Snappy Nov 29, 2012, Minutes

Actions

lmandel to follow up with Bas about bug 792527
- pinged bas in the bug (the bug that Bas is working on is bug 509052)
lmandel to talk to UX to about flash hang detection UI
- spoke with madhava who said shorlander will review
[dropped] jrmuizel to write story about how much time gfx calls contribute to tab switch
taras to start discussion about changing what hardware people managers/etc run
- taras to show qa about the awesomeness of using crappy hardware
- done. ashughes is picking up the torch.
taras? to set-up an opt-in add-on to report privacy-invasive telemetry on tabswitch/etc (to help track down worst perf offenders)
- irving suggests that we may be able to do what we want with a test pilot study
- not likely that we're going to make much progress on this at this point
lmandel to follow up with privacy about letting specific non MoCo contributors look at ChromeHang data
- strangecharm provided process for the request
- vlad will file the bug

Moving SessionStore writes off the main thread (yoric, bug 794091, landed)
Moving SessionStore reads off the main thread (yoric, bug 532150, pending reviews)
Moving Page Thumbs writes off the main thread (yoric, bug 753768, pending reviews)
Splitting Session Store snapshot into chunks (yoric and/or irving, bug 669034, not really resumed yet)
Moving Search Service metadata I/O off the main thread (yoric, bug 760036, pending reviews)

benwa, vladan, rafael, bbondy

bug 799640 - shutdown profiling: Got a r+, working out a few odd issues
bug 816117 - Windows overhead: Waiting on dbaron review
bug 812379 - Session store URLs
Working on a dashboard while we wait for these issues to land. Rough prototype:
- http://people.mozilla.com/~bgirard/startup_report/report.html

jrmuizel, bas, avi

lmandel, taras, vlad spoke with madhava about australis
- need to show demo of the issues and come up with a list of specific recommendations. will need to do some back and forth with ux about what can be done in a reasonably performant way in the near term
- design process should be to start with primatives and build up until it becomes slow
Avi is working on a project to make tab strip 60fps on slow netbook
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=815354

billm, jcoppeard, smaug, mccr8, aklotz

bug 790338 - Sweep compartments by groups. (jcoppeard)
Latest flash hang ui patch incorporates feedback from vlad and fixes some test warnings. Sent review request to bbondy. Blog and link to try build at http://dblohm7.ca/blog/2012/11/22/plugin-hang-user-interface-for-firefox/
Added telemetry for user responses to flash hang
bug 807021: Patch for LocalStorage flushes off the main thread waiting on review from Honza
bug 789932 is getting closer to landing

josh, hurley

benwa, jrmuizel, ahal, mcote, wlach