Necko/Imglib status: 02/05/2001

Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:50:42 -0800
Title: gagan's group's status submitted on 2001-02-05
 

Necko and Imagelib status

submitted on 2001-02-05

Summary
  • gagan presented 'networking: today and tomorrow' at webplatform meeting
  • imagelib2 prototype now rendering on all platforms-- good job by saari, pavlov and tor
  • cache design review meeting a good success-- lots of good feedback for both cache and design reviews.
Highlights
  • darin
    • Rebirth of nsITransport (improved bidi api) 
    • Cache design review (better understanding of ImageLib's cache requirements) 
    • Bug triaging.
  • neeti
    • Worked on HTTP/1.1 compliance bugs. 
    • Worked on bug 58034, need r= and sr= 
    • Worked on bugs 58037, 58040. 
    • Investigated redirection bug 54358. 
    • Reassigned bug 62645.
  • gordon
    • Held 2nd half of design review for cache changes. 
    • Refined disk cache design, incorporating suggestions from Rick Potts.
  • dougt
    • Proposed necko design changes reviewed and 'approved' 
    • Finished converting clients in mozilla to use new interfaces 
    • Contacted QA groups for possible involvement in testing before landing
  • pavlov
    • new image library:
        •  
      • Wrote some temporary code to get images to draw on X11 to test decoding. 
      • Added alpha setting code so that decoders could set alpha separetely from instead of only being packed in the image. 
      • Produced diagrams to show how the new imagelib will work. 
      • Chris Saari got mac project files added and building. He also wrote some temporary image drawing code on Mac and is currently working on the GIF decoder. 
      • Tim Rowley got the PNG decoder splitting its alpha mask/channel apart when setting the image data.
    • Attended new cache design meetings.
  • gagan
    • triaged bugs with the whole team 
    • more scheme compare changes (LDAP, nsSimpleURI, etc.) 
    • presented 'networking: today and tomorrow' at webplatform meeting 
    • coordinated cache design review part 2
Lowlights
  • darin
    • AsyncWrite changes adversly affected download times on linux and mac.
  • dougt
    • Didn't settle on a final necko design change before I started making changes. This caused me to lose a day or two.
Issues
  • pavlov
    • Still unsure about using the new cache in the new image library. Will continue discussions with Gordon and Darin.
Plans for the next week
  • darin
    • Resolve AsyncWrite related slowdown. 
    • Help Doug test his branch. 
    • HTTP bug triaging and squashing.
  • neeti
    • Continue working on HTTP/1.1 compliance bugs. 
    • More bug triage.
  • gordon
    • Help prepare for Executive review of cache changes. 
    • Code cache service and memory cache. 
    • Resolve requirements for ImgLib's use of cache.
  • dougt
    • Involve QA in testing necko bidi design change. 
    • Work toward landing necko branch.
  • pavlov
    • Resolve my Mozilla 0.8 bugs 
    • new image library:
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      • Continue design and implementation. 
      • Begin writing new drawing code to replace the temporary code currently being used to test decoders. 
      • Chris Saari will likely get the GIF decoder up and running. 
      • Design review meeting?
  • gagan
    • preparing for exec review for cache and project review for imagelib
    • check in the remaining changes for scheme compares

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