Platform/2013-10-15

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2013-10-15 - 11:00 am Pacific

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Hot Bugs

(Important bugs for which we need to find owners or additional help. If known, please include suggested team or knowledge needed to advance the bug.)

Orange Factor

Stability

Other

The Need To Know

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

Notices/Schedule (akeybl/lsblakk/bajaj)

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

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

Build Changes (gps)

(Build changes of which engineers should be aware.)

Upcoming Outages/Upgrades

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

Key Issues

(Non team specific issues that impact engineering.)

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.)

Developer Tools (robcee)

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• over 20 Intermittent Debugger Oranges closed. Hallelujah!
• CSS properties for SVG elements in inspector.
• Pretty Printing improvements in Debugger.

Firefox Metro (bbondy/jmathies/mbrubeck)

Discussing profile sharing between Metro and desktop.

Firefox OS Communications (scravag)

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• Sprint 2 has ended
  • 31 koi+ bugs fixed
• Sprint 3 has started
  • Team is committed for 29 koi+ fixes
• 1.3 features
  • DSDS is the highest priority
    • Scope is still to be defined
    • Api and implementation work has started
    • UX proposition Draft 2 has been made and is under review
  • Some features regarding Dialer, SMS and Contacts are committed

Firefox OS Devices/Porting/Bluetooth (mchen)

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• Last Week
  • koi Bugs:
    • Audio : 924787, 923173, 855208
    • BT : 925663
  • BT:
    • HFP with CDMA
    • Bluedroid
    • PTS Verification
  • Partner Support
    • Helix

• This Week
  • koi Bugs.

Firefox OS Systems - Platform (timdream)

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Please read Gaia/Team/Taipei/Meetings/2013-10-15 for detail.

Summaries:

v1.1hd: need to uplift a few patches. mostly lefts are [POVB]s and visual bugs and left others to handle.

v1.2: stabilization in flight.

v1.3:

• Input cursor management: in engineering planning
• Camera work: halt. status changed to nice-to-have and wait for UX input
• DSDS: Evaluating the spec and creating corresponding bugs.
• NFC: engineering planning in progress, specifically Gaia-Gecko division. Investigating UI work.
• Settings (EAP-SIM/MTP/SD card format): Waiting on UX.
• Tablet: UX for v1.3 work will be available Oct EOM. Working on other underlining issues.
• CDMA: no issues for now.
• 3rd-party keyboard framework for FxOS: Working on v1.2 leftovers, some of them koi+
• Zhuyin IME: no update this week.
• Settings engineering: planning in progress; may need to implement Settings app inline dialog to unblock v1.3 first
• Window management update: no update this week.
• IME API w/ hardware keyboard: proposal in discussion
• Hardware button events for apps: no update
• Bluetooth inline pairing etc: UX spec not available, need to figure out priorities.
• Bluetooth keyboard: On halt. Not a v1.3 feature.
• Build script improvement: working on converting Python scripts to Javascript
• Hardware showcase app: reviewing patch to UI Test app (3rd round)
• Screenshot comparison tool: marionette-debug patches in review, prototype available.

Quality Programs

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

MemShrink (njn)

No update.

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.)