Platform/2013-02-19

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Platform Meeting Details

  • Tuesday 2013-02-19 - 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

Actions

  • Jet to give Shumway update next week, see about scheduling regular update for this project

Notices/Schedule

  • FF19 released today! New hotness is the PDF viewer on desktop and lower system requirements, theme support, and Chinese l10n support on mobile. See the release notes.
  • Merge is underway today. After the merge, m-c=FF22, m-a=FF21, m-b=FF20
  • FF20b1 go to build will be sent at EOD today (if you know of any blockers, let lsblakk know)
  • FF21.0a2 and FF20b1 will be released before the end of the week
21 bugs
59 bugs
Unresolved Aurora 21 Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta) Unresolved Beta 20 Trackers (non-security)

Key Issues

Products/Projects

Firefox OS

Firefox Desktop

Firefox Mobile

Blog Shout Out
Memory, Responsiveness, and Usability
  • We're getting closer to using AsyncPanZoomController for fennec's panning and zooming controller bug 839641
  • The highly anticipated scrolling of the nav bar off the top of the screen has been green-lighted by UX and patch is under review bug 716403
  • Also being reviewed is a fix for bug 822810 - Unexpected painting behaviour with low-res tiling code
  • We are now shipping zh-cn and zh-tw as of Fx19, the fix for the HK locale is included bug 839883 - Don't match zh-* based on just language
Great progress on
Stability Wins
  • bug 836924 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.Tabs.getContentResolver(Tabs.java:212)
Other Cool Dev Stuff
  • Landed to help with IME debugging, bug 838177 - Add more debugging output to GeckoEditable and GeckoInputConnection

Stability Report [Weekly]

  • Thanks to roc for his investigation and wallpaper in bug 839270 - unfortunately the real causes still eludes us. roc might need the support of a developer with access to a crashing machine, esp. if he can't do good remote debugging.

Snappy [Bi-Weekly]

Metro [1st Tuesday of each month]

Games [1st Tuesday of Month]

Mobile Web Compat [2nd Tuesday of Month]

Critsmash [3rd Tuesday of Month]

  • Engineers are incessantly smashing critical bugs. Our mid quarter checkup looks good but we have to keep momentum.
  • Please consider a fresh triage of all your team's security bugs (Front-end and DOM teams have done this).
  • Most development teams now have explicit security goals: Platform/2013-Q1-Goals (thank you!)
  • ASAN builds! (ongoing progress can be seen on out Security Commitments meta bug).
    • A big thank you to collaboration from release team including: John, Chris, Ben, Sec team including: Christian, Dan, Al, engineering team including: steve fink, A-Team' s Ed Morely, and so on.

Memshrink [4th Tuesday of Month]

Roundtable

  • WebRTC (PeerConnections) are now enabled by default on Desktop(!) (In today's nightly)
    • We're likely to (re)enable a bunch of assertions, especially thread-safety ones, in opt builds for at least the next few months.
    • If some funky hardware doesn't work with it, report it!
    • Lots of interest from major players. Time for web developers to start trying it
    • Lots of work/improvements still to do (including beyond initial release to production)
    • Note that mozGetUserMedia() (camera/mic access) is moving into Beta 20 now (preffed on)
  • 2nd reminder that this meeting moves to the Engineering (8411) Vidyo room as of Mar 5 (lmandel)