Platform/2014-06-24

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2014-06-24 - 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98411
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• Engineering Vidyo Room / Air Mozilla / MTV Warp Core / TOR Finch / SFO Warfield / PDX Hair of the Dog
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Need To Know

(Release and system issues that may impact engineering this week.)

Notices/Schedule (lsblakk/sylvestre)

Next Merge: January 12, 2026		Next Release: January 13, 2026
Trains
Central: 148	Aurora: 54	Beta: 147	Release: 146

Build Changes (gps)

(Build changes of which engineers should be aware.)

RelEng (catlee)

(Repo, test, and other information for engineers from the release engineering team.)

Upcoming Outages/Upgrades

(System outages/upgrades and tree closures that impact engineering.)

Quality Programs

(An opportunity to hear about status with the various quality programs that do not have a formal team structure.)

MemShrink (njn)

• Andrew McCreight LSan for Mochitests on TBPL. LSan is a tool that can find leaks in C++ code, and it's already found lots -- see the blocking bugs in the tracking bug. Great stuff! Please help with fixing the existing leaks whose reporting has been suppressed in order to get this landed.

Team Stand-ups

(In <2 mins, what did your team accomplish last week, on what is your team working on this week, and on what, if anything, is your team blocked? No questions during the stand-ups. All questions should be asked during the roundtable.)

App Tools (prouget)

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• WebIDE has landed: blog post + screencast: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/06/webide-lands-in-nightly/

Electrolysis (e10s) (blassey)

• bug 988133 - view-source no longer crashes
• bug 989501 - Popup windows now open new window, not new tab
• bug 990729 - Add-on compartments for addon XUL code and components/modules

Firefox OS Devices/Porting (ericchou)

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• Device porting (Gonk team)
  • Porting Summary
    • Flame
    • Vixen
    • Tarako: Solving PTR2 blockers
    • Dolphin: SPRD PTR1
    • QSD8926 LTE: Gonk KK + Gecko master

• Bluetooth (members: Shawn Huang, Ben Tian, Jamin Liu, Jocelyn Liu)
  • bug 1026475 - Device switch from Handset/Headset to BT SCO fails during call (1.4+, landed)
  • bug 1005848 - WebBluetooth API implementation
    • Discussed with Jonas/Ben about the API design since they were visiting Taipei office last week)

• Media Playback (members: Bruce Sun, Blake Wu, Star Cheng)
  • Issues solving and analysis
    • bug 1017438 - A short period of sound at the end of a song would be cut off too early (1.4+, patch for 1.4 is ready)
    • bug 1000522 - [B2G]Video cannot be played more than 3-5 times in the row, gets stuck and requires app restart (2.0+, POVB now)
    • bug 1017421 - Preview of custom ringtones cannot be stopped. (2.0+, found the root cause)
  • Partner training this Friday(6/27, Bruce Sun)

• Device Storage & Stability (members: Alphan Chen)
  • bug 855952 - DeviceStorage API: File append (landed)
  • Had a MTP kickoff meeting with Hema's team. Alphan will work with Dave Hylands and David Flanagan to make MTP enabled by FxOS 2.1.
  • Partner training this Friday(6/27, Alphan Chen)

Firefox OS Telephony/WIFI/NFC (kenhkchang)

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• bug 1010252 - [Wi-Fi] Problems re-connecting to a known Wi-Fi network.
• bug 1027478 - Modify telephony API from dialEmergency(number, serviceId) to dialEmergency.
• bug 1024747 - CDMA MO MMS still not working as phone number is not correctly retrieved from iccInfo.
• bug 1023141 - ril.ecclist is an empty string after boot-up.
• bug 1021006 - [RTSP][2.0] Browser pops up a network warning message in the end of video RTSP streaming.
• bug 1003711 - [RTSP] Build Darwin Streaming Server on B2G emulator.
• bug 1020212 - Wifi can't access keystore in gecko on Flame.
• bug 1028044 - WPA-EAP TTLS-MSCHAPv2 Compatibility issue.
• bug 1022460 - Enable wifi tethering on emulator.
• bug 1008797 - Test case for bug 993598.
• bug 1011358 - In the Mountain View QA lab, master on Hamachi/Flame often fails to find the "ateam" SSID.
• bug 1028037 - NFC testcase failure with error message "Accessing TypedArray data over Xrays is slow
• bug 1017485 - [Follow up of Bug 984207] Define timing to enable/disable P2p mode
• bug 933588 - B2G NFC: Rewrite NFC Worker in C++
• bug 813893 - B2G RIL: support UMTS CBS Message
• bug 843452 - B2G RIL: use ipdl as IPC in MozMobileConnection
• bug 1010356 - Network location provider should try to send neighboring cell data
• bug 1027430 - Add EF_SPN to Navigator.mozMobileConnections and ensure it's accessible from a non-certified app
• bug 859764 - WebSMS: move to MozMobileMessage WebIDL
• Provide WebNFC API v2 draft proposal

GFX (milan)

• OMTC should be off on Aurora; we got a lot of data about some (uncommon to us) hardware that shows issues with OMTC on which we wouldn't have any other way. Thanks for putting up with the slightly sad state of affairs during this time.
• In the meantime, WebGL with OMTC should be back on par performance - bug 1000640
• Summer PTOs have started.

Seceng (grobinson)

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• bug 1027133: enabled pinning in test-mode for all subdomains of twitter.com (this is broader than Chrome's pinset for twitter)

WebAPI (overholt)

• No update this week.

Roundtable

(Comments and questions that arise during the course of the meeting or otherwise do not have a section.)

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Mailing List Threads

(Threads that are likely to be of interest to engineering from various mailing lists.)

Good Reads

(Links to blog posts, books, videos, etc. that you think will be of interest to others.)