Platform/GFX/2011-October-11

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Agenda:

• BugKill aftermath (joe)
  • From GFX section of today's development meeting:
  • We closed 308 bugs out of the 493 total we touched - about 63% close rate. (There were bugs we didn't touch but did open; thus this is a maximum.)
  • Anecdotal "evidence" says that older bugs were closed with a higher frequency than newer bugs.
  • We found some patches that had languished for 4+ years, many without review requests (i.e., a failure on our part to notice them).
  • We found other bugs that had languished for a long time for no good reason, and created patches for them.
  • Still TBD: where we go from here for our remaining 2000+ bugs.
  • Surprising/interesting bugs we found:
    • JP
      • Security bug that was open since 2005
      • Startup crash that hadn't been touched in a long time bug 585921
      • Take notes about specific bugs for further review
    • Joe
      • Bugs that talk about code cleanups that are totally out of date
      • Benoit Jacob had an example: bug 395585 - OOM bugs should maybe be part of a query for making them security-sensitive
      • The other thing that surprised Joe was the ability for people to make patches for some bugs while triaging
      • Be Bold - change things! They can always be unchanged later
    • Bas
      • Having a direct line to people was great, since one specific person is often significantly more efficient than others
      • Being able to shuffle bugs to others' queues would have been very handy
        • QA Contact - perhaps?
        • Joe to edit queries to include QA Contact = "me" so they get reassigned
  • Another BugKill day on the 4th of November (another Friday)
• New imagelib name (joe)
  • libpr0n
  • Please send your proposals to Joe
  • Bobby Holley has a patch that moves imagelib to "/image"
  • We can do better!
  • Benoit J suggests "xxx"
• Java UI for Fennec (jpr)
  • Doug Turner and a cast of thousands are building a native Java frontend for Fennec
  • See Doug's blog post: http://dougt.org/wordpress/2011/09/fennec-and-native-android-uis/
  • Might change some things for us with regard to GLES layers
  • Might need to take some stuff off of Chris Lord's plate too
  • Single process, multiple thread - oh my goodness
• GLES update (BenWa)
  • Down to 12 reftest failures (!) - 2-4 are actual failures, the others have not been looked at
• Mini WebGL week
  • In Toronto the week of October 24