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)
  • Jeremy Chen (:jeremychen)
  • Shing Lyu (:shinglyu)
  • Tingyu Lin (:TYLin)

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
• Web Animation APIs
• 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

quarter	merge date	central	aurora	beta	release date	release	ESR
Q1	2017-01-23	Firefox 54	Firefox 53	Firefox 52	2017-01-24	Firefox 51	Firefox 45.7
	2017-03-06	Firefox 55	Firefox 54	Firefox 53	2017-03-07	Firefox 52	Firefox 45.8; 52.0
Q2	2017-04-17	Firefox 56	Firefox 55	Firefox 54	2017-04-18	Firefox 53	Firefox 45.9; 52.1
	2017-06-12	Firefox 57	Firefox 56	Firefox 55	2017-06-13	Firefox 54	Firefox 52.2
Q3	2017-08-07	Firefox 58	Firefox 57	Firefox 56	2017-08-08	Firefox 55	Firefox 52.3
Q4	2017-10-02	Firefox 59	Firefox 58	Firefox 57	2017-10-03	Firefox 56	Firefox 52.4
	2017-11-27	Firefox 60	Firefox 59	Firefox 58	2017-11-28	Firefox 57	Firefox 52.5
Q1	2018-01-21	Firefox 61	Firefox 60	Firefox 59	2018-01-22	Firefox 58	Firefox 52.6

Weekly Report

2015

2016

2017

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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)