Platform/2013-07-30

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2013-07-30 - 11:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98411
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  • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
• Engineering Vidyo Room / MTV Warp Core / TOR Finch / SFO Warfield / PDX Widmer
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Hot Bugs

(Important bugs for which we need to find owners or additional help. If known, please include suggested team or knowledge needed to advance the bug.)

Orange Factor

Stability

Other

The Need To Know

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

Notices/Schedule (akeybl/lsblakk/bajaj)

?? bugs (?? bugs last week)	?? bugs (?? bugs last week)
Unresolved Aurora 54 Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta)	Unresolved Beta 147 Trackers (non-security)

Build Changes (gps)

(Build changes of which engineers should be aware.)

Upcoming Outages/Upgrades

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

1. Wednesday-Friday, July 31-Aug 2, 0600-1000 PT -- There will be reduced mac mini (builder/tester) capacity for 4 hours each day to support electrical expansion work in SCL3. More details in bug 897111.

1. Thursday, Aug 1, 0500-1000 PT -- project branch "birch" will be closed to complete the migration to the replacement branch "b2g-inbound". More details in bug 898198 (background).

Key Issues

(Non team specific issues that impact engineering.)

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 Metro (bbondy/jmathies/mbrubeck)

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• 11th sprint completed.
• Async pan zoom support landed pref'd off w/ 'layers.async-pan-zoom.enabled' (bug 869940). Follow up work tracked by bug 886321.
• Support for new file downloads UI landed (bug 831942).
• Progress on getting Talos tests going (bug 773817).
• More UI polish.

GFX (milan)

• Had a couple of people at siggraph, look for a report in one of the upcoming rendering meetings
• SkiaGL: Android (close), B2G (evaluating), Mac (may use for testing)
• Considering GL context multi-plexing

JS (terrence)

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• Last Week
  • Compiler (JIT)
    • Our #2 topcrash on Android should be fixed: bug 894251.
    • Prototyping work for JS threading primitives has started in earnest.
    • IonMonkey will now compile getter/setter functions.
    • Division on ARM hardware in IonMonkey is better, faster, and stronger now.
  • Garbage Collection
    • Post barriers for the browser are done.
    • We are now actively driving exact rooting hazards to zero: bug 898606.
  • Front End and Other
    • Include order is now standardized across js/src/.
• This Week
  • Compiler (JIT)
    • Make OdinMonkey fast on ARM.
    • VTune support for OdinMonkey.
    • Float32 compilation support for OdinMonkey.
    • Make IonMonkey compile try/catch.
    • Integrate TraceLogger with devtools.
  • Garbage Collection
    • Finish adding FxOS GGC builds to awfy.
    • Get the exact rooting static analyis deployed on TBPL.
    • Continue fixing exact rooting hazards.
  • Front End and Other
    • JSBool is finally on the chopping block in bug 898914 and bug 899017.
• Blocking
  • None.

Performance (vladan)

Bugs of note:

• bug 867143: SessionStore now avoids recollecting the same data and caches its state aggressively
• Dhaval posted a rough draft of ext4 transparent decompression patches: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/24/645
• bug 890336: Tested benefit of delaying D3D9 initialization startup. It looks there is still a strong startup benefit to delaying creation of this layer manager
• bug 898006: Reduced code size on ARM
• bug 898056: the new Talos "tab animation regression test" is almost ready (see blog post below)

Blogs:

• Avi: Tabstrip #5 - TART, Talos Stress, Smooth Scrolling

Seceng (sstamm)

• fixed a bunch of CSP bugs (bug 888172, bug 887974, bug 885433, and bug 898190)
• progress on safebrowsing 2.0 (bug 837199)
• STS web console message patches (DOM/Netwerk/XPCOM/Devtools -- bug 846918)
• Security Panel for web console ships with Firefox 23 this week (bug 837351)!
• OCSP Stapling blog post is up, must-staple extension is coming next...

WebAPI (overholt)

• navigator.languages proposal sent to WHATWG and W3C's i18n WG

Quality Programs

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

CritSmash (dbolter)

• Several Mozillians will be at the Black Hat conference this week.

MemShrink (njn)

No update.

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.)