Platform/2012-02-28

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesdays - 11:00 am Pacific

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Notices / Schedule

• We are here in the schedule

• Beta 5 will go-to-build this evening PT (2/28). Please nominate/land any applicable bugs asap. If you have a bug currently nominated for mozilla-beta approval, please make sure to be available after today's 2-3PM PT channel meeting to land approved bugs once we complete our discussions. Alternatively ping akeybl in IRC to expedite the process.
• Code freeze for FF11 is this Friday (3/2).
• Final sign-off for FF11 will be scheduled for next Wednesday (3/7). Details to be announced on dev-planning

• The next ESR is going to build early this Friday. Please see the ESR tracking list and the landing process and ping lsblakk on IRC if you have any questions.

• Please see our Channels Triage queries to find tracked bugs for each release. Please let release-mgmt (@mozilla.com) know if any of these bugs no longer need to be tracked or need support from QA or the crash-kill team (for Socorro/crash-stats data).

Firefox Development

• Marco Bonardo landed the livemarks re-write - this was a big chunk of work which has plenty of benefits, including no more synchronous IO, and less entanglement with the rest of places (bug 613588)
• Paolo Amadini has flipped the default value of the "load tabs on demand" pref, which should help with responsiveness during session restores and memory use for large profiles (bug 711193)
• Frank Yan's about:home revision that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago is very close to landing, just need to sort out coordination issues with the server-side snippets service (bug 711157)
• Silent update: Brian landed the remaining patches for the UAC dialog work.

Firefox Developer Tools

• CCDump - Blog post
• B2G debugging - Blog post
• Pseudo-class lock landed bug 707740

Add-on SDK

• SDK 1.5 shipped last week with preliminary mobile support
• Add-ons using SDK 1.3 will need to repackage against a newer SDK to support Firefox 11

Performance

• Snappy weekly summary
• Livemarks are now async thanks to Marco (bug 613588)
• There was an increase in negative feedback regarding Firefox 11 beta relative to Firefox 10 beta on SUMO. Cheng and Taras are investigating.
• Olli and Jan cooked up about:ccdump addon for assist with finding leaks. See Jan’s blog post for more details.
• Bill landed incremental GC this week, bug 719492. Most users will not benefit from incremental GC until Bill finishes up handling frequent “corner cases” that end up disabling incremental GC.
• Avi ported his smoothscroll logic to C++, Jared pushed it to the UX branch (bug 206438. If you are interested in fluid scrolling, give it a try, play with acceleration prefs to help us find optimal values.

GFX

• Fennec "maple" builds are getting usable, and we could probably use more technical eyes on them.
  • http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-maple-android/
  • This is "off-main-thread-compositing", or OMTC.
  • Probably not ready for every-day use, but already much more usable on anything with an Adreno GPU (Nexus One, HTC Desire HD, etc).
  • Known issues: Some jankiness, some WebGL issues (i.e. upside-down on some devices), some checkerboarding issues.
  • File whatever bugs you find in Core :: Graphics, and put "MAPLE" in the whiteboard.
  • Note: This testing is only needed on Android devices; desktop should be unaffected by these changes.

Layout

Notable Patches:

• bug 726582 - Prevent nsSMILCSSProperty::ValueFromString from reading uninitialized out-param
• bug 614732 - For SVG leaf frames, use mRect to store the frame's user space bounds, and stop using it to store its covered region
• bug 725903 - PathExtentsToMaxStrokeExtents needs to take a transform argument.
• bug 725897 - Remove the inaccurate nsSVGUtils::ToAppPixelRect, and use nsLayoutUtils::RoundGfxRectToAppRect instead.
• bug 707959 - followup, move font cache telemetry into gfxFontCache::Lookup.
• bug 725376 - Don't do column balancing deeper than 5 nested levels to avoid hang.
• bug 718516 - Replace call of FinishReflowWithAbsoluteFrames() with FinishAndStoreOverflow() for nsColumnSetFrame to prevent crash.
• bug 718516 - Remove call to FinishReflowWithAbsoluteFrames until nsColumnSetFrame is fully implemented as an absolute container.
• bug 724776 - Change SetForcedCharset to BrowserSetForcedCharacterSet.

