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15-August-2012

Mobile Meeting Minutes: 2012-08-15

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Mobile/Notes/15-Aug-2012

Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 95312
    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 95312
    • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312
    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 95312
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Warp Core Vidyo Room

Schedule

Major Topics for This Week

Stand ups

Suggested format:

  • What did you do last week?
  • What are working on this week?
  • Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 2 minutes!

James W. (snorp)

Kats

GBrown

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

Chris Peterson

GCP

Brian N

Sriram

WesJ

LucasR

MBrubeck

Margaret

Scott (jwir3)

Arkady

MComella

BLassey

MFinkle

Madhava

Ian Barlow

GFX

Round Table

QA

Socorro/Breakpad/Stability

Hightlights:

  • Recap : bug 781249 – Allow breakpad to report to Soccoro to send ANR reports as a hang
  • created bug 782343 – Custom Crash Reporting based on categories of Arm v6 / Arm v7 and Android API level
  • nhirata still on b2g more so.
  • nhirata out on vacation from today on until tuesday.

Socorro bugs

Skiplist

Breakpad Integration bugs

Please see Platform Meeting Notes for Stability report

SUMO

  • Last week: ramping up Tyler Downer (welcome!) on assessing the google play reviews, following is his report for the week.
  • This week: starting on v15 documentation updates, scope is complete, just need to make the updates.
  • Next week: trying to get someone else to help with answering user questions and updating docs

This is the summary of the Google Play, Input and SUMO Feedback for Firefox for Mobile 14.0.1 for the Week of August 13th, 2012.

Google Play Reviews:

Firefox Ratings on Google Play:

5 star 41,523 (+1,059, 65% of Growth)

4 star 16,443 (+225, 14% of Growth)

3 star 11,809 (+125, 8% of Growth)

2 star 8,115 (+84, 5% of Growth )

1 star 12,588 (+132, 8% of Growth)

Average rating: 3.7

90,478 Total Reviews (+1625)

Trending Topics/Issues in Rating Comments (August 7th to August 13th):

  • Crashing(HTC Desire HD [2], HTC Sensation 4G, Droid X2, Droid 2, Samsung Galaxy S)
  • Copy and Paste / Text Selection
  • General Slowness
  • Home Screen
  • Won’t Connect

Good Points:

  • Many more reviews from users who initially Rated Firefox low, but then came back and liked the newer version
  • Many reports this week of how fast Firefox is in the new version. The Slowness issue is very vague, am keeping an eye on it to try to notice any trends.

Input:

25 Sad faces on Input in the Past Week (http://input.mozilla.org/en-US/?q=&product=mobile&version=–&date_start=2012-08-06&date_end=&sentiment=sad)
No common themes this week.

SUMO:

This is the summary of the Google Play, Input and SUMO Feedback for Firefox Beta for Mobile 15 for the Week of August 14th, 2012.

Google Play Reviews:

Firefox Beta Ratings on Google Play:

5 star 6,971 (+334, 55% of Growth)

4 star 3,091 (+129, 21% of Growth)

3 star 1,621 (+60, 10% of Growth)

2 star 836 (+34, 6% of Growth)

1 star 1447 (+50, 8% of Growth)

Average rating: 3.95 (Google rounds this to 4.0!!! YAY) (+.05 from last week)

This Week’s worth of Reviews Average Rating: 4.1

13,966 Total Reviews (+607)

Trending Topics/Issues in Rating Comments (August 8th to August 14th)

  • Crashing (Galaxy Tab 10.1 [multiple reports, something we should pursue?])
  • Freezing (Asus Infinity, Nexus 7, Galaxy S3)
  • Evangelism (Google Voice)

Good Points:

Many Users very happy with the Beta, few reports of speed or performance problems.

Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Notes/15-Aug-2012“

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Minutes: 2012-08-15

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Firefox/Planning/2012-08-15

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Planning Meeting Details

  • Wednesdays – 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
  • Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
  • Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
  • irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
  • (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details – NEW

  • 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99696 (US/INTL)
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
  • Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
  • Vidyo Guest URL
REMEMBER

These notes are read by people who weren’t able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.

Contents

Actions from Last Week

  • blassey to schedule l10n meeting for mobile
  • sam m to plug our privacy policy in store
  • catlee to come back on highdpi testing q
    • no changes required at this point; doesn’t block landing of highdpi support

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

  • FF15 beta 5 is underway (Desktop & Mobile)

Basecamp

Firefox Desktop

Release (14, 10esr)

Beta (15)

Aurora (16)

Nightly (17)

  • Bug 753448 – [New Tab Page] preload newtab pages in the background and swap them in when opening a new tab
  • Bug 719320 – Implement DOM3 wheel event
  • Bug 574229 – [Mac] Choosing “New Window” from Firefox’s dock menu does not open the new window in the active Space
  • Bug 764213 – Implement provisional Desktop UI for website sign-in with Persona

Firefox Mobile

Release (14)

Beta (15)

Aurora (16)

Nightly (17)

Services

Firefox Sync

Apps In the Cloud Server

Add-on SDK

Release (1.9 -> Firefox 14, 15)

Stabilization (1.10 -> Firefox 15, 16)

Development (1.11 -> Firefox 16, 17)

Development priorities:

  • need a hotfix to match weakmap changes in nightly
  • landing SDK modules in m-c
  • working with UX on navigation bar add-on integration
  • pleased to note that Firefox on Metro will support the SDK ( eventually )

Work week coming up in August in London UK, as well as lots of Add-on activity at Mozcamp EU.

Identity

Apps

Developer Experience

(no audible… just adding notes to the wiki)

  • Work is afoot to build a library of UI components that web developers can use to get going quickly on B2G apps (talk to Daniel Buchner if you need details on this)
  • Last week, Kevin Dangoor posted a screencast and article about remote debugging in Firefox which is coming in Firefox 15. A blog post about the new command line in Firefox 16 is in the works.
  • Plans are coming together for a “DevHub” that will provide a good starting point for documentation and other resources for B2G/Apps developers. The documentation itself will live on MDN, but the index pages are planned for Marketplace.

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Flash continues to be one of our most prominent issues. What are the implications of the new version of Flash? Is it better worse than 11.2 or 10.3 from a crashing standpoint. What sort of efforts are we working on around messaging?

