Platform/2012-03-20

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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

• With the release of Firefox 3.6.28, we should consider closing out bugs that only affected 1.9.2
  • Note: Security bugs that we don't plan to chemspill FF11 for do not need to be backported to the 1.9.2 branch at this point

• Aurora 13 updates were enabled yesterday (3/19)

• Firefox 12 beta 2 going to build today, to be released Friday
• Major update from FF3.6 to FF11 going out this week

• Today's (3/20) channel meeting
  • Whether there are any chemspill drivers for a FF11.0.1
  • 3.6 EOL strategy, esp. w/r/t in-product communication

Firefox Development

• Much of this week was spent dealing with followup fixes and test issues from the large landings from last week (new tab page/about:home)
• Google search now uses HTTPS (and therefore SPDY!) across the board (bug 633773)
  • Patrick McManus is working on a "speculative connect" API that will help reduce search bar query latency (both for searches and suggestions) (bug 735543/bug 723628)

Add-on SDK

• Working with the UX team on standard UI features for add-ons
  • Mockups: http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/addons-in-toolbar-i01/addons-in-toolbar.html
  • Discussions: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla-labs-jetpack/XOxg4rpHen0/discussion
• Work is ongoing on allowing localising html files

Performance

• Telemetry data is still in process of restore
  • Histogram data expected to be restored by 12pm PST today
  • Evolution data expected to be restored by Thursday morning
• This week's Snappy summary
• 36 Snappy bugs were resolved in Firefox 13 (Aurora).
• Avi landed smooth scrolling updates in bug 206438.
• Mark has a new chart for Peptest results
• Olli reduced CC lag observed after closing tabs like gmail, bug 734057.

GFX

• If you were using the maple branch on Android, please switch back to mozilla-central nightlies now. http://nightly.mozilla.org.
  • We've landed maple on mozilla-central.
• We're starting to look at our Q2 goals. If you have specific needs from graphics that aren't covered in the preliminary stuff at Platform/2012-Q2-Goals#GFX, please let us know.

Layout

• Wrapping up Q1 goals: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2012-Q1-Goals#Layout
• Work week in San Francisco March 26-30.

Video

• New mozilla.dev.media newsgroup/mailing list created for public media-related planning and discussion. Please use it instead of emailing random groups of people. https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media, https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.media/topics
• A private mailing list has been created for media-related discussions that cannot be public. https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/media-private
• Currently working on getting system codecs patches for Android/B2G polished and landed
• Will be working on adding MP3 support via system codecs
• Will be working on adding Opus-in-Ogg support for <audio> (preffed off) to help us demo Opus' capabilities for streaming
• See dev-media archives for more details

DOM

• New DOM bindings for XHR is getting close. Target for landing is end of next week. (peterv, bz, bholley, khuey, bent, etc)

Network

• Two major cache performance improvements scheduled to land in Firefox 14, in review now. One patch greatly improves locking (723577), another moves more cache consumers to async cache APIs 722033.

Mobile

• Maple branch (OMTC for Android) merged to m-c
• Eideticker is coming online, and shows the win from OMTC
  • http://wrla.ch/eideticker/dashboard/#/canvas

Accessibility

• Drafting up Q2 goals

Tree Management

• B2G builders coming online bug 719491
  • not uploading to stage for now;
  • only to prove that mozilla-central checkins do not break B2G
• win7 dongles to be installed as tests get fixed bug 710233

Security

• mock up wiki of proposed changes to bugzilla for security
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security_Severity_Ratings/Merge#Transition_Plan
• post-mortem meeting for latest Firefox release:
  • When: Thu 22-Mar-2012 10:00 PDT
  • MV: 4M (vidyo)
• 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 95435

Security Reviews & Threat Modeling Sessions Scheduled for this week

Date / Time	Item
Mon Mar 19 / 13:00 PST	None
Wed Mar 21 / 13:00 PST	None
Thu Mar 22 / 10:00 PST	In App Purchase (Apps)
Fri Mar 23 / 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

Review Needed

• Feature pages triaged to need review, review unscheduled

{{#ask: Feature security status::sec-review-neededFeature security health::!Assigned | ?# | ?Feature name# | ?Feature list# | ?Feature version# | ?Feature product manager# | ?Feature lead engineer# | ?Feature security lead# | ?Feature security status# | ?Feature security notes# | ?Modification date# | ?Feature security health# | mainlabel=- | sort=Feature version,Feature priority,Feature stage | format=template | template=SecurityRadarListTable }}