WebAPI

• Updated WebAPI wiki page to contain status for all APIs we're currently working on.
• New API drafts for Device Storage, Wifi Information, Mobile Network information, Idle, Sensor and Settings APIs.
• Philikon has initial implementation of Mobile Network Information API.

Tree Management

• Dongles installed on all OSX 10.7 test slaves - test results and wait times should be better now

Security

Security Reviews & Threat Modeling Sessions Scheduled for this week

Date / Time	Item
Mon Feb 27 / 13:00 PST	Threat Model: Metlog
Wed Feb 29 / 13:00 PST	Threat Model: Token Server
THU Mar 1 / 10:00 PST	SecReview: WebSMS, bug 674725
Fri Mar 12 / 10:00 AM PST	SecReview: Snappy Symbolic Server

Calendar and Meeting details

General Meeting Details 
* IRC Channel: #security 
* Etherpad: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/secreview 
* Vidyo: https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=5XEMsG1ApA4b (Room 9058)
* Dial-in Info (phone): 
** In office or soft phone: extension 92 
** US/INTL: 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 then extension 92 
** Toronto: 416-848-3114 then extension 92 
** Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369 
** Conference num 99058

For updates to meetings please see the Security Review Calendar

• HTML: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review.html
• .ics: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review

Review Needed

• Feature pages triaged to need review, review unscheduled

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Feature

Feature List

Target Rel

Prod Mgr

Lead Engr

Security lead

Security status

Security notes

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Stability Report

Socorro

• Correlation reports for Aurora and Trunk are available in subdirectories of https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/crash_analysis/ starting with today as bug 723182 is fixed now (for some reason Socorro isn't picking them up correctly, but this whole mechanism is a bit wonky and will be replaced with a better model in the next months anyhow). Will work on getting the version for the next Firefox cycle there near to the source uplifts.
• Next incremental Socorro release landing on Wednesday - no big changes, a couple of skiplist additions, fix for bug 724670 which unbreaks report lists for some Java signatures.
• Stackwalking fix for MSVC2010 (and possibly browser-side hang signatures on FF11+) could also land with this release on Wednesday, see bug 726570.
• Main focus of work for next release is ESR support.

Desktop

Trunk

• bug 730550 Crash in gfxUserFontSet::OnLoadComplete @ __delayLoadHelper2
• bug 730277 Crash @ nsWindowGfx::Data32BitTo1Bit
• bug 730274 Startup crash in nsAppShell::ProcessNextNativeEvent @ DispatchHookA
• bug 730633 crash in nsNSSSocketInfo::SetCertVerificationResult or nsNSSSocketInfo::StartTLS @ dyld_stub_binder

Aurora

• bug 729864 Crash @ js_XDRStaticBlockObject
• bug 730282 Firefox Crash @ mozilla::SignalTracerThread

Beta

• Tracking 11
• bug 729507 Firefox 11.0 Crash in JSObject::finish @ je_free | mozglue.dll@0x34..

Mobile

Graph and Soccoro work can be seen in the Testing Meeting notes 2/29/2012

Nightly

• bug 730688 - java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resume activity {org.mozilla.fennec/org.mozilla.fennec.App}: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure delivering result ResultInfo{who=null, request=2, result=-1, data=Intent { (has extras) }} to activity {org.mozilla.f...
• bug 730890 - crash @ libdvm.so@<address>
• bug 725167 - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Given view not a child of android.widget.AbsoluteLayout@4... at android.view.ViewGroup.updateViewLayout(ViewGroup.java)

Aurora

• bug 725295 - [Skia] Crash Report @ _ZN8SkBitmapaSERKS_ on HTC devices
• bug 730890 - crash @ libdvm.so@<address>
• bug 729129 - crash @ dlmalloc_walk_free_pages dvmHeapSourceTrim

Roundtable

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• New C++ namespace guidelines as per the discussion (no audibles):
  • Put everything under namespace mozilla
  • No more nested namespaces under mozilla except for exceptional cases (see the style guidelines).