Platform/2012-05-01

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Kilimanjaro

• Efforts continue to "define" k9o
  • Excellent conversations on the list
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Kilimanjaro/ProductDraft - continue to add bugs
  • Lots of questions about triage. Group of product and project managers will triage noms to help people get a sense of k9o.
  • bsmedberg sent out a note about triage tool - leads.
  • Some outstanding items to triage - happening after this meeting
• There is an App/Site compat effort to ensure content works on the Mozilla platform
  • Involvement from business dev, QA, product, engineering, dev evangelism, market insights, press
  • Information and details being documented on the wiki
  • Lawrence Mandel (lmandel) for questions, to get involved

Notices / Schedule

• We're here in the schedule

• Unthrottling of FF12 will be discussed at today's channel meeting, 2PM PT in Warp Core. Right now contingent upon bug 748269
• Next round of 3.6 EOL Major Update prompts will go out at the earliest today
• Automatic updates from 3.6 to FF12 is planned for the week of 5/7
• FF12 (and associated releases) post-mortem will be held next week

• FF13 beta 2 will go to build today, released Friday

Firefox Development

• Firefox team sprinted to get a prototype of "sign in to browser" working
  • links a profile with an email address (browserid/persona)
    • signin/signout "work" to the extent that profiles are switched and a default fallback profile is used on logout
  • no tie-in with browserid service yet
  • progress available at https://hg.mozilla.org/users/poshannessy_mozilla.com/signin/
• Firefox Product Lead (Asa) met with Firefox Desktop Engineering Leads and sorted out all K9O work. Bugs filed.

Firefox Developer Tools

Add-on SDK

• HTML localization landed
• SDK context inside scratchpad: https://github.com/Gozala/scratch-kit/

Performance

• This week's Snappy summary
• Kyle landed a very significant Snappy fix this week as part of memshrink that reduces leaks in chrome (bug 695480). It should significantly reduce memory usage and thus cycle-collector pauses, etc.
• Patrick landed a change to have Firefox now hedge bets and warm up a TCP connection while checking the cache (bug 729133). More details on Patricks’s blog.
• Work going into improving setTimeout (bug 743877, bug 715376).

GFX

JS

• FIXED: bug 750424 nsXULPrototypeNode::Release should add itself to the purple buffer. This was blocking bug 735099 Re-enable incremental GC

Layout

Fennec and other bugs:

• bug 728284 - Main container layer has siblings that are drawn in the background
• bug 732016 - Maple: scrollIntoView does not clamp to the page size
• bug 728983 - Maple invalidation problems with scrollable layer and multiple div's
• bug 706193 - footer text on nytimes.com inflated too much
• bug 708175 - Form controls with fixed width or height shouldn't have their text inflated
• bug 745780 - update harfbuzz code to upstream commit
• bug 746975 - update graphite2 library to 1.1.2 release
• bug 745580 - handle bad results from Core Text shaping more robustly.
• bug 706194 - Adapt and check in tests from webkit for new unicode-bidi attributes
• bug 279330 - Midas hilitecolor command only works in CSS mode
• CSS Working Group meeting in Hamburg next week.

• Hoping to land GPU-accelerated clipping to border-radius today bug 716439. Fixes various performance problems with scrolling inside elements with border-radius, and canvas/video with border-radius. Some big changes. (ncameron)

Video

• Landed MediaStreams infrastructure on mozilla-central (roc). Currently the only exposed APIs are mozCaptureStream/mozCaptureStreamUntilEnded on media elements and the ability to set MediaStreams as the src of media elements, so you can route video/audio from one media element to another. Not that useful by itself, but a foundation to build other APIs on (getUserMedia, WebRTC, audio/video processing) etc. Next step is to land some processing functionality.

• Not video, but Nick is going to land a patch to disable attempts to remove our exception handler that triggers breakpad. This may reveal latent crashes.

DOM

WebAPI

Network

Identity

Plugins

Mobile

Accessibility

• Accessibility engine is now built by default on Mac FF nightlies so that we can widen testing for ~5 weeks. We may revert for Aurora.

Tree Management

• upcoming downtime while moving ftp.m.o/stage/surf to scl3
  • RelEng getting access today, will start verification
  • needs 5+ hours
  • needs tree closure *and* also blocks us doing releases.
  • tinderbox will also be offline during this time
• possible ride-along moving graphserver

Security

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

Bugs marked sec-review-needed that need to be scheduled

No results.

0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

Stability Report

Socorro

• Wednesday's release will feature a new reports of crash trends based on build dates (bug 640238).
• Plan for rapid beta support is being worked on, will delay work on other planned features.

Desktop

• bug 704158 - Blocking older versions of Flash.

Trunk

• bug 750556 crash in mozilla::dom::Element::ClearStyleStateLocks

Aurora

• bug 750019 crash in js::types::TypeSet::addType @ nsIDOMHTMLDocument_Write

Beta

• bug 750625 crash in nsUrlClassifierPrefixSet::GetPrefixes

Mobile

• New crash in nightly with epoll_wait
• Mobile specific socorro/breakpad integration issues : see Mobile Notes

Nightly Native

• bug 746946 - Fennec crashes repeatedly after opening the bookmarks or history section with a clean profile
  • Landed 4/30 on Aurora; Landed 4/29
• bug 748721 - crash in mozilla::layers::BasicTiledLayerTile::BasicTiledLayerTile
  • Does not occur on 4/27 and later.
• bug 749816 - crash in epoll_wait after changing display: table-column style to display:none on body
• bug 738198 - crash in nsPluginInstanceOwner::~nsPluginInstanceOwner @ nsPluginInstanceOwner::RemovePluginView

Aurora Native

• Top 2 are the same as in Nightly
• bug 730890 - crash [@ libdvm.so@<address>]

Roundtable

• mozilla-central and mozilla-inbound CLOSED for bug 750661. Need help from everyone to get as much code out of libxul as possible. Ping ehsan if you can help.
• The Notifications service has a Product page & there is a meeting with Product owners to discuss what integration into different clients looks like on May 2nd at 2pm pst. ping :ally if you are interested.