Mobile

Trending Topics/Issues in v14 English Rating Comments (August 7th to August 13th):

  • Crashing(HTC Desire HD [2], HTC Sensation 4G, Droid X2, Droid 2, Samsung Galaxy S)
  • Copy and Paste / Text Selection
  • General Slowness
  • Home Screen (can’t set it)
  • Won’t Connect

Good Points:

  • Many more reviews from users who initially Rated Firefox low, but then came back and liked the newer version
  • Many reports this week of how fast Firefox is in the new version. The Slowness issue is very vague, am keeping an eye on it to try to notice any trends.

Input:

25 Sad faces on Input in the Past Week (http://input.mozilla.org/en-US/?q=&product=mobile&version=–&date_start=2012-08-06&date_end=&sentiment=sad)
No common themes this week.

SUMO:

Trending Topics/Issues in v15 English Rating Comments (August 7th to August 13th):

Average rating: 4.0 (up another 10th of a point)

This Week’s worth of Reviews Average Rating: 4.1

13,966 Total Reviews (+607)

Trending Topics/Issues in Rating Comments (August 8th to August 14th)

  • Crashing (Galaxy Tab 10.1 [multiple reports, something we should pursue?])
  • Freezing (Asus Infinity, Nexus 7, Galaxy S3)
  • Evangelism (Google Voice)

Good Points:

Many Users very happy with the Beta, few reports of speed or performance problems.

UX & User Research

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Adobe

Amazon

Google

  • Google posted a review of their progress with Flash in Chrome. It is now fully encased in strong sandbox, using the Pepper API and offers stronger support of GPU-powered rendering and scrolling. By “eliminating the complexity and legacy code associated with NPAPI, we’ve reduced Flash crashes by 20%”. Available on Windows XP and up as well as Linux, Pepper API-powered Flash for Mac OS X is coming soon.
  • Chrome’s apps platform has received the enhancements that were announced last month. Developers can build apps that “break out of the browser, work offline by default, and enable richer, more immersive experiences.”
  • Google has significantly increased the bounties paid for reported security vulnerabilities.
  • Google was also required to pay a $22.5m fine for tracking users of Apple’s Safari browser.

Microsoft

  • Microsoft released a security update for MSIE that addresses four important vulnerabilities.

Opera

  • Opera has, in 12.02, disabled out-of-process plugins (like Adobe Flash), because of stability problems.
  • In the upcoming Opera 12.50 release, Opera will remove CSS prefixes for CSS gradients as well as previously-announced transitions, animations, and transforms. They have also said they will support the -webkit-prefixed syntax for linear-gradient. Opera will then support 14 -webkit-prefixed CSS properties.

Security

  • PC World published an interesting article about Firefox’s proposed click-to-play feature for plugins, including some expert interviews that talk about the pros and cons of the feature.

WebOS

  • HP has spun out the WebOS business unit into a new cloud-and-user-experience company called Gram.

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox. No audible today, just the written version.

  • Trial between Samsung and Apple reveals more history of smartphone evolution, competitive analysis documents and user adoption motivations
  • Nokia survey shows that a device with a QWERTY keyboard is important in any platform portfolio
  • Q2 results show Android and iOS on the rise, Blackberry and Symbian in decline
  • Rumours point to a new, 10-inch version of the Kindle Fire to be released in the fall
  • Opera opened offices in SiliconValley

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Marketing

  • Mobile
    • New Privacy Policy Field in Google Play store
      • Appears as a link on the app description page, can link to our privacy policy
      • Following up with privacy team
    • Facebook and Twitter Mobile Ads buy has continued. Results seem promising.
    • Work continues on upcoming campaigns. More details to come.

Press

[Mark is in a comms work week today]
We’re finalizing materials and blog posts for 8/28 release cycle. If you have any specific questions, feel free to reach out to me: mlavine@mozilla.com.

Developers’ priorities laid bare in Mozilla survey

Mozilla adds old Java plugins to blocklist

Mozilla Firefox Translated to Maya language

Questions, Comments, FYI

  • [Michael Verdi] Any update on when the stub installer will go live?
  • Bhavana!

Actions this week

  • Sam M to confirm whether we are using the Android Market’s new privacy policy field
  • Blassey to confirm that we have a locked in plan of record for other localizations
  • Matt and Benjamin to chase down details about how broad the latest adobe chemspill is (i.e. should we change our SUMO advice around 11.2, 10.3?)
Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Planning/2012-08-15“

14-August-2012

Thunderbird Meeting Minutes: 2012-08-14

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2012-08-14

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

Remember to use headphones and mute yourself when not talking

Feel free to ask questions in the meeting either by speaking up or by asking them in #maildev on IRC.

Other ways to get in touch with us can be found on our communications page

Agenda

  • Who’s taking minutes? –> Ludovic
  • Minute taking Schedule. Talk to Standard8 for schedule changes/additions.
  • Note: this meeting is for interactive discussion. Feel free to ask questions!

Action Items

Friends of the Tree

Thanks to our Friend of the Tree. When adding someone to this section, please get their T-Shirt size, phone number (needed for shipping!) and send it to abourcier@mozilla.com that she can send them a shirt!

Thunderbird Development

Feature Work

Test Pilot
Filelink (Big Files)
  • Doing final iterations of Box.com patch – hopefully landing very soon. See bug 767327
Instant Messaging
  • The last set of bugs for TB 15 are being fixed this week. Check out our progress here.
  • run beta this week and try IM so we can catch issues early.

Google Summer of Code Projects

App Tabs for Thunderbird
Improving GMail Integration
Get ISPDB into Production
‘No reply’ reminder for Thunderbird

Schedule and Progress

Beta Version
ESR

Extension of the week

None

QA Updates

Nothing to report

Marketing Updates

Nothing to report

Build / Release Update

  • Thunderbird 15.0b3 released last week
  • Thunderbird 15.0b4 on deck this week

Web Update

Nothing to report

Documentation

Nothing to report

Support

(If you support Thunderbird or write or translate documentation to help support Thunderbird, please subscribe to the tb-support-crew mailing list and briefly introduce yourself to the list)

  1. Support contributors:If you have any more TB14 support issues, please TB14 support issues wiki page
  2. trying to find steps to reproduce one variant, bug 762169 of the tb14compact issues: looks like this one has something to do with POP accounts and local folders
  3. Thanks for community driven TB support Feedback so far. If you have more thoughts about the future of Thunderbird support, please add them to the tb-support etherpad
  4. 1148 new support topics (1163 three weeks ago ) – Media:06-12august-2012-thunderbird-getsatisfaction-part1of2.png ; Media:06-12august-2012-thunderbird-getsatisfaction-part2of2.png
  5. See this week’s Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Lightning Updates

Status Updates

See the Mozilla Status Board for status updates specific to developers.

