Gecko 1.9a2 scheduling

[Vladimir Vukicevic]

In keeping with the goal of doing a Gecko 1.9 release every 4-6 weeks, I
propose that we plan for January 29 for the next release. (This is a
bit longer than 6 weeks, due to the holidays.) We should figure out the
specific goals for this release before the January 3rd Gecko 1.9
meeting. Here's my proposed list:

- Resolve ntdll.dll topcrash as seen in 1.9a1
- Cycle collector
- New textrun code in for all 3 platforms
- Resolve major Linux and Mac text rendering issues

Any others? (Keep in mind that this is just for 1.9a2, and not for 1.9
overall.)

- Vlad

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:

> Any others? (Keep in mind that this is just for 1.9a2, and not for 1.9
> overall.)

I'd like to switch to using the new Linux refplatform, and if that goes well
turn on libxul for Firefox; I'll let preed comment whether that's actually
practical or not in the next four weeks.

--BDS

[Jeff Walden]

Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
> Any others? (Keep in mind that this is just for 1.9a2, and not for 1.9
> overall.)

I don't know when bug 130078 wants in again on trunk, but a2 might be the right time frame given that it had interaction problems with other code; you'd want to follow up with roc on that.

Jeff

[Boris Zbarsky]

Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
> - Resolve ntdll.dll topcrash as seen in 1.9a1
> - Cycle collector
> - New textrun code in for all 3 platforms
> - Resolve major Linux and Mac text rendering issues
>
> Any others? (Keep in mind that this is just for 1.9a2, and not for 1.9
> overall.)

Is it reasonably to get incremental XML parsing in there too?

I feel like at some point we should set a firm deadline for it, since at this
point it blocks some regressions by other changes that assume incremental DOM
parsing in general...

-Boris