Platform/2013-12-10

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2013-12-10 - 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time

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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

Stability

Other

The Need To Know

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

Notices/Schedule (akeybl/lsblakk/bajaj)

• Firefox Desktop & Mobile 26.0 released
• ESR 24 released (ESR 17 is officially dead, auto-updates to 24 as of today)
• FF27.0b1 is with QA
• Aurora updates are throttled until FF28 sign off
• Weekly reminder about the 2 week push out, next release (FF27) is on Feb 4th
• Alex and Bhavana are PTO this week & next so until Dec 20th please ping Lukas for any urgent matters related to Desktop/Mobile

Next Merge: July 8, 2024		Next Release: July 9, 2024
Trains
Central: 129	Aurora: 54	Beta: 128	Release: 127

15 bugs (0 bugs last week)	57 bugs (0 bugs last week)
Unresolved Aurora 54 Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta)	Unresolved Beta 128 Trackers (non-security)

Build Changes (gps)

(Build changes of which engineers should be aware.)

Upcoming Infrastructure Outages/Upgrades

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

• The next Tree Closing Window is January 11, 2014. IT will be physically moving tegra units between data centers.

Key Issues

RelEng (catlee)

(Non team specific issues that impact engineering.)

• Migration away from https://github.com/mozilla/mozilla-central. Instead now use https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev, and if needed also https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-projects.
  • See discussions in dev.planning and dev.platform.
  • Cutover date is this coming Friday - 13dec2013.
• Disabling Desktop nightly builds and Windows 7 testing for mozilla-b2g18 and mozilla-b2g18-v1.1.0hd
  • bug 948135
  • NOTE: This is not about mozilla-b2g26
  • These branches are only taking security fixes
  • If you have any concerns please raise it up on dev.b2g
• ESR17 and Thunderbird-ESR17 *has* been killed
  • Disabled builds/tests on tbpl
  • talos-r3-xp - Rev3 minis will be decommissioned
  • Updates to ESR24 will be available
• November Infrastructure load http://oduinn.com/blog/2013/12/03/infrastructure-load-for-november-2013/
• Valgrind builds now happening per-push on most trees (bug 946002)
• Starting to use Amazon spot instances for tests. There is a small chance that jobs get interrupted due to market spot prices increasing. These should be automatically retried - please file a bug if they're not!

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.)

Firefox OS Media Apps (hema)

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• Last Week
  • Fixing blocker bugs
  • Wrapping up 1.3 feature work
• This Week
  • Continue to work on stabilizing 1.3 codebase and fixing any 1.2 blockers

Firefox OS Media Recording (cjku)

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• bug 945614 - [B2G getUserMedia] fake video should not initialize camera
• bug 926746 - HARDWARE_UNAVAILABLE is already thrown while GetUserMedia for audio
• bug 943278 - (gonk-kitkat) kitkat Gonk Support (Android 4.4)

Firefox OS Telephony/WIFI/NFC (kenhkchang)

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• Last week
  • To fix V1.2 issues.
  • RTSP Client, to add seek function.
  • NFC, to add test cases.
  • EAP-SIM, to co-work with partner to fix EAP-SIM problem.
  • LTE, to know what we need to add for LTE.
  • WPA-EAP, to import Cert by WifiManager.
  • WIFI-Direct, to support multi-connection function.
  • Power metering, to obtain system metrics and power profile.
  • Network metering, to implement network metering for system traffic.
• This week
  • To fix V1.3 issues.
  • RTSP Client, to fix seek crash problem.
  • NFC, to add the handover function.
  • LTE, to study partner's requirements.
  • WPA-EAP, to import Cert by WifiManager.
  • WIFI-Direct, to support multi-connection function.
  • Power metering, to implement PowerStats API.
  • Network metering, to obtain network tethering statistics.

Identity (jedp)

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• Firefox Accounts rest api client and signed-in user module (bug 935232, bug 909967) have landed

Layout (jet/dbaron)

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• multi-line CSS flexbox (bug 702508, bug 939901) and flex-flow shorthand (bug 702508) landed

Media (mreavy)

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• WebVTT is enabled. Play this video
• VP9 decoding support has landed in Nightly in bug 833023 in time for Fx 28 uplift
• Work continues for Media Source Extensions
• TURN TCP support for WebRTC landed in Nightly before Fx 28 uplift (bug 906968)
• WebRTC is starting work on OpenH264 (bug 948160)

Shuwmay(mbx)

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• Accomplished last week
• Plan to accomplish this week

WebAPI (overholt)

• No update

Quality Programs

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

MemShrink (njn)

No update.

OrangeFactor (ryanvm)

• Past week's OrangeFactor: 6.57 (Previous Week: 5.77).
• 15 intermittent failures fixed in the last week - List - Thanks!.

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.)