Roundtable Highlights

  • Featured extension list very static. We should make it more dynamic, with someone editing it once in a while. We should have group of people to make that more dynamic. Discussion in tb-planning.

Attendees

Usul, Axel, standard8, mconley, bwinton,irving,jcranmer,rtanglao,andreasn,jhopkins +

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Mozilla Platform Meeting Minutes: 2012-08-14

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Platform/2012-08-14

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Platform Meeting Details

  • Tuesday 2012-08-14 – 11:00 am Pacific
  • Dial-in: conference# 95312
    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 95312
    • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312
    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 95312
  • Warp Core Vidyo Room / SFO-Boardroom
  • join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Contents

Notices / Schedule

  • FF 15 Beta 5 is going to build today
    • Trees were closed due to bug 782665 but should be re-opening soon, so landings to mozilla-beta will resume
  • Java Blocklist is live (blog post, please tweet/spread around)
  • Code Freeze for 15 is this Friday 8/17, please focus on bugs tracked for FF15 and FF16
  • Next merge day is 8/27

Firefox OS

The team is focused on P1 priorities and has started daily B2G and Gaia triage sessions to close bugs and reduce scope to essential v1 requirements.

  • Follow along on Lawrence’s blocker dashboard.
  • See also Martin’s review queue dashboard (not b2g specific)
  • Gaia: New UI pieces: overlays for Scanning, No Photos, No SD Card messages, the date/time picker landed, some Email visual design implementation, carrier name shows in utility tray, image picker in Contacts. Lots of localization work and updates to new permissions system landing. Flux in requirements for consumption control and first-run experience is ongoing risk. Gaia meeting notes.
  • Platform: Lots of churn around trusted UI. Ongoing work to get update working for dogfooding. B2G meeting notes

Firefox Development

  • Nice snappy fix by Tim Taubert: bug 753448 means we now preload the new tab page, so it’s very quick to show up when opening a new tab.

Firefox Developer Tools

Add-on SDK

Performance

  • Tim Taubert made Firefox tabs a little better by making the tabbrowser use the thumbnail service (bug 779618)
  • Tim is also going to preload new tab pages in the background and swap them in when opening a new tab (bug 753448)
  • Bill McCloskey sliced the GC deferred release phase to incrementally release C++ held by dead JS (bug 743112). This process is usually fairly short (~10ms), but when tearing down pages it can take quite a while.
  • Nicolas is working to stop validating certificates for signed extensions on start-up (bug 726125), which affects ~15 million users

GFX

JS

Layout

Media

DOM

  • Neil Deakin landed bug 391834, which disallows prompts from unload/pagehide/beforeunload event handlers. Keep an eye out for related regressions (bugs with prompts, prompt blocking, etc.)

WebAPI

  • Ben Turner landed multiprocess blob support (bug 759427)
  • more data jars and permission manager pieces landing
  • discussing best way to audit security of all APIs

Network

Identity

Plugins

  • Flash beta builds now auto-update and are being released weekly or even more often. We are working with Adobe to track crash improvements and regressions from these builds, and would like 25% of aurora and beta users to be using the Flash beta. See bug 781887 for details/planning. Go get http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer11-4.html now please.

Mobile

Accessibility

Tree Management

Security

Stability Report

Socorro

Desktop

Windows Top Crashes by OS

Beta

  • Beta 4 is over a million ADUs

Aurora

Trunk

Flash

  • Adobe shipped a new 11.3 version this morning: Adobe Flash Player version 11.3.300.271. Crashes are already seen in Socorro and we will have to get symbols and reprocess the reports.
  • 11.4 labs version was updated from .257 to .259. We have crashes but are awaiting symbols to be uploaded. We will reprocess those reports once symbols have been uploaded.
  • bug 772717 is in the top 20 crash list on Beta, Aurora and Trunk. Adobe has a bug on file on their side.
  • bug 781887 has been filed to promote use of the public flash beta.

Mobile

  • Highlights
    • 14.0.2 is for JB users
    • fixing bug 776334 would be a big win in all channels.

  • 14.0.1 Release top crashes
    1. bug 711751 – Startup crash on Gingerbread: AndroidGraphicBuffer: GL error @ . | free | _ZdlPv | _ZN7android13GraphicBufferD0Ev
    2. bug 732059 – crash in TimerThread::UpdateFilter @ libflashplayer.so@0x53…
    3. bug 729129 – crash @ dlmalloc_walk_free_pages | dvmHeapSourceTrim | dvmRunFinalizationSync | dvmDetachCurrentThread | __thread_entry
    • 14,931 crashes with 487,285 ADU = 3.06
  • 14.0.2 Release top crashes (JB Users)
    1. bug 769894 – java.lang.IllegalStateException: Hardware acceleration can only be used with a single UI thread. Original thread: Thread[main,5,main] on Galaxy Nexus mainly on JB
    2. (fixed in beta, aurora, nightly) bug 736421 – crash in mozilla::AndroidLayerRendererFrame::DrawForeground @ CgDrv_Create on MB860, LG-P990 and LG-P999 (Tegra2 + ICS)
    3. bug 767713 – java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApp.onPrepareOptionsMenu(GeckoApp.java) at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApp.invalidateOptionsMenu(GeckoApp.java)
    • 211 crashes with 7,411 ADU = 2.85
  • 15.0b4 Beta top crashes
    1. bug 776334 – crash in mozilla::gl::GLContextEGL::ReleaseSharedHandle on Honeycomb and JB
    2. bug 776329 – crash in nsSurfaceTexture::GetTransformMatrix on Honeycomb and JB
    3. bug 732059 – crash in TimerThread::UpdateFilter @ libflashplayer.so@0x53…
    • 4,983 crashes with 63,660 ADU = 7.83% on 15b4
    • 1,167 crashes with 17,974 ADU = 6.49 on 15b3
  • Aurora top crashes
    1. bug 774622 – crash with abort message: “mismatched CxxStackFrame ctor/dtors: file /builds/slave/m-cen-andrd-ntly/build/ipc/glue/RPCChannel.cpp, line 656” on quitting Nightly
    2. bug 776334 – crash in mozilla::gl::GLContextEGL::ReleaseSharedHandle on Honeycomb and JB
    3. bug 765156 – java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.PropertyAnimator.invalidate(PropertyAnimator.java)
    • 259 crashes with 1,837 ADU = 14.1%
  • Nightly top crashes
    1. bug 774622 – crash with abort message: “mismatched CxxStackFrame ctor/dtors: file /builds/slave/m-cen-andrd-ntly/build/ipc/glue/RPCChannel.cpp, line 656” on quitting Nightly
    2. bug 765156 – java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.PropertyAnimator.invalidate(PropertyAnimator.java)
    3. bug 763166 – crash in mozilla::AndroidGeckoLayerClient::SetFirstPaintViewport
    • 155 crashes with 1,037 = 14.95%

