Platform/2012-03-06

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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

• Nightlies of the ESR pushed over email to enterprise mailing list yesterday (3/5) for smoke testing and minor exploratory testing with internal websites

• Firefox 11 sign-offs tomorrow (3/7) in Warp Core at 1PM PT
• Firefox 11 beta 6 expected to go out tomorrow (3/7)
• Beta of 3.6.28 going out Thursday (3/8)
• Final go-to-build for FF11 will be Friday (3/9)

• Release/merge day is next Tuesday (3/13) - land your last minute FF13 changes now
• As a reminder, these are the products that we plan to ship
  • Firefox 11
  • XUL Fennec 10 off of ESR branch
  • Firefox 3.6.28
  • Firefox 10.0.3esr

Firefox Developer Tools

• JS team landed onPop and getAllScripts support, stepping will be in nightlies soon.

Layout

Specs to Track:

• CSS3 Fragmentation - first public working draft. collecting comments
• CSS3 Backgrounds & Borders - CR in 3 weeks
• CSS3 Images - LC period is over. Several substantive issues found during LC.
• CSS3 Values & Units - LC this week. CR next month.
• CSS3 Text - WD starting to stabilize. 2 more drafts before LC.
• CSS3 Writing Modes - WD. Needs a review re: Layout implications. Vertical text work can start.
• CSS4 Selectors - WD will republish in 3 weeks. LC this summer.
• CSS3 Grid - WD lots of issues still. Need to study the algorithm in Grid spec and Templates spec.
• CSS3 Templates - WD. will likely merge with Grid.
• CSS3 Transforms, Transitions, and Animations. Trying to advance WD by stabilizing existing feature set.

Current Work:

• Performance work on CSS Transforms, Transitions, Animations (e.g.. bug 524925, others)
• bug 539356 - PerformanceInfrastructure work on entire scene graph
• bug 614732 - Performance/Infrastructure work on SVG
• CSS3 FlexBox starting Security review (Feature ETA: March 30)
• CSS2.1 Test Suite work ongoing
• CSS2.1 page-break-* features starting in Q2
• bug 689623 - API for image visibility.
• bug 702463 - scrolling on the refresh driver
• bug 706193 - Mobile Readability

DOM

• JS_ClearScope() (bug 637099) removal for global window objects landed! (peterv)

Stability Report

Desktop

• Beta
  • bug 715757 crashes under JS_AbortIfWrongThread, likely from malware or bad extension
  • bug 731984 Roboform crash that should be fixed with the release of their new version.
  • bug 700176 Startup crash still under investigation and correlated to several toolbars.
  • bug 721667 Incomplete framebuffer abort in mozilla::gl::GLContext::SetBlitFramebufferForDestTexture - Mac crash that is reproducible
  • bug 731565 Startup crash PR_NewPollableEvent

• Nightly
  • bug 731846 Windows 8 Preview Bug that is now resolved.
  • bug 732343 Crash in CNavDTD::OpenContainer @ SinkContext::OpenContainer
  • bug 732346 Crash in js::CheckScript @ MOZ_Crash

• Aurora
  • bug 721645 crash in GetContextFromObject @ CrashInJS

Mobile

• see Testing Notes 3/7/2012 for Socorro work and Graph

Nightly

• bug 730890 - crash [@ libdvm.so@<address>]
• bug 721086 - Crash in mozilla::AndroidBridge::CallEglCreateWindowSurface @ nsWindow::GetThebesSurface
• bug 730688 - java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resume activity {org.mozilla.fennec/org.mozilla.fennec.App}: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure delivering result ResultInfo{who=null, request=2, result=-1, data=Intent { (has extras) }} to activity {org.mozilla.f...

Aurora

• bug 731286 - compilation of crashes within libflashplayer
• bug 725295 - [Skia] Crash Report [@ _ZN8SkBitmapaSERKS_ ] on HTC devices
• bug 730890 - crash [@ libdvm.so@<address>]