Platform/2013-01-29

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2013-01-29 - 11:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 95312
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 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

?? bugs (?? bugs last week)	?? bugs (?? bugs last week)
Unresolved Aurora 54 Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta)	Unresolved Beta 147 Trackers (non-security)

Key Issues

Actions Last Week

• bz to follow up to mailing list on instanceof
• ctalbert to ensure we graph the PGO memory usage
  • ed morely/ryan vm to monitor and flag issues and mail to dev-tree management
• johnath to ensure experiment with VS2012 builds
  • joduinn to ensure VS2012 Update 1
• dmandelin to measure PGO impact on start up and benchmarks

Roundtable

• If you're exposing new APIs to the web, please use WebIDL bindings, don't add more work for those who are working on eliminating XPConnect from the web. IOW, please don't add more code to nsDOMClassInfo.cpp. #content on irc is an excellent place to ask questions if you have them. (jst)

• Build system overhaul in bug 784841 ready to land soon. Need to iron out landing procedure. (gps)

Products/Projects

Firefox OS

• B2G Landing Process: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/B2G_Landing

Firefox Desktop

DNT UI

• Sid and team implemented a 3 state preference pane option for Do Not Track (bug 765398)

PDF.js

• Thanks to Masatoshi Kimura for fixing a Japan-critical issue with the display of certain Japanese PDFs on beta/aurora (bug 829435)

Firefox Desktop work week

• Firefox desktop team is in Toronto this week for a work week - expect updates from that next week!

Stability Report [Weekly]

Mobile

Fennec Graph

Nightly and Aurora

• Both show:
  • bug 827171 nsPluginStreamListenerPeer::OnStartRequest(nsIRequest*, nsISupports*)
  • bug 705641 mozalloc_abort(char const*) | NS_DebugBreak_P | mozilla::layers::LayerManagerOGL
  • bug 778175 - Startup crash on devices incompatible with OpenGL ES 2.0 (e.g. HTC Wildfire)
  • bug 771774 - crash with eglMakeCurrent failed (EGL error 3000) and abort message: "OpenGL-accelerated layers are a hard requirement on this platform [...]" on Vivante GPUs (e.g. in Rockchip rk29board, imapx200 and Vimicro chipsets)
• Nightly shows:
  • bug 834243 - crash in mozilla::layers::LayerManagerOGL::Initialize with abort message: "We need a context on Android"

Beta

• bug 823236 - crash in mozilla::layers::ShmemYCbCrImage::IsValid on ICS and above

Release

• bug 752828 - android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabaseLockedException: database is locked at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteStatement.native_executeSql(Native Method) on ICS
• a lot more libdvm.so crashes have happened

Fix landed:

• bug 830131 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.InputMethods.needsSoftResetWorkaround(InputMethods.java)
  • fix landed in aurora, nightly : not affecting beta/release
• bug 800838 - Android crash in nsNPAPIPluginInstance::UnscheduleTimer @ nsNPAPIPluginInstance::TimerWithID
  • fix landed in nightly, aurora; need push to beta after baking on aurora; affects release

FYI

• A Search by OS per crash signature would be helpful ; filed bug 835444

B2G

Main tracking bugs in relation to b2g crash reporting

• bug 833574 - (b2g-frontend-crash-reporting) [Meta] Other Crash Reporting Bugs
• bug 761905 - (b2g-crash-reporting) Tracking: Crash reporting for b2g (gonk)

Top crashes

• bug 834164 - [Camera] Camera crash after opened video app and played a video
• bug 834372 - crash in mozilla::layers::BasicShadowableThebesLayer::CreateBuffer with abort message: "creating ThebesLayer 'back buffer' failed! width=2621440, height=2064384, type=3000"