Roundtable

  • B2G Q&A with Andreas Gal and Chris Lee
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13-August-2012

Mozilla Project Meeting Minutes: 2012-08-13

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

WeeklyUpdates/2012-08-13

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  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 8600
    • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600
    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 8600

Contents

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of the Tree

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 13 August

Tuesday, 14 August

  • CSS WG F2F in San Diego

Wednesday, 15 August

  • CSS WG F2F in San Diego

Thursday, 16 August

Friday, 17 August

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

  • Stub Installer work progressing. UI interaction build made available on 8/6. Functional build this week. We’ll QA and release, possibly with a funnelcake study, when it’s ready (doesn’t ride trains.)
  • HiDPI work for retina Macs well underway. Try server build at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674373 that makes text really pretty.
  • These notes shamelessly cribbed from the Wednesday product coordination call, maybe you should attend!

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location:

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Dietrich

The team is focused on P1 priorities and has started daily B2G and Gaia triage sessions to close bugs and reduce scope to essential v1 requirements. Follow along on Lawrence’s blocker dashboard.

  • Gaia: New UI pieces: overlays for Scanning, No Photos, No SD Card messages, the date/time picker landed, some Email visual design implementation, carrier name shows in utility tray, image picker in Contacts. Lots of localization work and updates to new permissions system landing. Flux in requirements for consumption control and first-run experience is ongoing risk.
  • Platform: Most of cell broadcast is finished. More work in permissions, camera, headset, and automatic updates continue to land.
  • Security: Existing permission whitelist is being replaced with proper permission checks and prompts. Need to lock down permissions and app data jars. App signing for privileged apps – at risk.
  • Release Coordinators: Blocked on device availability for dogfooding as well as FOTA updates that don’t wipe user data
  • Release Engineering: Repo layouts for developers on github. Resolved some contract and security access questions which impact release mechanics. Need information from agal on contractual details of how updates are to be served.
  • L10n: AMO & Marketplace: es 100%, pt-BR 71%; Persona: es 100%, pt-BR 100%.
  • QA: Test coverage metrics on daily smoke tests available, working with A-team to publish daily manifests so TEF can test daily builds. Smoke test metrics are still averaging about 26% failures and Blocking-Basecamp+ count is high.
  • Tools and Automation: Mochitests and WebAPI tests running per-commit to m-c and getting triaged 3x week.

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

  • Kicking off a weekly Grow Mozilla update! As a reminder, Grow Mozilla helps us achieve our ambitious goals by bringing new people into the project, increasing skills of community members and expanding our culture as we grow larger.
  • MozCamp EU: We are currently in the process of sending out attendance and session acceptance notifications to paid staff and booking volunteer travel. Note: We are still evaluating some proposals and everyone should be notified of their status by end of week.

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.

Title Presenter Topic Media More Details
Senior Privacy Manager Stacy Martin How to Use the Cloud at Work Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen https://intranet.mozilla.org/Cloud

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location Will be working on
Who is the new hire? Who will be introducing that person? From which office will that introduction be transmitted? What will the new person be working on?
Bhavana Bajaj Johnathan Nightingale Toronto, Ontario, Canada Engineering Project Manager
Lisa Brewster Justin Scott Mountain View,CA Marketplace App Review Lead

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location Will be working on
Who is the new intern? Who will be introducing that person? From which office will that introduction be transmitted? What will the new person be working on?

Roundtable

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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren’t part of the live meeting go here.

Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)

Firefox

Platform

Services

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Automation & Tools

Security

Engagement

PR

Mozilla hosts an event to help build a future generation of web site coders

4 Tips On Scaling From Open-Source Pioneers

Mozilla’s Newest Office Used to Be Part of the Berlin Wall

Rethinking the Learning Experience: Part IV

Firefox’s per-window Private Browsing mode coming soon

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

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Foundation Updates

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8-August-2012

Mobile Meeting Minutes: 2012-08-08

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Mobile/Notes/08-Aug-2012

Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 95312
    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 95312
    • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312
    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 95312
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Warp Core Vidyo Room

Schedule

  • Next merge is 2012-08-27
  • Fx15b4 needs to be spun
  • Fx14.0.2 will be advertised to Jelly Bean users only

Major Topics for This Week

Target String Freeze for Fx16

We need to audit the list of potential uplifts to Aurora for string related changes. The big areas are Feedback Solicitation, WebAppRT and Reader. We want to take control and start limiting strings changes. [Worth repeating from last week]

Mobile Planning & Work Week

Next week the Mozilla Mobile team (and others) will be meeting at Mozilla Boston to brainstorm and plan future work. We will also be hosting a “Games & Add-on Hack Day” on Thursday.

Call to Action

Take some time and try out the WebApp and Reader functionality. We need more user testing on these features before moving to the Beta audience.

Stand ups

Suggested format:

  • What did you do last week?
  • What are working on this week?
  • Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 2 minutes!

