Platform/2009-08-11

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.14

• code freeze today
• 3 blockers left that need 1.9.0 fixes
• (one of those we'll take past code freeze for sure)

Firefox 3.5.3

• code freeze today
• 1 blocker left that needs a 1.9.1 fix
• might push one day to pick up some non-blockers
• mostly a 'sync up' release with 3.0.x

Firefox 3.6a1

• shipped on Friday
• not a ton of traction yet (more users on old trunk nightlies)

Blocker Report

Gecko 1.9.2 / Namoroka

• Release Blockers (flag: blocking1.9.2 or blocking-firefox3.6)
  • 89 open
  • 188 nominations (most in blocking-firefox3?)

Content Update

• infallible malloc ready to land bug 441324
• HTML5 work moving along (hsivonen has the details).
• multi process network implementation starting to materialize.
• XBL2 implementation moving along (jonas has details).
• peterv found some problems with XPConnect perf bug 499199 and has been working on ways around that.
• peterv got ibench up n' running and will be looking into why don't perform better than we do.
• mrbkap working with labs to iron out a security model for JetPacks.

Platform-specific Support Update

• Final Windows 7 SDK came out on Friday, testing in progress
• Windows 7 integration work continues

JS

• ES5 Status (tracking bug bug 445494):
  • Meta-object API:
    • bug 307791 (waldo): Object.keys
    • bug 430133 (waldo): Object.defineProperty and friends
    • bug 509510 (jimb): Object.getPrototypeOf shouldn't coerce.
  • Strict mode:
    • bug 482298 (jimb): Strict mode.
    • bug 497869 (jimb): Warnings about reserved words.
    • bug 495325 (jimb): Indirect eval.
  • Regexp:
    • bug 98409 (waldo): literal regexps and lastIndex.
    • bug 465199 (sayrer): Regexp lastIndex property type.
    • bug 501739 (unassigned): string match, replace vs. global lastIndex.
  • Misc:
    • bug 430930 (bruce): Date.parse and ISO 8601.
    • bug 496923 (unassigned): Integrate ECMAScript 5 conformance test suite
    • bug 509733 (unassigned): ES5 chimera arguments object

Roundtable

• Branching for mozilla-1.9.2 bug 504143
  • Planning to bring up all normal Firefox builds (linux, linux 64-bit, mac, win32) + l10n, maemo/winmo + l10n. WinCE to come with or shortly after bug 485109. Anything else?
  • Will be cloning mozilla-central and l10n repositories today or tomorrow, please don't touch them yet.
  • When are we doing? Before or after Mobile release?
    • No downtime is needed.
  • Will show up on http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=Firefox3.6