Platform/2014-05-13

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2014-05-13 - 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98411
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Need To Know

(Release and system issues that may impact engineering this week.)

Notices/Schedule (lsblakk/sylvestre)

Next Merge: February 23, 2026		Next Release: February 24, 2026
Trains
Central: 149	Aurora: 54	Beta: 148	Release: 147

Build Changes (gps)

(Build changes of which engineers should be aware.)

RelEng (catlee)

(Repo, test, and other information for engineers from the release engineering team.)

Upcoming Outages/Upgrades

(System outages/upgrades and tree closures that impact engineering.)

Quality Programs

(An opportunity to hear about status with the various quality programs that do not have a formal team structure.)

CritSmash (dbolter)

• Risk factor growing (third week reporting this). Ping team mates on security bugs.

MemShrink (njn)

• Honza Bambas fixed a rare but bad memory leak (one user had 10 GiB+!) in cache2.
• Jonathan Watt added memory reporting for SVG images.

Team Stand-ups

(In <2 mins, what did your team accomplish last week, on what is your team working on this week, and on what, if anything, is your team blocked? No questions during the stand-ups. All questions should be asked during the roundtable.)

Firefox Desktop (gavin)

• Firefox iteration 32.2 plan published by Chad on firefox-dev: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2014-May/001686.html

Firefox OS Performance (mlee)

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Sprints

• 2014.05.09 - Last
• 2014.05.09 - Last Tracked
• 2014.05.23 - Current
• 2014.05.23 - Currently Tracking

Updates

• Responsiveness: Eli Perelman
  • Launch states bug 996038 in progress
  • Finalizing design with Zibi Braniecki [:gandalf].

• Power Consumption: Jon Hylands
  • Thursday, May 15 @ 12 PDT: Brownbag: Building power harnesses and ammeters.
  • Power Performance Server in development

• Tools: Dave Huseby
  • Profiler Markers bug 972075 landed last week.
    • Adds profile markers for key windowing events: loadstart, loadend, titlechange, firstpaint, documentfirstpaint.
    • screenshot: https://bug972075.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8414531

Roundtable

(Comments and questions that arise during the course of the meeting or otherwise do not have a section.)

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Mailing List Threads

(Threads that are likely to be of interest to engineering from various mailing lists.)

Good Reads

(Links to blog posts, books, videos, etc. that you think will be of interest to others.)