Platform/2013-01-08
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Platform Meeting Details
- Tuesday 2013-01-08 - 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
- US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 95312
- 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
Notices/Schedule
- Merge was yesterday. Nightly=21, Aurora=20, Beta=19
- Firefox 18.0 was released today (congrats to bajaj!)
- Currently throttled until Thursday for MS Patch Tuesday
- Firefox 19.0 beta 1 has gone to build
- Potential for delay on Android, due to test bustage in bug 827699
- Firefox 20.0a2 hasn't had a successful nightly yet due to bug 827851, but we'll spin one up as soon as the bustage is fixed
- ESR10 is on the way out, B2G18 is on the way in (security landings)
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Key Issues
Actions Last Week
- publish summary of linux32 states to dev-planning (coop)
-
milan to help with https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=819028 -
Win64 builds
Issues
- Future Issues - early discussion on dev-platform, monitoring for discussion if not resolved
- instanceof SomeDOMInterface
- C++11 atomics
- ICU Import
- Linux32 support (joduinn)
Actions
- Naveed to get traction on bug 803018, bug 817342, bug 719114
Roundtable
- Platform/2013-Goals
- moz.build landing soon bug 784841. Need to coordinate with major landings.
- mozGetUserMedia() is preffed on by default now
- Firefox Health Report likely landing on Nightly this week
Products/Projects
Firefox OS
- Blockers for Jan 15: http://bit.ly/NkXeSB
- Blockers for TEF: http://bit.ly/10uMbfT
Firefox Desktop
- Download UI
- Major remaining issues are some performance issues, final bits of polish, the team is working hard to get that uplifted to Aurora (tracking bug: bug 747422)
- getUserMedia UI
- Dao landed the visible indicator of camera/microphone use (bug 799417), other general UI pieces being tracked in bug 729522, and Aurora-20 bugs in bug 827156.
- Social
- Shane is working on improving our "Share" capabilities (bug 818675)
- markh landed improvements to the security checks that we do (bug 806037
- Main-thread I/O
- David Teller's patches to remove main-thread IO from sessionstore (bug 532150) and search service (bug 760036) landed
- Michael Kraft tracked down a regression from the sessionstore changes (bug 824107)
- Per-window PB
- Ehsan and Josh have been working on removing the old global private browsing service entirely.
- Tab browser improvements
- Contributor ithinc has been cleaning up and optimizing various bits of the tabbrowser code (bug 822068, bug 822914, bug 824480, bug 819907)
- Plugin hang UI (Windows)
- aklotz has implemented the feature which allows users to kill plugins which are hung, one of our top complaints. bug 805591.
Firefox Mobile
- Blog Shout Outs
- Performance http://gbrownmozilla.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/firefox-for-android-performance-measures-december-check-up/
- html5 Context Menus landed in Fx20 bug 736321: http://digdug2k.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/html5-context-menus-in-fennec/
- Diagnosing mecurial patch rejects: https://staktrace.com/spout/entry.php?id=787
- Memory, Responsiveness, Usability
- bug 793755 - Cache viewport data, 22% panning improvement
- Landing bug 654352 - document.caretPositionFromPoint API helps set us up for good progress for reflow-on-zoom
- Developer Quality of Life, Housekeeping
- bug 811411 - Add ability to run C++ unit tests on mobile
- bug 825151, bug 825453, bug 825939 - Switch all builds (ARMv7, ARMv6, x86) over to using NDK r8c
- bug 826411 - Back out compiler-specific workarounds
- Stability Wins
bug 785597 - fix crash in AndroidGLController::SetGLVersion
bug 821979 - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid selection offsets at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoEditable$Action.newSetSelection(GeckoEditable.java
bug 825505 - crash when calling 'Edit' context menu for site/page/thumbnail on about:home and returning to it with the
- Request for Second Eyes on
- bug 761987 - Intermittent Android shutdown, 468771-2.xhtml, basn2c16.html crash [@ nssCertificate_Destroy] [@ 0xffff0fc4 | PR_AtomicDecrement | nssCertificate_Destroy] [@ FreeArenaList | PORT_FreeArena_Util] [@ nssCertificateStore_Lock | nssCertificate_Destroy]
- In progress/under investigation
- bug 786996 - Content of Flash plugin is first displayed upside down
Stability Report [Weekly]
- Trunk topcrash/regression bugs that need owners:
- bug 821733 - js::CompartmentChecker::fail
- bug 827272 - nsSSLIOLayerHelpers::Cleanup
- bug 827170 - abort message: "Framebuffer not complete ..."
- Beta/Release bugs needing traction:
- bug 805406 - gfxContext::PushClipsToDT
- bug 825600 - Startup crash in lmrn.dll
- bug 630197 - gfx crash with mainly NVidia
- js::GCMarker::processMarkStackTop is still a high-volume top crash on all channels, multiple open bugs but no action happening: bug 803018, bug 817342, bug 719114
Snappy [Weekly]
Metro [1st Tuesday of Month]
- Elm to mc merge
- bug new-packager, bug metro-build - blocked on FHR (waiting on free time from gps for reviews).
- bug elm-merge - ready to finalize once we get packager and build landed on mc.
- 0 bugs blocking (-7) bug metro-build w/work TBD
- 0 bugs blocking (-5) bug elm-merge w/work TBD
- Rel-eng
- Switch mc to the 8.0 sdk will happen after the merge this week.
- Front-end
- Working with UX on polish for start screen and bookmarks; visual polish for tiles; session restore.
- More download manager functionality landed recently; remote tabs landing soon.