Platform/2013-01-08

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Notices/Schedule

• Merge was yesterday. Nightly=21, Aurora=20, Beta=19
• Firefox 18.0 was released today (congrats to bajaj!)
  • Currently throttled until Thursday for MS Patch Tuesday
• Firefox 19.0 beta 1 has gone to build
  • Potential for delay on Android, due to test bustage in bug 827699
• Firefox 20.0a2 hasn't had a successful nightly yet due to bug 827851, but we'll spin one up as soon as the bustage is fixed
• ESR10 is on the way out, B2G18 is on the way in (security landings)

26 bugs	57 bugs
Unresolved Aurora Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta)	Unresolved Beta Trackers (non-security)

Key Issues

Actions Last Week

• publish summary of linux32 states to dev-planning (coop)
• milan to help with https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=819028
• Win64 builds
  • https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/DOihL2429NM

Issues

• Future Issues - early discussion on dev-platform, monitoring for discussion if not resolved
  • instanceof SomeDOMInterface
    • https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.platform/bfwNKKiAxcw/discussion
  • C++11 atomics
    • https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/BsMJpfWf2ak
  • ICU Import
    • https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/sVVpS2sKODw
  • Linux32 support (joduinn)
    • background threads in newsgroups https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.planning/ahyq19APxb4/discussion and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.tree-management/xXAiuCA8k1g/discussion

Actions

• Naveed to get traction on bug 803018, bug 817342, bug 719114

Roundtable

• Platform/2013-Goals
  • https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.platform/u-06uJ8nAnw/discussion
• moz.build landing soon bug 784841. Need to coordinate with major landings.
• mozGetUserMedia() is preffed on by default now
• Firefox Health Report likely landing on Nightly this week

Products/Projects

Firefox OS

• Blockers for Jan 15: http://bit.ly/NkXeSB
• Blockers for TEF: http://bit.ly/10uMbfT

Firefox Desktop

Download UI

• Major remaining issues are some performance issues, final bits of polish, the team is working hard to get that uplifted to Aurora (tracking bug: bug 747422)

getUserMedia UI

• Dao landed the visible indicator of camera/microphone use (bug 799417), other general UI pieces being tracked in bug 729522, and Aurora-20 bugs in bug 827156.

Social

• Shane is working on improving our "Share" capabilities (bug 818675)
• markh landed improvements to the security checks that we do (bug 806037

Main-thread I/O

• David Teller's patches to remove main-thread IO from sessionstore (bug 532150) and search service (bug 760036) landed
• Michael Kraft tracked down a regression from the sessionstore changes (bug 824107)

Per-window PB

• Ehsan and Josh have been working on removing the old global private browsing service entirely.

Tab browser improvements

• Contributor ithinc has been cleaning up and optimizing various bits of the tabbrowser code (bug 822068, bug 822914, bug 824480, bug 819907)

Plugin hang UI (Windows)

• aklotz has implemented the feature which allows users to kill plugins which are hung, one of our top complaints. bug 805591.

Firefox Mobile

Blog Shout Outs

• Performance http://gbrownmozilla.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/firefox-for-android-performance-measures-december-check-up/
• html5 Context Menus landed in Fx20 bug 736321: http://digdug2k.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/html5-context-menus-in-fennec/
• Diagnosing mecurial patch rejects: https://staktrace.com/spout/entry.php?id=787

Memory, Responsiveness, Usability

• bug 793755 - Cache viewport data, 22% panning improvement
• Landing bug 654352 - document.caretPositionFromPoint API helps set us up for good progress for reflow-on-zoom

Developer Quality of Life, Housekeeping

• bug 811411 - Add ability to run C++ unit tests on mobile
• bug 825151, bug 825453, bug 825939 - Switch all builds (ARMv7, ARMv6, x86) over to using NDK r8c
  • bug 826411 - Back out compiler-specific workarounds

Stability Wins

bug 785597 - fix crash in AndroidGLController::SetGLVersion
bug 821979 - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid selection offsets at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoEditable$Action.newSetSelection(GeckoEditable.java
bug 825505 - crash when calling 'Edit' context menu for site/page/thumbnail on about:home and returning to it with the

Request for Second Eyes on

• bug 761987 - Intermittent Android shutdown, 468771-2.xhtml, basn2c16.html crash [@ nssCertificate_Destroy] [@ 0xffff0fc4 | PR_AtomicDecrement | nssCertificate_Destroy] [@ FreeArenaList | PORT_FreeArena_Util] [@ nssCertificateStore_Lock | nssCertificate_Destroy]

In progress/under investigation

• bug 786996 - Content of Flash plugin is first displayed upside down

Stability Report [Weekly]

• Trunk topcrash/regression bugs that need owners:
  • bug 821733 - js::CompartmentChecker::fail
  • bug 827272 - nsSSLIOLayerHelpers::Cleanup
  • bug 827170 - abort message: "Framebuffer not complete ..."
• Beta/Release bugs needing traction:
  • bug 805406 - gfxContext::PushClipsToDT
  • bug 825600 - Startup crash in lmrn.dll
  • bug 630197 - gfx crash with mainly NVidia
• js::GCMarker::processMarkStackTop is still a high-volume top crash on all channels, multiple open bugs but no action happening: bug 803018, bug 817342, bug 719114

Snappy [Weekly]

• 2012 performance summary from Taras
• December summary from Vladan
• Snappy meetings resume this week

Metro [1st Tuesday of Month]

Elm to mc merge

• bug new-packager, bug metro-build - blocked on FHR (waiting on free time from gps for reviews).
• bug elm-merge - ready to finalize once we get packager and build landed on mc.
• 0 bugs blocking (-7) bug metro-build w/work TBD
• 0 bugs blocking (-5) bug elm-merge w/work TBD

Rel-eng

• Switch mc to the 8.0 sdk will happen after the merge this week.

Front-end

• Working with UX on polish for start screen and bookmarks; visual polish for tiles; session restore.
• More download manager functionality landed recently; remote tabs landing soon.

Games [1st Tuesday of Month]

Mobile Web Compat [2nd Tuesday of Month]

Critsmash [3rd Tuesday of Month]

Memshrink [4th Tuesday of Month]

Engineering Metrics