Platform/2012-09-04

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Platform Meeting Details

  • Tuesday 2012-09-04 - 11:00 am Pacific
  • Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 95312
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    • 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

  • Please start re-focusing on bugs tracked for FF16 and 17
    • Emails to teams owning FF16/17 tracked bugs will be going out shortly
  • FF16 b2 is going to build this morning (PT)
    • Mobile will be released Wednesday with ARMv6 support
    • Desktop will be released before the end of the week
  • We're targeting full Win8 Classic support in FF16 - stay tuned for test day details
    • If you're running Win8 (please do) and run into critical issues, nominate for tracking
  • FF15.0 remains throttled - we'll be discussing 15.0.1 drivers this afternoon at the channel meeting

Firefox OS

(no audible, dietrich got pulled into another meeting)

Firefox Development

Firefox Developer Tools

New landings over the last few weeks:

  • New HTML panel
  • Reload fixes for the debugger
  • Highlighter perf/visiblity improvements
  • Whole-source search in the debugger: bug 774788

Add-on SDK

Performance

  • Vlad and Nicolas landed a big perf with for start-up - stop validating certificates for signed extensions on start-up (bug 726125).
  • Pat removed main thread DNS queries due to proxy configuration (bug 769764). This change breaks all proxy related add-ons. Pat is reaching out to change their API usage.
  • Timothy fixed extreme lag during text input on Web forms in Aurora and Nightly (bug 786421).

GFX

JS

Layout

Media

DOM

WebAPI

  • multiple recent work weeks
    • lots of great discussions
    • face to face reviews
    • planning
  • B2G payments and updates progressing well
  • many bug fixes

Network

Identity

Plugins

Mobile

  • new updater landed, bounced and re-landed bug 786380

Accessibility

  • Eitan made a quick (2:42) screencast/demo of the Firefox OS Screen reader. Note TTS (Text-To-Speech) is not on trunk yet.

Tree Management

  • OSX 10.8 tests in production http://relengofthenerds.blogspot.ca/2012/08/new-platform-tests-os-x-mountain-lion.html
  • Using pymake for win32 builds on all branches (except aurora, beta, release). Improved nightly/PGO compile times by about 45 minutes. (53efabe4.png)
  • Improved wait times for linux/windows builds
    • Due to migration of linux based builds to AWS, and recycling of old linux build machines into win64 build machines
    • More win64 machines coming online soon
    • Reimaging 40 OSX 10.5 test machines as additional windows test machines
  • Infrastructure load for august
    • Another record high number of checkins - 5,803 checkins in August, up from 5,635 in July.

Security

Stability Report

Socorro

Desktop

Beta

  • bug 787637 crash in js::NukeCrossCompartmentWrapper
  • bug 763896 [adbe 3216155] Flash hang in F_1152915508
    • This crash ranks #2 in beta and is fairly high in volume relative to other flash crashes

Release

  • Crash rate looks good with almost 49 million ADUs

Aurora

  • bug 785634 crash in JSContext::saveFrameChain mainly with Roboform is fixed but is causing the crash rate on Aurora to be a bit higher
  • bug 788107 crash in nsPluginStreamListenerPeer::OnStartRequest
  • bug 788162 Firefox crash in jvm.dll

Trunk

  • New crashes
    • bug 787775 reproducible crash in crash in js::ArrayBufferObject::removeFinalizedView
    • bug 785366 Intermittent crash in browser_styleeditor_new.js [@ IncrementalCollectSlice]

Mobile

CrashStats 2012-09-04.png

  • 45% of all our crashes on Fx15 mobile are startup related.

See Mobile Notes for Mobile specific Socorro notes


Roundtable

  • (catlee) - supported architectures for win8?
  • Reminder: nsCAutoString -> nsAutoCString landed this weekend; script to revise patch queues is in bug 773151