Platform/2009-11-17

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

• 3.5.6: Everything in, but we found on regression we need to fix.
• 3.0.16: One patch to land and the same regression to fix.
• still on track for both releases

Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7

• no schedule for either release yet
• will start marking blockers this week and sending out emails to blocker owners
• tree should open in early December

Firefox 3.6 Beta

• beta user base is now over 300,000
• beta 3 refresh shipping later tonight
  • component directory lockdown patch
  • beta 1 topcrash fixes
  • WinCE updater fix
  • aero peek preview per tab is disabled
  • asynchronous script execution
  • extension checkcompatibility preference behavior change
  • over 90 fixes

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate

• tree was closed for a lot of this morning
• blocker counts haven't come down appreciably, though 1/4 of them are "crashkill"
• what does this mean for schedule?

Blocker Report

See more Firefox 3.6 related blocker queries, or learn about the new status and blocker flags

• Release Blockers (flag: blocking1.9.2 or blocking-firefox3.6)
  • 97 OPEN (+4 w/w)
  • 34 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-5 w/w)
  • 33 nominations (-19 w/w)
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • 111 requests (-4 w/w)
  • 17 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (+6 w/w)
  • Charts: Nominations snapshots

Browser / Front End

(Progress reports every weekend on Planet Firefox)

• see our active projects and get involved / propose others
• Namoroka/mozilla-1.9.2 front end development:
  • 21 blockers left, 9 are crashkill, 7 need patches
  • bug 519438 and bug 496019 are confusing and annoying, will likely require a late compatibility-breaking fix
  • bug 526194 is actually responsible for a bunch of the blockers which are dependencies of the main fix
  • all blockers have patches in progress except for DLL blocklist and credits bugs

GFX Update

• 6 1.9.2 blockers
  • Most are well-controlled and will be ready. But bug 518506 is scary, and its fix is scarier. Karl suggests that he could be ready by EOD Wednesday, but it's not a certain thing.
• Everyone is heads-down working on 1.9.2 or Electrolysis.
• Aero peek per-tab preview work is stopped, because Rob Arnold's development machine has died.
• Jeff is working on a scrolling performance pageset. If you have any pages that you know scroll slowly, please add them to bug 527728.

Layout Update

• 1.9.2 blockers: 8 open, 3 fixed only on trunk
  • all have patches in some stage of review/revision
  • 522088/507294 will land on trunk as soon as it reopens

Startup Performance

• Latest weekly update is here.
• Snapshot results for startup and all other tests are now *live* (thanks Catlee): http://graphs.mozilla.org/dashboard/snapshot/
• Joel is making progress on making a super-static Firefox in bug 525013. He's got a static XUL working, moving on to XPCOM next.
• Ben is making progress on the fastload replacement in bug 520309.
• Taras has patches up for service caching (bug 516085 and super-fast-path-ing of Components.* (bug 512584).
• More patches and data about Mac font-loading by Jonathan Kew and John Dagget in bug 519445.
• Ryan put up some details about when spellcheck is initialized, a couple of potential solutions in bug 496217.
• Ted landed rebasing on Windows in bug 484799.
• Drew’s work on getting rid of Change GetPersistentDescriptor/SetPersistentDescriptor on Mac, has landed in bug 506814.

• More details on the project page.
• Join us on IRC in #startup.

Security

pending reviews

feature	review date	who	interested
Windows TSF integration (1.9.2)	unscheduled	Jim Chen, roc
DNS Prefetching	unscheduled	Patrick McManus	Jesse, bz, reed(?), ctalbert
New system metrics (and media queries)	unscheduled	?	dbaron

Top Security Bugs

Electrolysis

• Everyone working on blockers for bug 523094

Tree Management

• Downtimes:
  • today: IT upgraded stage to RHEL5 (long-delayed). Back up now, trees will re-open very soon.
  • thursday AM EST: try server, to reclone the repo
    • working on a solution to do this automatically bug 529179
• talos for e10s
• new talos tests:
  1. v8
  2. tsvg_opacity
  3. dirty+cold startup tests
  4. measuring x resources during linux tp4 runs
• more n810s (40) and 30+ minis coming online
• power outage rescheduled to Sat. Nov. 21st. Reminder that mobile coverage will be down, same plan as last time. Aki handling things on the RelEng side.