Platform/2014-08-26

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2014-08-26 - 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time

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Need To Know

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

Notices/Schedule (lsblakk/sylvestre)

Next Merge: February 23, 2026		Next Release: February 24, 2026
Trains
Central: 149	Aurora: 54	Beta: 148	Release: 147

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.)

MemShrink (njn)

• Robert O'Callahan optimized the handling of transparent text, which gives significant time and memory wins on some PDF files viewed with pdf.js.

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.)

App Tools (prouget)

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• WebIDE can debug app startup on device: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.gaia/LMz9Pu9REEk

Electrolysis (e10s) (blassey)

• If you'd like to test e10s in Nightly, flip the "browser.tabs.remote.autostart" pref to true and restart Nightly.
  • Known issues likely to affect you: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/e10s-known-issues
• bug 1050447 - Address bar no longer loses on about:newtab
• bug 1042653 - Fixed Tree Style Tab crash
• bug 961362 - HTML5 video is now full screen (but Flash video still has problems in full screen, bug 1056385)

Firefox OS Connectivity (vchang)

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1. https://wiki.mozilla.org/TPE_CONNECTIVITY_GROUP/2014-08-26

Firefox OS Devices/Porting (ericchou)

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• Gonk team (led by Thomas Tsai)
  • Tarako: Solving gating issues which were reported by Spice/Intex
  • Dolphin: SPRD PTR3
  • Woodduck: Meta bug
  • Flame: KK + v1.4/v2.0 porting
  • Tako

• Bluetooth (members: Shawn Huang, Ben Tian, Jamin Liu, Jocelyn Liu)
  • BLE GATT Client API draft has been proposed to dev-webapi. (https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Bluetooth/WebBluetooth-v2)
  • bug 1050114 - Crash in mozilla::dom::bluetooth::BluetoothChild::RecvNotify - landed (2.0+, CAF blocker)
  • bug 929376 - Content process should be able to use API: BluetoothManager.IsConnected() - landed (2.1+)

• Media Playback (members: Bruce Sun, Blake Wu, Star Cheng)
  • bug 1052206 - [MADAI][Multimedia] Attached mp3 file is occurred tick noise - under investigation (2.0?)
  • All B2G Platform Decoder Module related code has landed.
    • MSE still doesn't work well on B2G. Blake is cooperating with Chris Pearce to figure out the root cause.

• Device Storage & Stability (members: Alphan Chen)
  • No update.

Firefox OS RIL (htsai)

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1. https://wiki.mozilla.org/TPE_RIL_team/2014-08-26

Layout (jet/dbaron)

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• CSS font features (font-variant-* properties and @font-feature-values rule) now enabled on trunk, and font-feature-settings unprefixed (bug 975744)
• Unicode database tables updated to version 7 (bug 1057548)
• imgIContainer::Draw refactoring landed (bug 1043560), improving numerical accuracy (rounding), and paving the way for future improvements such as downsample-on-decode and media fragments

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.)