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Platform Meeting Details
- Tuesday 2012-08-07 - 11:00 am Pacific
- Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 95312
- People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 95312
- US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 95312
- US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 95312
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- US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 95312
- CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 95312
- CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 95312
- UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 95312
- FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 95312
- Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
- SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
- Warp Core Vidyo Room / SFO-Boardroom
- join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel
Contents
Notices / Schedule
- We are in our fourth week of the cycle, going to build with Beta 4 end of day Pacific
- 14.0.2 respin for JB crashes is going to be released for JB users only bug 769893, bug 780668
- Softblock for Java exploit going out Thurs/Fri - currently with QA
- bug 780717 – Blocklist Java versions affected by CVE-2012-1723
- Spike in startup crashes today on 14.0.1, 15.0b3, and 16.0a2 likely related to https://www.google.com/doodles/hurdles-2012
- bug 734921 – Startup Crash @ _moz_cairo_destroy
- Meeting with Adobe tomorrow to review crash data for their latest 11.3 and 11.4 candidates
- Code Freeze for 15 is next Friday 8/17, please focus on bugs tracked for FF15 and FF16
- Next merge day is 8/27
Firefox OS
- Trying to stamp out the last of the shifting requirements. Most everyone moving to bugfixing/polish performance.
- B2G weekly meeting notes.
- Gaia weekly meeting notes
- Triage is now daily. Details in the weekly meeting schedule announcement.
Firefox Development
- Social UI work continues: polish fixes, Linux styling for the toolbar have landed, and performance improvements (bug 777176) are the main focus. You can continue testing using "MoTown" in Nightly builds, by setting social.enabled = true.
- Security research intern Devdatta Akhawe has landed telemetry for our security UI, you can watch his presentation about it on Air Mozilla (bug 767676)
Firefox Developer Tools
Add-on SDK
- Releasing 1.9 today
- Working on getting the builder site updated
Performance
- This week's Snappy summary
- Neil Deakin joined the Snappy effort to eliminate pointless reflows in the tab strip. He's already landed bug 752486 and is working on bug 752376 and bug 752496 next.
- Brian Bondy removed prefetch (bug 770911). xul.dll preload is now always on based on our telemetry startup study in bug 765850.
- Bill McCloskey continued to reduce garbage collection pauses. (bug 777919, bug 778993, bug 767209)
- See Bill’s comments in bug 767209 for some insight into the complex heuristics that go into minimizing GC interruptions.
- MozCamp Snappy (ok, not the official name) is Sept 8-9, in Warsaw, Poland. Find Snappy people talking All About Performance. We are also working on scheduling for a Snappy work week following MozCamp EU in Warsaw.
GFX
JS
Layout
- @supports landed - feature detection in CSS
- SVG display lists enabled (bug 776054)
-
nsIBox
is now fully merged intonsIFrame
(bug 780439) - some b2g work on semi-transparent (overlaying) scrollbars (bug 770453, bug 777672, bug 778810)
- diagnostics for why animations aren't running on the compositor thread (bug 779385, though note that off-main-thread animations aren't enabled yet)
Media
- IETF last week
- Opus accepted as a mandatory-to-implement codec (yeah!)
- Widely described as a beats-the-world, state-of-the-art codec
- Video codec decision deferred until November
- Lots of interest in WebRTC and DataChannels
- Opus accepted as a mandatory-to-implement codec (yeah!)
- Major progress going into IETF on PeerConnections and the rest of WebRTC
- Audio and video via PeerConnections, with actual JSEP negotiation, over ICE transport channels, encrypted with DTLS-SRTP
- DataChannels nearing completion, working in PeerConnections
- Working to set up interop tests with Chrome (via their command-line test program for WebRTC)
- Microsoft lobbed a hand-grenade into the WebRTC spec work Monday (first work day after IETF)
- If you get questions on this, especially from press or blog authors, point them to Maire Reavy (mreavy@mozilla.com) and/or press@mozilla.com
DOM
WebAPI
- lots of work to support lowered rights processes (blobs, Device Storage, etc.) (bug 746280 and friends)
- string encoder/decoder review comments being addressed (bug 764234)
- WebSockets in Workers patch up for review (bug 504553)
Network
Identity
Plugins
Mobile
- TBPL is now much greener thanks to wlach noticing a configuration issue with our watcher, fix deployed in bug 778177
Accessibility
Tree Management
- infra load for july
- New record of 5,635 pushes last month
Security
- Security Assurance work week next week may affect responses to some items
- Retirement of 2 keywords: sec-review-needed, sec-review-complete
- replaced by sec-review flag
- ? = nomination / shows assignment
- + = completed
- We did this to get more accurate metrics, assignment and responsiveness
- replaced by sec-review flag
- Process and workflow details coming: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Reviews
Calendar: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review.html
For updates to meetings please see the Security Review Calendar
- HTML: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review.html
- .ics: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review
Bugs marked sec-review-needed that need to be scheduled
No results.
