Platform/2009-03-10

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.8

• Code freeze March 17

Thunderbird 2.0.0.21

• Code freeze happened two days late, but good enough
• Builds made
• On track to ship mid-March

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3

• tagged and built last week
• on track for Thursday release

Firefox 3.5 Beta 4

• proposed schedule in dev.planning thread
• we'll talk about it during the roundtable today

Blocker Report

• 58 blocker nominations (+25 w/w)
• 94 blockers left (-12 w/w)
  • 168 left to be fixed on branch (-6 w/w!)

Since 1.9.1 branch ...

Past 2 weeks ...

[ Platform Blocker Queries | Front End Blocker Queries ]

Summary

• our blocker fix rate has slowed over the past week, both on trunk and in porting the fixes to mozilla-1.9.1
• people haven't been doing triage; the number of nominations is growing

The Breakdown

• 33 blockers marked fixed1.9.1 over last week (-76 w/w)
• 48 bugs nominated for blocking over last week (+17 w/w)
  • blocking-firefox3.1+: 6 new unresolved (+1 w/w),1 new resolved blocking-firefox3.1+ added (-5 w/w)
  • blocking1.9.1+: 14 new unresolved (-9 w/w),12 new resolved blocking1.9.1+ added (-6 w/w)
• 31 patches approved for 1.9.1 over last week (+1 w/w)
• 48 blockers are FIXED but not yet landed on 1.9.1 (+2 w/w)

Browser / Front End

• Blockers: 11 remaining (+1 w/w) & 2 nominations
  • 0 Blockers to be fixed for Beta 3 (P1)
  • 11 Blockers to be fixed for RC (P2) (-10 w/w)
  • 4 blockers need 1.9.1 landing

• Sprints
  • Bookmark Dialog Focus - on trunk, some modifications coming and then will be up for branch approval
  • Always have option to Add Search - near ready to land, should be going on trunk soon
  • Restore Visible Tabs First - has reviews, will land on trunk first
  • Places Expiration Performance Refactoring - on trunk
  • Focus Ring Cleanup - on trunk and branch
  • more coming soon!

• Polish update: Firefox is 44% shiny (+4% over last week)
  • Thanks go to: ehsan, mstange (3) and Dao (5)
  • 48 remaining easy polish bugs (whiteboard [polish-easy])
  • 35 remaining hard polish bugs(whiteboard [polish-hard])

GFX 1.9.1 Update

• Bug status:
  • 4 blocking 1.9.1+
  • 1 unknown imglib topcrasher; joe's working on it, but we can't reproduce, and crash reporter stacks are mostly worthless.
  • 1 Security
  • 1 imglib followon patch
  • 1 crasher fix
  • 0 nom
• Focus:
  • Finishing remaining blockers

Layout 1.9.1 Update

• Layout
  • 6 blockers
  • Current work: multiple backgrounds (dbaron), frame constructor (bzbarsky), Cleartype ink issues (jkew), CSS gradients (ventnor), incremental reflow (bzbarsky)
• SVG
  • 2 blockers
• Video/Audio
  • 13 blockers
  • Major items remaining: A/V sync (doublec), block cache (roc), new load algorithm (cpearce) (done), seek performance (doublec) other spec updates, codec code audit issues (getting done)
• NO untriaged noms

Content 1.9.1 Update

• 14 blockers
  • No P1 blockers!
  • There are 5 bugs that need landing.
  • 8 blocker bugs without patch.

• 5 untriaged nominations

JS 1.9.1

• 42 blockers
  • 2 P1s
  • 34 P2s
  • 3 P3-5s
  • 3 unprioritized
• 7 untriaged nominations
• bug 452498 - upvar, remains tricky, being worked

Mobile 1.9.1 Update

• Now have WinCE builds mobile tinderbox is here, YouTube Video review of it on an HTC touch is here ;)

Security

Security Reviews

Still outstanding / to be scheduled

• native JSON
• DNS prefetching

Booked but not yet completed

Tree Management

Greener tinderbox

• clint to set up 3 machines (one for each platform) and run it for a week to log random-oranges; clint will also compare VM to native to see if there are problems caused by that
  • clint to file bugs to get machines set up
    • win2k3 machine - bug 479086
    • centos machine - bug 479088
    • mac os x machine - bug 479091
    • cent os VM - bug 479092
    • (I already have a win2k3 ref platform hosted VM)
  • clint to talk to alice about her experience

• Getting crash stacks from Talos
  • patches are up, pending review?alice.
  • Will need some testing on talos-staging before being deployed
  • Do we want this for unit tests also? How urgently?

• Run unit tests on packaged builds bug 421611, bug 383136
  • Mochitest bits all landed
  • Reftest about halfway done, expect to finish this week
  • XPCshell still an unknown, probably ~2 weeks more work

Roundtable

• What the status on getting a plan done for out of process plugins? bug 478976
• Ignoring sporadic oranges is bad (beltzner)
• Consider localStorage feature land on 1.9.1, bug 422526