Platform/2012-11-13

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2012-11-13 - 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 / SFO-Boardroom
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Notices/Schedule

?? bugs (??)	?? bugs (??)
Unresolved Aurora Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta)	Unresolved Beta Trackers (non-security)

Products/Projects

Metro [Weekly]

Engineering

• Elm is currently generating pgo nightly desktop+metro builds using vc 2010
• bug 755724
  • new packager should be landing on Elm soonish.
  • Remaining dep bugs are being worked on.
  • xpcshell tests now running on Elm, lots of test failures to fix.
    • tracking bug: bug 789335
• Preliminary 8.0 SDK migration work started.
  • tracking bug: bug 774910
  • dev-platform post

Stability Report [Weekly]

Mobile

• FYI only this week:
  • bug 808296 seems to have a possible patch
  • bug 761706 hasn't been uplifted to beta due to risk.
  • bug 760392, bug 808029, bug 799977 only seems to affect nightly, has been fixed.
• There are a some QAwanted bugs in trying to get repro steps.

• 16.0.2 Release top crashes
• 17.0b5 Beta top crashes
• Aurora top crashes
• Nightly top crashes

Snappy [Weekly]

• Nov 8 Snappy status

• Vladan landed about:telemetry in product - no need to install the add-on (bug 661881).
• Aaron Klotz is making good progress on the Flash hang reporter prototype.
• Missing the profiler? It's moved from the add-on bar to the toolbar.

Mobile Web Compat [2nd Tuesday of Month]

Recent updates

• Video update from the Oct 22 project meeting. (Slides)
• Mobile Web Compatibility Nov 9, 2012 – Video update, UA detection tools, Phony for B2G?
• Mobile Web Compatibility Oct 19, 2012 – H.264, navigator.platform, Spade, Phony
• Website Evangelism: Mobilizing Mozilla

Call for help

• Broken site deep dive investigation

Platform and Frameworks

• UA detection: working with WURFL, Categorizr, and 51Degrees.mobi to correctly detect Firefox mobile browsers
• Media content providers: speaking with Vimeo and BrightCove about serving H.264 content to Firefox

Site evangelism

• Working with Google on issues filed in bugzilla. If you have more issues, please file them in Tech Evangelism:Mobile
• Facebook fixed a long standing issue with their drop-downs for Friend Requests, Messages and Notifications (bug 715515).
• Yelp to recognize Firefox OS as mobile
• Ali Spivak and Lawrence Mandel are working on a plan to engage the community in site testing. Work tracked at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Mobile-Evangelism-Community-Checklist
• Mobile Web test event on Oct 23 in MV resulted in data on 45 additional sites

B2G

• Looking for a Phony type solution for B2G. Have ideas? Discussion happening in dev-b2g
• To work around UA detection issues in time for basecamp, we've added a UA domain whitelist. Gerv posted the policy for adding a domain to the list.

Spade

• Automated tool to provide metrics and details about UA detection issues and CSS property usage issues
• A-Team is working to stand this tool up reliably

Engineering Metrics

• Review times
  • https://metrics.mozilla.com/bugzilla-analysis/Reviews_Pending_18.html
• Feedback
  • Rollups by team
  • Move to more dashboard type UI

Key Issues

Actions Last Week

• jp to see about moztrap presentation in future weeks
• dmandelin to follow up on test dir re-org thread
• Ehsan to update talos regression page to include mobile
• JP to follow up on FF19 Gfx top crashes

Issues

• Super-review, do we still need it? https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.platform/fZV-DYnqQEc/discussion
• Future Issues - early discussion on dev-platform, monitoring for discussion if not resolved
  • Namespace style guidelines
  • UA String Touch or Tablet
  • Not shipping prefixed APIs on the release channel