Re: Weekly Engineering Newsletter 2011-02-09
armenzg
As of now there are 19 hardblockers.
Developers will be triaging their "soft" blockers until 9am PDT
tomorrow to see if they should "hard" block or not.
On Friday the bugs will be triaged by release drivers and let's see
what the bug count is.
I don't see any of them with [strings] in their whiteboard.
cheers,
Armen
On Feb 9, 7:11 pm, Asa Dotzler <a...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> It's . . . Issue 4 of the Weekly Engineering Newsletter, where every
> Wednesday I pull the signal from the noise to bring you the the cream of
> the crop! It's all the engineering news you need to know and only a tiny
> bit you don't.
>
> OK. Let's go!
>
> *What You Need to Know Right This Minute*
>
> The betaN softblockers will be punted out of Firefox 4 VERY SOON.
>
> Please look over your betaN softblockers by THIS FRIDAY, 9:00 am PST and
> if you find a softblocker that NEEDS to make Firefox 4, do the following:
> 1. Remove "[softblocker]" from the whiteboard
> 2. Add justification to the bug
> 3. Toggle the "blocking2.0" flag to "?" (aka nominate it for blocking)
>
> More details here:http://bit.ly/gB1rOzand in the "Blockers,
> softblockers, betas and you" thread in this newsgroup.
>
> *Planning Update*
>
> Firefox 4 Beta 11 was released to our beta channel yesterday
> (2011/02/08) with over 300 kickass fixes.
>
> We're deep into the Beta 12 cycle with more than 200 bugs already fixed.
> There are currently 22 open engineering betaN hardblockers; only 8 of
> those without patches.
>
> It's not finalized yet, but the plan is to have the remaining betaN
> hardblockers landed by this Friday (2011-02-11) with the beta closing up
> over the weekend. Yes, we're _that_ close.
>
> Mozilla engineering priorities still look like this: betaN hardblockers
> > final hardblockers > betaN softblockers > final softblockers
>
> *Must Read Blogs & News*
>
> Nicholas Nethercote — "A vision for better memory profiling with
> about:memory"http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/02/09/a-vision-for-better-me...
>
> Chris Atlee — "Faster try builds!"http://atlee.ca/blog/2011/02/04/faster-try-builds/
>
> Rafael Espindola — "Clang results" and "A mozilla-central clone with the
> clang patches"http://blog.mozilla.com/respindola/2011/02/04/clang-results/http://blog.mozilla.com/respindola/2011/02/07/clang-patches/
>
> *A Taste of Awesome* — viahttp://input.mozilla.com
>
> "i loveeeeeeee the new fox 4....♥♥♥♥"
>
> "oh! the speed is just amazing. kudos to the developers of Firefox beta"
>
> "The new Firefox is look very beautiful and the tabs are look good. If
> you ask to me how to it must be, it must be like this! awesome!"
>
> *Closing Remarks*
>
> This week's words of wisdom come from Mike Shaver:
>
> "As with all egg dishes, an omelette's ultimate success is determined by
> texture, and to a lesser degree temperature. If you can nail that
> moist-but-not-runny texture and get it on the plate while it's still
> nice and hot, you really have a hard time making a _bad_ omelette. Do
> take care to not add too much filling — the egg should have a starring
> role — and pre-cook vegetables so that they don't release too much
> moisture and break the consistency."
>
> The quote is probably about making actual omelets and not about shipping
> software, but I think it still works :D
>
> We're almost there, folks!http://bit.ly/g04C4H