Platform/2011-09-20

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Notices / Schedule

(Christian’s not on the call as he is tracking down loose ends…read on below)

• Firefox 7 ships in 1 week
• We might build today one last time for Firefox 7 (on Beta). Still checking on some outstanding issues
  • If you find any issues that need to be fixed before ship, please email release-drivers TODAY
• We created a build of Firefox 3.6.23 early today
  • Firefox 3.6.23 is at risk to ship at the same time as Firefox 7 due to blowing through code freeze

Firefox Development

Firefox Developer Tools

• Orion Discussion

Performance

GFX

JS

Layout

• Meet the new manager for the layout team: Jethro Villegas!

Video

• Fullscreen API has landed, preffed off for now while dependent bugs are resolved
  • Set full-screen-api.enabled pref to true; in your app, call HTMLElement.mozRequestFullScreen().

DOM

WebAPI

• Good progress on SMS and Telephony
• Camera is the big item still not moving. Doing well on mobile, but need action on desktop. Action on Jonas to get it moving.
• Will work with W3C on battery and network connectivity specs.

Network

Plugins

Mobile

• started on the faststart project.
  • should be posting builds end of the week
  • git@github.com:snorp/mozilla-central.git
• crashes
  • if you crash, please look at about:crashes. resubmit may be required.
• Flash supported landed on android
  • pre-honeycomb only
  • frontend worked needed. (mfinkle is working on it)

Accessibility

Multi-Process

Tree Management

• IT fixed a problem with the hg.mozilla.org Varnish cache last night. 502 Gateway Errors should now be resolved. bug 687633
• Downtime scheduled for tomorrow at 6am. Will be put off if 7.0 final build interferes.
  • Updates to Talos, pageloader, and Flash plugin will be happening. We will be rebasing some Talos tests in the downtime window.
  • A couple non-developer visible changes landing too. See newsgroup post for details

Security

Security Reviews Scheduled for this week

Calendar and Meeting details

Stability Report

• Crashkill meeting notes – https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/2011-09-20

Desktop

• A bunch of catchup to do from last week.
• top issues
  • Datamgr dll versions – need to figure out what we should block, get agreement and get it done.
  • Mac crash with out of process plugins and get “no report available” – Bug 687899
  • Bug 684748 – crash when Comcast Constant Guard installed. Very high volume last week 80K per week. We are telling users to uninstall and that works. White Sky says a fix is coming soon – need outreach help.
• Trunk
  • Crash rate pretty good.
  • Build on the 17th that introduced a bunch of new crashes. We backed out some stuff and it seems to have resolved the issues. We have some residual crashes still in old builds.
  • Type inference crashes – Still 8 open bugs – nice to get many of these fixed even if low volume.
• Aurora & Beta
  • FF7b6 – volume still low – 12K users so not much data yet.
  • Bug 687001 – @ JSLinearString::mark – only with Aurora and FF7. There is a windows version of this crash Bug 686441. Seems to be related to Better Facebook extension.
  • Bug 620122 – crash [@ nsContentList::PopulateSelf(unsigned int)]. Old crash rising on Beta but we don’t know why yet.

Mobile

• Naoki still working on detailed mobile stability report
• Skip list for mobile should be done this week. Bug 683385
• Crash symbol sender – Bug 664510. People need to install the add-on to Fennec to get the symbols. Naoki is evangelizing this on the lists. If you have a reproducible crash and we are not getting symbols for it, please install this.
• Hearing reports that the crash reporter is not submitting crashes. Bug 686492 and Bug 686800. Is you are using Fennec and crash, please check about:crashes and make sure the report has been submitted.
• bug 661158 – 13% of mobile crashes on 8.0 and needs an owner.

Roundtable