Platform/2009-10-13

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4

• Firefox 3.0.15: builds made, were targeting beta for Wednesday, but have to re-spin for one issue
• Firefox 3.5.4: builds made, beta on Friday, caught two issues which require a re-spin

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.5

• no schedule yet
• please work on your blockers though!

Firefox 3.6b1

• all blockers done!
• waiting for green cycle, then can go to build

Firefox 3.6 RC

• fix yer blockers

Blocker Report

See more Firefox 3.6 related blocker queries, or learn about the new status and blocker flags

• Release Blockers (flag: blocking1.9.2 or blocking-firefox3.6)
  • 118 OPEN (-25 w/w)
  • 24 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-52 w/w)
  • 37 nominations (+19 w/w)
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • 92 requests (+20 w/w)
  • 34 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (+3 w/w)
  • Charts: Nominations snapshots

Browser / Front End

(Progress reports every weekend on Planet Firefox)

• see our active projects and get involved / propose others
• Namoroka/mozilla-1.9.2 front end development:
  • Paul is pretty confident we can improve session restore speed for 1.9.2
  • now moving into bug fixes and closing down for ship

• mozilla-central front end development:
  • the team is now prioritizing feature work for 1.9.3
  • you can see the list of projects on the wiki
  • we've already started on async Places expiration, better find in page, showing already open tabs in the awesomebar, enhanced history UI (see faaborg's blog post for more), and ongoing work with improving the video controls

GFX Update

• 0 beta blockers; 3 1.9.2 blockers - all with patches.
• Jeff got his 0x0 stack unwinding improvement, bug 519616, landed in upstream breakpad; we're waiting on that fix to be taken into our instance of breakpad, bug 521231.
• Bas is starting a DirectWrite font backend for Cairo's GDI backend, which will make it possible (on Windows 7, and whenever it's backported, on Windows Vista) to have better-quality antialiasing on text.

Layout Update

• 1.9.2 blockers
  • 17 unfixed in layout, 4 with patches
  • 3 in video, all with patches
• CSS Transitions landed (dbaron)
• Added support for animating float values in transitions/SVG (dholbert)
• Mac timing weirdness on machines with no screen (mstange)

Platform-specific Support Update

• tab previews landed on trunk/1.9.2.
• jump lists landed on trunk.
• progress indicator platform code landed on trunk/1.9.2.
• Still waiting on progress indicator browser patch tests for landing, bug 474060.
• perf regressions, merge problems, bug fixes have been addressed.

JS

• chasing recording perf issues, having some success
• recursion regressions getting fixed
• ES5 parser changes landing

Electrolysis

• typeaheadfind works, in the testbed at least
• work on windowed and windowless plugins continues
• IPDL improvements including supports for array and shared memory types depends on refactoring the lowering pass: cjones on it
• the async drawWindow is reviewed: needs to land, and the API bits need to land in mozilla-central probably
• status reports available at http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/weekly-updates.fcgi/project/electrolysis (there's a feed too)
• need to get memory-mapping working in order for realistic testing of fennec responsiveness... no owner yet
• ETA for JPW wrapper (mrkap)?

Roundtable

• these notes [added by beltzner]