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==Notices / Schedule== | ==Notices / Schedule== | ||
* Firefox 15.0.1 with a fix for the private browsing issue went out last Thursday | |||
* Firefox 16 beta 2 (including mobile ARMv6) went out the door last Friday | |||
* Firefox for Android 15.0.1 with a fix for keyboard issues went out yesterday (Monday) | |||
* Firefox 16 beta 3 will be going to build today | |||
* Please stay focused on [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem;remaction=run;namedcmd=Tracking16%2B;sharer_id=272375;list_id=4354908 bugs tracked for Firefox 16] | |||
==Firefox OS== | ==Firefox OS== | ||
* The development team had a successful week in Sao Paulo working with Telefonica. Major visual design changes landed - icons, wallpapers, homescreen layouts, etc. Tons of bugs and features landed. | |||
* Now moving towards end of next milestone with is last feature work landed by 9/28. | |||
* Follow along via [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiBigu584YY7dGlNSlY0QzhJb3M5anRBa1gxalV0Y3c#gid=8 this sheet] which tracks the progress of the built-in apps, the [https://twitter.com/hackb2g @hackb2g twitter account] which tweets Gaia commits, and the [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gecko/Using_the_B2G_desktop_client B2G Desktop builds]. | |||
* Dogfooding program: Device selection in progress, OTA updates almost ready for dogfooding, expect more info over the next 1-2 weeks. | |||
==Firefox Development== | ==Firefox Development== | ||
==Firefox Developer Tools== | ==Firefox Developer Tools== | ||
* Source map implementation can be followed here: {{bug|771597}} | |||
* Remote web console getting close, follow here: {{bug|768096}} | |||
==Add-on SDK== | ==Add-on SDK== | ||
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==GFX== | ==GFX== | ||
* Cairo-Azure canvas backend is now on by default on all OSes. | |||
** We expect to remove the second canvas implementation just after Firefox 18 branches to Aurora. | |||
** Please test canvas on Windows XP, Linux and mobile, and report bugs! | |||
==JS== | ==JS== | ||
* IonMonkey has landed in mozilla-central! Preffed on for desktop ({{bug|745386}}). David Anderson and the IonMonkey team. | |||
==Layout== | ==Layout== | ||
* support for embedded SVG glyphs in OpenType fonts landed ({{bug|719286}}) | |||
* Bugs of interest: | |||
** Allow web pages to access cross-origin stylesheets if the CORS headers say so ({{bug|732209}}) | |||
** script for importing reftests from CSS Working Group tests now supports auto-prefixing ({{bug|786891}}), which is progress towards importing more tests | |||
** support for finding touch event targets that aren't exactly at the event point is now in Gecko rather than the Fennec front-end, {{bug|780847}} | |||
** support for print callbacks for <canvas> elements (needed by PDF.js) {{bug|745025}} | |||
** case that slows down style change calculation now more limited (though not clear how much it helped the original gaia testcase) ({{bug|779968}}) | |||
** support for <ol reversed> ({{bug|601912}}) | |||
==Media== | ==Media== | ||
* Opus was just made a [http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6716.txt standard]. [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/09/its-opus-it-rocks-and-now-its-an-audio-codec-standard/ Here is the hacks article.] | |||
* The IETF working group rtcweb just [http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg05267.html confirmed consensus] for Opus as one of the mandatory-to-implement audio codecs for WebRTC (G.711 is the other). | |||
==DOM== | ==DOM== | ||
==WebAPI== | ==WebAPI== | ||
* (I forgot this last week) a few weeks ago we hosted a day of discussions about app cache | |||
** in conjunction with Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft developers we decided a few changes can make it much better and more palatable to web developers | |||
** rough notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/appcache | |||
** work to be determined | |||
* Jan Varga continuing work on unified quota handling for offline storage | |||
* Bonnie Surender got a patch reviewed and ready to land for improved wifi geolocation on Linux ({{bug|668194}}) | |||
* Andrea Marchesini has a patch for transferrable object support with workers ({{bug|720083}}) | |||
** impressive results from simple benchmark: https://people.mozilla.com/~amarchesini/code/transferrable/ | |||
* MozCamp EU | |||
** Mounir gave two presentations which generated good questions | |||
** great conversations and community building | |||
==Network== | ==Network== | ||
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==Tree Management== | ==Tree Management== | ||
* Seeing improved wait times due to reallocation of slaves, turning off tests. | |||
