Summary

• Dougt's been in the fire-fighting mode with bug 139512, and the one relating to Pavlov's timers.
• Lots of bugs being fixed by everyone-- darin has tbe big number.
• Pavlov is back from vacation and has a ton of things to catch up to-- including some bugs work ;-)

Highlights

• darin
  • fixed-on-trunk bug 137965 "Document contains no data on disconnect"
  • fixed-on-trunk bug 60811 "[RFE] User should be able to force HTTP proxy transactions to use HTTP/1.0 exclusively."
  • fixed-on-trunk bug 136956 "HTTP preferences panel needs to control proxy settings as well"
  • fixed-on-trunk bug 93054 "[RFE] implement HTTP/1.1 pipelining"
  • got QA feedback on experimental build for nsIFile API change, revised patch, waiting on reviewer feedback.
  • reviewed patches
• neeti
  • Working on Mozilla1.0 bugs.
  • Triaged bugs.
• gagan
  • Gerardo's team is now on status/reports tool too! Cool.

Lowlights

• darin
  • more incoming bugs!
• gagan
  • No status from Gordon and Pavlov this week.

Plans for next week

• darin
  • fix more bugs
  • triage bugs

Issues

Summary

• HTTP Pipelining finally in! We are getting some very good reports on it's performance (about 25% on narrowband connections) Good job Darin!
• Lots of bug fixes coming in and so are the bugs! :-|
• Image related bugs are now broken in 3 components-- Imagelib, Image: GFX and Image: Layout.

Highlights

• darin
  • landed patch for bug 129279 (nsIFile UTF-8 API changes) on the trunk.
  • fixed bug 138780 (Redirect with non-ASCII in URL fails)
  • created patch for bug 138877 (Browser crashes if HREF contains entity #9619;)
  • initial reports indicate that the http/1.1 pipelining is a big win (~25%) over slower and/or more-congested network connections.
  • reviewed patches and triaged bugs
• dougt
  • Triaged bugs.
  • Landed threadsafety fix for the native component loader.
  • Landed XPCOM event queue initialization patch.
  • Chased a regxpcom crash during during installation for an embedder. Jband found the fix in the typelib. I tested and landed the fix. 139512.
  • Landed PAC instantiation Regxpcom Solaris Fix.
• gordon
  • Sheriff for the various and sundry trees on Tuesday.
  • Participated in a proxy optimization meeting.
  • Continued debugging/testing cache block data streams.
• pavlov
  • Image related bugs now consist of 3 components. Imagelib, Image: GFX and Image: Layout. This will help to seperate out the bugs so that bugs can be more easily targetted and assessed.
  • I've spent a fair amount of time going over all of the imagelib bugs. I'm about 3/4 of the way through them and should be done shortly.
• neeti
  • Have a patch for caching plugin info in a flatfile, instead of using libreg.
  • Triaged bugs.

Lowlights

• darin
  • the critical bug pile seems to keep on grow'in :-(
• dougt
  • Got caught up in landing a timer patch on the mozilla branch which clearly not ready. It caused a bunch of seamingly unreleated regressions.

Plans for next week

• darin
  • beat down my bug list
  • focus on last minute fixes for RC2
  • review patches and triage bugs
• pavlov
  • Finish going over the imagelib bugs.
  • Re-re-re-land bug 129953 on the 1.0 branch.

Issues

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