Platform/2012-05-08

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2012-05-08 - 11:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 95312
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 95312
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 95312
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 95312
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  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • 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
• Warp Core Vidyo Room / SFO-Boardroom
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Kilimanjaro

• Kilimanjaro - Base Camp
  • Communications at the MoCo meeting yesterday - pivoting Kilimanjaro around B2G goals.
  • Product team working on defining "base camp".
  • Posts to come on dev.planning.
  • Proceeding with triage today at 11:30am PT.
• Web app/site compat
  • Will be pushing out a crowd sourcing mobile site test tool this week. Once announced please take the time to run through a few of the URLs and provide your feedback.

Notices / Schedule

• We are here in the calendar. There are still 32 bugs tracking 13+ - if your bug has been fixed & landed, please update the status flags. If not, get back to work ;)

• We held our FF12 post-mortem today
• We'll be holding our Rapid Betas scope overview during today's channel meeting (2PM PT in Warp Core)

• Automatic updates from FF3.6 to FF12 will be occurring some time in the next day
• FF13 beta 3 will be going to build today, for a Friday ship
• FN14 beta 1 (build #2) may be going to build today

Performance

• Perf work week May 14-18 (next week) in MV.

• This week's Snappy summary
• Bas is working on slow downs due to borders and gradients. We should see some improvement in 3-4 weeks.
• Incremental GC should turned back on soon (bug 750424, bug 750416).
• Kyle’s big memory leak fix from last week turned out to occasionally cause leaks where there were none before (bug 751466).
• Tim moved thumbnail storage away from network cache, which reduces cache contention and browser freezes (bug 744388).
• Paulo continued nuking sync favicon api usage (bug 728168).

JS

• Compartment Per Global landed and stuck. Expect ongoing bug stomping to continue as the rest of the source base adjust to these patches (bug 650353).

• The new jsdbg2 Debugger object are now available from scratchpad. A screens cast from the Toronto meet-up provides more detail (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKIkOcuVG7w) (Bugzilla jsdbg2).

Layout

• SVG and CSS working group meetings this week (including joint meeting Wednesday)
• likely some large changes to font size inflation coming soon to increase the size of the areas in which we make separate inflation decisions (bug 707195 and duplicates/dependencies)

DOM

• Compartment per global landed! (bholley, luke)

Tree Management

• stage/ftp/surf moved to scl3 datacentre on Saturday. Some fallout on Sunday/Monday. If you see any more issues (e.g. downloading builds/tests), please ping IT/RelEng.

Stability Report

Mobile

• Aurora top crashes are mostly libdvm crashes, bug 730890 was fixed in nightly, waiting aurora approval; remaining Libdvm bugs are as seen:
  • bug 751967 - crash on new tab/google maps galaxy nexus, ICS, 5.03 build
  • bug 751262 - Dalvik VM aborts and Fennec dies sometimes after Fennec and Android device are idle
  • bug 750965 - crash in libdvm with continuous reloading page after a while
• Nightly top crashes
  • bug 752428 - crash in nsDOMWindowUtils::SetDisplayPortForElement
  • bug 752426- crash in mozilla::AndroidBridge::TakeScreenshot
  • bug 737128 - mozilla::gl::GLContextEGL::ReleaseSurface GL crash on Droid X

• note: Nightly could be inflated due to QA testers testing and trying to get repro steps; also takes a while for a fix to have a crash fall off the chart.
• Reminder: please update your builds to help show impacts of crash fixes

See Mobile Meeting for Mobile specific Socorro updates