Mozilla Project Weekly Status: October 27th

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO)

AMO 4.0.3 – Status: In Planing

Code freeze: November 10th

FIREFOX/GECKO

Fx 2.0.0.18 & Fx 3.0.4/Gecko 1.8.1.18 & 1.9.0.4 – Pending Hand-off to Builds

Firefox 2.0.0.18 / 3.0.4 mostly froze over the weekend.
- Need to take one or two more patches
- Slipping hand off to build by a day or two (aiming for one day)
Schedule

Fx 3.1b1 (Shiretoko)/Gecko 1.9.1b1 – Status: Released October 14th

100k users on beta 1 (last week was underreported)
- lots of on positive press for performance
- accounting for small percentage of support incidents

Fx 3.1b2 (Shiretoko)/Gecko 1.9.1b2 – Status: In Process

Hot item for Beta 2: Turning on Tracemonkey. Remaining Items:
- TM: for-in loops skip every other value in certain cases: bug 458851
- TM: Support script timeouts in compiled code: bug 450000
- TM: Multiple trees per entry point: bug 450833
- There are more issues than the above remaining, but these are gotta-haves.
Other items remaining for final:
- Still working through remaining issues for Downloadable Fonts.
- Several crash bugs remaining on the blocker list
- Most other blocking issues are regressions and nasty one off bug fixes.
work underway for beta 2
- fsync work has yet to land, hopefully will happen soon (still ironing out perf regression costs)
- private browsing mode is “so close”, should see it soon
- additional bookmarking features and finish up on <video> coming
Feature Testing
- Worker Threads: Contacted bent@mozilla.com. Updating the test plan. Passing mochi tests. Needs mozmill tests. [adam]
- HTML 5 Drag and Drop: Completed 50% of the test cases [jmaher]
- Media Queries: Completed 50% of the test cases [jmaher]
- Drag and Drop tabs: Strong progress on the test plan. Completed 12 tests. [juanb]
- Offline Mode: Strong progress on the test plan. Completed 10 tests. [juanb]
- Overall: test planning is 78% done, 593 test cases planned. Test cases are 35% complete.
Filed another 11 Leak Bugs last week from the Top Site Run (Global 500), apparently regressions on 1.9.1 [tomcat]
Worked with Andreas Gal, Brendan, and David Anderson trying to figure out the last remaining (known) JIT crash blocker [stephend]
For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
85 1.9.1 blockers.
284 wanted bugs (also up) NOTE: Work on blockers, not wanted bugs, if you can!
Schedule
- String freeze: October 30th @ 11:59 PM PDT
- Code freeze: November 4th @ 11:59 PM PDT
- Builds start: TBA
- QA starts: TBA
- Release to beta channel: TBA
- Final Release: TBA