Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2007-05-01

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This wiki page embodies two separate meetings (Firefox 3 on Tuesday then Gecko 1.9 on Wednesday), listed below, which detail the progress of Firefox 3, code named: Gran Paradiso, and the Gecko 1.9 progress. Previously, these meeting notes where separated and we sometimes covered the same information twice with conflicting results. The date/time/channel/number is listed in each meeting's section.

Firefox 3 Meeting

Meeting Details

• Tuesdays - Firefox 3 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern
• Mozilla <option> conference room
• Wednesdays - Gecko 1.9 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern
• Mozilla <table> conference room
• 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #granparadiso for backchannel

PRD Status Update

• We have started to implement the change management process for the PRD
  • Outstanding Requests to review: bug 379313
  • AI: Basil to add microformats requiremenst to staffed PRD.
• PRD has been wiki-fied - thanks Deb - Firefox3/Product_Requirements_Document

Open actions for PRD progress

• AI: All. Potentially enabling HTTP Pipelining - Decision
  • Inform the decision:
    • Wikipedia Article - Mozilla Article - W3C Spec
    • Do any web sites use it? Doesn't appear to be
    • Is it enabled by default with Apache? Yes, part of HTTP/1.1 protocol
    • Does it break the web - proxy servers? Anecdotally, yes
    • Technical risk: what is involved?
    • Any other browsers supporting it?
      • Opera does
• Working list has been closed - Firefox3/Firefox_Requirements_Meetings/Follow_up_Actions.
• AI: Mconnor to post to blog - Find an owner for "Get all Linux distros involved in Firefox development" - ubuntu, suse, redhat, fedora, etc
• AI: Myk/Mconnor - "Rich search results"- proposal, including adding proposed PRD items. What's the resolution?

Work in progress

• Places Bookmarks
  • 16 open blockers (bug 370099) for turning on bookmarks by default.

• Password Manager
  • JS rewrite up for review (bug 374324). mconnor is working through the review still (650k diff!). hopefully landing by Friday
  • next step is design work on other PRD items

• Content Handling
  • Fusion prototype getting pushed to Labs soon, other work ramping up soon

• Security UI
  • Page info updates landed for a4, more things coming in a5 (johnath on vacation this week)

Schedule

• Proposed Schedule
• Added Alpha 5 detailed deliverables and cut-off dates
• How can we use the BZ field: "Target Milestone" to help track what gets delivered in Alpha 5 and subsequent Alphas?
• AI: Mconnor to write up proposal for how to use Target Milestone and blocker flags for tracking release.

Localization Topics

• Proposal for L10N cut-off dates

Round table

• Other business?
• Don't forget to add changes that may impact documentation to the Firefox 3 for developers page.

Gecko 1.9 Meeting

Meeting Details

• 11:00am PDT (18:00 UTC)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
• join irc.mozilla.org #granparadiso for backchannel

General Discussion

• HTTP Pipelining above: Need more details from the Platform team whether or not this will break backward compatibility.
  • We need to answer whether or not this works.
  • Is it worth breaking things for the speed?

• Target milestones in BZ need to be set for all 1.9 blockers (at a minimum).
• Sheriff/tree management update?

Blockers and Noms

(Schrep to update with numbers here).

See: [1]

GFX Update

• Progress made last week (Blockers resolved last week)
  • (vlad) landed border rendering rewrite patch with some regressions (fixes 4 or so blockers)

• What we're working on this week (Blockers this week).
  • (vlad) regressions from borders (Txul in particular)
  • (vlad) patch reviews for Masayuki's linux perf patches, should see that land this week
  • (vlad) Mac performance (image rendering in particular)

• Issues/Concerns/Requests

Layout Update

• Progress made last week (Blockers resolved last week)
  • Roc: working on new-textrun-cache patch, fixed gtalk regression
  • dbaron: finished up big round of writing style system mochitests
  • smontagu: finding and fixing bugs in international text with new textframe
• What we're working on this week (Blockers this week).
  • Roc: split up new-textrun-cache patch for review
  • dbaron: work on list of reflow branch regressions
  • smontagu: fixing more bugs with international text with new textframe
• Issues/Concerns/Requests

Content Update

• Progress made last week (Blockers resolved last week)
  • peterv, dbaron, sicking, graydon: cycle collector performance improvements
• What we're working on this week (Blockers this week).
• Issues/Concerns/Requests

Mac Update

• Progress made last week
• • Josh worked on native theme stuff, buttons in particular (bug 379297)
  • Colin removed nsINativeScrollbar and associated code, looking into blocker bug 376808
• What we're working on this week
  • Josh working on native theme issues
  • Colin working on assorted Cocoa bugs
  • Stan working on drag'n'drop
• Issues/Concerns/Requests
  • Josh will need to talk with layout people about layout issues with popup menu buttons

Build Tools Update

• Firefox --enable-libxul can now be packaged like regular builds
• The Linux refplatform machine performance issues are unresolved and there isn't a good plan going forward