Platform/2010-01-26

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.18 / Firefox 3.5.8

• code freeze January 19th <-- boy, that's a while ago, isn't it?
• there are 15 blockers remaining for 1.9.0.18
  • bz, ddahl, dholbert, jmathies, mrbkap (x9), roc, wtc (so, johnath?)
• there are 11 blockers remaining for 1.9.1.8
  • joe, kaie (x2, so johnath?), mats, mrbkap (x3), rs, roc, surkov, wtc (so, johnath?)
• release scheduled for Feb 16th

Firefox 3.6

• released last Thursday at 9:30am PST
• built off Gecko 1.9.2

Firefox for Maemo 1.0 RC3

• coming this week
• will be built off Gecko 1.9.2.1

Firefox 3.6.2

• will be built off Gecko 1.9.2.2
• potentially skipping the version number of Firefox 3.6.1 in order to stay in sync with platform
• hoping for small, mid-February release, co-inciding with Firefox 3.0.18/3.5.8

Gecko 1.9.3a1

• alpha hopefully coming in the next week or two
• 1.9.3 Triage: 200 nominations
• 1.9.3 alpha 1: 18 Open blockers
• features we want alpha testing on
• OOPP status?
• releasing Linux 64-bit builds for alpha 1?

Blocker Report

Browser / Front End

Holy crap, we shipped 3.6 and it is awesome! Let's do new, awesome things!

Among the upcoming awesome stuff you may want to keep an eye on:

• New theme work spinning up in earnest. UX/Dev teams met today to parcel out work, bugs being filed.
• Tab matches in awesomebar (new, possibly final patch coming this week) bug 480350
• Extension Manager UI rewrite moving along swiftly, and fleshing out the new Extension Manager API in the process.
• UI for crashed, out-of-process plugins in near-final review bug 538910
• Marco added some much-needed features to Browser-chrome-mochitests, which he blogged about.
• The Places API and Toolbar API for Jetpack are in final review stages.
• Ryan is assisting the I/O-- project by making content pref lookups asynchronous.

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GFX Update

• Pixman update landed on mozilla-central, and gave us a win on Tsvg, bu most importantly it gave us a whole lot of code churn, and therefore a new set of bugs. Please test!
• Cairo update work is ongoing. (This will allow us to use the cairo GL backend.)
• The Cairo side of the Direct2D patch has landed. Font, widget, etc work is still undergoing review.
• Core Animation patch (bug 497225) is undergoing review. It has some deficiencies that we hope are fixable, but might not be. There also seems to be no way to retrieve, and therefore test, its output (confirmed by an Apple employee).

Layout Update

• Plans laid for adaptive streaming at FOMS
• Landed syncbase timing for SVG animation

Content Update

• CPOWs still awaiting review (bent, feel free to steal SR from bsmedberg). Exception support in a followup bug. Coordinated with cjones to support automatic run-to-completion semantics.
• More people on board with e10s necko work
• Starting to help out with triaging for trunk alpha.
• Complete wrapperization ready for review.
• Talos now fixed so its pageset works with HTML5 parser builds.
• Main HTML5 parser mochitest failure reason identified.

Platform-specific Support Update

JS

Startup Performance

• Read the latest weekly update. (none last week)
• View snapshot results for startup and all other tests.

Priorities

More

• More details on the project page.
• Join us on IRC in #startup.

Security

Electrolysis

• Last known blockers to on-by-default should land today, hopefully on-by-default for tomorrow's nightly (bsmedberg will blog today)
• small set of additional blockers for beta, plus actually doing the backport. The tree is now live and working

Fennec-related work:

• async global history (Fred)
• networking (bsmedberg owes jduell a review)
• event handling (smaug)

Breakpad

• DWARF Linux support landed.
• DWARF CFI parser written, tests.
• Remaining work:
  • Unit tests for DWARF-CFI-to-Breakpad-STACK-CFI adapter. This is a small component; tests should be done today.
  • Various cleanups. No big stuff: Google C++ Style guide compliance points, etc.
  • Getting Google to review the patches. (Some of them are big.)

Tree Management

• Lorentz branch is open bug 536188
• Rest of new spec minis online. bug 537065

Will evaluate results after a week or two.

• Started move of n810s to faraday cage. bug 538523

Roundtable

• a brief word on blocking flags (beltzner)
• alpha builds could be delayed due to 3.0.18 / 3.5.8 / 3.6.2 releases
• Firebug point release next week
  • Firefox bug uploading with XHR with Firebug net panel and spy active, bug 542120
• See the dev.planning thread about post 3.6 CrashKill efforts. Don't be surprised if I (damons) tap you on the shoulder to chase down a crash. We'll be pushing fixes to crashes out as fast as we can.