Platform/2013-10-01

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2013-10-01 - 11:00 am Pacific

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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

Stability

Other

The Need To Know

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

Notices/Schedule (akeybl/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.)

Upcoming Outages/Upgrades

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

• Nightly users on mozilla-central now being updated by Balrog!
  • Note: Aurora/beta/release users still being served by "old" AUS.
  • More details in http://hearsum.ca/blog/nightly-users-being-switched-to-new-aus-on-monday-september-30th/, http://hearsum.ca/blog/upcoming-changes-to-aus/ and http://oduinn.com/blog/2013/09/29/updating-mozillas-update-server/

Key Issues

(Non team specific issues 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 Mobile (mfinkle/blassey)

• Fix for landed for Nightly Fx27 (by way of backing out bug 875731), bug 921944 Regression: Unable to initiate a download
• All UI changes have been uplifted to Aurora Fx26 bug 917394
• Other fun stuff:
  • Hacking
  • Bye-bye Overscroll: bug 705246, bug 918086
  • Hello new awesome way to add content to new-new about:home bug 905262

Firefox OS Browser (blassey)

• UA Override follow ups
  • bug 916205 - Create and enable dynamic UA override list in B2G
  • bug 917965 - UA overrides are disabled if update is invalid

Firefox OS Communications (scravag)

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• 1.3
  • some user stories have been flagged as committed (mostly for Messaging)
  • DSDS support is a commitment but we still don't have an agreement for the scope we must cover.
• koi? : 31 to be triaged.
• koi+ : 25

Firefox OS Devices/Porting/Bluetooth (mchen)

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• Device Porting
  • Flatfish
    • JB MR1 (4.2.2) Porting on Nexus 4.
    • bug 920921 - Analysis the low graphic performance on allwinner platform.
    • bug 919252 Fix bugs.
• Sensor
  • bug 908058 - add orientation keyword 'default' to express normal orientation
• FOTA
  • bug 858188, bug 915981, bug 916033 Fix bugs.
• Bluetooth
  • Bluedroid: Working on BluetoothSocket and A2DP/AVRCP
  • Try to let A2DP/AVRCP profile pass PTS.
  • Stabilize BT on V1.2 branch.

Firefox OS Haida (scravag)

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Check the wiki FirefoxOS/Haida for charts and roadmap

meta bug for tracking: bug 918790

• prototype replaceable homescreen has landed bug 898330
• New Windows manager is under active should be ready by October 25th
• Datastore API should be delivered October 11th
• Edge gstures implementation has started (in advance) some tests have been made for making the difference between edge gestures and app gestures. It is working very well.
• UX input for Browser is awaited by the end of this week

Firefox OS Media Recording (cjku)

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• WebRTC
  • bug 918523 - getUserMedia audio streams will be released after a period of time while running in a background app
  • bug 853356 [B2G getUserMedia] Display front/back camera list on permission prompt
• MediaRecord
  • bug 891704 - [MediaEncoder] Implement MP4Writer
  • bug 911046 - WebRTC OmxCodec coding path support
  • {{Bug|916135} - Investigate webaudio mochitest timeouts on B2G
• Gfx
  • bug 919410 - [LockScreen] Fix the glitches among the sliders when user is pulling the handle

Firefox OS Productivity (doliver)

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No new news this week. Continuing work on blocking bugs for v1.2 and POP3 implementation for v1.3.

https://www.pivotaltracker.com/s/projects/867311

Firefox OS Systems - Platform (timdream)

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https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/Team/Taipei/Meetings/2013-10-01

Will switch to v1.3 list next next week. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/Team/Taipei/v1.3

• Tablet: Swipe to home landed, minor tweak to wrapper toolbar, orientation: default landed
• 3rd-party keyboard framework: OOP is still pending; working on some koi+ bugs
• Simplified Chinese IME: no update
• Gaia build script: Fx extension is landed, asking help for build script work
• Window management upgrade: no update

GFX (milan)

• Unifying the graphics team, now including most people working on the graphics
  • Unified agenda, mobile and desktop
• Work week Oct 21-25

Layout (jet/dbaron)

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• Work week Oct 21-25
• Some Layout updates missed in earlier meetings:
  • bug 298619 - Use EXIF image orientation in top-level image document
  • bug 910506 - update harfbuzz to upstream release 0.9.21
  • bug 906521 - SVG-in-OpenType text implementation
  • bug 913438 - Speed up Background Image layout
  • bug 875250 - implement CSS parsing of text-orientation, text-combine-horizontal properties

Seceng (mmc)

• Landed Bug 842828 and are now very close to turning on Application Reputation by default in Nightly - two bugs remain.
• Re-organized sandbox syscall whitelist for easier development on multiple platforms; you can now use the —enable-content-sandbox flag on 64 bit linux - Bug 914716

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.

Roundtable

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

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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.)

• Awesome blog posts from Fennec team:
  • Mark Finkle: http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/
  • Sriram: http://sriramramani.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/yo-zuck-fix-this/
  • Margaret: http://blog.margaretleibovic.com/