails to current blocker owners this week

Firefox 3.5 RC1

• goal is to code freeze late in the week of the 18th
• build can produce RC builds in 24-36 hours thanks to timezone fun
• QA would like 5-7 full business days for RC tests

Blocker Report

• 28 blocker nominations (-2 w/w)
• 66 blockers left without a fix (-20 w/w, 11 of them are non-code)

Since 1.9.1 branch ...

Past 2 weeks ...

[ Platform Blocker Queries | Front End Blocker Queries ]

Summary

• pace picked up, some blockers taken off lists, others fixed, way to go
• first time that both blocker nominations and number of blockers remaining have gone down
• 100 fixes on trunk that we need to port to branch ASAP

The Breakdown

• 14 blockers marked fixed1.9.1 over last week (+8 w/w)
• 25 bugs nominated for blocking over last week (+4 w/w)
  • blocking-firefox3.5+: 7 new unresolved (+0 w/w), 2 new resolved blocking-firefox3.5+ added (+0 w/w)
  • blocking1.9.1+: 12 new unresolved (+0 w/w), 17 new resolved blocking1.9.1+ added (+10 w/w)
• 39 patches approved for 1.9.1 over last week (+25 w/w)
• 100 blockers are FIXED but not yet landed on 1.9.1 (+23 w/w)
• 30 bugs with approval1.9.1+ that are not yet landed on 1.9.1 (-8 w/w)

Browser / Front End

• Blockers: 14 remaining & 6 nominations
  • only one bug that's unscoped, which is bug 490035 - might depend on bug 492410 about slow script warnings?
• adw, dietrich, ehsan, mano, mak77, mconnor and rflint are in blocker critical path, with mconnor, dietrich and gavin in review path
  • what can the rest of our team do to help?
  • our other areas of interest are process elevation on Vista installer, TSnappiness bugs, easy polish fixes

• Polish update: Firefox is 55% shiny (no change from last week)
  • 45 remaining easy polish bugs (whiteboard [polish-easy])
  • 38 remaining hard polish bugs(whiteboard [polish-hard])

GFX Update

• 4 open blocking bugs, 4 need to be ported to 1.9.1
  • 1 crasher (nsWindow destroy bug) that might not have a non-intrusive fix, and so we should consider unblocking on it.
  • 4 image rendering related (2 owned by roc), all of which we have a handle on or will be WONTFIXed.
• Lots of other work going on, some aimed at 1.9.2:
  • Windows 7 fixes and enhancements
  • Canvas enhancements for mobile
  • Imagelib changes required for decode-on-draw
  • Bugfixes in code and specs related to fonts.

Layout Update

• Layout
  • 5 blockers on trunk (4 with patches)
  • 3 untriaged noms (all with patches)
• SVG
  • 0 blockers
• Video/Audio
  • 8 blockers (2+ with patches)

Content Update

• Content Blockers: 11

JS 1.9.1

• JS Blockers: 11
• bug 463262 about unittesting on VMs needs to be resolved
  • could just do one-off testing for now instead of full automation
  • damons, sayrer to follow-up

General 1.9.1

These are bugs that fall outside of components covered by the Gfx, Content, Layout and JS groups:

• 1 blockers
• 5 untriaged nominations

Security

• Security Reviews

Multi-Process

• bent working up initial linkage/hookup of Chromium IPC code
  • Windows at first, with lots of hacks, e.g.
    • enabling C++ exceptions in order to make the STL happy;
    • disabling accessibility to work around structured exception handling difficulties when C++ exceptions are enabled;
    • Always enabling libxul so that the static IPC library from chromium is available to all the right places
• cjones will be starting on a protocol layer to make IPC channels "safe" through static and dynamic type and call-safety guarantees
• We are not planning on taking the Chromium networking stack in the near future, due to concerns about compatibility (pipelining, etc)

Tree Management

• "Caution Flag". Found way to do firmware update on equallogic without closing tree.
  • full functionality, but 76 VMs will be down, so expect wait times between 7pm PST tonight until 7am PST tomorrow
  • defer risky/non-essential until tomorrow.
  • careful sheriffing today and tomorrow.

Roundtable

• Blog funnel starting up: Evangelism/Firefox3.5/35Days - will ask for help/writing