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== Friends of the Firefox team ==
== Friends of the Firefox team ==
''Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.''
''Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.''
* Andrew Wang (:velocirabbit) and Jesse Fox (:jfox) for helping to fix their first bugs in SessionStore. [ttaubert]
== Project Updates ==
== Project Updates ==
===Australis===
===Australis===
* Character encoding widget has landed ({{bug|865916}})! Great work from mikedeboer, dão and Gijs.
* Exit Application button added to the menu panel ({{bug|871203}}). Shout out to Dão and MC Only!
* The tpaint regression ({{bug|889758}})
** For non-PGO Windows XP is in the ~0.5% range! \o/
** For PGO Windows XP is in the ~3.3% range. o_O
* We've been working with avih and vladan from perf on dealing with our TART regressions
* mconley's been working with BenWa to get [http://benoitgirard.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/video-synced-profiling/ Video Sync'd Profiling] working properly on Windows to make it easier to identify what is causing dropped frames.
* Markus Stange has the beginnings of [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=902857#c11 a reflow profiler] that we could use to find out why UX's reflows are more expensive than m-c's. [http://tests.themasta.com/cleopatra/?report=e67ac706f10f1c717933f2cd35e7682d77ba6d5c Here's an example profile].
===Downloads API===
===Downloads API===
* Almost enabled in Nightly!
* Regressions to be filed as blocking {{bug|825588}}.
* [https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2013-August/000804.html More details in the firefox-dev post.]
===Thumbnailing===
===Thumbnailing===
'''Foreground thumbnailing'''
* {{Bug|809051}} - Limit how often we thumbnail the page using the foreground service
** patch posted for feedback
'''Background thumbnailing'''
* {{Bug|897880}} - Background thumbnail service must not overwrite existing thumbnails if it gets an error response
** landed
* {{Bug|901294}} - Unexpected downloading will be started by after every restart of the browser due to background thumbnailing
** patch r+'ed, but depends on {{bug|906276}}, in review
* {{Bug|896912}} - Investigate test failures muted by bug 892875
** discussion about how the about:newtab preloader affects background thumbnail generation
* {{Bug|903949}} - about:memory and the background thumbnails process are combining to cause hangs and unexpected behaviour
** fixed
* Mark [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.tech.network/X8t4Sob3l9U posted to dev.tech.network] about using the LOAD_ANONYMOUS flag to better sandbox background thumbnail page loads
* {{Bug|904341}} - Content-blocking addons not working with background thumbnails
** Bill is working on a back-end patch that may be helpful
===SessionStore===
===SessionStore===
* A little code cleanup in {{bug|904460}}, {{bug|904529}}, {{bug|904003}}, and {{bug|904480}}.
* Rewrote how cookie collection works {{bug|903398}}.
* More work on e10s data collection {{bug|894595}}.
* We don't deceed write interval anymore {{bug|902280}}.
* Work on global value API in progress {{bug|899213}}.
===Places API asyncification===
===Places API asyncification===
* Mak going to investigate intermittent failures and incompatibilites (Xmarks) introduced by automatic batching
* Mano should have patches for async transaction manager and consumers ready by the end of the week
* Raymond has new patch for GUIDs in json backups, Mano reviewing it soon
===Social API===
===Social API===
===e10s===
===e10s===
* {{bug|899222}} About:home relanded
* {{bug|897060}} Select Dropdown on review
* {{bug|906237}} Mac input bug landed today on central
* {{bug|896748}} Notification API support
* {{bug|899348}} Tab crashed page
* {{bug|905436}} Add-ons tracking bug for work needed to make some add-ons work
=== UX Updates ===
=== UX Updates ===



Latest revision as of 17:10, 20 August 2013

Details

  • Tuesdays - 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC
  • Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 91337
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 91337
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 91337
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 91337
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 91337
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 91337
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 91337
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 91337
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 91337
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 91337
    • 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
  • irc.mozilla.org #fx-team for backchannel
  • "Firefox" Vidyo Room

General Topics

Friends of the Firefox team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

  • Andrew Wang (:velocirabbit) and Jesse Fox (:jfox) for helping to fix their first bugs in SessionStore. [ttaubert]

Project Updates

Australis

  • Character encoding widget has landed (bug 865916)! Great work from mikedeboer, dão and Gijs.
  • Exit Application button added to the menu panel (bug 871203). Shout out to Dão and MC Only!
  • The tpaint regression (bug 889758)
    • For non-PGO Windows XP is in the ~0.5% range! \o/
    • For PGO Windows XP is in the ~3.3% range. o_O
  • We've been working with avih and vladan from perf on dealing with our TART regressions
  • mconley's been working with BenWa to get Video Sync'd Profiling working properly on Windows to make it easier to identify what is causing dropped frames.
  • Markus Stange has the beginnings of a reflow profiler that we could use to find out why UX's reflows are more expensive than m-c's. Here's an example profile.

Downloads API

Thumbnailing

Foreground thumbnailing

  • bug 809051 - Limit how often we thumbnail the page using the foreground service
    • patch posted for feedback

Background thumbnailing

  • bug 897880 - Background thumbnail service must not overwrite existing thumbnails if it gets an error response
    • landed
  • bug 901294 - Unexpected downloading will be started by after every restart of the browser due to background thumbnailing
  • bug 896912 - Investigate test failures muted by bug 892875
    • discussion about how the about:newtab preloader affects background thumbnail generation
  • bug 903949 - about:memory and the background thumbnails process are combining to cause hangs and unexpected behaviour
    • fixed
  • Mark posted to dev.tech.network about using the LOAD_ANONYMOUS flag to better sandbox background thumbnail page loads
  • bug 904341 - Content-blocking addons not working with background thumbnails
    • Bill is working on a back-end patch that may be helpful

SessionStore

Places API asyncification

  • Mak going to investigate intermittent failures and incompatibilites (Xmarks) introduced by automatic batching
  • Mano should have patches for async transaction manager and consumers ready by the end of the week
  • Raymond has new patch for GUIDs in json backups, Mano reviewing it soon

Social API

e10s

UX Updates

Stand ups

Suggested format:

  • What did you do last week?
  • What are working on this week?
  • Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 1 minute!

gavin

(gavin's Status Board)

paolo

(paolo's Status Board)

mak

(marco's Status Board)

enn

(Neil's Status Board)

felipe

(felipe's Status Board)

mano

(Mano's Status Board)

ttaubert

(Tim's Status Board)

adw

(Drew's Status Board)

markh

(Mark's Status Board)

smacleod

(Steven's Status Board)

dolske

(dolske's Status Board)

mconley

(Mike's Status Board)

dao

mikedeboer

(Mike's Status Board)

gijs

(gijs' Status Board)

Unfocused

(Blair's Status Board)

MattN

(MattN's Status Board)

jaws

(jaws's Status Board)

mixedpuppy

(mixedpuppy's Status Board)