Mozilla 2/Work List

See the short template and the detailed template.

• Big, invasive, destabilizing changes. These are the sort of tasks that don't respond well to compression (e.g. throwing more people at it) and touch large pieces of the code and/or can destabilize other parts of the development. These are the sort of changes that once landed into the mainline development tree can become the long-pole for release and are difficult to unwind. From the Moz2 meetings it appears the following are in this category:
  • mmGC (including XPCOMGC) - bsmedberg
  • "Strings" -- sharing strings with JS or moving to STL, moving to UTF8, sanifying the existing string classes - bsmedberg
  • Exception support out for Moz2, but work will continue for post-2 - taras
  • deCOM - taras
  • ActionMonkey: Taramin JIT replacing SM *already underway* - actionmonkey stage 4/5 - jorendorff
  • Better threading support in the core layout engine
  • Mozilla 2/Centralized security checks - brendan
  • Mozilla 2/Protected mode - jmathies/rstrong
  • Mozilla 2/Memory - out-of-memory handling - figure out how to do OOM handling, allocator hooks to free up memory, etc. - bsmedberg (jasone)
  • GFX - 3D Acceleration - vlad

• Medium sized, significant in impact changes. These are non-trival, but better isolated. Easier to turn off or backout. Things such as:
  • XBL2
  • Frame construction cleanup
  • Inline re-flow
  • XUL box Model
  • Threaded parsing
  • Threaded image decoding
  • Fewer restarts (e.g. protected extension installs, etc)
  • Features needed for UE
  • UE improvements
  • l10n infra
  • fast-path DOM
  • EventHandlingCleanup
  • Removal of obsolete APIs
  • GFX - Compositor -- one widget per window, frame rate controls
  • GFX - Software Rendering Performance
  • SVG - Maintenance
  • GFX - Mobile
  • GFX - Cleanup -- general cleanup, removing old interfaces

• Smaller, isolated changes. These are smaller, easy to turn off, or don't impact other critical paths:
  • Worker threads
  • Mozilla 2/Video and Audio
  • CSS improvements
    • Mozilla 2/CSS Transforms
    • Mozilla 2/CSS OpenType Features
    • Mozilla 2/CSS3
  • Jail tag
  • querySelector / querySelectorAll (bug 416317)
  • SVG - Animation
  • SVG - Fonts
  • SVG - Filters
  • Tabs between windows
  • UE improvements
  • Kill liveconnect
  • Mozilla 2/GFX/ImageLib work - Image decode-on-draw, threaded decoding
  • SVG - Use-as-image
  • Mozilla 2/Canvas 3D
  • Rework arrays in IDL