Platform/2014-05-06

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2014-05-06 - 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98411
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Need To Know

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

Notices/Schedule (lsblakk/sylvestre)

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.)

• May 17, 2014 - next tree closing window. Nothing definite yes, but we do expect some brief VCS related work.

Quality Programs

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

CritSmash (dbolter)

• Last week: "uptick in sec bugs delta this week. Your attention appreciated."
• This week: still the wrong direction this week. We'll see you in the bugs :)

MemShrink (njn)

• Eric Rahm implemented file descriptor counting for B2G. This can help find file descriptor leaks. Find it in the "System" section of B2G memory reports.

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.)

DOM (jst/overholt)

• Incremental cycle collection enabled by default! (mccr8, in bug 911246)

Electrolysis (e10s) (blassey)

• bug 994969 - Google Maps are no longer black (but now they are upside down: bug 1006198)
• bug 997436 - Added "Open in Non-e10s Window" to context menu on tabs (from new contributor Harry Kaimenas!)
• Coming soon:
  • bug 693555 - Fix inline spell checker
  • bug 949617 - Fix Password manager
  • bug 996785 - Improve addon compat with bidirectional CPOWs

GFX (milan)

• OMTC
  • Stuck on Windows, asked for some help on a timing related issue (bug 1005317)
  • Moving well on basic compositor (with non-graphics team helping). We anticipate the removal of Xrender messing with performance on Linux, but we'll find out what things look like. Not blocking the Windows landing.

• Skia
  • Continuing sifting through the reftest failures.

• APZ
  • Awaiting feedback from UX on the flywheel scrolling
  • Getting closer to the definition for the first pass at overscroll effect

• Quality
  • B2G/E10S debug test shutdown issues are being worked on. It's a bit of a mess.

Media (mreavy)

• bug 881512: MSE/VP9 video plays on YouTube but not ready to pref on yet

Performance (vladan)

• bug 936630: New Talos test measuring time to restore a session
• bug 990804: Adding a generic way to run some small piece of code off the main thread without requiring people to spawn their own threads
• bug 785487: Removed a source of main-thread I/O: Search service was falling back to synchronous initialization when about:home was loaded before the search bar initialization

Seceng (mmc)

• bug 744204: Public Key Pinning (built-in) has landed in nightly (default off). To enable it change the preference "security.cert_pinning.enforcement_level" to 1 (allow MITM) or 2 (strict enforcement). This will enable pinning for addons.mozilla.org and the mozilla cdn.

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.)