Platform/2011-07-12

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Notices / Schedule

• Firefox team is at an offsite today
• Source migration happened last Tuesday, all the resulting updates are on the wire
• Next mozilla-central → mozilla-aurora source migration is August 16th
• Goals should be getting locked down

Firefox Development

As mentioned above, Firefox team is offsite this week. Some of the things discussed include:

• Updated feature pages (courtesy of deb)
• Adding telemetry to front end code (etherpad)
• Compiling a consolidated set of effective code review practices

We’ll try to vidyo in, but are likely to stay muted

GFX

JS

• We’re trying an experiment of just using mozilla-inbound for landings (the benefits: daily regression resolution, rather than weekly; no need for someone to spend time merging). So for the next two weeks, everything JS is landing in mozilla-inbound, and the TraceMonkey repository is temporarily abandoned. When the two weeks are up we’ll decide whether to return to TM or just use mozilla-inbound.

Layout

Plugins

DOM

Network

Accessibility

• e10s a11y plan posted to dev-planning list

Multi-Process

• Electrolysis/Short_Terms_Goals
• DevTools/e10s

Tree Management

• Production pool of Windows 64-bit; 5 machines now live this week
  • tracking bug — bug support-win64
  • current bugs that require devs’ attention:
    • (TODO file bug) – make buildsymbols takes 45 mins rather than 5 mins
    • bug 669384 – make buildsymbols fails for leak test builds
    • bug 670915 – make package fails for leak test builds
    • bug 670697 – sporadic make check failures
• More tegras coming; 40 in boxes here; 160 still being created
  • any help fixing tests would be great list here
• downtime tonight: faster connection between colos == faster builds
• The Build Faster meetings will be happening every other week
  • We had a great turnaround and went over a lot of bugs to prioritize
  • Join us at the next meeting and feel free to contribute!
  • Tonight’s downtime will improve downloading binaries to the test machines

Stability Report

• Crash rate on trunk is pretty high – 4.39 crashes per 100 ADU
  • Mostly due to crash @nsFrame::ExpandSelectionByMouseMove(nsFrameSelection*, nsIPresShell*, nsMouseEvent*, nsEventStatus*) – bug 670058
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670756
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670175 (Fixed by backout –
  • there were several regressions from the Mac jemalloc landing – see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414946)

• New signature appearing on 5.0.1 – mozilla::Monitor::Monitor(char const*).
  • https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/chofmann/20110711/top-5.0.1.html

• Bill McCloskey trying to tackle a set of GC related crashes. Instrumentation patch landed on the trunk last week.
  • Bug 662646 and Bug 670702

• Meeting with Adobe at the end of July. Working with Josh to compile a list of top crashes, issues, Flash versions – Flash related hangs seem to be the most problematic.

Roundtable

• Gecko SDK builds – move to main tinderbox? (http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tree-management/browse_thread/thread/bc01262044a6d774#)

• new security hotness https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Radar