James W. (snorp)

  • Last week
    • Worked on reworking Flash layer support to not crash/leak
  • This week
    • See above

Kats

  • Last week:
    • put together three prototypes for readability purposes (people.mozilla.org/~kgupta/tmp/reflow_*.apk)
    • PTO and holiday
    • bug 778257 – fix js warning
    • bug 771575 – fix window.innerWidth/innerHeight values before document is painted
    • bug 779920 – fix clicking on things in iframes (recent regression from bug 770659)
    • bug 780699 – regression of the “don’t keep activities” behaviour
  • Next week:
    • bug 780650 – extract a robocop API to make it easier for cpeterson to keep moving things around
    • try prototyping another readability reflow thing with a XUL overlay window that shows the text block
    • bug 781220 – hide LayerController inside the gfx package to allow more code untangling
    • maybe move ElementTouchHelper into a jsm file so that it can be reused by B2G
    • get up to speed on memshrink and bfcache

GBrown

  • Last week:
    • Trying to make those tests green!
    • OOM is under control, but about 20 mochitests have been disabled.
  • Next week:
    • Various small improvements for better test stability and diagnostics.
    • Investigate disabled mochitests.

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

  • Previously
    • Conference (GUADEC) + holiday (Wales)

Chris Peterson

  • Done
    • Ongoing refactoring for bug 778468 (Move classes into new namespaces to untangle org.mozilla.gecko class dependencies)
    • bug 780191 – Form autocomplete wonkiness with Samsung Galaxy Nexus’s IME spelling autocorrection
    • bug 781038 – java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: setSpan (0 … 27299) ends beyond length 0
  • Next
    • Sony Xperia HKB bugs: bug 766317 and bug 772252
    • bug 780543 – Holding backspace with SwiftKey causes enormous repeats of content
    • bug 781020 – SwiftKey backspace can’t delete some characters
    • Continue refactoring for bug 780649 (Move browser-specific classes to new org.mozilla.gecko.browser namespace)

GCP

Brian N

  • Done:
    • Bug 778582 – [redacted]
    • Bug 777966 – Change reader mode replaceBrs logic
    • Bug 779796 – Move readability check to web worker
    • Bug 780713 – Disable reader mode logging by default
    • WIP Bug 780519 – Store all reader mode parsed articles in cache
  • Next
    • Bug 780519 – Store all reader mode parsed articles in cache
    • Bug 717428 – Change DB schema to more closely resemble places

Sriram

WesJ

Last week:

  • Bug 776677 – Catch errors thrown from Webapps.js and show to user
  • Bug 780718 – DOMRequests should return true if preventDefault was called on the event
  • Bug 766392 – Persist the reference to marketplace on about:apps even when apps are installed on about:apps
  • Bug 741621 – Mozilla Marketplace activity should open for marketplace URLs

This week:

  • Finish landing and uplift to Aurora
  • Bug 781061 – System Notifications are broken in webapps
  • Bug 781060 – All apps should use the same webapp database
  • Bug 780759 – Splashscreens for webapps – still a lot of ux discussion
  • Bug 757680 – Too few touch events dispatched for drawing application

LucasR

Last week

  • Done
    • bug 766942 – New reader toolbar
    • bug 771380 – Large gap between reader mode icon and padlock icon (design issues, see below)
  • In progress:
    • bug 766948 – Refine content type styling in reader mode
  • Patch reviews on Reader

Next week

    • Land last major bits of reader UI
    • Reader bug fixing

Blockers

  • Waiting for Ian on a new iteration for browser toolbar (bug 771380)

MBrubeck

Last week:

  • PTO, catching up
  • W3C Web Events WG resumes; meetings and test suite work

Next:

  • Make a list of W3C Touch Events test work remaining; find suckers volunteers to help do it.

Margaret

Done:

  • Reviewing supoprt for shumway “plugin previews” – bug 776208
  • Almost done with patch to push fennec’s tabs to sync – bug 730039
    • Found lots of thread safety problems in our tab code
  • Context menu/text selection interaction in inputs/textareas – bug 780906

Next:

  • Feedback solicitation – bug 774479
    • Waiting on UX direction

Scott (jwir3)

I’m on PTO today and tomorrow, so I won’t be able to make it to the meeting.

Last Week

    • bug 777089 : change size mapping function for font inflation (In review, addressing dbaron’s comments)
    • bug 756518 : Rework conditional testing for mobile (just finishing up some things that are causing XUL reftests to fail)
This Week

    • Help sheppy move documentation on font inflation from blog post to MDN
    • bug 780258 : Add support for max line box API
    • Develop a prototype of plugin that uses above API

Arkady

  • Did some spring cleaning:
    • Cleaning up duplicates
    • Closing old (now irrelevant) bugs
  • Finished Bug 649371 implement support for ClipData in Android clipboard
    • No app seems to support directly copying images (yet)
    • Opened and working on Bug 780722 Have Share:Image use a content provider
      • ContentProvider knows about all of these shared resources & handles files in background processes, so the user doesn’t see a wait for us to save things
  • Next
    • Bug 750135 Link click-and-hold menu should have an “open link” option

mcomella

  • Past
    • Bug 686528 – about:home for tablets
      • Bug 780481 – Cutoff of thumbnail preview text
      • Bug 780367 – Illegal state exception: ScrollView has more than one child
    • Bug 778491 – Text of “Your Tabs from Last Time” not centered vertically
  • Present
    • Bug 777652 – (Can’t repo, no new crash reports…) Return of the Font Inflation Dialog
    • Bug 778811 – (Waiting on review) “No Top Sites” text on be removed on about:home
    • Bug 718437 – [meta] Long Press Context Menu
    • Bug 779861 – The Phantom Font Inflation Dialog – Fixing up some styling issues
    • Bug 780486 – Top Sites title banner covers logo on about:home
    • Bug 777450 – Long pressing a Flash video selects all the text on the screen
    • Bug 766389 – Add “My Apps” clickable to about:home
    • Bug 725018 – Tapping on an input field does not zoom into it
  • Future
    • Bug 716403 – Hide the navigation bar while scrolling down content

BLassey

Last week

  • Camping

Next week

  • Work week

MFinkle

Madhava

Ian Barlow

  • Next
    • Possible UI adjustments for ARMV6
    • bug 769683 – Strong first run / feature intro UI

GFX

Round Table

QA

  • Tegra 2 flash testing results – https://etherpad.mozilla.org/tegra2-flash
  • armv6 discussion today – review test results and more
  • bug 777719 Robocop test cases for BFTs
  • restructuring mobile QA team, a few heads being lost to basecamp work
    • Softvision stepping up more on feature ownership
    • kevin, aaron, & tony [part time] will be joining workweek
  • requested focused feature testing areas:
    • Webapps – server side testing, testday, doing user testing, experience, expectations
    • Reader mode – take top reader 50 sites, look for false positives, track issues through bug 777557

Socorro/Breakpad/Stability

Hightlights:

  • based on the roundtable discussion :
    • created bug 781249 – Allow breakpad to report to Soccoro to send ANR reports as a hang
    • This bug is to have an investigation on whether or not it’s possible to have firefox for android report hangs for the ones that does ANR and not lock out the system… (as desktop does report some hangs)
  • nhirata spending more time on b2g currently this week as well.

