Platform/2012-09-18

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Notices / Schedule

• Beta 4 is going to build today, will be released before the end of the week
  • Last chance for speculative fixes
  • Make sure you're not on the hook for a tracking 16+ bug
  • Make recommendations on fixing/mitigating/wontfixing ASAP
• Beta 5 will be going to build next Tuesday
  • We expect some riskier than normal Win8 fixes - QA will be highly engaged
• Release of FF16 is on 10/9

• CTP blocklisting expected to land on Aurora 17 this week

Firefox OS

• All teams focusing on freezing feature work by 9/28 in order to stabilize and close down V1. Product and Engineering management working on a post-9/28 schedule and strategy to drive feature work and blockers to zero.
• Follow along via this sheet which tracks the progress of the built-in apps, the Basecamp blocker dashboard, the @hackb2g twitter account which tweets Gaia commits, and the B2G Desktop builds.
• Dogfooding program: Devices are ordered, OTA updates are being tested by QA this week. A list of dogfooding tips are being collected.
  • Release Management will send out B2G Test Drivers announcement tomorrow, if you're in MV, SF, or TO please sign up for a device.

Firefox Development

Firefox Developer Tools

Add-on SDK

• 1.10 release going out today
• Applying page-mods to existing tabs coming in 1.11: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2012/09/12/introducing-page-mods-attachto

Performance

• Lawrence/Taras can't make the meeting
• Snappy workweek report on Taras' blog

GFX

JS

Layout

• bugs of interest
  • offer a way to apply a user-agent style sheet to a given document (bug 737003)
  • improvements to background-attachment:fixed on mobile (bug 786502)
  • add support for background-size within background shorthand property (bug 570326)
  • fixes for some over-invalidation when scrolling (bug 777194)

Media

DOM

WebAPI

• focusing on landing and helping to trim Basecamp blockers
• working on B2G v1 privacy features
• improving geolocation on B2G
• coordinating automated tests with QA

Network

• bug 756648 - cookie jars landed
• bug 756717 - appcache jars: should land soon
• bug 781392 - jduell setting up test environment so we can investigate
• bug 786299 - Honza is back and will work on this 1st. Likely to ship
• bug 746069 - Network indicator throbber: hoping to get in
• bug 782542 - Secure necko IPDL usage: may be hard to get done by 28th...
• bug 776797 - Lock down Appcache update: looking into to get T-shirt estimate & plan

Identity

Plugins

Mobile

Accessibility

Tree Management

• bug 791854 - we have determined that armv6 testing on armv7 devices (tegras) is sufficient to test Non-IonMonkey configuration needed for B2g
  • this will disable armv7-non-IonMonkey test coverage (this was added as a proxy for b2g)
    • this was extra load that was going to worsen our wait times
  • this armv6 proxy coverage will only be valid while the builds are run on tegras devices (armv7)

• Switching linux desktop build machines soon (centos6 based, some will be run on AWS)

Security

• Web Cryptography API has entered First Public Working Draft [1] (via ddahl)
  • Feedback and comments are very welcome! public-webcrypto-comments@w3.org
  • JavaScript-API enthusiasts are highly encouraged to comment on this draft
• SecReview: Monday - Android Service Based Updater

Stability Report

Socorro

• A few issues after landing the rapid beta work - affecting ADU numbers. Reports are all wrong.
• Last regression for this issue - bug 791889

Desktop

• New Flash version out this morning - 11.4.402.278.

Trunk

• IonMonkey crashes
  • bug 790464 IonMonkey: crash @ JSRope::flattenInternal
  • bug 791589 IonMonkey: crash while playing http://www.syngames.net/game/braidjump
• New crashes
  • bug 792004 crash in mozilla::FrameLayerBuilder::GetOldLayerForFrame

Aurora

• New Crashes
  • bug 791999 crash in js::ObjectImpl::hasClass
  • bug 791798 crash in mozilla::plugins::parent::_releaseobject

Beta

• Tracking Top Win 8 Crashes in preparation for upcoming October ship date
  • Top Windows Crashes broken down by OS version

Release

Mobile

See Mobile Notes for Mobile specific Socorro notes

• 26.6% of all our crashes on Fx15.0.1 mobile are startup related in a 3 day period. 46% crashes were startup crashes in 15.0. There is an improvement.
• Wishlist fix:
  • bug 790139 - crash in libxul.so@0xf... while enabling Reader Mode on custom kernels
  • bug 756140 - even though this is with Cynogenmod, the number of crashes for this is huge (6240 crashes in 3 days) versus the next one down which is 1,576 crashes in 3 days. It's the biggest crash in 15/16
  • bug 791462 - is being looked into. It's causing a spike in the crashing for nightly. It's a crash in Ion Monkey. Thanks, Marty!
    • could be the same as the desktop crash
• QA Monitoring bugs:
  • bug 785340 - crash in OmxDecoder::ReadAudio
    • Looks like it might be ready for engineering; bsmegberg to find an owner.
  • bug 745512 - crash in mozilla::image::RasterImage::InitDecoder
    • monitoring to see if it drops off in 16.

• Top Crash List Bugs

• 15 Release top crashes
• 16.0b2 Beta top crashes
• Aurora top crashes
• Nightly top crashes

Roundtable