Title: Necko and Imagelib's status submitted on 2001-10-01

Necko and Imagelib's status

submitted on 2001-10-01

Summary
  • gagan
    • Dougt affected by Nimda on his home machine(s).
    • Darin continues to be the star performer in fixing a ton of bugs. With Gordon right behind him in fixing numerous bugs.
    • Many thanks to Andreas Otte for providing key bug fixes in URL parsing.
    • Darin and Gordon coordinating with Vidur on the WebApps/DIG effort.
    • Pavlov handling some very critical imagelib bugs--Help from rpotts much appreciated. Thanks Rick!
Highlights
  • darin
    • fixed bug 98262 "avoid sending blank request headers"
    • fixed bug 82873 "improved support for HTTP trailers"
    • fixed bug 101602 "IBM accessibility Proxy server not responding correctly"
    • fixed bug 101832 "back/forward buttons should use LOAD_NORMAL + VALIDATE_NEVER"
    • fixed bug 52510 "HTTP handler should register as a listener for user agent prefs changes"
    • fixed http portion of bug 92528 "#define FORCE_PR_LOG for http/ftp"
    • fixed bug 87817 "violation of HTTP 1.* standard when sending POST requests"
    • checked in alexey chernyak's patch for bug 95768 "about: services should be converted to XHTML 1.1"
    • checked in several patches on the 0.9.4 branch
    • developed patch for bug 94004 "redirects not cached"
    • hacked a bit on a patch for bug 60811 "users should be able to force HTTP proxy transactions to use HTTP/1.0"
    • investigated bug 98203 "Page does not display proper info when http connection snaps midway"
    • triaged bugs
  • neeti
    • Working on ComponentManager bloat.
    • Working on bug 96461 - ComponentManager could PLHash or PLDHash. Converted both hastables in ComponentManager to use pldhash. Currently checking on all the boundary cases, and testing out the enumeration code.
  • gordon
    • Resolved (FIXED, DUP, or INVALID) bugs 101966, 90648, 81639, 21258, 97395, 87436, 47821, 47056, 36196, 8262, 97371.
    • Web App Meeting w/vidur, darin, gagan, jband.
  • dougt
    • Landed nsISupport and xpcom base header API freeze work.
    • Implemented PRUint32 hash key.
    • Reviewed MAPI bug 95117. Rewrote their keyvalue mapping to be more efficient and removed the MS STL dependancy.
    • Continuing triaging xpcom bugs.
    • Reviewed alot of URL Parsing bugs. Many thanks to Andreas Otte who has continually produced high quality bug fixes and overall has owned URL parsing logic. Thanks so much!
    • Participating and provoking the debate about how we will freeze the currently used but unfrozen interfaces
  • pavlov
    • bug 92248 - flickering images on mouseover. Close to a fix, however the fix is a lot more code than I had expected.
    • bugscape bug 7180 - spent a lot of time debugging this. Rick Potts found a bug in nsIWebNavigation, which turned in to bugzilla bug 102070, which has now been fixed.
    • bug 77354 - fixed.
  • gagan
    • got a recycled laptop as a replacement for my dying laptop.
    • presented "Bugzilla and Project Management" to CPD managers. (todo- move the presentation as HTML out to mozilla.org)
Lowlights
  • darin
    • didn't get a chance to work on xpcom/io bugs 99165 and 100172
  • dougt
    • Network was down from Thursday the 20th to last Monday. Apparently nimbus virus-worm attacked NetScreen box on my local network.
  • gagan
    • spent much of time reinstalling windows on the recycled laptop :-( more than I'd have liked to.
Plans for next week
  • darin
    • continue work on critical bugs for the 0.9.4 branch
    • continue work on xpcom/io api bugs
    • land patch for bugs 94004 and 60811
    • continue work on pipelining patch
    • fix more bugs for 0.9.5
    • triage more bugs
  • neeti
    • Continue work on ComponentManager bloat.
  • gordon
    • Continue Web App planning for Necko.
    • Finish clearing away bug detritus.
  • pavlov
    • Finish bug 92248 and get it checked in.
  • gagan
    • move the "Bugzilla and Project Management" presentation to outside the wall...
    • repair status/bugs and get it back online...
Issues
  • darin
    • need help investigating P1 bugs 93603 and 98203.
  • gagan
    • need external machine access for hosting status/bugs and running network tests outside the firewall.

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