Platform/2010-12-21

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Notices / Schedule

• Beta 8 is out to mirrors, investigating one possible issue before being ready to push live
• Mobile beta 3 is gated on Google, may need to respin, see bug 620584

• the great retriage happened last week
  • removed about 25% of our blocking bugs from the lists
  • also greatly reduced the list of nominations (though we’re back up to 60 or so!)
  • need to make this a regular thing – maybe Thursdays?

• we need to stop shipping Firefox 3.6 to users
  • current blocker count reducing by about 40 blockers/week
  • using that rate, we’re looking at 10-12 more weeks of development time, which still isn’t fast enough
  • need to keep our focus tight, and continually re-evaluate whether or not we need to fix something in Firefox 4

Blocker Report

Firefox 4 Beta

• Beta 9: 49 blockers
• Beta: 287 blockers
• Final: 180 blockers
  • TOTAL: 466 blockers
  • nominations: 57 nominations
  • ready to land: 8 blockers ready

Firefox Development

(from our goals):

Firefox

• [AT RISK] Finish Firefox 4
  • 224 Firefox/Toolkit blockers

• [ON TRACK] API-Complete Jetpack
  • Joint with Jetpack team
  • Currently working towards feature-complete beta SDK

• [ON TRACK] Stand up basic Firefox with Electrolysis
  • Joint with Platform
  • UI may not be functional, should launch and open a web page.
  • Project tracking page

Developer Tools

• [NEW] Finish Firefox 4 developer tools
  • 26 blocking developer tools bugs

• [NEW] Ensure that Firefox 4 ships with a compatible version of Firebug

• [NEW] Publish a roadmap for integrated developer tools in Firefox, including console, inspection, and js debugging

• [NEW] Develop long term plan for Skywriter maintenance/support

Platform

(there is a team-by-team goals breakdown, as well)

• [ON TRACK] Finish Firefox 4 blockers.
• [ON TRACK] Support Firefox Team to stand up a browser on Electrolysis.

• [ON TRACK] Ship Firefox 4 final with layers composition accelerated using:
  • OpenGL on Mac OS X;
  • Direct3D on Windows.
• [ON TRACK] Ship Firefox 4 final with content accelerated using Direct2D on Windows Vista/7.
• [ON TRACK] Ship Firefox 4 final with better Opentype font feature support using Harfbuzz on all tier-1 platforms, and text rendering performance equal to or better than Firefox 3.6.
• [ON TRACK] Ship Firefox 4 final with full WebGL 1.0 support turned on by default on all platforms that support OpenGL.

• [DONE] Integrate Opentype santizer library

• [ON TRACK] Play back video on Fennec without blocking on main content thread
• [ON TRACK] Integrate codec ARM optimizations

• [ON TRACK] Ship indexedDB
• [ON TRACK] Ship HTML5 parser
• [ON TRACK] Ship HTML5 forms (current set)
• [ON TRACK] Ship GC compartments work
• [ON TRACK] Proof of concept implementation of a proxy based DOM binding
• [ON TRACK] 30% performance improvment on the Cal_* tests in Zimbra

• Performance 15% improved over Oct 1 Sunspider perfomance
• Performance 15% improved over Oct 1 v8 performance
• Continuous ARMv7 Android and Maemo JS Shell regression and performance testing in place

• [ON TRACK] Drive blocker list to zero.
• [ON TRACK] Develop implementation plan for OOP content accessibility.

• [ON TRACK] Fix and ship multi-process plugins on Mac
• [ON TRACK] Fix and ship asynchronous plugin painting on all plaforms
• [ON TRACK] Fix and ship content processes on Fennec

Layout

• 66 blockers in Layout+SVG+Video+Widget

Tree Management

• FF4.0b8 was bumpy. Sorry
  • changes to RelEng automation caused several different l10n problems
  • addon max version check caused problem with Feedback button
  • more details after postmortem – stay tuned.
• yesterday’s tree closure caused by un-expected change to graphserver, which was surprise to RelEng and IT. Backed out.
• ok to turn off ts_cold?
  • comments in bug#619536
• securing RelEng systems – will require build-vpn

Roundtable

• (Beltzner) next week’s meeting on or cancelled?
• (joduinn) moderate platform+firefox meetings like the mofo meeting? deal with voip-delays, irc, etc.
• Crash Summary
  • Very few users on Beta8 so far. A few new signatures starting with QQ. We will watch those as the users increase.
  • Explosive regression on the trunk – https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619933. Waiting to verify if it was fixed by another bug.
  • A bunch of new crash signatures on the trunk – in the process of logging those.