Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

Actions

• Jet to give Shumway update next week, see about scheduling regular update for this project

Notices/Schedule

• FF19 released today! New hotness is the PDF viewer on desktop and lower system requirements, theme support, and Chinese l10n support on mobile. See the release notes.
• Merge is underway today. After the merge, m-c=FF22, m-a=FF21, m-b=FF20
• FF20b1 go to build will be sent at EOD today (if you know of any blockers, let lsblakk know)
• FF21.0a2 and FF20b1 will be released before the end of the week

Key Issues

• Integrating documentation into the dev process (Sheppy)
  • For context https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mozilla.dev.planning/Md6_CaOcABI
  • Short explanation of the situation and issues at hand, some ideas that have been suggested, then discussion of ideas to help improve the situation. Hoping to get great dev input!
• Shumway update (Jet)
  • http://mozilla.github.com/shumway/

Products/Projects

Firefox Desktop

• Plug-in crash UI changes: we now record plugin URLs, and allow entering comments (bug 648675)
• Background tab thumbnailing service: work is going on in bug 841495
• Weekly bug triage: fx-team is organizing a weekly triage of old bugs across the Firefox component, some details at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/firefox-triage
• Desktop unittests migrating to MozHarness, as soon as train-merge work is completed. bug 793022
  • easier to setup *new* test suites
  • *much* easier to run test suites locally
  • FAQ: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mozharness-faq

Firefox Mobile

Blog Shout Out

• Fx Android talk in London: http://lucasr.org/2013/02/15/firefox-for-android-talk-in-london/

Memory, Responsiveness, and Usability

• We’re getting closer to using AsyncPanZoomController for fennec’s panning and zooming controller bug 839641
• The highly anticipated scrolling of the nav bar off the top of the screen has been green-lighted by UX and patch is under review bug 716403
• Also being reviewed is a fix for bug 822810 – Unexpected painting behaviour with low-res tiling code
• We are now shipping zh-cn and zh-tw as of Fx19, the fix for the HK locale is included bug 839883 – Don’t match zh-* based on just language

Great progress on

• Push notifications for Android bug 834033
• ANR Reporter: bug 826053 Detect and report, bug 834086 metrics server scripts, and bug 833991sec review

Stability Wins

• bug 836924 – java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.Tabs.getContentResolver(Tabs.java:212)

Other Cool Dev Stuff

• Landed to help with IME debugging, bug 838177 – Add more debugging output to GeckoEditable and GeckoInputConnection

Stability Report [Weekly]

• Thanks to roc for his investigation and wallpaper in bug 839270 – unfortunately the real causes still eludes us. roc might need the support of a developer with access to a crashing machine, esp. if he can’t do good remote debugging.

Critsmash [3rd Tuesday of Month]

• Engineers are incessantly smashing critical bugs. Our mid quarter checkup looks good but we have to keep momentum.
• Please consider a fresh triage of all your team’s security bugs (Front-end and DOM teams have done this).
• Most development teams now have explicit security goals: Platform/2013-Q1-Goals (thank you!)
• ASAN builds! (ongoing progress can be seen on out Security Commitments meta bug).
  • A big thank you to collaboration from release team including: John, Chris, Ben, Sec team including: Christian, Dan, Al, engineering team including: steve fink, A-Team’ s Ed Morely, and so on.

Roundtable

• WebRTC (PeerConnections) are now enabled by default on Desktop(!) (In today’s nightly)
  • We’re likely to (re)enable a bunch of assertions, especially thread-safety ones, in opt builds for at least the next few months.
  • If some funky hardware doesn’t work with it, report it!
  • Lots of interest from major players. Time for web developers to start trying it
  • Lots of work/improvements still to do (including beyond initial release to production)
  • Note that mozGetUserMedia() (camera/mic access) is moving into Beta 20 now (preffed on)
• 2nd reminder that this meeting moves to the Engineering (8411) Vidyo room as of Mar 5 (lmandel)