Title: Necko, Imagelib, and XPCOM's status for the week ending 2002-07-29


Necko, Imagelib, and XPCOM's status

submitted on 2002-07-29

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Summary
  • several bug fixed. several more triaged.
  • good kick-off meeting on precaching/prefetching.
Highlights
  • darin
    • fixed bug 157861 (trunk) - have to hit Back twice to return to '300: multiple choices'
    • fixed bug 159583 (trunk) - simple string bundle optimization
    • fixed bug 146884 - Mozilla sometimes consumes 100% CPU when pipelining is enabled...
    • attended precaching/prefetching meeting on Tuesday (bug 159044).
    • attended profile sharing meeting on Wednesday.
    • attended first half of password manager security review on Thursday.
    • attended meeting with i18n team to discuss the future of non-ASCII URIs and IDN in Mozilla.
    • reviewed state of Mozilla's HTTP/1.1 compliance with Jesse Ruderman; put together a rough game-plan for enabling pipelining by default.
    • got access to a NTLM server (thanks to Tom Everingham and Jimson Lee)
    • reviewed patches
    • triaged bugs
  • dougt
    • Discussed the MRE with Ian who will present part of this strategy at the OSDC.
    • Getting my hands dirty on bug 109739. This patch should have landed back in June but we had a bit of resistance which I didn't want to bother with. If we had landed the patch back when I was pushing for we could have avoided a rush to get some fix into the branch. Thankfully, the plugin team did find a safer fix and agreed that this bug should be our ultimate fix.
    • Attending security remove meetings.
    • Discussed mozilla/xpcom DSO problems with Ulrich Drepper. He may come and do a tech talk!
    • Working on showing QA how to verify two security firedrill fixes.
    • Had a nice converstation about sharing of profiles with the embedding team.
  • gordon
    • Participated in "pre-populated cache" requirements/design meeting, which turned into a "http pre-fetching" meeting instead.
    • Participated in AIM module security review.
    • Made progress on possible solution to lock order problem with phase 3 cache patch.
    • Triaged some bugs.
  • gagan
    • attended meetings on precaching/prefetching.
Lowlights
  • gagan
    • Gordon's cache level2 work may be slipping.
    • No status from Pavlov.
Plans for next week
  • darin
    • fix, triage, and review more bugs!
  • gordon
    • Update phase 3 cache patch to fix lock order and reference problems.
  • gagan
    • Virtual Nisheeth.
    • Think about improving narrowband performance.
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