** If you know of any perma-orange/red tests, please let us know so we can shut them off until they can be fixed! | |||
* Extra load from ionmonkey-enabled/-disabled fennec builds {{bug|789373}} | |||
==Security== | ==Security== | ||
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===Socorro=== | ===Socorro=== | ||
* Large new release might be pushed to production tomorrow, subject to QA signoff | |||
** Support for rapid beta ("mobeta") | |||
** Also bringing per-build-date reports for Aurora and Nightly | |||
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced;target_milestone=18;product=Socorro;list_id=4353015 bugs in this release] | |||
===Desktop=== | ===Desktop=== | ||
* Release | |||
** 15.0.1 is now up at 52 million ADUs and the crash rate looks good. | |||
** Third Party Issues | |||
*** {{Bug|789700}} crash in vmsfdmff.dll@0x5728 with Free Download Manager 1.5.7.5 | |||
*** {{bug|783369}} Norton Confidential 2012.5.5.11 crashes (couictlr.dll, coffplgn.dll) | |||
* Beta - 16b2 - crash rate a bit higher than normal but is coming down. | |||
** before we had pushed the bits out, there was a high number of crashes - 1200 | |||
** {{bug|782706}} crash in browsemngr.dll bundled with Babylon | |||
** {{bug|790047}} Firefox startup crash in js::XDRScript | |||
* Aurora | |||
** crash rate come down in the last week | |||
** New crashes | |||
*** {{bug|789933}} crash in mozilla::gfx::DrawTargetCairo::Stroke | |||
* Trunk | |||
** top regression fixed so the rate is going down | |||
** {{bug|789933}} crash in mozilla::gfx::DrawTargetCairo::Stroke | |||
** {{bug|788436}} Firefox 18 crash in nsGfxScrollFrameInner::ScrollToImpl | |||
* Flash | |||
** There is still a top generic crash from Flash | |||
** bsmedberg landed a patch on trunk - do we land it on other channels? | |||
** Stephen Donner found a reproducible crash - working on a reduced test case for Adobe. | |||
** Nothing that has changed dramatically. | |||
** {{bug|782395}} | |||
** {{bug|777008}} | |||
** {{bug|772717}} | |||
** 11.4 now seems to have made it to the majority of users, but no really big win - overall volume on Vista and higher is still 3x as many crashes and 4x as many hangs as 11.2 was. | |||
===B2G=== | |||
* Some B2G data but not much that's actionable yet | |||
* Only the Mac data is useful. | |||
* Kairo/Naoki on point to monitor this effort. | |||
* Meta tracking {{bug|761905}} | |||
===Mobile=== | ===Mobile=== | ||
[[File:CrashStats_2012-09-11.png]] | |||
* 45% of all our crashes on Fx15 mobile are startup related. | |||
** Waiting for 15.0.1 release to see if the startup crashes might calm down. | |||
* Wishlist fix: | |||
** {{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 | |||
[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Notes/{{#time: d-M-Y | {{SUBPAGENAME}} Wednesday}}#QA See Mobile Notes for Mobile specific Socorro notes] | [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Notes/{{#time: d-M-Y | {{SUBPAGENAME}} Wednesday}}#QA See Mobile Notes for Mobile specific Socorro notes] | ||
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=topcrash;keywords_type=allwords;list_id=3592071;resolution=---;query_based_on=Fennec_Native_TopCrashlist;status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr;query_format=advanced;status_whiteboard=%5bnative-crash%5d;known_name=Fennec_Native_TopCrashlist Top Crash List Bugs] | |||
* [https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/byversion/FennecAndroid/15.0/3/all 15 Release top crashes] | |||
* [https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/byversion/FennecAndroid/16.0b2/3/all 16.0b2 Beta top crashes] | |||
* [https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/byversion/FennecAndroid/17.0a2/3/all Aurora top crashes] | |||
* [https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/byversion/FennecAndroid/18.0a1/3/all Nightly top crashes] | |||
==Roundtable== | ==Roundtable== | ||
Latest revision as of 18:52, 11 September 2012
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Platform Meeting Details
- Tuesday 2012-09-11 - 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 15.0.1 with a fix for the private browsing issue went out last Thursday
- Firefox 16 beta 2 (including mobile ARMv6) went out the door last Friday
- Firefox for Android 15.0.1 with a fix for keyboard issues went out yesterday (Monday)
- Firefox 16 beta 3 will be going to build today
- Please stay focused on bugs tracked for Firefox 16
Firefox OS
- The development team had a successful week in Sao Paulo working with Telefonica. Major visual design changes landed - icons, wallpapers, homescreen layouts, etc. Tons of bugs and features landed.
- Now moving towards end of next milestone with is last feature work landed by 9/28.
- Follow along via this sheet which tracks the progress of the built-in apps, the @hackb2g twitter account which tweets Gaia commits, and the B2G Desktop builds.
