Platform/2014-10-21

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2014-10-21 - 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98411
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• 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)

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• Past week's OrangeFactor: 4.41 (last week: 4.15).
• No significant changes from prior weeks.
• 27 intermittent failures fixed in the last week - List - Thanks!.

MemShrink (njn)

• Michael Wu fixed a terrible canvas memory usage issue that was making Freeciv unplayable on some Linux machines.

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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• A-Team Q4 Goals finalized, please let jgriffin know if you need something not on this list. Also see our backlog and ongoing tasks in Trello.

Newsgroup and blog posts

• [armenzg] tooltool support for test jobs on mozharness
• [dminor] Please help test autoland!
• [edmorley] Consume TBPL's API? Action needed
• [ahal] How many tests are disabled?

DOM (jst/overholt)

• baku landed WebSocket in Workers (bug 504553)

Electrolysis (e10s) (blassey)

• Please help dogfood e10s in Nightly!
  • To opt-in, open "Preferences" and check the "Enable E10S (multi-process)" checkbox
  • Known issues: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#What_to_Expect
• 26% of Nightly browser sessions are using e10s.
• We plan to enable e10s by default for Nightly users in just a couple weeks, so please test your add-ons and feature areas now to avoid surprises.

GFX (milan)

• 33 problem tracked in bug [1083071]

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.)