Platform/2012-04-17

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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

Kilimanjaro

• K9O wiki setup
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Kilimanjaro
  • Product posted the latest version of the plan - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Kilimanjaro/ProductDraft
• Next steps
  • Product working on logging meta bugs for all top level use cases. We can then start to associate bugs to each of the use cases to create the dependency trees.
  • Project managers will start working with different teams to get features/bugs logged and tagged for K9O.
  • Many items are already in progress so we will have to do some work to tag existing stuff.
  • Working on post for the list about the blocking-kilimanjaro project flag and the process for keeping track of things in bugzilla.

Notices / Schedule

• Mozilla-Inbound and Mozilla-Central are both Approval Required now to mitigate risk to Fennec Native 14. approval-mozilla-central should now be available for nominations. More details about the daily triage to come on dev-planning.

• Major Update prompts (with security messaging) to FF11 from 3.6.13-28 will start or tomorrow
• Testing of the add-on hotfix to communicate the FF13 de-support will occur no later than Thursday 4/19 with our FF12 beta audience (bug 741004)

• Beta 6 will be going to build this afternoon PT (if the backout in bug 734019 is verified to fix bug 745453)
• FF12 sign-offs tomorrow at 1PM PT in Warp Core
• Final build of FF12 and ESR10.0.4 will happen this coming Friday (4/20)

• Next merge day is 4/24

Firefox Development

• bug 725408, bug 739636, bug 731541: Much of the initial work for Desktop webapps installation support has landed or is very close to landing on trunk - ongoing efforts by Myk, felipe, bsmedberg, Dan Walkowski, Tim Abraldes and others
• bug 741004: Matthew Noorenberghe is working on a hotfix add-on that will notify users of Windows 2000 (and pre-SP3 XP) that we're dropping support for their OS in Firefox 13
• bug 710259: Mano has landed the new Safari profile migrator (JS!)
• bug 744152: Tim Taubert tweaked page thumbnails capturing code to reduce performance impact on e.g. tab switching
• volunteer contributor OHZEKI Tetsuharu has written several cleanup patches for the front-end (bug 745445, bug 745524, bug 745525))

Firefox Developer Tools

• Pseudo Class Lock UI landed bug 733612
• Prep for Firefox Workweek

Add-on SDK

Nothing to report this week

Performance

• Telemetry is currently offline, should be back online by EOD Wed.

• Snappy weekly summary
• Working on a number of areas including
  • Tim addresseing thumbnail capture slowness (bug 744388, bug 742594, bug 726347)
  • Paolo is switching code away from synchronous places APIs (bug 728168, bug 728714, bug 728142, bug 739213)
  • networking team is expected to make a decision this week on how to fix the big networking cache lock. See Nick’s notes on options presented.

Mobile

• tree is approval-only until we uplift to aurora (see https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/mozilla.dev.planning/tWR6imIDKnM)
• Several big changes expected to land this week
  • eglImage for texture upload bug 730718
  • ShadowableTileLayer bug 739679
  • retained layers bug 745177
• All XUL migration patches have either landed or have r+ and will land soon.
• Crashes down to 17 per 100 ADUs

Tree Management

• hg successfully migrated to new datacentre last week. Hopefully faster now! Please let IT or RelEng know if you run into problems.

Security

Date / Time	Item
Mon Apr 16 / 13:00 PST	NONE
Wed Apr 18 / 13:00 PST	New Identity Box Design
Thu Apr 19 / 10:00 PST	Identity Project BigTent
Fri Apr 20 / 10:00 AM PST	Nightly updates PHP script for Lightning

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

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

• Due to metrics infrastructure data center move on Tues, the crash rate in Socorro will show as 0 Tues and possibly Wed.
• Some of the explosive reports may not work as well.
• The top crash lists will be there and this doesn't affect the collection of any crash data.

Socorro

• Minor release Wed, fixes nightly build reports for Android - bugs in this release

Desktop

• Mostly focused on issues for FF12 - http://bit.ly/xNqZhl.
• Some new issues cropped up that span multiple versions.
  • bug 744779 - Spiking crash with 11.3 veresion. Reprocessing crashes after we uploaded the symbols. Get Ted/Ben to document this process and train others to do this. https://intranet.mozilla.org/Flash_Player_Symbols.
  • bug 745784 - Crash in npswf32_11_2_202_233 - Another new version of 11.2. Causing a spike in crash.
  • bug 744992 - Bug in web.de toolbar. Affecting all FF versions. Engaged with web.de. They are not going to push out that version of the add-on. It's a startup crash.
• New problems in FF12b5
  • bug 745453 - New spike to b5. Correlated to Norton Confidential 2012.

Mobile

• Crash rate down yesterday at 17.23 crashes per 100/ADU.

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 2012/04/16 at 11:09 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 (Reopened; still crashes occurring)
2. - bug 737128 - mozilla::gl::GLContextEGL::ReleaseSurface
3. - bug 730890 - libdvm.so@<address> - (backed out)
4. - bug 731286 - libflashplayer.so@0x157bbe - Assume we can't do anything here.
5. - bug 745243 - JNI_GetCreatedJavaVMs

Other Socorro work listed in the Mobile Dev Meeting Notes