- Dogfooding program: Device selection in progress, OTA updates almost ready for dogfooding, expect more info over the next 1-2 weeks.
Firefox Development
Firefox Developer Tools
- Source map implementation can be followed here: bug 771597
- Remote web console getting close, follow here: bug 768096
Add-on SDK
Performance
(no audible)
- Snappy work week this week
GFX
- Cairo-Azure canvas backend is now on by default on all OSes.
- We expect to remove the second canvas implementation just after Firefox 18 branches to Aurora.
- Please test canvas on Windows XP, Linux and mobile, and report bugs!
JS
- IonMonkey has landed in mozilla-central! Preffed on for desktop (bug 745386). David Anderson and the IonMonkey team.
Layout
- support for embedded SVG glyphs in OpenType fonts landed (bug 719286)
- Bugs of interest:
- Allow web pages to access cross-origin stylesheets if the CORS headers say so (bug 732209)
- script for importing reftests from CSS Working Group tests now supports auto-prefixing (bug 786891), which is progress towards importing more tests
- support for finding touch event targets that aren't exactly at the event point is now in Gecko rather than the Fennec front-end, bug 780847
- support for print callbacks for <canvas> elements (needed by PDF.js) bug 745025
- case that slows down style change calculation now more limited (though not clear how much it helped the original gaia testcase) (bug 779968)
- support for <ol reversed> (bug 601912)
Media
- Opus was just made a standard. Here is the hacks article.
- The IETF working group rtcweb just confirmed consensus for Opus as one of the mandatory-to-implement audio codecs for WebRTC (G.711 is the other).
DOM
WebAPI
- (I forgot this last week) a few weeks ago we hosted a day of discussions about app cache
- in conjunction with Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft developers we decided a few changes can make it much better and more palatable to web developers
- rough notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/appcache
- work to be determined
- Jan Varga continuing work on unified quota handling for offline storage
- Bonnie Surender got a patch reviewed and ready to land for improved wifi geolocation on Linux (bug 668194)
- Andrea Marchesini has a patch for transferrable object support with workers (bug 720083)
- impressive results from simple benchmark: https://people.mozilla.com/~amarchesini/code/transferrable/
- MozCamp EU
- Mounir gave two presentations which generated good questions
- great conversations and community building
Network
Identity
Plugins
Mobile
Accessibility
Tree Management
- Seeing improved wait times due to reallocation of slaves, turning off tests.
- If you know of any perma-orange/red tests, please let us know so we can shut them off until they can be fixed!
- Extra load from ionmonkey-enabled/-disabled fennec builds bug 789373
Security
Stability Report
Socorro
- Large new release might be pushed to production tomorrow, subject to QA signoff
- Support for rapid beta ("mobeta")
- Also bringing per-build-date reports for Aurora and Nightly
- bugs in this release
Desktop
- Release
- 15.0.1 is now up at 52 million ADUs and the crash rate looks good.
- Third Party Issues
- bug 789700 crash in vmsfdmff.dll@0x5728 with Free Download Manager 1.5.7.5
- bug 783369 Norton Confidential 2012.5.5.11 crashes (couictlr.dll, coffplgn.dll)
- Beta - 16b2 - crash rate a bit higher than normal but is coming down.
- before we had pushed the bits out, there was a high number of crashes - 1200
- bug 782706 crash in browsemngr.dll bundled with Babylon
- bug 790047 Firefox startup crash in js::XDRScript
- Aurora
- crash rate come down in the last week
- New crashes
- bug 789933 crash in mozilla::gfx::DrawTargetCairo::Stroke
- Trunk
- top regression fixed so the rate is going down
- bug 789933 crash in mozilla::gfx::DrawTargetCairo::Stroke
- bug 788436 Firefox 18 crash in nsGfxScrollFrameInner::ScrollToImpl
- Flash
- There is still a top generic crash from Flash
- bsmedberg landed a patch on trunk - do we land it on other channels?
- Stephen Donner found a reproducible crash - working on a reduced test case for Adobe.
- Nothing that has changed dramatically.
- bug 782395
- bug 777008
- bug 772717
- 11.4 now seems to have made it to the majority of users, but no really big win - overall volume on Vista and higher is still 3x as many crashes and 4x as many hangs as 11.2 was.
B2G
- Some B2G data but not much that's actionable yet
- Only the Mac data is useful.
- Kairo/Naoki on point to monitor this effort.
- Meta tracking bug 761905
Mobile
- 45% of all our crashes on Fx15 mobile are startup related.
- Waiting for 15.0.1 release to see if the startup crashes might calm down.
- Wishlist fix:
- 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
See Mobile Notes for Mobile specific Socorro notes