Platform/2009-08-11

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- multitouch JS API prototype work
- streaming video controls
- new UI mechanism for application notifications ("doorhangers")
triage to be finished this week
feature priorities are:
- asynchronous location bar (landed)
- awesomeform complete (landed)
- potential uplift of personas (under evaluation)
- responsiveness increases

bug 507970 - New font file formats for the web: EOT Lite and ZOT - Support in development.
Jeff & Joe were in New Orleans for SIGGRAPH 2009. Blog posts about interesting stuff upcoming.
Decode-on-draw work ongoing in bug 435296.

infallible malloc ready to land bug 441324
HTML5 work moving along (hsivonen has the details).
multi process network implementation starting to materialize.
XBL2 implementation moving along (jonas has details).
peterv found some problems with XPConnect perf bug 499199 and has been working on ways around that.
peterv got ibench up n' running and will be looking into why don't perform better than we do.
mrbkap working with labs to iron out a security model for JetPacks.
HTML5 History API progress
File drag'n'drop implemented. File API progress

Final Windows 7 SDK came out on Friday, testing in progress (bug 505504)
- May require updating to vc9 (bug 416117 and bug 508861)
Windows 7 integration work continues (see jumplists, taskbar previews in bug 474052)

plugin work (NPObject) ongoing...
need help with windowless plugins
need lots of help with Mac
tab work is going slowly... bz will be able to return to that during/after the workweek

Branching for mozilla-1.9.2 bug 504143
- Planning to bring up all normal Firefox builds (linux, linux 64-bit, mac, win32) + l10n, maemo/winmo + l10n. WinCE to come with or shortly after bug 485109. Anything else?
- Please do not check in to the new mozilla-1.9.2 repositories; we're still cloning mozilla-central and l10n repositories today or tomorrow.
- When are we doing this? Before or after Mobile "go to build"?
  - impact of possible Fennec respins
  - No downtime is needed.
- Will show up on http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=Firefox3.6
Fun and games with colo outage Sunday; fast recovery
Now that tp4 rolled out in production, planning to:
- turn off fast-talos machines bug 509744
- stop running tp3 bug 509759
Last batch of new slaves added late last week; will monitor waittimes to see about adding more

WebGL update
breakpad-on-ARM owner?
Update on Code Coverage (timr)
- Latest results: c/c++ and JS
- We had a good discussions with the Content and JS teams last week. Some issues we are looking into are: Specific files with surprisingly low coverage. How coverage for in-lined code is handled. Annotating the coverage results pages with info like: a file was recently re-designed and therefore previous bug data may no longer be valid. Setting up coverage on additional platforms.
- Also see the new FAQ and new Code Cov one stop shopping wiki
- Other next steps: Identify with the Dev teams which files should be targeted for additional testing. Work with other teams like the Firefox team to understand how this info could be used. Feel free to contact Murali or myself if you want to dig into the data with us.
Content intern project progress
unittests on debug builds coming (bug 372581)
- dbaron is planning to treat stuff that breaks unittests on debug builds as "orange", and thus deserve to have NS_ABORT_IF_FALSE summarily changed to NS_ASSERTION if it fires during our tests (and likewise NS_ASSERTIONs that fire during xpcshell tests changing to NS_WARNING)
- we're having issues with extremely slow tests (mochitest-browser-chrome), and huge log files (~ 3.8 GB, mostly assertions)

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