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= JS =
= JS =


* No news this week.
* 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]]
* [[Electrolysis/Short_Terms_Goals]]
* [[DevTools/e10s]]


= Tree Management =
= Tree Management =
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*** {{bug|670697}} - sporadic make check failures
*** {{bug|670697}} - sporadic make check failures
* More tegras coming; 40 in boxes here; 160 still being created
* 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 =
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** https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670175 (Fixed by backout -
** 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)
** 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.
* Bill McCloskey trying to tackle a set of GC related crashes. Instrumentation patch landed on the trunk last week.

Latest revision as of 18:13, 12 July 2011


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Notices / Schedule

  • Firefox team is at an offsite today
  • Source migration happened last Tuesday, all the resulting updates are on the wire
  • Next mozilla-central → mozilla-aurora source migration is August 16th
  • Goals should be getting locked down

Firefox Development

As mentioned above, Firefox team is offsite this week. Some of the things discussed include:

We'll try to vidyo in, but are likely to stay muted

GFX

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

Plugins

DOM

Network

Accessibility

Multi-Process

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 list here
  • downtime tonight: faster connection between colos == faster builds
  • The 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

  • Bill McCloskey trying to tackle a set of GC related crashes. Instrumentation patch landed on the trunk last week.
  • 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