Feature

Feature List

Target Rel

Prod Mgr

Lead Engr

Security lead

Security status

Security notes

Last Modified

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

• Fennec 10.0.3esr (current release!) now supported well by recently added ESR support.
• Socorro now generates correlation reports for new Firefox versions 14.0a1, 13.0a2, 12.0 in addition to the 3 crashiest ones, which include current releases.
• Only small fixups in tomorrow's incremental release, as the big target now is to get ElasticSearch working ASAP.
• If you have any specific issue you want solved in Socorro next quarter, please tell KaiRo about it.

Desktop

• Nightly - FF14
  • Top crashes appeared in single build then disappeared - bug 736507
  • bug 736761 - crash in mozilla::image::DiscardTracker::EnableTimer.
  • bug 736947 - OOM crash in mozilla::safebrowsing::HashStore::ReadHashes
  • bug 736944 - crash in nsAccTreeWalker::NextChildInternal @ nsIFrame::IsGeneratedContentFrame
  • bug 736695 - crash in nsGenericElement::UnbindFromTree , when I open Customize Toolbar with Video DownloadHelper 4.9.8 installed
  • bug 736815 - crash in js_ValueToBoolean - not a new signature but appearing in a bit higher volume on trunk.
  • bug 736830 - crash in js::types::TypeMonitorResult - reproducible
  • bug 704124 - Firefox Crash @ gfxContext::SetSource - reproducible
  • All Reproducible top crashes

• Aurora - FF13
  • Just started shipping updates so better data in a couple of days.

• Beta - FF12
  • bug 736524 - bug only appearing on Beta. It is now resolved.

• Release - FF11
  • Some concern about Flash hangs but not sure if higher volume than normal. The fix that bsmedberg worked on for VS2010 doesn't work in FF12 and FF11. For FF13 things should be fixed.
  • bug 722044 - add touch bad memory to skip list. This bug is blocked on a decision of which skip list to implement. Kairo is going to go through all the skip list bugs and make sure they are actionable.
  • bug 733892 - some concerns about this rising. Marcia going to work on trying to reproduce based on comments in the bug.

Mobile

For Graph and Socorro work please see Testing Notes 03/21/12

Native

• Nightly
  • 9.92% bug 734624 java.lang.RuntimeException: An error occured while executing doInBackground() at
  • 7.64% bug 736003, bug 733325, bug 733324 TouchBadMemory
  • 4.39% bug 736124 org.mozilla.gecko.gfx.GLController$GLControllerException: createContext() failed
  • 3.09% bug 736007 java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.sync.repositories.Server11R

• Aurora
  • 12.61% bug 730890 libdvm.so@0x50a0e
  • 10.43% bug 734624 java.lang.RuntimeException: An error occured while executing doInBackground() at
  • 8.70% bug 730688 java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resume activity {org.mozilla.fennec_aurora

• Note:
  • Maple landed after Aurora (Nightly Merge for 14.0 does not have the Maple Merge (3/14/2012) )
  • Nightly Tinderbox build merge with Maple : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694964
  • Need to address things for GL
  • Need more ADU for Aurora

XUL

• Beta
  • 18.73% bug 694964 gfxSharedImageSurface::Open
  • 7.44% bug 726028, bug 700499, bug 182803 nssCertificate_Destroy
  • 6.89% bug 722083, bug 610551, bug 711568 EMPTY: no crashing thread identified; corrupt dump
  • 4.96% bug 729483 std::map, std::less<="" a="">

• Release
  • 36.92% Java_org_mozilla_gecko_GeckoAppShell_reportJavaCrash
  • 25.51% bug 694964 gfxSharedImageSurface::Open
  • 6.59% bug 715831 js::RegExpPrivate::executeInternal

• ESR
  • 32.87% Java_org_mozilla_gecko_GeckoAppShell_reportJavaCrash
  • 24.93% bug 694964 gfxSharedImageSurface::Open
  • 8.38% bug 715831 js::RegExpPrivate::executeInternal

Roundtable

• Q1 Goal Updates
• Q2 Goal Drafts