Platform/2013-03-05
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Platform Meeting Details
- Tuesday 2013-03-05 - 11:00 am Pacific
- Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98411
- People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 98411
- US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 98411
- US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 98411
- US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 98411
- US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 98411
- CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 98411
- CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 98411
- UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 98411
- FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 98411
- 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
- Engineering Vidyo Room / Warp Core / SFO-Boardroom / Tor Commons
- join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel
Actions
Notices/Schedule
- We had our FF19.0 post-mortem today: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Post-mortems/Firefox_19.0
- FF 20 beta 3 going to build today
- Will try using the new RelEng ship-it app! :)
- Bugzilla is going down at 5:30pm tonight -> tree closure for the duration
- Pwn2Own TOMORROW!
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Unresolved Aurora 54 Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta) | Unresolved Beta 133 Trackers (non-security) |
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Key Issues
- improving access to telemetry data (josh)
- The War on Orange Needs YOU (ctalbert)
7 Total; 0 Open (0%); 7 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);
Products/Projects
Firefox OS
Firefox Desktop
- Please subscribe to the new firefox-dev mailing list. See the wiki page and Gavin's blog post for more info.
- Bug triage: help the Firefox team clean up our bug list: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/firefox-triage
- High-level front-end team projects:
- Removing/cleaning up PFS and CTP improvements
- Snappy/Performance work (form history, new tab, Places, add-ons, etc.)
- Australis: tab styling, customization panel
- SocialAPI improvements: installation of arbitrary providers, multi-provider management, better Share panel
- FIXED Firefox bugs in the past week
Firefox Mobile
- Blog Shout Out
- Great performance summary for Feb: http://gbrownmozilla.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/firefox-for-android-performance-measures-february-check-up/
- Read more about WebRTC: http://www.morbo.org/2013/02/why-twitter-pictures-are-sideways.html
- Post-MWC Work week in London!
- Lot's of excellent brainstorms, discussions, hack sessions. One of the themes for today was our continued obsession with improving performance and responsiveness. UX improvements, expanding measurements and benchmarks were all discussed and solid next steps were documented to make the ideas actionable.
- Tomorrow is all about WebRTC and talk about future features
- General agenda: https://intranet.mozilla.org/Mobile_Team_Meet_Up_March_2013#Agenda
- Cool stuff
- You can tap phones to share and receive URLs bug 726335 - Use NDEF Push with NFC (Android Beam | API level 14) for transferring currently focused tab
- Usability improvements
- Fix uplifted to Fx20 beta: bug 817828 - (blacktab) Black area near tabs button after the URL bar is animated
- Stability Wins
- Landed fix for bug 827171 - crash in nsPluginStreamListenerPeer::OnStartRequest
- Also fixed: bug 844913 - SwiftKey crashes on Gingerbread when using background IME thread
Stability Report [Weekly]
- We're fixing over 20 crash bugs every week so far this year, and resolve much more that that, see weekly crash bug stats. Keep this up!
- If you have any priorities of what should be implemented on crash-stats, please let KaiRo know.
- You can help testing the new crash-stats UI (file bugs against Socorro::Webapp, summary prefix "[socorro-crashstats]")
Snappy [Bi-Weekly]
Metro [1st Tuesday of each month]
- Dev and releng actively working on enabling Windows 8 tests in Metro
- Tracking: bug 731280 (development), bug 826050 (releng)
- Win8 desktop tests are now running in automation on Cedar
- Need to track down and fix/annotate all the failures before enabling on trunk (bug 847447).
- Work on OMTC is progressing on the "graphics" project branch
- Tracking: bug 792576
- basic metro omtc support landed (bug 839808).
- metrofx rendering perf took a hit with omtc enabled, need to investigate.
- working on a set of simple perf test to track progress (bug 847341).
- apzc integration being investigated (bug 801154).
- Starting to investigate high-DPI display support (bug 816709).
- Front-end team working on theming and UX changes.
- Front end bugs fixed in the last 30 days
Games [1st Tuesday of Month]
- Recent progress
- MWC - Cut the Rope was a great success, pure JS game that we helped optimize
- We have the same ported using Emscripten, straight from the Android codebase, but had some platform JS and WebGL issues that prevented us from continuing that route
- specifically bugs and performance issues in ARM typed array support
- Multiplayer BananaBread is up
- WebRTC data channel for communication, little server side broker
- Hosting a game: http://modeswitch.github.com/BananaBread/cube2/
- Joining a game (server list): http://modeswitch.github.com/BananaBread/cube2/list.html
- Web Audio is in the process of landing
- Early code is in
- Working on additional node types
- Asm.js presented at mloc.js
- Unigine Released Crypt Demo
- MWC - Cut the Rope was a great success, pure JS game that we helped optimize
- Emscripten - successfully ported a 2-3 million line codebase
- Performance is great, really turned some heads
- Will be showing off at GDC
- GDC plans
- Getting ready to make a big splash
- Will need your help over the next 3 weeks: Javascript, Graphics, some DOM help, performance profiling
- We want to get:
- Asm.js landed
- Some JS large codebase issues worked out (silent oom issues, script source saving)
- Gamepad
- Pointer Lock in non-fullscreen
- Pointer Lock toggle in fullscreen
- We will have awesome T-shirts!
Mobile Web Compat [2nd Tuesday of Month]
Critsmash [3rd Tuesday of Month]
Memshrink [4th Tuesday of Month]
Roundtable
- (catlee) reduced OSX build capacity on 3/14-3/15 for work in the data centre
- (jesup) Try server wait times especially windows seem very long lately - impacting development (bug 847868)