Platform/2014-07-01

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2014-07-01 - 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.)

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.

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)

• WebIDL bindings infrastructure now largely done. 2 1/2 years in the making, lots of details to get right in lots of corners. Big shout out to the team who worked on this, including peterv, bz, khuey, bholley, mccr8, and efaust. Also a big shout out to the numerous people who helped convert code from using XPConnect to WebIDL, including dz, Ms2ger, ehsan, baku, bjacob, tbsaunde, and many many more (too many to name here).
• Old XPIDL based event generator is dead (bug 1031051). Everything is migrated to WebIDL.
• ServiceWorkers! Lots abuzz here, a few hackers met to hack on ServiceWorkers in SF last week. See [1] for details.

Seceng (grobinson)

• bug 925004: New C++ CSP backend is now active on nightly. If you use CSP, please file any regression bugs you find on Core/DOM:Security.
• bug 1029781: enabled safebrowsing classification for image loads, may increase phishing/malware coverage and could have performance implications, watch http://people.mozilla.org/~mchew/safebrowsing_dashboard/ to see

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.)