Platform/2013-04-16

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2013-04-16 - 11:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98411
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 98411
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 98411
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • 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 / Warp Core / SFO-Boardroom / Tor Commons
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Actions

• [CARRY OVER] Asa to post a couple of Windows 8 hardware options for dogfooding Firefox Metro
  • Recommended Metro device list
• jst to work with dougt to find an owner for bug 846137
  • bug 846137 has been fixed. Thanks!
• Ryan to speak with glandium about what is needed to update gcc and file the required bugs
  • bug 859966 is filed to track switching over to gcc 4.7.
  • Work is being done on the date project branch. Need bug 857697 fixed before testing can continue.

Notices/Schedule

?? bugs (?? bugs last week)	?? bugs (?? bugs last week)
Unresolved Aurora 54 Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta)	Unresolved Beta 128 Trackers (non-security)

Key Issues

Threads

• Preparing for the next windows PGO build memory exhaustion (glandium)
• Annotating Commits (gps)
• Site permissions UI (dolske)
• [DATE CHANGED] Infrastructure Load Kickoff Meeting - Thursday April 18th, 2013 10:00AM PDT (ted)

Products/Projects

Firefox OS

• B2G work week Madrid

Firefox Desktop

• Masayuki Nakano killed the blink tag (bug 857820)

Firefox Mobile

Usability, Responsiveness, and New Features

• OdinMonkey landed on Nightly, Fx23 for x86 and ARMv7
• Lot's of good changes landed and are in progress for Dynamic Nav Bar mostly for Fx23: http://bit.ly/11jW3Gh
• Gesture support for the new android stock keyboard (and touch pal)bug 859212 was uplifted to Aurora Fx22; follow up fix bug 852633 is in progress
• bug 857413 - ANR: deadlock in IME code when switching to background thread

Stability Wins

(Landed in Fx23)

• bug 843005 - Disable Android SQLite locking in databases for REL 11 and higher
• bug 858960 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at java.util.regex.Matcher.reset(Matcher.java
• bug 858808 - java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.lang.String.getBytes at org.mozilla.gecko.ANRReporter.fillPingHeader(ANRReporter.java) on Froyo

OrangeFactor

• Past week's OrangeFactor: 5.84 (Previous Week: 6.76)
• No progress getting WinXP xpcshell re-enabled. No activity in bug 597064 in over two weeks.
• Non-infra top 10 oranges without owners:
  • (#4) bug 761987 - Return of "the NSS crash".
  • (#6) bug 806046 - Significant spike starting two weeks ago.
  • (#7) bug 861158 - Frequent robocop-2 crash.
• bug 858948 - Ugly Windows leak without an owner.
• 18 intermittent failures fixed in the last week - List - Thanks!.

Critsmash [3rd Tuesday of Month]

• Many teams confirm they have hit their security goals in Q1. Nice!
• We have a lot of possibly stale sec-low and sec-moderate bugs. Please consider a team activity to re-triage and clean up the backlog. Some teams have done this during work weeks with great success.