Platform/2014-03-04

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2014-03-04 - 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time

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Hot Bugs

(Important bugs for which we need to find owners or additional help. If known, please include suggested team or knowledge needed to advance the bug.)

Orange Factor

• No progress on frequent dom/downloads test failures. Will be joining dom/apps and dom/datastore as disabled on B2G shortly.
• #4: bug 907062 - Intermittent downloads/test/browser/browser_basic_functionality.js | Test timed out (followed by various leaks). Spiked ~21-Feb, but some low-level activity in the bug for months before.

Stability

Other

The Need To Know

(Release and system issues that may impact engineering this week.)

Notices/Schedule (lsblakk/bajaj)

Next Merge: July 8, 2024		Next Release: July 9, 2024
Trains
Central: 129	Aurora: 54	Beta: 128	Release: 127

?? bugs (?? bugs last week)	?? bugs (?? bugs last week)
Unresolved Aurora 54 Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta)	Unresolved Beta 128 Trackers (non-security)

Build Changes (gps)

(Build changes of which engineers should be aware.)

RelEng (catlee)

(Repo, test, and other information for engineers from the release engineering team.)

Upcoming Outages/Upgrades

(System outages/upgrades and tree closures that impact engineering.)

Team Stand-ups

(In <2 mins, what did your team accomplish last week, on what is your team working on this week, and on what, if anything, is your team blocked? No questions during the stand-ups. All questions should be asked during the roundtable.)

Firefox OS Communications (scravag)

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• version 1.3
  • blocking 1.3?: http://goo.gl/QQURYx
  • blocking 1.3+: http://goo.gl/Ftw4Pa
• version 1.4
  • A meeting is scheduled with partner March Tuesday 4th to see if DSDS could be postponed to 1.5 in order to keep 1.4 stable.
  • blocking 1.4?: http://goo.gl/uL38Xk
  • blocking 1.4+: http://goo.gl/8tfDjE

Firefox OS Devices/Porting (ericchou)

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• Bluetooth
  • Spent much time on defining the new Bluetooth API (before pairing).
  • Currently we use devices which use BlueZ as backend. We started to change to use Bluedroid as primary backend since it's the only backend which is supported by post-JB android.

• Media Playback
  • Features (Integrate MediaCodec into gecko & PlatformDecoderModule for FirefoxOS) are in progress.
  • Media Playback work week will be held from 3/10 to 3/14 at Mozilla Taiwan office in Taipei.

• Device Storage & Stability
  • New API "mount", "unmount" got r+ and landed today. (bug 971612)
  • Ready to raise a topic for defining Device Information API for our app developers to get device information more easily and also for the compatibility of Cordova. (https://wiki.mozilla.org/CordovaFirefoxOS)

Firefox OS Media Recording (cjku)

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• bug 971641 - [MediaEncoder] Support AMR audio format in 3GP
• bug 938034 - [B2G] GetUserMedia can provide recording callback in media stream
• bug 975930 - [LayerScope] All textured buffers show RB swapped which is incorrect.
• bug 959089 - Separate GrallocBuffer allocations from Compositor thread
• bug 959505 - [Display][gonk-kk] Porting GonkNativeWindowClient, GonkBufferQueue, and FakeSurfaceComposer
• bug 924692 - [Touch Caret] Display a touch caret according to caret postion in input element

Firefox OS Telephony/WIFI/NFC (kenhkchang)

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• QC Blocker list,
  • bug 881174 - B2G CDMA: support conference (3-way) call.
  • bug 960865 - B2G RIL: support dun apn type.
  • bug 969218 - B2G RIL: using promise for telephony.dial() and dialEmergency()
  • bug 975813 - Support IPv6 in Network Manager
  • bug 900429 - (b2g-ril-cdma) Personalization state for CDMA.
  • bug 973771 - B2G RIL: Preferred Network types for LTE.
  • bug 881174 - B2G CDMA: support conference (3-way) call
  • bug 960865 - B2G RIL: support dun apn type
  • bug 973842 - support adding routes in secondary routing tables
  • bug 961571 - B2G RIL: support ims apn type
• To fix 1.3+ bugs,
  • bug 964228 - Race condition in NetworkStatsService.jsm
• To fix 1.4+ bugs,
  • bug 975356 - [DSDS][RIL] iccId is not correctly set on the message received from SystemMessenger
  • bug 945089 There is some case that concatenated SMS data is lost
• NFC,
  • bug 933588 - B2G NFC: Rewrite NFC Worker in C++.
  • bug 978671 - B2G NFC: Add ro.moz.nfc.enabled system proprty to Nexus-5 (hammerhead).

GFX (milan)

• focus for the graphics team for the next two weeks:
  • 942750 - no checkerboarding (likely includes enabling tiling)
    • the tiling has two competing/complementary approaches being investigated; will make a call this week
  • 957323 - hardware composer fence on B2G 1.4 (done)
  • 854795 - image downsize on decode (done)
  • KitKat support (Nexus 5 for now)

Media (mreavy)

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• Many of us are attending the IETF conference in London this week. Expect updates next week.

Necko (dougt/jduell)

• no update this week.

WebAPI (overholt)

• No update this week

Quality Programs

(An opportunity to hear about status with the various quality programs that do not have a formal team structure.)

MemShrink (njn)

• JS memory reporting has improved: script sources are now attributed to files, and objects/shapes are attributed to classes.

Roundtable

(Comments and questions that arise during the course of the meeting or otherwise do not have a section.)

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Friends of the Tree

There were great changes by volunteers in Core and Toolkit during the past week. Thanks to all of these contributors for their passion and hard work! Here are some highlights:

• Stefan (stefanh) improved OS X native theming (bug 970079).
• Arnaud Bienner fixed a problem with color inputs (bug 977029, bug 977301).
• James Kitchener (jkitch) fixed a MathML layout issue (bug 975935).
• Glenn Randers-Pehrson upgraded libpng (bug 952505, bug 974825).
• Oleg Romashin (romaxa) improved pointer events support (bug 970964, bug 974177, bug 977695).
• [first patch!] owpard added eviction to media source extensions (bug 976037).
• Peiyong Lin (lpy) added filenames to OS.File errors (bug 967507).
• Andy Wingo (wingo) improved SpiderMonkey (bug 962599, bug 976047, bug 976596).
• Horia Iosif Olaru fixed some blending mode problems (bug 952051, bug 970348, bug 976533).
• Rik Cabanier added hit regions in canvas (bug 966591).
• Robert Longson (longsonr) fixed a clipping problem with SVG (bug 975206).
• Ms2ger performed some build system conversions (bug 973649).
• [first patch!] Luca Niccoli fixed a profile lock problem on Unix (bug 977803).
• Girish Sharma (Optimizer) added a cookie notification (bug 970246).
• [first patch!] Scott West made the Accept header be preserved across redirects (bug 401564).
• Anup made the disable plugin placeholder closeable (bug 921730).

Mailing List Threads

(Threads that are likely to be of interest to engineering from various mailing lists.)

Good Reads

(Links to blog posts, books, videos, etc. that you think will be of interest to others.)