Platform/2013-03-05

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2013-03-05 - 11:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98411
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 98411
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 98411
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • 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
• Engineering Vidyo Room / Warp Core / SFO-Boardroom / Tor Commons
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Notices/Schedule

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

Key Issues

• improving access to telemetry data (josh)
• The War on Orange Needs YOU (ctalbert)

Full Query

ID	Summary	Priority	Status
663657	Intermittent Android "command timed out: 2400 seconds without output, attempting to kill"	--	RESOLVED
754860	Intermittent test_bug726904.html | clientWidth should be 400 - got 0, expected 400 | clientHeight should be 400 - got 0, expected 400	--	RESOLVED
761987	Frequent Android Shutdown,tcheckerboard,tcheck2,trobopan,tsvg,tprovider PROCESS-CRASH [@ nssCertificate_Destroy] top frame can also be [@ PORT_FreeArena_Util][@ nssCertificateStore_Lock][@ PR_Lock][@ 0xffff0fc4][@ FreeArenaList][@ nssArena_Destroy]	P1	RESOLVED
764369	Intermittent crash during test_fileReadSlice.xul [@ xul.dll@0x177f0b3] [@ xul.dll@0x2214737], or | Assertion count 1 is greater than expected range 0-0 assertions (ASSERTION: QueryInterface needed: 'query_result.get() == mRawPtr')	--	RESOLVED
807230	Intermittent DMError: Automation Error: Timeout in command {ls,ps,mkdr,rmdir,activity} | DMError: Automation Error: Timeout in command isdir /mnt/sdcard/tests/logs (or DMError: Automation Error: Timeout in command isdir /mnt/sdcard/tests/reftest)	--	RESOLVED
818103	Intermittent B2G emulator reftest, crashtest timeout | application crashed [@ libc.so + 0xdc04][@ libc.so + 0xdc00]	--	RESOLVED
835658	Intermittent test_animSVGImage.html | timing out after 120000ms. Animated image still doesn't look correct, after call (#2831|#1919|#1890) to onStopFrame	--	RESOLVED

7 Total; 0 Open (0%); 7 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

Products/Projects

Firefox Mobile

Post-MWC Work week in London!

• Lot's of excellent brainstorms and discussions. One of the themes for today was expanding measurements and benchmarks for performance and responsiveness and plenty of other goodness
• Tomorrow they will be going over WebRTC and talk about future features
• https://intranet.mozilla.org/Mobile_Team_Meet_Up_March_2013#Agenda

Metro [1st Tuesday of each month]

• Dev and releng actively working on enabling Windows 8 tests in Metro
  • Tracking: bug 731280 (development), bug 826050 (releng)
  • Win8 desktop tests are now running in automation on Cedar
  • Need to track down and fix/annotate all the failures before enabling on trunk (bug 847447).
• Work on OMTC is progressing on the "graphics" project branch
  • Tracking: bug 792576
  • basic metro omtc support landed (bug 839808).
    • metrofx rendering perf took a hit with omtc enabled, need to investigate.
  • working on a set of simple perf test to track progress (bug 847341).
  • apzc integration being investigated (bug 801154).
• Starting to investigate high-DPI display support (bug 816709).
• Front-end team working on theming and UX changes.
• Front end bugs fixed in the last 30 days

Games [1st Tuesday of Month]

• Recent progress
  • MWC - Cut the Rope was a great success, pure JS game that we helped optimize
    • We have the same ported using Emscripten, straight from the Android codebase, but had some platform JS and WebGL issues that prevented us from continuing that route
    • specifically bugs and performance issues in ARM typed array support
  • Multiplayer BananaBread is up
    • WebRTC data channel for communication, little server side broker
    • Hosting a game: http://modeswitch.github.com/BananaBread/cube2/
    • Joining a game (server list): http://modeswitch.github.com/BananaBread/cube2/list.html
  • Web Audio is in the process of landing
    • Early code is in
    • Working on additional node types
  • Asm.js presented at mloc.js
    • http://dl.dropbox.com/u/80664946/mloc_js_sekrit/index.html#/
  • Unigine Released Crypt Demo
    • https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/02/20/one-developer-one-impressive-3d-game-demo-ported-to-the-web-with-no-plugins/
• Emscripten - successfully ported a 2-3 million line codebase
  • Performance is great, really turned some heads
  • Will be showing off at GDC
• GDC plans
  • Getting ready to make a big splash
  • Will need your help over the next 3 weeks: Javascript, Graphics, some DOM help, performance profiling
  • We want to get:
    • Asm.js landed
    • Some JS large codebase issues worked out (silent oom issues, script source saving)
    • Gamepad
    • Pointer Lock in non-fullscreen
    • Pointer Lock toggle in fullscreen
  • We will have awesome T-shirts!