Platform/2013-Q2-Goals

GFX

Platform 2013 Goals

1. Games/Media/Social/Location
2. Performance
3. Development velocity/productivity
4. Firefox OS
5. Firefox Desktop
6. Firefox Android
7. Overall Software Quality

Goals (WIP)

Ship

• [ON TRACK] 716140 - Multi-threaded image decoding. [3,5] (Train 23)
• [AT RISK] 804893 - Layers refactoring, D3D11 compositor. [2,3,5] (Train 22)
• [ON TRACK] 804893 - Layers refactoring, D3D11 compositor. [2,3,5] (Train 23)
• [ON TRACK] The GFX team will resolve all actionable security bugs within six weeks of their entering our components and receiving sec-high or sec-critical designation. [7] (All trains)

Land

• [ON TRACK] 651857 - Azure improvements. [2,3,5] (Trains 24,25)
• [ON TRACK] WebGL performance improvements as driven by the games team. [2,6] (Trains 24,25)
• [ON TRACK] 687187, 827229 - SkiaGL based canvas performance improvements on mobile. [2,6] (Trains 23, 24, 25)
• [ON TRACK] Fix WebGL security bugs. (Train 25)
• [ON TRACK] D2D 1.1 (Trains 24, 25)

Investigate

• [WISHLIST] Off main thread painting.
• [WISHLIST] Gradient performance.
• [WISHLIST] OMTC on the Mac
• [WISHLIST] XP software path optimization
• [WISHLIST] More robust downloadable blacklisting solution

Networking

• Improve DASH adaptation algorithm.
  • Steve
• "Launch" DASH support with a demo and an article on Mozilla Hacks.
  • Steve
• [ON TRACK] 694101: Design and implement new content policy API.
• [ON TRACK] Have one employee working at least 80% time on a networking library for Servo, written in Rust.
• B2G SPDY proxy feature?
• Captive portal detection
  • Can we use the same higher-level service that B2G is going to use?
• Image resizing proxy
  • Jason?
• B2G-specific performance and application-use-case testing.
• Land our own host resolver with TTL and SRV record support.
  • NLNet?
• Next major site optimization push - yandex.ru
• SPDY server push
• Bug 421128 - Independent windows/tabs should not starve each other for network connections
• 714768 - Firefox spins forever waiting for gogo inflight internet redirect
• 407190 - Network (HTTP) should timeout, if server does not react
• Start work on next gen protocol
• OCSP stapling
  • Randall?
• TLS Cached Info support

Mobile

• [ON TRACK] Resolve all mobile security bugs that received a designation of sec-moderate or higher more than six weeks ago. This is a permanent goal for the group.