Socorro bugs

Skiplist

Breakpad Integration bugs

Please see Platform Meeting Notes for Stability report

SUMO

This is the summary of the Google Play, Input and SUMO Feedback for Firefox for Mobile 14.0.1 for the Week of August 6th, 2012:

Trending Topics/Issues in Rating Comments (July 31st to August 6th, am in the middle of changing the dates I run analysis)

  • Crashing (Samsung Nexus S[4], HTC Desire HD, HTC myTouch 4G, Galaxy S Plus, Galaxy S3)
  • General Slowness
  • Copy and Paste / Text Selection
  • Freezing (Samsumg Galaxy S2[2])
  • Home Screen (No way to clear top sites, no way to change home page)
  • Evangelism (Google Sites showing up in desktop Mode, can’t log into Facebook)

Good Points:

  • Users love the Browser Sync
  • Many more reviews of users who initially Rated Firefox low, but then came back and liked the newer version
  • Flash Support

Input:
27 Sad faces on Input in the Past Week (http://input.mozilla.org/en-US/?q=&product=mobile&version=–&date_start=2012-07-30&date_end=&sentiment=sad&platform=android)

Commons themes are:
Facebook Not working (seems to be issues logging in, unreproducible on our side, still keeping an eye on them)
Home Screen Woes (users wanting to either change the home screen, or clear the most visited)

SUMO:
Most Requested mobile Threads on SUMO (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions?sort=requested&tagged=mobile)

Users Seeming to have trouble with the Facebook Menu (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/928435) SUMO has tried to reproduce and has failed. Can QA Take a look and see if this is still an issue?

All Mobile Questions https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions?tagged=mobile

This is the summary of the Google Play, Input and SUMO Feedback for Firefox Beta for Mobile 15 for the Week of August 7th, 2012.

Trending Topics/Issues in Rating Comments (July 31st to August 7th, am in the middle of changing the dates I run analysis)

  • Crashing (Galaxy Tab 10.1)
  • Lack Desktop Mode (want it for Tablet, or Automatic mode)
  • Evangelism (Google Websites)

Good Points:

  • Users love the Tablet Support
  • Lots of users stating this update fixes their performance/speed issues. Perhaps this will fix the slowness trend we are noticing with 14.

Program/Project

  • ARMv6 Feature Review: Today @ 11:30 right after coordination meeting in Warp Core. Agenda: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/ARMv6
  • Fx16 review with PR/Marketing in prep for the Beta Blog Post
Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Notes/08-Aug-2012“

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Minutes: 2012-08-08

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Firefox/Planning/2012-08-08

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Planning Meeting Details

  • Wednesdays – 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
  • Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
  • Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
  • irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
  • (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details – NEW

  • 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99696 (US/INTL)
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
  • Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
  • Vidyo Guest URL
REMEMBER

These notes are read by people who weren’t able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.

Contents

Actions from Last Week

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

  • 14.0.2 JB respin went live in Google play yesterday afternoon PT
  • 15.0 beta 4 is going to build today

Basecamp

Firefox Desktop

  • Stub Installer work progressing. UI interaction build made available on 8/6. Functional build in about a week. We’ll QA and release, possibly with a funnelcake study, when it’s ready (doesn’t ride trains.)
  • HiDPI work for retina Macs well underway. Try server build at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674373 that makes text really pretty.

Release (14, 10esr)

Beta (15)

Aurora (16)

  • Bug 574229 – [Mac] Choosing “New Window” from Firefox’s dock menu does not open the new window in the active Space

Nightly (17)

  • Social API landing a lot.
  • Mac Choosing “New Window” from Firefox’s dock menu does not open the new window in the active Space
  • support CSS feature queries (@supports, @-moz-supports)
  • Get Skia backend for Azure canvas working on Windows

Firefox Mobile

Release (14)

  • 14.0.2 with JellyBean only crash fixes

Beta (15)

Aurora (16)

  • Explicitly asking for testing on Reader Mode and Web Apps. Please, thank you.

Nightly (17)

Web Compat

  • Many Google properties now sending us mobile content.
  • Initial Webkit aliasing analysis complete. Summary post coming.

Misc

  • Next week the Mozilla Mobile team (and others) will be meeting at Mozilla Boston to brainstorm and plan future work. We will also be hosting a “Games & Add-on Hack Day” on Thursday.

Services

Firefox Sync

Apps In the Cloud Server

Add-on SDK

Release (1.9 -> Firefox 15, 16)

Stabilization (1.10 -> Firefox 17, 18)

Development (1.11 -> Firefox 18, 19)

Released 1.9 yesterday, working with IT to update Builder to latest version ( it has lagged 2 point releases behind due to resource & co-ordination issues )

Landing progress:

  • loader is riding the trains on Fx 16.
  • tracking bug: bug 731779
  • current status: bug 756542 tracks work on make files to include the SDK modules in Firefox builds.

Identity

Apps

Feedback Summary

Desktop

  • Google Doodle crash getting greater visibility. [1][2] [3]

Mobile

Mobile user feedback is stable, we continue a positive ratings trend since v14 released in response to performance, flash and UI improvements. Negative review topics are related to crashing, slowness and evangelism (site content).

On Beta, reviews are also positive trending with much praise for tablet support. Tyler is helping with mobile user feedback beginning last week, so welcome and thanks to him while Michelle works on Basecamp.

