Platform/2011-09-27
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Goals
- Platform/2011-Q3-Goals
- Please update status
- Platform/2011-Q4-Goals
- Please consider “mobile first”, “how will we use telemetry”, and
Notices / Schedule
- We released Firefox 7!
- We did the source migration!
- Nightly users have fun with your version sniffing bugs…
- Check the announcements for the particular changeset aurora9 is based on
- We have a new release manager! Say hi to Alex Keybl, based in MV
Firefox Development
- Dao has fixed one of the more annoying copy/paste issues with the URL bar protocol-stripping behaviour (URLs selected from the awesomebar should not have the prefix added correctly) (bug 668019)
- (not really firefox front-end, but…) Gian-Carlo Pascutto is making very good progress on switching the safebrowsing store from SQLite to a flat file, to make it more suitable for mobile devices (bug 673470)
Firefox Developer Tools
Performance
GFX
- The graphics team is planning on having a BugKill day, in which we endeavour to scrub our enormous bug list down to a significantly smaller set that people can keep in their heads.
- If people are interested in scrubbing our old bugs, please contact Joe Drew so you can be included in the divvying-up of bugs.
- We think it’s likely to take the whole day, so don’t plan on getting a lot of other work done on that day if you’re involved.
- We also don’t think we’ll finish on this one day, but it’s an experiment to see if it’s useful, helpful and possible.
- More details to come, but we know the Graphics BugKill day will be on Friday, October 4, 2011.
JS
Layout
Video
DOM
WebAPI
- WebSMS API fully implemented (still needs tests and cleanup)
- WebTelephony radio part is coming along for B2G
- Files-in-IndexedDB, lots of progress on initial patch, but not done yet
- Initial battery API drafted and implemented
- Camera landed preffed off on mobile. Implementation issue keeping it preffed off
- Fabrice will be doing camera on desktop once the mobile part is done
- The plan is for all of the above to land on m-c.
- Possible exception is WebTelephony, but we’ll likely want to land and disable that in order to keep it running and tested.
Network
Plugins
Mobile
Automation
- bug 688762 – fix return codes for remote harnesses, this should reduce hanging tegras
- bug 687974 – adb support for talos
- bug 688604 – make talos-remote, coming soon!
Mobile Perf Program
- Can Joel or Clint talk to: bug 685632 – Please collect RSS (memory) data during Talos testing on Android
- Also digging into helping Joel prioritize & drive which automated tests need to be fixed and helping with getting the hw lab scalable.
- The focus this week is to create a perf metrics matrix so we can obtain baseline measurements. This is a grassroots effort so that we can create a snapshot of the areas we need to focus on optimizing on mozilla-central in time for the mobile work week. We are focusing on “Macro” or observed measurements and will likely use a 7D/HDMI camera to capture screens
- Still need to land on what the spectrum of reference HW; targeting by the end of the week
- A draft of the matrix which will be ready for circulation tomorrow (wed).
Android Native UI
- DougT’s blog post summarizes.
Mobile Testing Ramp-up
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Testing
meetings Wednesdays at 10:30PST
Accessibility
Multi-Process
Tree Management
- 80 New 10.6 test machines (“rev4 mac minis”) incoming in the next few weeks. This is a larger pool than before and faster hardware, so they’ll turn around results faster.
- Old 10.6 test machines will be recycled as linux and windows test machines, which should help throughput for those platforms too.
- PGO being turned off for on-change builds. bug 658313
- Nightlies will still be PGO
- PGO builds will be run every 4 hours
- It will be possible to request PGO on Try
- Tinderbox mail has been shut off completely for almost everything. (Remains on for things that aren’t visible on TBPL: Spidermonkey, Valgrind, Nanojit)
Security
Security Reviews Scheduled for this week
Date / Time | Item |
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Mon Sep 26 / 13:00 PST | Stub Installer
How we should implement the verification that the stub installer has downloaded the correct file for installing Firefox |
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Wed Sep 28 / 13:00 PST | Embedded Add-On Preferences |
Thur Sep 29 / 10:00 AM PST | Code Editor |
- Work ongoing for Firefox Share (formerly F1) https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Reviews/OWA-F1
- Beginning discussions for WebRTC (Oct-10)
Stability Report
- Notes from yesterday’s crashkill meeting – https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/2011-09-26.
Socorro
- Release deployed today
- Has a skip list for mobile that will help get us more meaningful signatures.
Desktop
- FF7 out today so too early for meaningful data.
- Problem with ADUs on Trunk and Aurora showing up as 0 – seems to be fixed. bug 688587
- All channels look relatively stable.
- Most of the issues we are tracking relate to external problems
- bug 684748 – Comcast issue. White Sky deployed a fix last week and crashes are decreasing as people get the update.
- bug 665775 – DataMgr.dll – Marcia working on checking the list of versions that need to be blocked.
- bug 688637 – Mcafee script scan – monitoring volume.
- bug 688895 – Babylon toolbar – monitoring volume.
- bug 688895 – crash nsRuleNode::Sweep
- bug 687991 – mail.alice.it. Not getting reports due to problem with the crash reporter – this was fixed. Verified it’s fixed on the mac side on 09/23/11. Need to verify on the windows side.
- Haven’t seen any issues yet related to the Flash release last week but marcia keeping an eye out for plugin crashes.
Mobile
- Naoki’s detailed report – https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/crash_rep_26Sept2011
- Crash reporter issues
- bug 688692 , bug 686492 and bug 686800
- bug 686973 – crash happening in Java layer so we don’t get meaningful signatures – around 15% of crashes.
- bug 689234 – Mobile is not reporting the graphics data in the app notes field. Probably not working because on the desktop we are only reporting this for Windows and not other platforms.
- Top problems we are tracking.
- bug 687367 – We worked around this but are now seeing it in the wild. Need to make sure that Andreas knows that this is pretty urgent for Michael to work on.
- bug 663494 – JP will ask Brad Lassey and his team to look at this bug.
- bug 677548 – crash [@ nsBuiltinDecoderStateMachine::AdvanceFrame ][@ libc.so@0x15dd8]
- bug 661158 – Crash on mobile SMP devices while sending PRNetAddr over IPDL [@ Pickle::ReadBytes]
- Triage for crash bugs to clean up the list, particularly reproducible crashes.
Roundtable
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