Platform/2014-09-30

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2014-09-30 - 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
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• 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.)

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)

<Read Only>

• Blog and newsgroup posts

• • [armenzg] Making mozharness easier to hack on and try support
  • [wlach] Using flexbox in web applications

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
• Many e10s bugs fixed this week. Some highlights:
  • bug 942707 - Fixed pdf.js
  • bug 973001 - Fixed gUM permission UI
  • bug 1030420 - Enabled dom.compartment_per_addon even when e10s is disabled (so watch for addon breakage!)
  • bug 1071875 and bug 1071876 - Added support for e10s Talos coming to TBPL and Treeherder
  • bug 1042710 - Fixed Adblock Plus missing some ads

Performance (vladan)

No update this week

Roundtable

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

<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.)