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= Notices / Schedule =
= Notices / Schedule =
* Firefox team is at an offsite today
* Firefox team is at an offsite today
* Source migration had last Tuesday, all the resulting updates are on the wire
* Source migration happened last Tuesday, all the resulting updates are on the wire
* Next mozilla-central → mozilla-aurora source migration is '''[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/ August 16th]'''
* Next mozilla-central → mozilla-aurora source migration is '''[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/ August 16th]'''
* Goals should be getting locked down


= Firefox Development =
= Firefox Development =
As mentioned above, Firefox team is offsite this week. Some of the things discussed include:
* Updated feature pages ([[User:Dria/Feature_page_query_examples|courtesy of deb]])
* Adding telemetry to front end code ([http://lunch.mozilla.org:9000/fe-telemetry etherpad])
* Compiling a consolidated set of [[User:GavinSharp/Code_Review| effective code review]] practices
We'll try to vidyo in, but are likely to stay muted


= GFX =
= GFX =


= JS =
= JS =
* We're trying an experiment of just using mozilla-inbound for landings (the benefits: daily regression resolution, rather than weekly; no need for someone to spend time merging).  So for the next two weeks, everything JS is landing in mozilla-inbound, and the TraceMonkey repository is temporarily abandoned.  When the two weeks are up we'll decide whether to return to TM or just use mozilla-inbound.


= Layout =
= Layout =
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= Accessibility =
= Accessibility =
* [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/b4a1774b96cd90ec/700e811bf85c9b71 e10s a11y plan posted to dev-planning list]


= Multi-Process =
= Multi-Process =
* [[Electrolysis/Short_Terms_Goals]]
* [[DevTools/e10s]]


= Tree Management =
= Tree Management =
* Production pool of Windows 64-bit; 5 machines now live this week
** tracking bug -- {{bug|support-win64}}
** current bugs that require devs' attention:
*** (TODO file bug) - make buildsymbols takes 45 mins rather than 5 mins
*** {{bug|669384}} - make buildsymbols fails for leak test builds
*** {{bug|670915}} - make package fails for leak test builds
*** {{bug|670697}} - sporadic make check failures
* More tegras coming; 40 in boxes here; 160 still being created
** any help fixing tests would be great [https://intranet.mozilla.org/Build:Mobile:Priorities list here]
* downtime tonight: faster connection between colos == faster builds
* The [https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/BuildFaster Build Faster] meetings will be happening every other week
** We had a great turnaround and went over a lot of bugs to prioritize
** Join us at the next meeting and feel free to contribute!
** Tonight's downtime will improve downloading binaries to the test machines


= Stability Report =
= Stability Report =
* Crash rate on trunk is pretty high - 4.39 crashes per 100 ADU
** Mostly due to crash @nsFrame::ExpandSelectionByMouseMove(nsFrameSelection*, nsIPresShell*, nsMouseEvent*, nsEventStatus*) - [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670058 bug 670058]
** https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670756
** https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670175 (Fixed by backout -
** there were several regressions from the Mac jemalloc landing - see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414946)
* New signature appearing on 5.0.1 - mozilla::Monitor::Monitor(char const*).
** https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/chofmann/20110711/top-5.0.1.html
* Bill McCloskey trying to tackle a set of GC related crashes. Instrumentation patch landed on the trunk last week.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662646 Bug 662646] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670702 Bug 670702]
* Meeting with Adobe at the end of July. Working with Josh to compile a list of top crashes, issues, Flash versions - Flash related hangs seem to be the most problematic.


= Roundtable =
= Roundtable =
* Gecko SDK builds - move to main tinderbox? (http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tree-management/browse_thread/thread/bc01262044a6d774#)
* new security hotness https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Radar
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