Platform/2012-04-10

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesdays - 11:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 95312
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 95312
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 95312
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
  • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
• Warp Core Vidyo Room
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Notices / Schedule

• We're now 2 weeks from release of FF12
  • Please land any beta approved bugs before EOD today (4/10) to make it into Beta 5
  • Continue investigating unfixed bugs tracked for release
• We'd also like to have all bugs tracked for the ESR (12+) nominated for approval and landed by the end of this week in preparation for the go-to-build
  • See the ESR Landing Process for more info.

• If you have no more blockers for FF12 and the next ESR (released 4/24), please start digging into bugs tracked for FF13

Firefox Development

• Jared Wein landed initial support for click to play plugins on desktop (bug 711552)
  • Followup work in bug 711618 to improve permissions model

Firefox Developer Tools

• Lucas landed remote debugging for Fennec bug 739966.
• https://github.com/janodvarko/httpmonitor has a standalone version of Firebug's network monitor.

Add-on SDK

• There were delays getting AMO updated with the 1.6 SDK last week so some developers may have seen warnings when uploading their add-ons
• Spinning a 1.6.1 release to fix a minor leak

Performance

• Telemetry daily ping server move schedule for Apr. 16, may have 1-2 day blackout of Telemetry data as a result
• Telemetry discussions taking place about
  • Dashboard UX (bug 736484)
  • Data verification (bug 736189, bug 742883, bug 742897, bug 742903)
  • Data retention (bug 742496)
  • Probe retirement (bug 742500)

• This week's Snappy summary
• Ehsan discovered some really bad performance issues for animated skins or those that heavily use svg and css
  • Will look at moving image decoding off of the main thread
• Vlad worked on cancellable sql (bug 722243), have to figure out if the benefit from cancellable queries justifies additional locking
• Vlad is analyzing a batch of slow startup data from March
• Anthony and QA team are chrome leak testing looking for leaked documents that should be cycle collected
• Tim put up AreWeSmallYet, tracking changes in build size: http://arewesmallyet.com/
• Bill disabled incremental GC due to leaks bug 641025
• mccra8 removed more stuff from the CC graph (bug 740185)

GFX

• Continue to be focused on mobile Firefox.
  • We fixed most of Firefox on Android's extreme crashiness, with the notable exception of on David Baron's phone, who alone accounts for 13% of our crashes (221 unique crash IDs) in the past week, the #1 topcrasher by a large margin.
  • We're focused on performance and checkerboardiness now, with our major work being tracked as Fennec beta blockers.

Layout

• Focused on mobile Firefox.
  • Readability.
  • Scrolling/Zoom bugs.

Video

• MediaStreams near landing on m-c
• Initial WebRTC landings being planned (preffed off).

DOM

• No updates today.

Tree Management

• hg.m.o downtime Thursday April 12 6-9am PDT for migration to new datacentre
• Switching OSX build machines today hopefully - nightly updates will be diverted until testing is completed
• tree status app in staging for poking: https://treestatus-dev.allizom.org/
• infrastructure load for march
  • 4,508 pushes in March - peaking at 238 checkins per day
  • 5th month in a row of record activity

Security

Date / Time	Item
Mon Apr 9 / 13:00 PST	BrowserID Sync
Wed Apr 11 / 13:00 PST	AVAILABLE
Thu Apr 12 / 10:00 PST	AVAILABLE
Fri Apr 13 / 10:00 AM PST	AVAILABLE

Calendar and Meeting details

General Meeting Details 
* IRC Channel: #security 
* Etherpad: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/secreview 
* Vidyo: https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=5XEMsG1ApA4b (Room 9058)
* Dial-in Info (phone): 
** In office or soft phone: extension 92 
** US/INTL: 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 then extension 92 
** Toronto: 416-848-3114 then extension 92 
** Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369 
** Conference num 99058

For updates to meetings please see the Security Review Calendar

• HTML: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review.html
• .ics: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review

Security Review Needed but Unscheduled

• Review Needed

Review Needed

• Feature pages triaged to need review, review unscheduled

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Feature

Feature List

Target Rel

Prod Mgr

Lead Engr

Security lead

Security status

Security notes

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Bugs marked sec-review-needed that need to be scheduled

No results.

0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

Stability Report

Socorro

• Due to a file name pattern change by Adobe, the version of current Flash releases isn't detected by Socorro (bug 742735). This also makes KaiRo's Flash crash/hang reports not list those 11.2.* versions - a fix is ready for landing and should be deployed in tomorrow's Socorro release.

Desktop

Trunk

• bug 741715 crash in XPCWrappedNativeProto::TraceJS
• bug 743767 Firefox crash @ memcpy | GlyphBufferAzure::Flush

Release

• bug 744043 Firefox crash [@ gfxASurface::GetType()

Beta

• bug 717175 - gfxFont::AgeCacheEntry. Fixed in 12b4.
• bug 673543 - nsDiskCacheMap::DeleteRecord. Patch waiting review.
• bug 738661 - crash in nmsvc from CovenantEyes. Trying to repro in a debugger.
• bug 741179 - crash in nsDiskCacheBlockFile::Write. Met this morning to discuss. Looking at correlations more closely, trying to reproduce.

Third Party

• bug 743699 Flash crash in 11_2_202_228
  • After we reprocess signatures there will likely be more bugs related to this Flash version filed

Mobile

Top crashes over last 3 days on 14.0a1 - https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/byversion/FennecAndroid/14.0a1/3/browser

• Note: Graph is a capture from 2012/04/09 at 10:34 AM PDT for a 3 day period

The following are crashes that do not have fixes from the Top Crash List

1. - bug 738198 - dvmAsmInstructionStart - Plugin issue (LANDED TODAY)
2. - bug 730890 - libdvm.so@0x50e96
3. - bug 737128 - mozilla::gl::GLContextEGL::ReleaseSurface
4. - bug 731286 - libflashplayer.so@0x157bbe - Assume we can't do anything here.
5. - bug 743724 - libEGL_mali.so@0xdae4

Other Socorro work listed in the Mobile Dev Meeting Notes