Platform/2014-10-14

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2014-10-14 - 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98411
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  • 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 / Air Mozilla / MTV Alien Nation / TOR Finch / SFO Warfield / PDX Hair of the Dog
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Need To Know

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

Notices/Schedule (lsblakk/sylvestre/lmandel)

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.)

OrangeFactor (ryanvm)

<Read Only>

• Past week's OrangeFactor: 4.15 (last week: 4.51).
• bug 906716 - Intermittent B2G emulator "timed out after 1000 seconds of no output" remains #1 by a wide margin.
• All Marionette tests are now hidden on the B2G emulator for an ongoing extremely high failure rate. Unhiding is tracked in bug 1081529.
• 22 intermittent failures fixed in the last week - &resolution=FIXED&o1=greaterthan&v1=2014-10-07&f1=cf_last_resolved&query_format=advanced&list_id=11367820 List - Thanks!.

CritSmash (dbolter)

• small uptick in risk factor.
• please remember to factor in security fix time for Q4 and 2015 planning.

MemShrink (njn)

• Jan de Mooij optimized the JS engine's shape representation, which gave a 7 MiB win on JS memory usage on AWSY.

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.)

Electrolysis (e10s) (blassey)

• Please help dogfood e10s in Nightly!
  • To opt-in, open the "Preferences" and check the "Enable E10S (multi-process)" checkbox
  • (same as flipping the "browser.tabs.remote.autostart" pref to true and restart Nightly.
  • Known issues: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#What_to_Expect
• bug 1076314 - Ask Nightly users to dogfood e10s again!
  • Less crashing!
  • Improved add-on compatibility and DevTools
  • PDF.js, Web Console, Spellchecking, WebRTC now work
• bug 875867 - Fixed Safe Browsing for e10s
• bug 1067576 - Fixed Web Console for e10s
• bug 1049961 - Fixed pdf.js for e10s

Roundtable

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

• cpeterson seeking feedback on this weekly meeting:
  • Is this meeting still useful?
  • What value do you get (or want to get) from attending the meeting compared to just reading the wiki notes?
  • What value do you get from the wiki notes compared to team's sharing their updates on relevant mailing lists?

<Read only beyond this point>

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.)