Platform/2012-12-18

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Platform Meeting Details

  • Tuesday 2012-12-18 - 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

  • Firefox 18 beta 4 went out the door last week
  • Firefox 18 beta 5 will go to build today, be released Friday (get your landings in asap)
  • CTP blocks for recent un-blocked versions of Reader/Java/Silverlight going out today (congrats!)
  • Firefox 18 Beta 6 will go to build next Thursday, release Friday
  • We'll evaluate b6 feedback the week of the 31st, and release the following Tuesday (1/8)
26 bugs (27)
39 bugs (42)
Unresolved Aurora Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta) Unresolved Beta Trackers (non-security)

Key Issues

Actions Last Week

Issues

Actions

Roundtable

  • 2013 Platform Goals
  • Meeting Survey Results & Actions
    • Survey Results
      • Overall rating 6/10
      • 93% learned something unexpected
      • General agreement orienting around products is more useful
      • General agreement monthly updates on certain topics are useful
      • General agreement calling attention to key issues helps
      • Sentiment that Metro, Snappy should have less frequent updates
      • Sentiment that Memshrink should have more frequent updates
      • Sentiment that Dev Tools should have its own section
    • Proposed/Possible Changes
      • Put the surprising info and actions first (starting today)
      • Add DevTools back (discuss)
      • Make Snappy, Metro, Memshrink changes (discuss)
        • njn publishes a detailed report of MemShrink activity every two weeks. We can post a summary here every two weeks if people think that would be useful. https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/
      • Written only status updates for platforms, other pieces (discuss)
  • Android x86 build support live (no tests yet). Kudos to kmoir. If you see problems, do not hide, please file bugs in mozilla.org:ReleaseEngineering.
  • Android NDK upgrade coming
  • 4 new rentable branches: https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/DisposableProjectBranches#BOOKING_SCHEDULE
  • No meeting next 2 weeks

Products/Projects

Firefox OS

  • blocking-basecamp. This will only be used up until v1.0 CS (hopefully 1/15), and will ultimately only include those bugs that require Mozilla engineering action prior to v1.0 CS.
  • blocking-b2g. This flag is meant to track groups of partner work, without specifying a targeted version. Example values would tef+ for critical issues found after we've deprecated blocking-basecamp, or shira+ for issues blocking a partner's required features.
  • tracking-b2g18. This flag is used similarly to tracking-esr17 and is meant to specifically track major stability/security/usability that we'd like to fix int he v1x timeframe. The value can either be set to + (generically tracked) or for a specific 6-week cycle (19+, 20+, etc.). It's been proposed that tracking-b2g-v1x may be a better flag, as it pertains to both Gecko and Gaia.
  • status-b2g18. This flag is used similarly to status-esr17 and is meant to track whether a fix has been landed on v1x release branches. It's been proposed that status-b2g-v1x may be a better flag, as it pertains to both Gecko and Gaia.

Firefox Desktop

Per-window private browsing
  • on at last in Nightly. Great efforts by ehsan, jdm, folks from Appcoast, and many others.
New "Downloads" view
  • Also landed (bug 675902)! It's an important piece of the new downloads UI. Still many performance and polish issues to sort out.
Social multi-provider
  • Landed last week (bug 809694)! UX issues and some implementation details to sort out, and still no built-in second provider to test with, but if you're interested in manually adding some for testing, find us on #socialdev.
Mixed content UI
  • Work is in progress, tracking bug is bug 815321. Various backend/frontend pieces in active development, UI design is also in progress.
Profiler
  • First cut at a webdev-focused frontend landed on mozilla-central. bug 795268
  • Please file bugs in Firefox :: Developer Tools.

Firefox Mobile

x86 Builds are Official!
Memory, Responsiveness, Usability
  • To reduce memory in our gfx code, let us first improve our visibility into where we are using memory: bug 818060 - Add a memory reporter for graphics textures
Stability Wins
  • bug 816164 - gzip-compress crash report submission on Android
  • bug 800838 - Android crash in nsNPAPIPluginInstance::UnscheduleTimer @ nsNPAPIPluginInstance::TimerWithID, Fixed for Fx17
  • bug 780831 - crash in libdvm.so@0x45... on JB, Uplifted to Fx18
Developer life quality
  • bug 811411 -Unit test support (motivated by WebRTC team's need)
  • bug 820546 - eliminated unnecessary p of browser chrome files
  • bug 818301 - make JimDB work with C++ unit tests
In progress/under investigation
  • bug 786996 - Content of Flash plugin is first displayed upside down

Metro [Weekly]

Elm to mc merge
  • bug new-packager pretty much done, needs more tests, reviews, and testing.
  • bug metro-build pretty much done. needs reviews on remaining blockers.
  • bug elm-merge still work to do here: localization issues with metrofx, sec review, landing the rest of the metro code bits that haven't landed already. Remaining patches here can't land until after bug metro-build is on mc.
  • Note - test plugin is moving out of (gre)/plugins to (dist)/plugins in bug 817881
  • 0 bugs blocking (-7) bug metro-build w/work TBD
  • 5 bugs blocking (+0) bug elm-merge w/work TBD
Rel-eng
  • Planning to switch mc to the 8.0 sdk after the next merge on ~2013-01-06 bug 774910
Front-end
  • Working with UX on polish for bookmarks, start page UI, and session restore.

Stability Report [Weekly]

  • We don't have statistics for yesterday's crash data yet, working with the Socorro team to fix that.
    • Backfill in process bug 822724. Intermittent repeated issues on Socorro over the last two weeks, root cause still being investigated bug 819881
  • We had a number of regressions on trunk in the last week, but it looks like all the bad things have been fixed right now.
  • bug 819028 - crash in the D3D11 DLL shipped with IE10 preview for Win7, needs investigation
  • bug 822438 - JS crash on the largest Polish portal, needs help

Mobile

CrashStats 2012-12-17.png

  • bug 780831 - crash in libdvm.so@0x45... on JB
    • needs push to beta and then tested on beta


B2G

  • bug 821353 Corrupt stacks from B2G reports - we now know the cause, solution is being worked on.
  • bug 821498 Is on file for pending reports

Snappy [Weekly]

Startup & Shutdown
  • Thanks to BenWa, we no longer nuke cross compartment wrapper on shutdown, which should save 200ms+ on shutdown (bug 818296)
  • Aaron added readahead for safebrowsing .sbstore files, which shows ~50ms improvement on his laptop, probably even more in other environments (bug 810101)
  • Rafael moved Telemetry shutdown time probe off of the main thread (bug 815709)
  • Vladan is looking into why we have added a gradual 30% regression in start-up times over the past year (bug 818257)
Tab Strip
  • Vlad made a huge improvement o animation timing and now it's mostly achieving 60 fps on slow machines (bug 731974)
  • James Abbatiello (a new contributor) created a tab switch timing add-on. Details in bug 812381
Content
  • Vlad plans to move local storage writes off the main thread this week (bug 807021)
    • Honza is continuing the work on local storage in bug 600307

Games [1st Tuesday of Month]

Mobile Web Compat [2nd Tuesday of Month]

Critsmash [3rd Tuesday of Month]

  • Really great recent critical security bug activity; thank you!
  • Big push in 2013. Teams are adopting quarterly goals to limit the lifespan of high and critical security bugs.

Memshrink [4th Tuesday of Month]

Engineering Metrics