Platform/2013-04-30
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Platform Meeting Details
- Tuesday 2013-04-30 - 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
- US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 98411
- 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
Contents
- 1 Actions
- 2 Notices/Schedule
- 3 Key Issues
- 4 Products/Projects
- 4.1 Firefox OS
- 4.2 Firefox Desktop
- 4.3 Firefox Mobile
- 4.4 Stability
- 4.5 OrangeFactor
- 4.6 Performance [Bi-Weekly]
- 4.7 Metro [1st Tuesday of each month]
- 4.8 Games [1st Tuesday of Month]
- 4.9 Mobile Web Compat [2nd Tuesday of Month]
- 4.10 Critsmash [3rd Tuesday of Month]
- 4.11 Memshrink [4th Tuesday of Month]
- 5 Roundtable
Actions
Notices/Schedule
- FF21.0b5 for Desktop was shipped yesterday due to build specific AMD Radeon top-crasher - bug 865701
- FF21.0b6( our second last beta) is going to build today
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| Unresolved Aurora 54 Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta) | Unresolved Beta 126 Trackers (non-security) |
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Key Issues
- Threads
- dev-b2g
- dev-platform
- Introducing mozilla::Abs to mfbt, replacing std::abs (jwalden) (blog post)
- Storage in Gecko (gps)
- Proposal for an inbound2 branch (ryanvm)
- New mfbt header: mozilla/PodOperations.h (jwalden) (blog post)
- Increasing the platform meeting's relevance for engineers (lmandel)
Products/Projects
Firefox OS
Firefox Desktop
Firefox Mobile
- Blog Shout Out
WebRTC: enabling instructions and info on how to test. More is More: http://www.morbo.org/2013/04/webrtc-support-on-android.html Highlights of the UI hackathon and more: http://planet.firefox.com/mobile/
- Usability, Responsiveness, and New Features
- Landed: bug 862448 - Fast fencing path busted when preserveDrawingBuffer=true
- Great progress on ANR dashboard. Also uplifted to bug 857413 - ANR: deadlock in IME code when using UI-thread-safe Editable
- Lot's IME Fixes: bug 859452, bug 860158, bug 85921, bug 859212, bug 862069, bug 864521
- Stability Wins
- bug 863288 - java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.nativeDecodeByteArray(Native Method) at org.mozilla.gecko.AboutHomeContent/TopSitesView.getThumbnailsFromCursor(TopSitesView.java)
Stability
- Something regressed "EMPTY dump" crashes significantly on Nightly, see bug 866526 - Ted saw those and IIRC says he saw Firefox hanging somewhat, then probably going OOM and crashing with those reports. If anyone has a clue what checkin on Friday (April 26) could have caused that, please comment in the bug.
- Mobile Nightly Crash rate has gone back down. Great job Mobile Dev team!
OrangeFactor
- Past week's OrangeFactor: 7.31 (Previous Week: 8.28).
- No progress getting Windows XP xpcshell tests un-hidden.
- Big spike in bug 707777 on Windows 8 this week. Currently unowned.
- 23 intermittent failures fixed in the last week - List - Thanks!.
Performance [Bi-Weekly]
Metro [1st Tuesday of each month]
Games [1st Tuesday of Month]
Mobile Web Compat [2nd Tuesday of Month]
Critsmash [3rd Tuesday of Month]
Memshrink [4th Tuesday of Month]
Roundtable
- RelEng needs your help to improve test machine capacity!
- We have some tests that are currently failing on Ubuntu, preventing us from re-using these machines as WinXP/Win7 testers. mochitests-browser-chrome and mochitests-others need to move from fedora-->ubuntu. Specifically, we need help with dep bugs under bug 834725
- bug 838613: we are getting a value of 0 for a pointer in nsExceptionHandler.cpp::RegisterAppMemory()
- bug 847558: on amazon ec2 vm's browser_dbg_createChrome.js hangs (timed out) on opt builds
- bug 860349: Intermittent browser_dbg_createChrome.js | application timed out after 330 seconds with no output
- bug 848924: Intermittent Ubuntu debug VM reftest TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL
- We have some tests that are currently failing on Ubuntu, preventing us from re-using these machines as WinXP/Win7 testers. mochitests-browser-chrome and mochitests-others need to move from fedora-->ubuntu. Specifically, we need help with dep bugs under bug 834725
- (RyanVM) status of "birch as b2g-inbound"
- birch now has 10-12% of checkins compared to mozilla-inbound.
- 21apr-30apr: 48 (birch) vs 467 (m-i)
- 14apr-30apr: 100 (birch) vs 807 (m-i)
