Platform/2014-07-08

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2014-07-08 - 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time

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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.)

Firefox OS Telephony/WIFI/NFC (kenhkchang)

<Read Only>

• bug 1034522 - B2G Emulator: Add console command - sim status .
• bug 1027478 - Modify telephony API from dialEmergency(number, serviceId) to dialEmergency(number)
• bug 1023695 - [B2G][SMS] Introduce sms-deleted event to provide the awareness of change in MobileMessageDB for multiple apps interested in SMS.
• bug 813893 - B2G RIL: support UMTS CBS Message
• bug 1012549 - Support import PKCS#12 in wifi
• bug 979888 - B2G NFC: support UICC-based card-emulation as per Mifare.
• bug 997576 - [NFC] Testcase for reading empty NFC tag.
• bug 979891 - B2G NFC: NFC Daemon shall support HCI Event EVT-TRANSACTION handling.
• bug 1030002 - [B2G][RIL] Use webidl attribute, CheckPermissions, for checking mobileconnection/mobilenetwork permission.
• bug 1022490 - [dolphin][flame][perf] improve the performance of exporting Contacts to USIM card.
• bug 843452 - B2G RIL: use ipdl as IPC in MozMobileConnection.
• bug 1003711 - [RTSP] Build Darwin Streaming Server on B2G emulator
• bug 1032111 - [RTSP] Basic RTSP test case on ICS emulator
• bug 1035074 - [system-message-api] SystemMessageManager makes JS Error: "this._dispatchers is null"
• bug 1017472 - Captive portal notification will not be dismissed after user manually log in
• bug 1010035 - [B2G] add marionette tests for Cdma 3-way calling
• bug 935843 - B2G RIL: Parse EF_IMG from SIM
• bug 824145 - B2G STK: Support for STK icon display
• bug 1029721 - CDMA call waiting call is not logged in call history
• bug 1009393 - [B2G][Emulator] support RIL_REQUEST_CDMA_FLASH
• bug 1013153 - [OPEN C_1.3] APN and mvno type/data
• bug 1032858 - Add support for RIL_REQUEST_GET_CELL_INFO_LIST to expose neighboring cell data
• bug 1030810 - flame v2.0 often fails to enable cell data when leaving wifi with dual-sim

Seceng (grobinson)

• • bug 1027133: Broadened twitter's pinset to cover *.twitter.com
  • bug 1024610, bug 1021419 landed for backend of tracking protection, bug 1029887 to enable frontend changes in review
  • bug 643041: nsIX509Cert2, nsIX509Cert3 are now part of nsIX509Cert. Similarly, nsIX509CertDB2 -> nsIX509Cert. There are no functionality changes, but some addons or patches currently being worked on may require some find/replaces. Also, it's no longer necessary to query interface from (for example) an nsIX509Cert to an nsIX509Cert3 to get the additional functionality that was provided by that interface.

WebAPI (overholt)

• No update this week.

Roundtable

(Comments and questions that arise during the course of the meeting or otherwise do not have a section.)

<Read only beyond this point>

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:

• Juan Gomez (_AtilA_) fixed a b2g graphics crash (bug 1031949).
• Stefan (stefanh) improved OS X theming (bug 1012445).
• [first patch!] Andrew Comminos added smooth scrolling for XInput 2.1 (bug 958868).
• Caio Lima (caiolima) added some IonMonkey instructions (bug 1024609, bug 1031682).
• Michael Shuen improved some SM OOM behaviour (bug 1031920).
• Richard Marti (paenglab) improved some HiDPI icon display (bug 1033570).
• Rishab Arora (spacetime) fixed a Map/Set spec compat problem (bug 1031632).
• Fred Wang (fredw) improved OpenMath support (bug 961365).
• Zack Weinberg (zwol) corrected a cert viewer charset problem (bug 234856).
• Brian Smith (bsmith) fixed a bunch of pkix problems (bug 1019770, bug 1029247, bug 1031952, bug 1032947, bug 1033092, bug 1033103, bug 1033563, bug 1034412, bug 1034632, bug 1034634, bug 1034636, bug 1035008, bug 1035034, bug 1035470).
• Marco Castelluccio (marco) improved the failure behaviour for invalid manifests (bug 1034731).
• Emanuel Hoovegeen (ehoovegeen) improved some GC behaviour (bug 1034225).
• Kestrel improved text selection inside of links (bug 378775).
• Robert Lonson (longsonr) fixed some SVG problems (bug 1024860, bug 1024926, bug 556441).
• Arpad Borsos (Swatinem) added shorthand properties to object literals (bug 875002).
• Rick Eyre (reyre) made subtitles display in WebVTT web platform tests (bug 1018933).
• Sushant Dinesh added an IonMonkey instruction (bug 1028910).
• Ms2ger made a bunch of DOM improvements (bug 1015333, bug 1032116, bug 1032118, bug 1033697, bug 1034204).
• Sankha Narayan Guria (sankha93) added an IonMonkey instruction (bug 1030699).
• [first patch!] philippe made mach use a scratch profile by default (bug 1024471).
• Athena fixed and enabled an event test on OS X (bug 746178).
• Rémi WENG added an IonMonkey instruction (bug 1028698).
• Shashank VRSN Sabniveesu fixed a test failure (bug 1032078).
• qeole fixed a plugin process problem on first run (bug 1011339).
• Anup Kumar cleaned up some old uses of getService (bug 451578).
• Manish Goregaokar (Manishearth) added a spoofable battery module (bug 978857).
• Kai Engert (kaie) updated NSS (bug 1029561).
• Reed Koser (bob_twinkles) reduced the thebes dependencies in plugin processes (bug 965967).

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.)