Platform/2011-07-12

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Notices / Schedule

• Firefox team is at an offsite today
• Source migration happened last Tuesday, all the resulting updates are on the wire
• Next mozilla-central → mozilla-aurora source migration is August 16th
• Goals should be getting locked down

Firefox Development

As mentioned above, Firefox team is offsite this week. Some of the things discussed include:

• Updated feature pages (courtesy of deb)
• Adding telemetry to front end code (etherpad)
• Compiling a consolidated set of effective code review practices

We'll try to vidyo in, but are likely to stay muted

JS

• No news this week.

Multi-Process

• Electrolysis/Short_Terms_Goals

Tree Management

• Production pool of Windows 64-bit; 5 machines now live this week
  • tracking bug -- bug support-win64
  • current bugs that require devs' attention:
    • (TODO file bug) - make buildsymbols takes 45 mins rather than 5 mins
    • bug 669384 - make buildsymbols fails for leak test builds
    • bug 670915 - make package fails for leak test builds
    • bug 670697 - sporadic make check failures
• More tegras coming; 40 in boxes here; 160 still being created

Stability Report

• Crash rate on trunk is pretty high - 4.39 crashes per 100 ADU
  • Mostly due to crash @nsFrame::ExpandSelectionByMouseMove(nsFrameSelection*, nsIPresShell*, nsMouseEvent*, nsEventStatus*) - bug 670058
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670756
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670175 (Fixed by backout -
  • there were several regressions from the Mac jemalloc landing - see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414946)

• Bill McCloskey trying to tackle a set of GC related crashes. Instrumentation patch landed on the trunk last week.
  • Bug 662646 and Bug 670702

• Meeting with Adobe at the end of July. Working with Josh to compile a list of top crashes, issues, Flash versions - Flash related hangs seem to be the most problematic.

Roundtable

• Gecko SDK builds - move to main tinderbox? (http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tree-management/browse_thread/thread/bc01262044a6d774#)

• new security hotness https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Radar