Necko/Imagelib group status 01/22/2001

Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:33:23 -0800 

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Title: gagan's group's status submitted on 2001-01-22

gagan's group's status

submitted on 2001-01-22

Summary
  • gagan
    • great progress on cache design
    • Pavlov joins our group as lead on imagelib
Highlights
  • darin
    • Ready to land AsyncWrite changes.
    • Triaged all HTTP bugs; developed plan of attack with neeti.
    • Cache design refinements.
  • neeti
    • bugs investigated, reassigned 64621, 64857, 39046, 46993, 20195 65569.
    • Investigated bugs 53100, 56633, 56523.
    • Currently working on redirect bugs 61693
  • gordon
    • Held design review for cache design changes.
    • (valeski, mscott, dveditz, dougt, saari, pavlov, darin, chofmann attending).
    • Created NECKO_CACHE_20010119_BRANCH.
    • Checked in cache interfaces.
    • Invalidate Bugzilla bug #65639
  • dougt
    • Investigate bug 65177. Found that it was caused by a known problem in the htmlparser.
    • Implemented FTP EPLF in Mozilla. Patch is in 49958.
    • Added pref code so that PSM could disable UI if needed for embedding (65623)
    • Hacked fix for dots in a relative path. 53152
    • Leading the effort to make nsIChannel bidirectional.
  • pavlov
    • Joined Gagan's team to start work on imagelib.
    • Produced timeline and task list covering the changes required to imagelib.
  • gagan
    • pavlov joins our group! we finally have a lead on imagelib and he has already started coding!
    • picking up the threads for necko/imglib. Thank to gordon for the excellent coverage while I was gone.
    • task planning in details. Getting finer numbers and tasks for our plans for 6.5 and beyond.
    • helping dougt with his nsIChannel bidi changes.
Lowlights
  • dougt
    • Reports of FTP hanging. 65220
    • Found terrible bug in nsIChannel which prevents overlapped IO.
    • Some change happened in xpcom component loading which broke stream converters. I asked all the suspends, and they denied involvement. I need to spend time now fixing this potentially involved bug.
  • gagan
    • lots to do for cache and imagelib and we are running out of precious time real fast.
    • learning the same old painful way of using MSProject. How I wish there was an alternative...
Issues
Plans for the next week
  • darin
    • Land fixes for key HTTP feature bugs (eg. redirect looping cleanup).
    • Land AsyncWrite changes.
    • Work with dougt on nsIChannel cleanup.
  • neeti
    • Work on redirect bugs
    • More bug triage
  • gordon
    • Hold high level design review.
    • (hoping to get rpotts, vidur, brendan, waterson, others).
    • Work on Implementation of nsCacheManager.
  • dougt
    • nsIChannel and related interface changes.
  • pavlov
    • Finish up technical documentation for imagelib plans to go along with the task list so that people can begin writing code
  • gagan
    • finish up on dougt's changes and help land that
    • planning for imagelib in details
    • help gordon with cache development

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