Necko, Imagelib and XPCOM's status submitted on 2002-02-18

Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:59:13 -0800 

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Gagan Saksena
Sr. Tech. Mgr.
Netscape Communications Corp.
Title: Necko, Imagelib and XPCOM's status submitted on 2002-02-18

Necko, Imagelib and XPCOM's status

submitted on 2002-02-18

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Summary
  • gagan
    • Great fixes and patches coming in from the India group.
    • Last stretch of big fixes going in for 0.9.9 from the whole group. Great job guys! Mozilla 0.9.9 should be a great release!
Highlights
  • badami
    • Proposed patches for 95350, 110880, 111960, 116361, 91429.
    • Tracked down some URLs in 120012 to be a reflow problem. Filed bug 122976
  • darin
    • landed final patch for bug 109179 "replace nsStdEscape with NS_EscapeURL"
    • fixed bug 113959 "canceling a cached page load blows away the cache entry"
    • landed another patch for bug 86917 "socket transport should try all ip addresses returned by DNS service"
    • fixed bug 103402 "HTTP authentication allows view of first page if previously authenticated"
    • fixed bug 96705 "[zope] authentication should invalidate cache"
    • landed patch by [EMAIL PROTECTED] for bug 116798 "Opening IMAP mail hangs Mail program (and Mozilla)"
    • developed plan for bug 124042 "support internationalized resource identifiers (UTF-8 URI)"
    • triaged bugs
  • dougt
    • Working on 0.99 bugs.
  • gordon
    • Created patch for bug 97097 "nsIDNSService::Resolve does not use the dns cache"
    • Created patch for bug 107766 "DeactivateEntry: bad cache entry state"
    • Created patch for bug 108046 "DNSService Shutdown uses getService; use WeakPtr"
    • Created patch for bug 122499 "change about:cache so -1 means "no expiration"
    • Created patch for bug 116562 "Flash movie not loaded if disk cache disabled"
    • Created patch for bug 122682 "browser hangs temporarily if switched offline while DNS thread in gethostbyname"
  • neeti
    • Fixed bug 122438 - ConvertContractIDKeyToString(...) optimization.
    • Fixed bug 119220 - Occurances of uninitialized variables being used before being set.
    • Investigating bugs 124495, 124497.
    • Triaged bugs.
  • nivedita
    • uploaded patch for bug 111037 "browser won't show Mac PNG"
    • uploaded patch for bug 93658 "Page crashes mozilla, but only over the network"
    • uploaded patch for bug 106166 "multipart/x-mixed-replace web cam site not updating "
    • uploaded patch for bug 42224 "server JPG push fails after several frames and displays broken image icon "
    • bug 120202 "M097 crash [@ MSVCRT.DLL | MSVCRT.dll - gfxImageFrame::SetImageData] " appears to be related to reflow. uploaded the observations
    • bug 79283 "Gif images don't fully load, even with refresh " marked as works for me as the bug is not reproducble.
  • pavlov
    • Checked in fix so image blocking will block backgrounds -- bug 84654.
    • Checked in patches for nivedita for bugs 86508, 78114 and 111037! She is doing a great job!
    • Brendan checked in his patch for timers in bug 117061 which has shown improvment on some of the DHTML tests.
  • gagan
    • on request from scott and peter, removed xptoolkit and eclient teams from status/bugs pages.
    • helping a lot of people get upto speed on using status/bugs and status/reports.
    • triaged about 100 bugs for nsbeta1
    • collecting thoughts on presentation material in XML/DHTML/CSS. Maybe will publish something on mozilla.
Lowlights
  • badami
    • Still to get to bottom of 120628.
    • Focals and other management activities eating into productive time.
  • nivedita
    • bug 101731 "M098 N621 Trunk crash [@imgContainer::FillWithColor]" tried to emulate low memory on WINNT using the /maxmem switch in boot.ini, and reducing swap space , but could not reproduce the crash. Need to look into other ways to reproduce the crash.
Plans for next week
  • badami
    • Track down 120628
  • darin
    • fix more bugs
    • triage more bugs
  • gordon
    • Get patches checked in.
    • Finish disk cache data stream wrappers for use of cache block files.
    • Continue priority cache planning and discussions.
  • nivedita
    • bug 101731 "M098 N621 Trunk crash [@imgContainer::FillWithColor]"
    • bug 74542 "table with background/transparent images not rendered properly". The gif is getting placed at an offset in the column of the table.
    • Need some more bugs to work on.
  • pavlov
    • Get in as many 0.9.9 fixes as possible.
    • Continue bug triaging.
Issues
  • badami
    • cvs account still doesnt work.
  • darin
    • bug 117363 - unable to send mail using yahoomail, hotmail, etc... unable to reproduce the problem, but 100% reproducible for several folks.
  • gagan
    • Vinay Badami is still having problems with CVS access :-(
    • Bug 117363 is still a hard to reproduce-- if someone can help reproduce this internally that will be great! All you have to do is to use hotmail/yahoo mail with the latest builds.

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