EngineeringProductivity/Meetings/2012-04-02

The Overview

Bugzilla

• [glob/dkl] lots of prep work and actioning of bmo upgrade which required downtime
• [glob] worked on more secure-mail issues
  • investigated sending pgp messages as multipart
  • resolved issue with unicode characters having wrong encoding
  • worked on fixing long standing issues with how mail is constructed within bugzilla
• [glob] working on errors in the error handling routines
• [glob/dkl] Routine BMO administrative tasks
• [dkl] Changes to the TryAutoLand extension to add new functionality for AutoLand team
• [glob/dkl] Upstream reviews and patch submissions

Eideticker

• [wlach] - working on synthesizing touch events (in particular, the double-tap event)
  • This will be useful for creating a planned "suite" of sites that we're going to use to measure cross-browser performance across the Stock Android Browser, Fennec, Chrome, and possibly Opera.

Peptest

• [mcote] - now tracking results from m-c and m-i in addition to try.
• [mcote] - Graphs now have links to hg for each revision.
• [mcote] - user docs on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_automated_testing/Peptest (Wiki page is now just for project tracking.)

War on Orange

• [mcote] - did a war on orange brownbag: http://videos.mozilla.org/serv/air_mozilla/public/brownbags/2012_03_27_brownbag_The_War_On_Orange.f4v

Signal From Noise

• [jmaher] - deployed tp5row, disabled side by side staging
• [jmaher] - [Goals] for Q2
• [jhammel] - Some work on AnalyzeThis

Talos

• [jmaher] - lots of little updates for mobile and desktop
• [jmaher] - talos.json support for mobile talos
• [jhammel] - mozharness/Talos untangling: some agreement on short-term plans
• [jhammel] - Set up a pypi for Talos installation: http://people.mozilla.org/~jhammel/pypi

Mobile Automation

• [jmaher] - ts_paint is live
• [jmaher] - trobopan and tcheckerboard are live
• [jmaher] - robocop unittests are green again
• [jmaher] - sut-tools are being updated to reduce purples

Marionette

• [mdas] - integrating selenium atoms
• [mdas] - finishing off some html interaction methods
• [jgriffin] - Moved Python bits into m-c
• [jgriffin] - moved canonical repo into https://github.com/mozilla/marionette_client ; will mirror as needed.
• [jgriffin] - Got builds reporting into autolog: http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/autolog/?tree=b2g&source=autolog
• [jgriffin] - Working on some git utils that will be used for auto-updating some of the B2G repos.

Bughunter

• [bc] - VMs for valgrind testing, windows building and user testing were created late Thursday. Plan is to get them up and running this week.
• Mac OS X crashes are exceeding the capacity of the 3 test machines.
• Need UI support to handle the timeout/hangs that are being encountered.

Graphserver

• [jeads] - Built a box-plot visualization in D3 that shows the results for any Talos test pageset (run time vs. web page loaded in talos pageset)
• [jeads] - built a visualization that shows raw talos run data as a bar chart (run time vs. individual replicates for a talos page), for comparing individual values from a single page across multiple runs/platforms

autophone/Noah's Ark

• [mcote/ctalbert] - updated for new pulse API and a few other fixes

Speedtests

• [mcote] - Added Kraken: http://mrcote.info/speedtests/results.html#/Kraken

Jetperf

• [jhammel] - mozharness work

Pulse

• [jgriffin] - working on getting heartbeats to work with RabbitMQ
• [jgriffin] - investigating alternates to carrot for the mozilla pulse lib (so far

looked at Kombu, Pika, and Stormed-amqp).

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

There has been discussion of a tool to track the size of the Firefox installer: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/93b7f392176df62a#

Misc

• Ted's new kid helping wire up the surround sound system: