Platform/2014-01-07


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Engineering Meeting Details

  • Tuesday 2014-01-07 - 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)

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


  • FF27.0b4 for Desktop and Mobile have gone to build yesterday and is with QA
?? bugs (?? bugs last week)
?? bugs (?? 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.)

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.)

  • Tree closing window this Saturday 0900 - 1500 PST. bug 951731
    • During this time the tegras will be moved from the Mountain View office into a data center, and will be unavailable until Monday 0900 at the latest. bug 914480
    • Panda testing will be online when TCW ends. (Test servers they use are part of the move.)
  • Tegras will remain offline (and android jobs cancelled) longer, possibly through the weekend. Our goal is no more than 48 hours offline, with a stretch goal of back online before 1600PT Sunday (just as Taipei starts).


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)

  • No update.

Add-on SDK (dtownsend)

App Tools (dtownsend)

B2G Services (dougt)

Developer Tools (robcee)

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NO UPDATE

DOM (jst)

Firefox Desktop (gavin)

Firefox Metro (bbondy/jmathies/mbrubeck)

Firefox Mobile (mfinkle/blassey)

Firefox OS Communications (scravag)

<Read Only>

Only small update today.

  • Comms 1.3? : 23
  • Comms 1.3+ : 37

Firefox OS Devices/Porting (mchen)

<Read Only>

Gonk-KK:

  • bug 943278 - (gonk-kk) kitkat Gonk Support (Android 4.4)
    • Stage 1 (until 2014/01/10):
      • Enable GonkDisplay for KK version.
      • Enable config/build system for building Gonk-kk image but disable modules first.

BT:

Media:

  • bug 904177 - Apply asynchronous model into decoding architecture (using MediaCodec)
  • bug 942078 - Video thumbnail generation rule (discussion via Web-API mail list)
  • bug 932701 - Keep the priority & nice value of threads related to media playback to equal or higher then foreground app (study phase)
  • Bugs: bug 940177, bug 952893

Others:

Firefox OS Media Apps (hema)

Firefox OS Media Recording (cjku)

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  • bug 950567 - [MediaEncoder] phase-in libmkv library
  • bug 920934 - [MediaEncoder] Implement AudioOmxEncoder on B2G
  • bug 951997 - [gUM on B2G] Create content sandbox permission prompt test
  • bug 878577 - [Memory shrink on B2G] Provide a hard limit for decoded image buffer

Firefox OS Performance (mlee)

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No update. Refocusing after Winter break.

Firefox OS Productivity (doliver)

<Read Only>

  • No update this week -- finishing up 1.3 blocking bugs to clear the decks for 1.4 work to begin Jan 20.

Firefox OS Telephony/WIFI/NFC (kenhkchang)

<Read Only>

  • Last week
    • To fix V1.3 bugs.
    • RTSP Client, to fix the crash problem, device is crashed when reconnect.
    • NFC, to discuss the payment architecture with partner.
    • LTE, to study which RIL interfaces we need for LTE.
    • WPA-EAP, to import Cert by WifiManager.
    • WIFI-Direct, to add test cases.
    • Power metering, to sync the webapi between powermetering and network metering.
    • Network metering, to obtain network tethering statistics.
  • This week
    • To fix V1.3 bugs.
    • RTSP Client, to fix the crash problem, device is crashed when connection is via NAT.
    • NFC, to rewrite NFC worker in C++.
    • LTE, to study which RIL interfaces we need for LTE.
    • WPA-EAP, to import Cert by WifiManager.
    • WIFI-Display, to do porting for libstagefright_wfd.
    • Power metering, to get Wi-Fi link speed.
    • Network metering, to obtain network tethering statistics.

Firefox OS Systems - Front End (gwagner)

Firefox OS Systems - Platform (timdream)

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  • 3rd-party keyboard support: Keyboard OOP already enabled on master, another blocker, bug 953044, keeping keyboard from being resumed from OOM have been resolved. Next: stabilization and marionetteJS test bug 947120 wait for reviewing. pref measurement on going bug 950562
  • lock screen: trying to solve the performance issue occurs while unlocking bug 938737, and the bug of incompatible sharing component between normal and incoming call lockscreen bug 956662.
  • Built-in keyboard update & dynamic touch target: no update
  • Cursor management: no update
  • Dual SIM Dual Standby: There are eight DSDS 1.3 blockers. Five of them are gaia bugs. bug 944230. Airplane mode related works : bug 948847, bug 945147, bug 946588 SimManager rename method bug 932729
  • EAP SIM: No updste. follow-up on 1.4: EAP SIM for Dual SIM
  • PEAP, TLS, TTLS WPA-EAP: No update on Gaia part (work has been done since)
  • Format SD Card: halt
  • CDMA: one last blocker bug 909266 to be landed in days
  • NFC: no update
  • Gaia build script: added unit/integration test for build system, added a macro for running build scripts on node.js (meta bug 955988) and working on app manager and gaia-build integration.
  • window management: 1) move attention screen animation to System - Rex had a patch for dialer, I will provide patch for system this week. 2) pop-up window rewrite.
  • System App Modularization: working on a draft plan
  • Gecko Profiler GUI For Task Tracer: WIP, see http://alivedise.github.io/isis/
  • Setting panel isolation: working on int. test coverage first before working on the new app
  • Engineering mode: Helping volunteer complete web activity API test cases to uitest, found sms activity issue in 1.4. Evaluating issues on vendor utilization.
  • Test coverage report: working on getting it on Travis-CI
  • Gaia Audio Channel Service: in discussion

Read more at: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/Team/Taipei/Meetings/2014-01-07

GFX (milan)

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  • GL fence Firefox OS on JB 4.3
  • APZC finishing touches on Firefox OS
  • Firefox OS performance, including Flatfish
  • Getting rid of deprecated textures

Identity (jedp)

Firefox Accounts (FxA) and Sync on Desktop (ckarlof lead)

FxA on FxOS 1.4 (spenrose lead)

Brian Warner to present FxA + Sync at RealWorldCrypto in NY next monday (weather permitting)

  • Run-through of his talk in warner's vidyo, this thursday, 5pm-530pm PST

JS (naveed)

Layout (jet/dbaron)

Media (mreavy)

No updates

Necko (dougt/jduell)

Performance (vladan)

Seceng (mmc)

No updates.

Shumway (mbx)

WebAPI (overholt)

  • console object coming soon to workers (bug 620935) (baku)
  • postMessage to targetOrigin (bug 949488) (baku)
  • work continues on async IDB in workers (bent, baku)
  • firming up rest of Q1 goals

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)

B2G now has system-wide memory reporting. This is intended to supplant top, ps, procrank, and all the other ways of getting OS-level memory measurements. Please file bugs if you have ideas for extra stuff it should measure.

Paul Adenot fixed a terrible web audio memory leak.

OrangeFactor (ryanvm)

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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Friends of the Tree

There were great changes by volunteers in Core and Toolkit during the past week. Thanks to all of these contributors for their passion and hard work! Here are some highlights:

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.)

Mail filters for mentored bugs

irc #planning Log From This Meeting