UX & User Research

  • [desktop]
    • [Australis]
    • [Social API] (Boriss)
      • minimum acceptable features have been modified slightly, landing a little later than originally planned
      • Priority 1 is getting chat landed, UX bugs on the table this week are mostly chat-related problems: overflow, popping in/out, error handling
      • Still some style tweaks needed, especially around chat windows
      • Flyover panels still iffy – it may be possible to implement them, but probably not exactly like mockups. Working with jwas & Shane this week
      • Working with Gavin to solidify notification channel appearance and UX
    • [hometab/newtab] Digitizing concept sketches this week, syncing up with sync and browserID on their status with eye to incorporating in design (Boriss)
    • [stub installer] final implementation support, visual and wording tweaks (WIP screenshots (madhava, shorlander)
    • high-dpi (retina) – getting graphics into bugs, like bug 781327 (shorlander)
  • [dev tools] Starting work on “Timeline” tool (Brian Dils)
  • [metro] (yuan)
    • Designing animated tab indicators on Windows 8 UI animated walkthrough (keynote file)
    • Awesomebar and start screen are moving to implementation: bug 747790
    • Working on setting charms on Windows 8, cleaning up content from XUL Fennec and updating for W8 UI.
  • [android] (ibarlow)
  • [other/future]
    • the team had a first session on defining a set of Firefox design values; currently analyzing our first sets of ideas (madhava + whole team)
    • researching experience metrics we can use to assess design success (madhava)
    • Designing space for creative collaboration – looking into opportunities to apply good practices to our offices (including new SF space!) – ideas here on pinterest

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Apple

Google

Microsoft

Opera

W3C

  • The W3C announced that Adobe, Google, and Microsoft have provided significant funds to “sponsor more complete W3C staff coverage to achieve Recommendation Status for HTML5 in 2014”.
  • The Web Performance Working Group specifications moved to W3C Candidate Status. These APIs will allow developers to more accurately and easily track the performance of their applications in all browsers.

WebKit

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

  • Gingerbread still main Android version in market, Jelly Bean at 0.8%
  • Developer policy on Android changed to reduce spam
  • Privacy Policy field for apps introduced in Google Play Store
  • Preloaded YouTube app removed from iOS 6
  • Samsung maintains spot as top handset and smartphone vendor by shipments
  • More than 200 million people are using Opera Mini and Mobile
  • Dual-core processors to reach entry-level smartphone market early 2013
  • Perception of privacy on mobile far from reality, according to University of California study
  • iPads accounted for 73% of tablet sales in China in Q2

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Marketing

  • No updates this week

Press

Firefox 14 Worthy Alternative to Safari

The Next Version Of HTTP Is Starting To Look Very SPDY

Questions, Comments, FYI

  • [Michael Verdi] What Firefox version will include the stub installer?
    • The stub will go out as soon as it’s ready, potentially late this month. It’s not riding trains so it goes out when it’s ready, not when a particular Firefox release happens. -Asa
  • [catlee] Will changes for high dpi displays require changes to how we run tests on OSX
    • Good question for Jonathan Kew or someone else in Layout/Graphics. -Asa

Actions this week

  • blassey to schedule l10n meeting for mobile
  • sam m to plug our privacy policy in store
  • catlee to come back on highdpi testing q
Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Planning/2012-08-08“

7-August-2012

SeaMonkey Meeting Minutes: 2012-08-07

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2012-08-07

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SeaMonkey Meeting Details

Contents

Agenda

  • Who’s taking minutes? -> Ratty
  • Nominees for Friends of the Fish Tank:
    • RyanVM (Ryan VanderMeulen) for timely checkins and newbie hacker handling

Action Items

(who needs to do what that hasn’t been recorded in a bug) We should assign people to the open items.

NEW

  • TBD

OPEN

  • IanN to talk to jtek about getting something sent out to Px.
    • Px will look at the SeaMonkey Shop and let IanN know what he wants.
  • IanN to arrange with Jeff to send a tee-shirt or something to Serge (FotFT).
    • Serge will look at the SeaMonkey Shop and let IanN know what he wants before the next meeting.

CLOSED

Status of the SeaMonkey Buildbot Master and Tree

  • All our machines are now all out of SJC1 are are now at SCL3 or SCL1
    • The R4 Macs are plugged-in, connected and base-imaged. Waiting on Callek to complete the setup.
    • cb-seamonkey-linux-01 has been de-commissioned with extreme prejudice.
    • The Linux32 VMs are all up.
    • The remaining machines on Parallels are the buildmaster (cb-seamonkey-linuxmaster-01) and Linux64 (cb-seamonkey-linux64-01). These need to be migrated to ESX. Specifically:
      • sea-vm-linux64-1 will most likely replace cb-seamonkey-linux64-01.
      • sea-master1 will replace the current buildmaster.
  • Build on MSVC2010 (ewong and Callek).
    • Trunk builds and all branches except release are now MSVC2010.
  • Build SeaMonkey using clang bug 775539. In progress.
    • bug 776426 Set up ccache on all MacOSX systems. Waiting for review. CCCACHE is installed on the MacOSX systems but needs setting up.
    • bug 776428 Port |Bug 755145 – Define CCACHE_CP2 when using ccache and Clang| to SeaMonkey. Waiting for review.
    • bug 776523 Add ac_add_options --enable-ccache to build/macosx/common [Fixed].
    • Find an interim solution for hosting tooltool binaries pending bug 768879 Have a world readable tooltool repository.
  • L10n Update: (2012-08-07):
    • L10n buildbots are building again on all three platforms for be, de, en-GB, es-AR, gl, hu, it, lt, nl, ru, sk, uk, zh-CN and zh-TW.
    • Still nothing since end of April for cs, es-ES, fr, nb-NO, pl, pt-PT and sv-SE. This might be due to extension issues causing bustage and thus no real repacks finished.
      • IanN says that adrianK and stefanh might be able to help on a couple of those locales, and that the pt-PT and es_ES people do drop by in #seamonkey.
    • bug 780557 Old language files packed with Hungarian version of SeaMonkey 2.11. This is because no-one on the hu locale team signed off on a newer revision.

