Platform/2014-Q3-Goals: Difference between revisions

** {{done|Migrate SVG to Moz2D (bug 703159) }}

** {{miss|{{bug|902762}}}} -  Vertical text run creation. Needs r+ and landed.

** {{miss|{{bug|1062963}}}} - Make nsFloatManager use logical coordinates. Working through remaining test failures.

** {{done|{{bug|998869}}}} Streamline parsing of fontlists and improve efficiency of font matching code (note: unicode-range support will fall out of this work)

** {{miss|transitions/animations spec editing}}

** {{done|transitions refactoring to match new spec}}  

** {{miss|Effective start of CSS animations and transitions {{bug|927349}}}}

** {{miss|turning on on other OMTC platforms (Mac/Android)}}

** {{done|Implement PlaybackControl() {{bug|1033114}}}}

** {{miss|CSS scroll snapping}}

** {{done|scroll-behavior:smooth}}

** 99% done, but John got pulled into e10s plugin work ({{bug|874016}}) but made excellent progress here and was ''very'' close to preffing on by the end of Q3.

* {{miss|get [https://w3c.github.io/screen-orientation/ screen orientation spec] to LC (marcosc)}}

* {{miss|publish spec for [http://w3c.github.io/wake-lock/ "wakelock" API] (marcosc)}}

* {{done|(milestone reached, work continues in Q4) Initialize plugin instances asynchronously {{bug|998863}} }}

* {{miss|('''Blocked on external dependencies + unplanned newtab page work took precedence''') Pause heavy main-thread activities while user is interacting with the browser: }}

** {{miss|Determine when a user is actively interacting with the browser}}

** {{miss|Detect when jank occurs during interactions and report to Telemetry {{bug|1017055}} }}

** {{miss|Experiment with hinting to GC & CC that they should pause while the user is interacting with the browser}}

* {{done|(refactoring work continues) Help Frontend team with Places refactoring, eliminate some of the [http://telemetry.mozilla.org/slowsql/ Places main-thread SQL] reported to Telemetry }}

* {{done|Don't store UI customization in localstore.rdf, use off-main thread JSON instead {{bug|559505}} }}

* {{done|Reduce appearance of the "profile is in use" message on startup {{bug|286355}} }}

* {{defer|Restore windows one by one during session-restore {{bug|1034534}} and/or load windows by descending z-order {{bug|1034036}} }}

* {{done|C++ version of AsyncShutdown {{bug|918317}} }}

* {{done|Implement automatic detection & alerting for Telemetry regressions {{bug|1031032}} }}

* {{done|Help developers understand & diagnose Talos regressions}}, e.g. [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1026550 Firefox 33 regression tracking], [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1004427 Firefox 32 regressions], [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=990085 Firefox 31]

* {{done|Mentor at least 5 external contributors}}

* {{miss|}} Deploy ReviewBoard for developers to start using (joint with RelEng)

* {{done|}} Get Datazilla alerts to beta mode (full parity with graph server alerts) with reduced noise

* {{done|}} Create weekly reports that describe how many tests have been added/disabled/enabled per suite and platform

* {{done|}} Move reftest to mozbase

* {{done|}} Minify and concatenate JS files

* {{done|}} Authoritative view for review history

* {{done|}} Rewrite docs for REST API

* {{done|}} Prototype service for identifying post-crash user actions

* {{done|}} Remove older, redundant crash storage format from database

* {{done|}} Improve infrastructure.

** Switched back end to Elasticsearch, paving the way for [https://wiki.mozilla.org/DXR_Parallel_Tree_Indexing concurrent, independent tree indexing].

** Rewrite search controller, which was always complete spaghetti. We now have a genuine HTTP API!

** Upgrade Vagrant VM to a LTS release of Ubuntu.

** Render folder views at request time, a pilot for doing this with file view as well (which will save hundreds of GB of expensive NetApp space and, more importantly, speed indexing so we can do it more often).

* {{done|}} Broaden our audience.

** Added indexing for several releng trees.

** Added Google Analytics so we can measure our use.

** Rewrote highlighting support, fixing myriad UI bugs.

** Basic JS analysis 75% done. Rust analysis in progress.

* {{done|}} Input: Dashboards for Everyone ([[Firefox/Input/Dashboards for Everyone]]) [Get Firefox on a Growth Trajectory]

* {{done|}} Replace aging Firefox update service with a scalable, modern solution. (Get Firefox on a Trajectory of Growth) - Now on beta channel. release channel in early Q4

* {{miss|}} Simplify developer workflow by automating patch landing and uplift. (Enable Communities With Impact) - Implementation done; needs secreview and final integration, deployment.

* {{done|}} Optimize network transfers for build/test automation between datacenters. (Enable Communities With Impact)

* {{miss|}} Continue AWS cost optimizations: EBS < 3% of AWS bill (vs 30% in Q2) (Enable Communities With Impact) - Missed primarily due to lost headcount. Reduced our EBS cost in September to 11% of total; more reductions to come in Q4.

** {{done| Improve security for all releng windows infrastructure {{bug|893716}} [Get Firefox on a Trajectory of Growth] }}

** {{drop| Create self-service capability for releng hardware Firefox linux test slaves (build slaves as a stretch goal) {{bug|1026687}} (depends on completion of previous goal) [Get Firefox on a Trajectory of Growth, Scale Firefox OS] - bare metal openstack is proving to be too bleeding edge and buggy to use for production services. We will track changes made in the openstack code base and revist this in 9mo, but we will not move any services to production in FY2014 }}

* {{done|Upgrade existing Mercurial infrastructure to support more rapid, safe, and coordinated deployment of updates.}} [Get Firefox on a Growth Trajectory / Enable communities with impact]

* {{done| HPKP - implement pinning http header}} (dri=cviecco)

* {{done|}} Create and document process for Desktop/Mobile feature fast tracking

* {{done|}} Create B2G release model proposals and gather feedback for potential changes

* {{miss|}} Figure out what to do with B2G Security Releases