Platform/2013-06-11

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Engineering Meeting Details

  • Tuesday 2013-06-11 - 11:00 am Pacific
  • Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98411
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    • 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

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Hot Bugs

(Important bugs for which we need to find owners or additional help. If known, please include suggested team or knowledge needed to advance the bug.)

Orange Factor
  • bug 861700 (Intermittent browser_705597.js,browser_707862.js | uncaught exception - [object Event] at undefined:undefined) is #1 top orange and unowned.
    • Affects OSX and Windows.
    • Possible regression from bug 845681.
Stability
Other

The Need To Know

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

Notices/Schedule (akeybl/lsblakk/bajaj)

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

Upcoming Outages/Upgrades

(System outages/upgrades and tree closures that impact engineering.)

Key Issues

(Non team specific issues that impact engineering.)

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.)

Accessibility (dbolter)

Add-on SDK (dtownsend)

B2G Simulator (dtownsend)

B2G Services (dougt)

Developer Tools (dcamp)

  • Meeting Notes
  • Discussing the separation of REPL and Logging in the web console here.
  • Black-boxing sources in the debugger: discussion, bug 877682
  • Remote inspector/b2g content processes progressing

DOM (jst/dougt)

Firefox Desktop (gavin/dolske)

Firefox Metro (bbondy/jmathies/mbrubeck)

Firefox Mobile (mfinkle/blassey)

Firefox OS (sicking)

GFX (milan)

  • New GFX intern, Guillaume Abade started last week
  • Rendering biweekly meeting alternating between 2:30pm PST and 5:30pm PST to allow easier Taipei participation
  • A number of (unrelated?) regressions in Nvidia's 3D Vision, H.264, images, Silverlight
  • Key items in progress:
    • SkiaGL
    • Moz2D core graphics (Azure Quartz)
    • OMT image animation
    • APZC
  • Will have some participation in the upcoming Desktop work week

Identity (jedp)

  • Last Week:
    • Fri-Sun work weekend in Portland (Austin, Jed, Crystal)
  • Main efforts this Week:
    • Persona in RTC peer connection auth (Ryan at RTC work week, Jed)
    • Sign-in-to-web in desktop browser, esp. UI issues (Austin)
    • Persona sign-in UX for b2g FTE (Jed, Crystal, et al.)

JS (naveed)

Established Benjamin's Weekly Status site for JavaScript Engine work in progress. Feel free to follow along.

  • Compiler (JIT)
    • bug 859609: Enable inlining of heavyweight functions as well as anonymous lambda clones
  • Garbage Collection
    • bug 861925: Handle ArrayBuffers that are both shared and Transferable
    • Added B2G-specific analysis to catch rooting hazards in code not compiled for the desktop browser
  • Front End and Other
    • Compartment isolation for off thread JS parsing, object serialization/deserialization.

Layout (jet/dbaron)

Media (mreavy/kentuckyfriedtakahe)

  • Video with HE-AAC audio is now working on Windows 7/8.
  • First implementation of WebRTC on Desktop is going out in Firefox 22
  • WebRTC is at a work week this week in Sunnyvale (just down the road from the MV office). Details are here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Media/WebRTC/WebRTC_workweek_20130610
  • During the work week, we plan to update the core WebRTC libraries on Nightly to the latest stable branch. The bug to follow for this is Bug 880879. If you notice any regressions after the update, please let Randell (jesup on irc) know.
  • Web Audio has been landing in Firefox. For the latest status on Web Audio, follow the tracking bug: Bug 779297 and check out: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAudio_API_Rollout_Status.
    • NOTE: We have a new bugzilla component: "Web Audio" under Core. Please file new Web Audio bugs there.

Necko (dougt/jduell)

Performance (vladan)

  • Mark Reid has joined the Perf team. He will be working on the Telemetry backend reboot
  • bug 867757, bug 867762: Extending Gecko Profiler to support arbitrary annotations
  • bug 881578, bug 881575, bug 879957: A few small improvements to reduce startup I/O
  • Starting Android startup investigation
  • bug 872421, bug 880664: Landed a module loader for chrome workers
  • bug 853388: Working on converting Addon Manager storage from SQLite to JSON, and moving its I/O off the main thread
  • bug 813742: Parallelizing the reftest and crashtest suites
  • bug 748598?: Dhaval will be working on storing Firefox caches in volatile (purgeable) memory on Android & B2G

WebAPI (overholt)

Last week:

  • Implemented promises (as "future"; will rename) (bug 856410)
    • still need to figure out how to land due to spec churn
  • Implemented SharedWorkers (bug 643325) (awaiting review)
  • Regular spec work (SysApps, Promises, Fetch)
  • Got a lot closer to final patch for temporary storage (IDB first)

This week:

  • Get temporary storage patch(es) up for review
  • Promise followups
  • SharedWorkers followups
  • W3C AC meeting in Tokyo

Homework:

  • "What are the most important problems for the web?"

Quality Programs

(An opportunity to hear about status with the various quality programs that do not have a formal team structure.)

Critsmash (dbolter)

Memshrink (njn)

OrangeFactor (ryanvm)

  • Past week's OrangeFactor: 4.1 (Previous Week: 5.90).
  • 17 intermittent failures fixed in the last week - List - Thanks!.

Stability (kairo/bsmedberg)

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.)

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