Platform/2013-05-14

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2013-05-14 - 11:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98411
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 98411
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 98411
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 98411
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  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • 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
• Engineering Vidyo Room / Warp Core / SFO-Boardroom / Tor Commons
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Actions

• jst and lmandel to find owner for Orange Factor bug 858948

Notices/Schedule

• FF 21.0 for Desktop and mobile was shipped this morning
  • Mobile push includes push to Google play store and Yandex store
  • Desktop Release notes : http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/21.0/releasenotes/
  • Mobile Release notes : http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/21.0/releasenotes/
• 22.0b1 is targeted fot go-to-build today and will be shipped before end of week
• Aurora updates are disabled - will enable on Friday to update to Aurora 23

24 bugs (?? bugs last week)	38 bugs (32 bugs last week)
Unresolved Aurora 54 Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta)	Unresolved Beta 148 Trackers (non-security)

Key Issues

Threads

• dev-platform
  • converting CPPSRCS to moz.build (mshal)
  • Follow-up on the Windows PGO issue (ehsan)
  • Dropped support for MSVC 2005 and 2008 (ehsan)
• firefox-dev
  • Speculative pre-connections control preference

Products/Projects

Firefox Desktop

• Social API
  • Shane Caraveo landed the "Share panel" (bug 818675), which significantly improves the social API's "share" capabilities

• Form history/autocomplete back-end changes
  • Mark Hammond chased down the last few test failures blocking back-end refactor of autocomplete/form history (bug 566746, bug 697377)

• Australis
  • Work continues. Star button changes were reverted, several changes to the toolbar and find bar behaviors landing now.

• XUL Panel improvements
  • Mark Hammond landed some improvements to XUL panel positioning (bug 812943, bug 798226)

Firefox Mobile

Usability, Responsiveness, and New Features

• Lots of WebRTC patches landed last week
  • bug 862883 Enable webrtc mochitest automation for FxAndroid
  • bug 866093 application crashed [@ webrtc::VoEExternalMediaImpl::SetExternalRecordingStatus(bool)]
  • bug 869477 WebRTC UI permissions no longer shown
• Reflow on Zoom on double-tap only patch has been r+'d, Scott is working through some breakage in the vkbOverlap test before landing bug 847872.
• ANR Reporter is ready for privacy review: bug 863777 - Teach ANR reporter to use the profiler to get a native stack
• Implementing WebSockets for bug 834033 - Implement Push Notifications for Android

Stability Wins

bug 778459 - java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: at org.mozilla.gecko.AwesomeBarTabs.updateFavicon()
bug 827248 - java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: at org.mozilla.gecko.AboutHomeContent.getTopSitesThumbnails()

Stability

• Benjamin Smedberg's patch from bug 831768, which reduced Flash crashes and hangs by a quarter on beta, is shipping on release today with Firefox 21.
• Jan de Mooij deduced a testcase for #4 topcrash bug 851934 (outlook.com) from full dumps within 24h of being assigned there, and realized he had already fixed this for 22 in bug 867482! Unfortunately too late for 21.
• Is there anything more we can do about : bug 752828 - android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabaseLockedException: database is locked at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteStatement.native_executeSql(Native Method) on ICS ?
  • it's one of the top bugs for all channels for FFX for Android.

OrangeFactor

• Past week's OrangeFactor: 8.66 (Previous Week: 7.63).
• No significant changes from last week.
• bug 861176 - "Intermittent cppunittests TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | TestSTSParser.exe | test failed with return code 4294967295 | Couldn't get the profile directory." Affects all branches. Needs an owner from RelEng.
• Suggestions for moving OF downward?
• 17 intermittent failures fixed in the last week - List - Thanks!.

Roundtable

• Get the most out of Mercurial. Upgrade to 2.5 or 2.6 and read gps's blog posts at http://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2013/05/12/thoughts-on-mercurial-%28and-git%29/ and http://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2013/05/13/the-state-of-mercurial-at-mozilla/.
• Clang 3.3 will be released during the 24 release cycle and we'll likely upgrade shortly after it comes out (froydnj)