Platform/2011-12-13

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesdays – 11:00 am Pacific
• Warp Core Vidyo Room
• 650-903-0800 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

OOM Linker Issue on Windows

Summary of where we are:

• Hit Bug 709193 over the weekend.
• After investigating, determined that we were running out of address space in the linker.
• Backed out some recent additions (SPDY and Graphite) to get libxul size down a bit and reopen the tree under restricted rules.
• Removed some code that’s not in the critical path from libxul.

Where we’re going:

• Remove enough code from libxul to tide us over (might be here already, might not).
• Stand up 32 bit compilers on 64 bit operating systems to get another GB of address space.

Notices / Schedule

• Add-ons compatible by default now on in Aurora 10
• Firefox 9 Sign-Offs tomorrow (12/14) at 2:30PM PT in Warp Core
• Firefox 3.6.25 beta going out Wednesday (12/14)
• Firefox 9 beta 6 targeted for release Thursday (12/15)
• Firefox 9 “slow rollout” starting Dec. 20th

Firefox Development

• bug 705597 – Tim Taubert did some great work tracking down and fixing a cause of sessionstore slowness (many about:blank entries resulting in oversized sessionstore.js), has landed on trunk

• Silent update
  • Add-ons are now compatible by default on Aurora. See Help Test Default Compatibility for Add-ons on Aurora
  • Still working on security issues for Removal of OS security dialog for Windows

Firefox Developer Tools

Performance

GFX

JS

Layout

• Graphite Fonts Feature landed but was backed out due to linker issue. Now back in mozilla-inbound.
• Bug 668437 Mouse events for :hover in XUL popups. Requested by Dev Tools.
• Local patch for Bug 668163 Broken overlay on top of Bing maps.

Video

DOM

WebAPI

• Lots of stuff now working for WebTelephony on B2G. Can make phone calls!
  • Uses JS-implementation for DOM-API which has issues. Might switch to C++
  • Radio parts written in JS and runs in a special worker!
• WebSMS for android mostly ready but needs review. Won’t land until after next train.
• Initial Network status API awaiting review
• Battery backend landed for windows

Network

Plugins

Mobile

• birch merge
  • went relatively smoothly
  • development has now moved to mozilla-central
  • nightly users are now getting builds from mozilla-central
• click-to-play plugins landed and bounced, now waiting for m-c to re-open

Accessibility

Tree Management

• Downtime tonight for network equipment maintenance, 2100 PST – 0000 PST. All trees will be closed.

Security

• No reviews currently scheduled this week, but we have open slots
• We have many things marked for review: Review Needed
  • Please check the list, see if your feature is there and contact curtisk to get on the schedule

Stability Report

Socorro

• bug 709166 – issue searching
• bug 708453 Crash Reports not getting submitted on Mac trunk.
  • Broke on 11/22 and we are slowly getting more reports.
• Soccoro : need bug 706803 for separation of Birch/Native – in 2.3.5 (Dec 19)

Desktop

• Triage – still working on top crash list – http://bit.ly/uxTYQY

• Trunk
  • bug 708136 Firefox 11.0a1 Crash [@ mozilla::gl::GLContext::DeleteOffscreenFBO ]
  • bug 709847 Firefox crash @ PR_SetPollableEvent
  • bug 709474 Crash @ mozalloc_abort(char const* const) | NS_DebugBreak_P | ThemeSystemParametersInfoW with abort message: “###!!! ABORT: unable to find a usable font (serif)”
  • bug 708285 Crash in nsMemoryReporterManager::GetExplicit

• Aurora

• Beta
  • bug 708019 Firefox Crash [@ gl::Context::clear(unsigned int) ]
  • bug 709860 Firefox startup crash mozalloc_abort

• Third Party
  • bug 710077
    • Not super high volume but affects anyone playing Farmville

Mobile

• a snap shot taken on 12/12/2011 2:00 PM with a total of 86 open crash bugs based on bugs queried on native-crash across various platform

Top Bugs From Report

• bug 704467 Crash in Java_org_mozilla_gecko_GeckoAppShell_callObserver

Need Bugs looked at

• Need to get bug 701002 pushed through for socorro
• Need to get bug 706704 fixed for metrics
• Soccoro : need bug 706803 for separation of Birch/Native
• bug 702624 – Crash Reporter crashes
• bug 704161 Get symbols for Android Flash

Crash Report

Roundtable