EngineeringProductivity/Meetings/2012-01-23

The Overview

• Bugzilla
  • [glob] Ongoing DDoS firefighting
  • [glob] making great progress on BMO/Pulse integration
  • [glob] bringing instant search to the BMO query page (think: duplicate detection in enter_bug.cgi)
  • [glob] couple new reports that show email backlog/errors in BMO as well as release tracking triage
  • [glob] fixes to clear our emails that were failing to be sent
  • [dkl] updates to several custom bug entry forms such as Brownbags and Mozilla Reps.
  • [dkl] Bug.attachments WebService method now returning flag information for users to integrate in their dashboards apps.
  • [dkl] more performance work on several bug pages, possible optimizations in the works
  • [dkl+glob] weekly code pushes bringing in several fixes/enhancements/security
  • [dkl+glob] Various BMO administrative tasks (products, components, etc.)
  • [dkl+glob] various UI enhancements
  • Upstream 4.2 release to have a RC2, still on track for release soonish, problems with the staging environment

• Bughunter
  • [jeads] adding facilities for URL resubmission
  • [jeads+bc] working on show & tell presentation for February
  • [bc] Finished the Help documents.
  • [bc] Keeping up with crash tests, filing bugs.
  • [bc] Testing patches to deal with memory exhaustion on Linux
  • [bc] hung processes
  • [bc] to use fix_stack_using_bpsyms.py to process ASSERTION stacks

• Eideticker [wlach]
  • Perf tests to ensure native fennec doesn't regress vs. XUL fennec
  • for example, http://people.mozilla.com/~wlachance/taskjs_native.webm vs http://people.mozilla.com/~wlachance/taskjs_xul.webm
  • Hacking fennec to use a flat color for checkerboarding for easier checkerboard detection

• Mobile Automation
  • [jmaher] Reftests+crashtests for native android builds!
  • [jmaher] Robocop
    • Mobile dev team working on tests
    • install/uninstall ready to land
    • Should be running on tinderbox soon

• Marionette
  • [jgriffin] continuous integration tweaks
  • [jgriffin] improved Gaia support
  • [mdas] context management support: making it easy to switch between frames/windows, so things like launching a B2G app and then executing in the context of the app is easier

• Brasstacks
  • [jgriffin] spending time doing security reviews reconfigs, all that awful stuff.

• Signal from Noise
  • [jmaher] Almost done with deploying "ignore first page load" instead of "ignore max value page load"
  • [jmaher] Almost done deploying "collect OS X RSS data from pageloader instead of python harness"
  • [jeads] Put together some UI mocks
  • [jhammel] Some data.sql fiddling

• Addon-compat
  • [wlach] Finding a set of addons to run tests on to ensure compat doesn't break

• Jetperf
  • [jhammel] currently have it running Ts

• WebRTC build hacking
  • [ted] got WebRTC code building on Windows, image capture from webcam actually works

• A-Team Best Practices
• [jgriffin+bc+ctalbert] meeting with Infrasec + bmoss to come up with procedures to ensure safe, reliable deployment of services.

Upcoming Events

All times Pacific Time, click on link to find your timezone

• Platform Meeting (all platform engineers) Tuesday at 11AM, Conf # 8605.
• Mobile Test Automation Wednesday at 10:30AM #304
• Marionette/Eideticker Meeting Thursday at 10AM Conf # 304
• Signal from Noise Thursday at 11AM #343

Round Table

• [jmaher] Check out [powerball] and try a simple [addon] to earn points for bugs you file and comment on.

Misc

All of this guy's YouTube videos are awesome: http://www.youtube.com/user/AndyRehfeldt but I especially like these:

• AC/DC-Back in Black(Funk Version)
• Nirvana-Smells Like Teen Spirit(Reggae Version)