Platform/2011-08-16

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Notices / Schedule

• We shipped Firefox 6!
  • They sent us a cake
• Migration day is going smoothly so far, still ongoing at time of meeting

Firefox Development

• Paul O'Shannessy landed some pref UI to expose a "load tabs on demand" (AKA bartab) pref for sessionrestore (bug 648683)
• Margaret landed a new blank tab icon (created by Stephen Horlander) (bug 648668)
• Ongoing e10s work:
  • e10s-compat build time flag has browser standing up, but no progress events
  • felipe is working on having the WPL listeners work (bug 666801)
  • coming week we're going to be filing some additional bugs and directing fx-team's full attention to them (bug fxe10s)

Performance

• Telemetry will soon be opt-out (rather than opt-in) on development channels.
  • What pref do I set in my automated testing profiles to opt out now?

GFX

• The Cairo update looks like it's going to stick despite the regressions, mostly due to the benefits mobile got from it. Please let us know if that's a bad choice.
• bug 660264 - Tp4 regression due to D3D9-accelerated layers - we're still working through the issues here, but we believe that this doesn't actually affect users. Please see that bug for more discussion.
• For more details, see this week's graphics meeting notes.

Network

• Steve Workman has joined the networking group full-time, working out of Mountain View. Steve comes from Cisco.
• Work on SPDY support coming along. Patrick McManus has posted two discussions to mozilla.dev.tech.network:
  • TLS Next Protocol Negotiation integration for SPDY
  • SPDY::HTTP dataflow - a first sketch

Mobile

• Jim Chen (badass intern!) found the cause of long standing Tegra crash bug bug 662936 while running many of the Talos tests.
• Master Password landed

Tree Management

• Planned tree closure today for network work
• Currently having unplanned tree closure due to tinderbox backlog bug 676822
  • Can try using http://tbpl.allizom.org/?usebuildbot=1 as an alternative

Security

Reviews this week: https://blog.mozilla.com/security/2011/08/15/scheduled-security-reviewsdiscussions-week-of-15-aug-2011/

Reminder: Changes to scheduling reviews (dev-planning): https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/d8299dd16187909/2e709b73eca89ae9?lnk=gst&q=koenig#2e709b73eca89ae9

Schedule and review/discussion questions can be directed to curtisk.

Stability Report

Desktop

Socorro

• Socorro 2.2 released over the weekend.
• Top crashes and crashes per user now split between individual Betas and Release.
• A couple of data query issues introduced: Bug 679182 and Bug 679229.
• Bugs are fixed in staging but no ETA on deployment to production.
  • Update: deployed this morning [laura]

Trunk 8.0a1

• Trunk is a bit unstable - 4.0 crashes per 100 ADU.
• A number of crash regressions on 8.0 - looks as though many of these will be promoted to Aurora so we will be tracking them.
• Bug 679030
• Bug 679035
• Bug 678181 - Causing a number of Font crash signatures. Backed out the patches for Bug 668813 - Need a couple more days to figure out if got rid of all the crashes.
• Spike in old signature which looks related to a certificate change Bug 678710
• Bug 677273

Aurora & Beta

• On top of 7.0 issues.
• Better data after 7.0b1 goes out.

Other

• Shockwave issue emerging across all versions Bug 679148

Mobile

• Bug 679065 - Some Fennec 6.0b6 topcrash signatures return an empty report list
• Still missing sympbols for a number of crashes (no signatures). There is an open bug on this Bug 644510
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=QA/Fennec/crash_rep_15Aug2011

Roundtable

• discuss use of purify/sm-purify01 and disposition of license and hardware. /bc
• Hiring a power measurement engineer: if you know of someone, please link them to the job posting and encourage them to apply.