Weekly Engineering Newsletter 2011-03-02
Asa Dotzler
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*Planning Update*
We have two remaining hardblockers. We have a fix in hand for one and
expect to have progress on the other by early morning.
We do not intend to approve any further not-blocking fixes so unless
your approval request has incredibly high value and can be proven to
have zero risk, you should probably not even flip that flag.
That being said, if you come across a problem that does need to block
the release of Firefox 4, please do nominate it with the blocking2.0:?
request flag.
We're adding a 9am morning triage session to supplement our regular
11:30am and 5pm (PT) sessions. Once we get to Zarro Boogs on nominations
and hardblockers, we will hold the tree closed until the next scheduled
triage session. If there are still Zarro Boogs, we'll order the RC
builds up from Release Engineering.
RC is super-close, folks!
*Must Read Blogs & News*
Jennifer Boriss — "Making Add-on Updating not Suck"
http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/making-add-on-updating-not-suck/
Benoit Jacob — "Some Mercurial Queues tips"
http://blog.mozilla.com/bjacob/2011/03/02/some-mercurial-queues-tips-hg-qcrecord-qfold-and-qpush-move/
Jeff Muizelaar — "Drawing Sprites: Canvas 2D vs. WebGL"
http://muizelaar.blogspot.com/2011/02/drawing-sprites-canvas-2d-vs-webgl.html
David Baron — "What does a blur radius mean?"
http://dbaron.org/log/20110225-blur-radius
*A Taste of Awesome*
The ever-amazing Milos Dinic has done all of our eyes a huge favor,
delivering us from the ancient Mozilla Wiki look with a brand new skin
that brings the wiki up to date with the current style of
www.mozilla.org. You can read about this and more at Milos' blog
http://brokenkeyboard.info/news-mozilla-org-and-wiki-mozilla-org/
Thanks, Milos!