0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);
Stability Report
Socorro
Socorro releases are on hold until the staging environment works well again.
Desktop
Flash
- New version of Flash was shipped, Version 11_3_300_270
- bug 780658 Tracking crash in Flash npswf32_11_4_400_252 until we have symbols
- Spike in these crashes seems to be higher on Beta - See https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/rkaiser/2012-08-06/2012-08-06.firefox.15.explosiveness.html
- bug 780715 Flash crash @ memset | F1479269175
- bug 780710 hang | F_344235307 (Correlated to 11.3.300.270 in Beta)
Beta
- bug 734921 Startup Crash @ _moz_cairo_destroy
- Two other related bugs spiked as well
- We have reached out to Google to find out more information about the doodle that may be causing it.
- Affects 14.0.1, Aurora and trunk as well
- bug 779447 js::types::TypeObject::addProperty
Aurora
Trunk
Release
Mobile
- Highlights
- 14.0.2 needs release (more ADU) before we see the graph
- 15b3 under 10 crashes per ADU
- fixing bug 776334 would be a big win in all channels.
- 14.0.1 Release top crashes
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bug 769893 - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot draw recycled bitmaps at android.view.GLES20Canvas.drawBitmap(GLES20Canvas.java) on Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 7 with Jelly Bean- (fixed in 14.02; need more ADU on 14.0.2 before reporting it. will show it next week) - bug 729129 - crash @ dlmalloc_walk_free_pages | dvmHeapSourceTrim | dvmRunFinalizationSync | dvmDetachCurrentThread | __thread_entry - ( memory corruption? )
- bug 732059 - crash in TimerThread::UpdateFilter @ libflashplayer.so@0x53.. - ( Flash crashing )
- bug 758259 - libstagefright crash in _ZN7android8OMXCodec14configureCodecERKNS_2spINS_8MetaDataEEEj on Samsung GT-I9100G with Gingerbread
-
- 15.0b3 Beta top crashes
- bug 776334 - crash in mozilla::gl::GLContextEGL::ReleaseSharedHandle on Honeycomb and JB
- bug 763166 - crash in mozilla::AndroidGeckoLayerClient::SetFirstPaintViewport - End users need to update
- bug 776329 - crash in nsSurfaceTexture::GetTransformMatrix on Honeycomb and JB
- Aurora top crashes
-
Fixed on all chans : bug 776909 - Crash Report [@ java.lang.IllegalStateException: MultiChoicePreference entryKeys and initialValues arrays must be the same length at org.mozilla.gecko.MultiChoicePreference.loadPersistedValues(MultiChoicePreference.java) ]- ( Still showing in crash reporting due to users needing to update ) -
Fixed in Nightly bug 776331 - crash in nsNPAPIPluginInstance::RedrawPlugin on ICS and JB- ( pushed on Aurora & Beta ) - bug 776334 - crash in mozilla::gl::GLContextEGL::ReleaseSharedHandle on Honeycomb and JB
- bug 765156 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.PropertyAnimator.invalidate(PropertyAnimator.java) - ( Reopened )
- bug 763166 - crash in mozilla::AndroidGeckoLayerClient::SetFirstPaintViewport
- End users need to update
-
- Nightly top crashes
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bug 779826 - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid size <n> at org.mozilla.gecko.mozglue.DirectBufferAllocator.allocate(DirectBufferAllocator.java)
- Crash should be fixed, 8/2 is the last time it crashed, 17 only bug. Should ride the train.
- bug 765156 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.PropertyAnimator.invalidate(PropertyAnimator.java)
- reopened and being worked on.
- bug 780367 - java.lang.IllegalStateException: ScrollView can host only one direct child at android.widget.ScrollView.addView(ScrollView.java)
- bug 776334 - crash in mozilla::gl::GLContextEGL::ReleaseSharedHandle on Honeycomb and JB
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