Platform/2014-09-09

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2014-09-09 - 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time

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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)

• Boris Zbarsky fixed a bad memory leak. If you were seeing ghost windows in your Nightly build recently, this is probably the reason. The patch has been backported to Aurora.

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.)

A*Team (jgriffin)

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Blog and newsgroup posts:

• [Byron Jones] bitly support for search URLs
• [Mark Cote] Review Board preview
• [Cameron Dawson] PyCharm debugging the Treeherder service
• [Chris Manchester] Structured Logging update
• [James Graham] web-platform-tests now running in automation
• [Geoff Brown] Firefox for Android Performance Measures - August Check-up
• [Mark Cote] Pulse permissions-system deployment & migrations

DOM (jst/overholt)

• Service Worker hackathon is on (in Arlington)!
• DOM Window bindings are here to stay (no more pref).

Electrolysis (e10s) (blassey)

• Please help dogfood e10s in Nightly!
  • Just flip the "browser.tabs.remote.autostart" pref to true and restart Nightly.
  • Known issues likely to affect you: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/e10s-known-issues
• This week, more fixes landed for browser usability and add-ons
• List of tested add-ons (compatible and incompatible): http://arewee10syet.com

Firefox OS Devices/Porting (ericchou)

• Gonk team (led by Thomas Tsai & Shawn Ku)
  • Tarako: Spice/Intex feedback issues
  • Dolphin: 9/4 MP
  • Woodduck: Meta bug
  • Flame: KK + v1.4/v2.0 porting

• Bluetooth (members: Shawn Huang, Ben Tian, Jamin Liu, Jocelyn Liu)
  • Woodduck Bluetooth bring-up issues
  • The team has begun BLE API implementation

• Media Playback (members: Bruce Sun, Blake Wu, Star Cheng)
  • bug 1033915 - Integrate MP3FrameParser with MediaCodecReader - landed (2.1 feat+)
    • MediaCodec integration (pref off) has been done after this was landed.
  • MSE for Firefox OS has been removed from v2.1 after discussion with related people.

• Device Storage (members: Alphan Chen, Eden Chuang)
  • bug 1061117 - Screenshot/take pictures would let device reboot when MTP enabled - r+ (2.1+)

Seceng (ckerschb)

• New CSP backend (compiled code) is on average 15x faster than old one that we removed in Fx 34.

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.)