TPE-Layout

Team Profile

Who We Are

Taipei layout team is dedicated on web platforms development along with a primary mission to enable web rendering features upon html layout engines. The platforms we are working on including Gecko and Servo.

Members

• Engineering Manager
  • Astley Chen (:astley)
• Developers (:IRC)
  • Boris Chiou (:boris)
  • Cameron McCormack (:heycam)
  • CJ Ku (:CJKu)
  • Eric Tsai (:etsai)
  • Jeremy Chen (:jeremychen)
  • Louis Chang (:louis)
  • Tingyu Lin (:TYLin)
  • Tommy Kuo (:kuoe0)
  • Ya-Chieh Wu (:YaChieh)

Contact

 Mail list: tw-layout@mozilla.com
 IRC channel: #layout-tpe

Domain Areas

• HTML5 Detail & Summary
• Clipboard, Copy & Paste
• CSS Masking
• CSS Text layout & render
• CSS Transform
• Animations
• SVG

Team Management

Dashboard

• Project Dashboard
• Bugs Dashboard
• Quarterly Measurement Dashboard
  • 2016
    
  • 2017

Quarterly Goals

• 2016-Q1 Goals
• 2016-Q2 Goals
• 2016-Q3 Goals
• 2016-Q4 Goals
• 2017-Q1 Goals
• 2017-Q2 Goals
• 2017-Q3 Goals
• 2017-Q4 Goals

OKR

 OKR stands for Objectives and Key Results.
 It is a method of defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes.
 Its main goal is to connect company, team and personal objectives to measurable results,
 making people move together in the right direction.

 Ref:
 * Guide to OKRs - Mozilla
 * How Google sets Goals
 * Video on OKRs
 * 37 page oreilly book introducing OKRs

Release Schedule

• Release Calendar

Firefox Merge Dates

Release Owners

quarter	merge date	central	beta	release date	release	ESR
Q4	2017-11-13	Firefox 59	Firefox 58	2017-11-14	Firefox 57	Firefox 52.5
Q1	2018-01-15	Firefox 60	Firefox 59	2018-01-16	Firefox 58	Firefox 52.6
	2018-03-05	Firefox 61	Firefox 60	2018-03-06	Firefox 59	Firefox 52.7; 59.0
Q2	2018-04-30	Firefox 62	Firefox 61	2018-05-01	Firefox 60	Firefox 52.8; 59.1
	2018-06-25	Firefox 63	Firefox 62	2018-06-26	Firefox 61	Firefox 59.2
Q3	2018-08-20	Firefox 64	Firefox 63	2018-08-21	Firefox 62	Firefox 59.3
Q4	2018-10-15	Firefox 65	Firefox 64	2018-10-16	Firefox 63	Firefox 59.4
	2018-11-26	Firefox 66	Firefox 65	2018-11-27	Firefox 64	Firefox 59.5

Weekly Report

2015

2016

2017

Knowledge Base

• Gecko Style System
  • Mozilla Style System Documentation
  • MDN Style System Overview
  • CSS Selector Specificity

• Mozilla Release Processes
• CSS Platform priorities

Sharings

• 2014/10/01 - Introduction to Python Programming Language (Ting-Yu)
• 2014/10/31 - git talk (CJ)
• 2015/04/17 - GFX tool (part I) (Boris)
• 2015/04/28 - clipboard web api (Jeremy)
• 2015/07/24 - Clipboard APIs - Copy/Paste Images (Boris)
• 2017/01/17 - Auto deferencing in Rust (Boris)