Platform/2012-09-18

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Platform Meeting Details

  • Tuesday 2012-09-18 - 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

  • 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

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

Aurora

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

Beta

Release

Mobile

See Mobile Notes for Mobile specific Socorro notes

CrashStats 2012-09-18.png

  • 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.

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