Platform/2009-12-15

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

• everything's signed off, releasing today

Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7

• proposed schedule at links above, tree is open, please work on blockers
• may adjust schedule to go for early January release to update users with fix for bug 534090 which affects major updates

Firefox 3.6 Beta Testers

• approaching 600,000 ADUs
• getting good feedback through various channels
• Beta 5 builds are being tested by QA now, targeting a Thursday release unless we get to RC first

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate

• we are really, really close to being code-complete (see blocker report)
  • only need 8 more patches, and a tracemonkey merge
• need all hands on deck for those patches and on incoming nominations
• if we can go to build today or tomorrow, QA will scrap Beta 5 and we'll release RC to the beta audience ASAP

Blocker Report

Firefox 3.6 RC Code Completion

• 4 nominations to be triaged
• 25 code blockers remaining:
  • 20 in JavaScript: 13 are fixed on tracemonkey (ETA on final 7)
  • 5 others: 1 is fennec-only, 1 needs a patch, 3 can land (who's landing them?)

All Blockers (includes website, release management, etc)
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)
  • 16 OPEN (-9 w/w) (7 are non-code)
  • 16 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-1 w/w)
  • 4 nominations (-11 w/w)
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • email beltzner if you have approval requests needing attention
  • 35 requests (-51 w/w)
  • 10 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (+1 w/w)
  • Charts: Nominations snapshots

Browser / Front End

(Progress reports every weekend on Planet Firefox)

• see our active projects and get involved / propose others
• mozilla-1.9.3 front end development (see planet firefox for quick overview):
  • Drew's made Places data visible in a content window
  • Blair's tweaking tab match in awesomebar, should land on trunk soon
  • Rob Strong is fixing the updater for unprivileged windows users, and finding wins in JS startup time (see more)

Content Update

• JavaScript inter-Process Wrappers (benjamn):
  • Refactored to represent each JSObject with an actor pair.
  • frameLoader.attachChildGlobal(node, "propertyName") to create a property on |node| corresponding to the child's global object, thereby exposing the wrapper.
  • Grass-roots support (mrkbap, peterv) for a change in terminology: Cross-Process Object Wrappers (CPOWs)?
  • Look for my patch in bug 516522 at the first light on the fifth day (end of this week).

Tree Management

• Stopped sending test results to *-Unittest trees. bug 534252 Scraping will need to be turned on as new columns show up.
• Enabled mochitest-ipcplugins tests on m-c, places, tracemonkey bug 530522
• Turned on optimized and debug packaged tests on tracemonkey bug 524176

Roundtable

• Need to discuss adding a null deref to make add-ons fail early, i.e., Relevant Knowledge uses the a11y API in a non-threadsafe way. We should block the dlls, but also keep add-on developers from using this in a way that will eventually crash. The problem is we don't know how many add-ons this will break (and will it matter?). Also, is there a patch ready to make this happen? If not, can we get one ready so that we are prepared to pull the trigger? Peterv has the details. (damons)