Platform/2007-Q2-Goals

List metrics we are going to care about
Define milestones & performance targets & strive to reach them wherever possible [a little softer than should be]
Focusing on blocking (+) bugs and significantly reduce number of blocking bugs
GFX & layout performance parity with 1.8, with no regressions [damon's raised a flag here regarding overall layout bandwidth]
Carbon-to-cocoa API work finished; new appshell implementation
Content: cut blocker list in half for content; fix some specific security vulnerabilities
Implement & land cross-site XMLHTTPrequest
Develop protected mode plan
Enable libXUL
Finish Breakpad implementation

Goal Meeting #2, May 2 @ 2:30PM PDT Notes:

A specific focus performance regressions: We will define milestones and performance targets and strive to reach them. Note: Will use the graph server to see and track international page rendering.
Begin immediately focusing on "+" bugs.
Significantly reduce the number of blocker bugs.

Enable new textframe (roc)
~~Complete compositor (roc)~~
Fix Major Regressions From the Reflow Branch Landing:
- bug 300030 (dbaron)
- bug 332922 (dbaron)
Get style system tested under mochitest well enough to catch common mistakes when adding CSS properties (dbaron)
add reftests for reflow branch work (particularly table width calculation) (dbaron)
make progress on layout invariant assertions (dbaron)
Accessibility Improvement: key 1.9 style system changes: ~~media queries (bug 156716)~~, always use my colors pref bug 348637 (dbaron)
additional important (user-facing) patches: scroll position restoration bug 43114, link handling bug 335963 (dbaron)
~~progress on top CSS bugs~~ (dbaron)
Implement Unicode-compatible line breaking (smontagu)
International text issues from new textframe (smontagu) ? (Does this mean we won't have any issues with international text?)
Initialize editors for at least single-line text controls lazily (bzbarsky)
Get enn's popup rewrite reviewed (bzbarsky)

Feature-complete gfx (Note: Requires sync with Firefox plans for UI demands from gfx [mconnor]; same applies to SVG [tor])
No functional regressions in gfx rendering
Performance parity with 1.8. (BIG NOTE: might be too difficult for this quarter.)
Rewrite parts of CSS Rendering for performance/correctness (initially borders/outlines -- vlad)

Make style sheets know their principal and make URI/Image CSSValues know what their originating principal is (bzbarsky)
Land the "don't block parser on stylesheets" patch (bzbarsky)
Stop adding <br> nodes to plaintext in editor (depends on new textframe) (bzbarsky)
Implement and land Cross Site XMLHttpRequest (sicking)
Cut my blocker list in half, including fixing any beta blockers (sicking)
Investigate <include> and, if appropriate, implement it. Otherwise work on XBL2 (sicking)
Fix plugin widget reparenting to solve plugin teardown problems, primarily on Win32 (jst)
Sort out JS principals vs scope issue described in bug 317240 (jst)
Continue investigating Mozilla 2 (jst)

Convince reference implementation of JS2/ES4 to pass spidermonkey and AS3 testsuites
Fix bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363891

Develop breakpad client/server with all the features and QA reports needed for a release
Finish the FF+XR build system to ship the resulting builds, and fix the mac UB builds (bsmedberg)
--enable-libxul for Firefox (bsmedberg)

Develop a concrete plan & timeline for configure system rework/replacement (luser/bsmedberg)

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