Platform/2014-10-21

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Need To Know

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

Notices/Schedule (lmandel)

Next Merge: November 25, 2024		Next Release: November 26, 2024
Trains
Central: 134	Aurora: 54	Beta: 133	Release: 132

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• Planning to ship 33.0.1 for some graphics and stability issues
• beta 2 ships today
• beta 3 desktop go to build is Thursday
• beta 4 mobile go to build is Monday

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.)

OrangeFactor (ryanvm)

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• Past week's OrangeFactor: 4.41 (last week: 4.15).
• No significant changes from prior weeks.
• 27 intermittent failures fixed in the last week - List - Thanks!.

CritSmash (dbolter)

MemShrink (njn)

• Michael Wu fixed a terrible canvas memory usage issue that was making Freeciv unplayable on some Linux machines.

Stability (kairo)

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.)

A*Team (jgriffin)

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• A-Team Q4 Goals finalized, please let jgriffin know if you need something not on this list. Also see our backlog and ongoing tasks in Trello.

Newsgroup and blog posts

• [armenzg] tooltool support for test jobs on mozharness
• [dminor] Please help test autoland!
• [edmorley] Consume TBPL's API? Action needed
• [ahal] How many tests are disabled?

Accessibility (dbolter)

B2G Services (dougt)

Cloud Services (mmayo)

Desktop Platform (bsmedberg)

Developer Tools (prouget)

DOM (jst/overholt)

• baku landed WebSocket in Workers (bug 504553)

Electrolysis (e10s) (blassey)

• Please help dogfood e10s in Nightly!
  • To opt-in, open "Preferences" and check the "Enable E10S (multi-process)" checkbox
  • Known issues: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#What_to_Expect
• 26% of Nightly browser sessions are using e10s.
• We plan to enable e10s by default for Nightly users in just a couple weeks, so please test your add-ons and feature areas now to avoid surprises.

Firefox Desktop (gavin)

Firefox Mobile (snorp/blassey/mfinkle)

Work In Progress

• Hot items at the moment
  • Privacy Coach add-on
  • Second Screen bug 1079769
  • Tablet Refresh

You can find more on upcoming feature plans in the[roadmap]

Landings from the past week

Nightly (134)

• ship the webcompat.com reporter to nightly users ( Bug 1024807 )
• Content view sometimes blank on load ( 1030523 Bug 1030523 )
• Implement crash reporting in Java to allow for detection of early-stage crashes ( Bug 1043457 )
• Determine default Accept-Language header from user elections, not displayed locale ( Bug 1045053 )
• crash in java.lang.IllegalStateException: Callback has already been executed for type=MediaPlayer:$, guid={$} at org.mozilla.gecko.EventDispatcher$GeckoEventCallback.sendResponse(EventDispatcher.java) ( Bug 1055562 )
• Scrolling on Bing locked when toolbar reappears over search field ( Bug 1055883 )
• crash in java.lang.AssertionError: null at org.mozilla.gecko.Assert.isTrue(Assert.java) ( Bug 1064263 )
• [roku] remove the 'beta' label from the Roku channel 2 days before Fx 33 hits 'release' ( Bug 1068575 )
• files deleted from Firefox download manager are still listed in Android download manager ( Bug 1070086 )
• also add files downloaded in private browsing to Android download manager ( Bug 1070488 )
• crash in java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid value for param: totalBytes at android.app.DownloadManager.addCompletedDownload(DownloadManager.java) ( Bug 1071116 )
• No way to directly open in Fennec from the Share overlay ( Bug 1073010 )
• Log spew "No valid manifest directive." when uninstalling an add-on ( Bug 1079451 )
• add 'stop tab mirroring' one level higher in the menu ( Bug 1079761 )
• Can't visit any pages in guest sessions ( Bug 1082224 )
• Regression: Android MP4/MP3 video/audio playback broken ( Bug 1082550 )
• Remove max-width & max-height from input[type=checkbox] in content.css ( Bug 1082757 )
• Stumbler: list of scanned wifis needs proper size limit ( Bug 1084423 )

GFX (milan)

• 33 problem tracked in bug [1083071]

JS (naveed)

Layout (jet/dbaron)

Notable Landings:

• bug 1010538 - Implement CSSOM-View scroll-behavior CSS property
• bug 1076783 - B2G 2.1 Blocker (scrolling)
• Lots of Moz2D Fixes (bug 1085167, bug 1085160, bug 1085159)
• bug 1070745 - Implement play and pause on AnimationPlayer
• bug 1062963 - Make nsFloatManager use logical coordinates

Media (mreavy)

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• Hello/loop updated in Beta/34 and Aurora/35 to match fixes in Nightly. Lots and lots of testing/verification.
• Mac audio issue when changing input/output devices while in-call or during getUserMedia (lost a fix in refactor). Hope to get the fix uplifted to beta to undo the regression.

Necko (dougt/jduell)

• We now throw errors for partial loads (bug 237623): some pushback now that it's hit release.
  • for now we're hoping the small # of websites will fix themselves.
• bug 1069724: we no longer force a new TCP connection for every resource on a page when you shift-reload.
• bug 1008091: the B2G emulator is causing us all kinds of headaches landing code.

Performance (vladan)

Seceng (dougt)

Shumway (tschneidereit)

WebAPI (overholt)

Roundtable

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

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Friends of the Tree

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.)

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