Platform/2014-05-20

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2014-05-20 - 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98411
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Need To Know

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

Notices/Schedule (lsblakk/sylvestre)

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

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.)

Quality Programs

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

MemShrink (njn)

• No update.

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 Media Recording (cjku)

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• bug 987529 - Implement Vsync dispatch pipeline
• bug 989945 - [B2G][WebRTC] long video lag when using H.264 codec.
• bug 981153 - Intermittent test_seek.html | Test timed out.
• bug 983489 - Crash on nsIAppStartup.quit()
• bug 997367 - Crash at CorssProcessParent

Layout (jet/dbaron)

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• W3C CSS Working Group F2F Meetings this week
  • http://wiki.csswg.org/planning/seoul-2014
• Notable Bug Fixes:
  • bug 964646 - Add tests for async CSS Animations (OMTA)
  • bug 1008787 - Plugins should be clipped to the size layout expects them to be
  • bug 1009478 - Make LayerActivity properties survive across reframes of an element
  • bug 1005660 - Add an "early freeze" step, to freeze flex items that clearly can't grow (or shrink, if we're shrinking).
  • bug 1010470 - Use :disabled pseudoclass instead of [disabled] attribute-selector to style disabled form controls on B2G & Android.
  • bug 1001233 - convert bullet frame's margin to the block frame's writing mode when positioning bullet.
  • bug 992100 - mask out complex-script codepoints in fonts that lack the necessary layout tables.
  • bug 1009263 - Add nsCheapSets::Clear() method that removes all entries and return it to minimal size in terms of memory use.
  • bug 1008969 - [css-grid] add nsGridContainerFrame::Reflow and a few grid related nsHTMLReflowState additions
  • bug 1000423 - position: fixed elements are misplaced
  • bug 916315 - Enable CSS sticky positioning in release desktop builds
  • bug 590790 - Add memory reporter for VectorImage's SVGDocumentWrapper's document
  • bug 1004327 - input type=number limited to 3 digits of precision

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, and say hi to new contributor Yash! Here are some highlights:

• Tom Schuster (evilpie) updated the Qt port (bug 1008668).
• Robert Utasi (hunboy) corrected some about:networking UI (bug 1011425).
• [first patch!]

Svetozar Janjic improved MIPS support for SpiderMonkey (bug 996561).

• Rafael Vieira performed RefPtr/nsRefPtr maintenance (bug 1009228).
• Fred Wang (fredw) improved MathML styling (bug 930504).
• Brian Smith (bsmith) improved libpkix (bug 1006041, bug 1006958, bug 1010581, bug 989564)
• Masatoshi Kimura (emk) fixed the download manager not respecting security settings (bug 1008778, bug 1008851)
• [first patch!] Kestrel fixed dragging text selections within links (bug 998278).
• Arpad Borsos (Swatinem) fixed a SpiderMonkey spec compliance problem (bug 1007285, bug 474369)
• Julien Levesy added a new IonMonkey instruction (bug 1008707).
• Anuj Agarwal (anujagarwal464) modernized some hashtables (bug 984123).
• Adam (hobophobe) fixed an intermittent orange (bug 1008450).
• Martin Stránský fixed a GTK3 crash (bug 909082).
• [first patch!] Inanc Seylan added several IonMonkey instructions (bug 1003802, bug 1009967, bug 1010339).
• Xidorn Quan fixed a vertical positioning layout issue (bug 1011461).
• [first patch!] qeole made the plugin timeout value configurable (bug 1007490).
• Alex Vincent (WeirdAl) provided addons with a standard directory for data (bug 915838).
• Arnaud Bienner improved HTML button display (bug 1007278).
• Girish Sharma (Optimizer) added an API for determining if a module has been loaded (bug 1004487).
• [first patch!] Althaf Hameez (ahameez) improved OOM message recognition (bug 1001206).

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.)