status update
maintained by Tim Rowley <tor@cs.brown.edu>
Last Updated Thursday May 2, 2002
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Previous Updates
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
- 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
Previous Updates
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