Release Train

  • 2.12b2 shipped July 27
  • 2.12b3 shipped August 3

Extensions Compatibility Tracking

  • See Basics page. Please only list current changes here.
  • Addon Compatibility Listings
    • Nothing to highlight.
  • [Ratty] Nothing specific to report except that recently I’ve looked at several random Firefox extensions and noticed that they’ve all been recently made SeaMonkey compatible without being prompted by myself of one of my volunteers.
  • Our build team (Serge, Callek, ewong) needs to automate DOMI branch selection rather than having to tweak the client.py every 6 weeks. bug 763506
    • sgautherie thinks that the current DOMi branches/tags are not suitable for automatic SeaMonkey branch selection.

2.x (Last, Current, Next)

  • 2.11 had ~71,400 ADU by last Tuesday and ~88,100 downloads so far.
    • Of the released versions, as of last Tuesday, we have 11.4% on 2.0, 3.7% on 2.1-2.3, 5.3% on 2.4-2.6, 2.3% on 2.7, 3.2% on 2.8, 5.8% on 2.9, 10.0% on 2.10 and 58.3% on 2.11. So, in the last two weeks, ~2.3k (an additional 1.9% of ADU) have migrated to 2.7 or above.
    • Since 19th June ADU numbers have been dropping.
      • ADUs still falling but tailing off.
      • Firefox has also seen numbers dropping. This is probably the normal summer drop that we’ve seen in past years.
    • Some people cannot upgrade due to system requirements (OS version, processor capabilities etc.). This even more applies to 2.10 which dropped support for Win2k and WinXP without SP2.
    • The current plan is to create a new page for latest builds available for “Legacy Platforms” e.g. PPC containing links to 2.6.1 PowerPC/G4 and also perhaps to seamonkey-ppc (2.10 and 2.11b3 for OSX 10.5.8) TenFourFox and Tenfourbird. We can then link to that from our main release page. See bug 759315.
      • InvisibleSmiley pushed a page to the staging website and Ratty gave initial feedback.
  • See Basics page for the usual reminders.

2.11

open tracking (0)
tracking requests (12)
targeted (2)
fixed (25)

  • One tracked 2.5 issue still open.
    • 2.1 through 2.7 have NOT included the ka (Kartvelian aka Georgian) locale. The last release with ka locale shipped was 2.0.14 and the ka l10n maintainers have not yet updated for changes in later SeaMonkey versions.
    • The plan was that Callek needs to morph bug 667147 into removing |ka| from our [current] automation entirely (all-locales), and will look at the best locale to transition any ka users to.
    • The ka owner came back with a bundle of l10n changes to get checked in. Callek to look into doing that, and try to identify if ka will be sustained going forward before completely abandoning.

2.Next

  • TBD
  • Mozilla-central bugs that affect us:
    • bug 626472 Switch from nsnull to nullptr.
      • Tracked in bug 776630 Switch mailnews from using nsnull to nullptr [Includes all of comm-central actually] FIXED.
    • bug 722332 Adapt main clients to asynchronous nsIBrowserSearchService API.
      • Tracked in bug 780179 SeaMonkey should use the asynchronous API from nsIBrowserSearchService FIXED.
    • bug 774585 Update GetCodebasePrincipal callers to use the correct “data jar”
      • Tracked in bug 776577 Update usage in SeaMonkey of GetCodebasePrincipal to reflect changes to API (Port bug 774585).
    • bug 760940 Bookmarks and history menus behave incorrectly due to non-node weak map keys.
      • Tracked in bug 777005 Fix Bookmarks and history menus behave incorrectly due to non-node weak map keys (Port bug 760940).
    • bug 774032 Implement autoconf substitution in Python.
      • Tracked in bug 780357 |Port bug 776968, bug 774032, bug 780159, bug 776561, bug 778740| to comm-central. Patch to unbreak comm-central waiting for review. Callek says he can only get round to this on Wednesday earliest.
      •  :glandium just landed the patch with a pending-r=Callek in order to unbreak the tree.

Feature List, Planning

Bug statistics for last two (full) weeks: 34 new, 24 fixed, 19 triaged.

  • Medium triaging effort.

Open reviews/flags:
24 review
9 super-review
1 ui-review
7 feedback

Good First Bugs

  • [Ratty] In June I trawled through my notes and came up with an initial list of GFBs. See previous meeting notes for details. Since then I’ve been slowly adding to this list as I come across them, or if someone points one out to me.
  • Note: The GFB list is open to all including our regular contributors.
  • In the last two weeks since the previous meeting:
    • Ekanan Ketunuti fixed two bugs: bug 779720 bug 779076 .
    • TonyMec fixed three bugs (bug 779077, bug 439312, bug 633730) and is currently working on another (bug 768015).
    • One was assigned but no movement spotted bug 767919 so I’ve removed Madhavan as the assignee and someone else has stepped forward to work on this.
    • I’ve experimented with advertising one GFB theme bug (bug 461494) in the Mozillazine Theme Development forum and have gotten several submissions almost immediately.
  • Currently there are 23 GFBs open, One actively being worked on, one seems to have stalled since April and one has been fixed except for the tests.
  • Neil suggests we could get some Services conversions going as GFBs.
    • This is bug 735333 (Use Services.prefs instead of preferences-service / gPrefService, in SeaMonkey code) but appears to have stalled (see previous item).

Roundtable – Personal Status Updates

Status Updates from developers – what are you working on, what’s the progress, any other comments? (feel free to add yourself to the list if your name is missing and you have interesting status).

Aqualon

Callek

Release Engineering tasks completed:

ewong

  • Fixed:
    • bug 739162 – [SeaMonkey 2.9+, slaves] Some boxes fails with Hg “abort: HTTP Error 414: Request-URI Too Large”.
    • bug 765689 – most visited list contains repeat entries
    • bug 770559 – Add support for closing inactive databases (folders) [SeaMonkey part]
    • bug 777787 – Fix issues discovered in msgDBCacheManager.js while reviewing Bug 770559
    • bug 779382 – Tracking bug for build and release of SeaMonkey 2.12 Beta 3
  • Review:
    • bug 633937 – Port bug 562048 to suite.
    • bug 715410 – Port |Bug 352037 – Undo Add To Dictionary| to SeaMonkey
    • bug 739056 – Port |Bug 715099 – Convert nsProfileMigrator to JS so we can use JS modules on migration| to SeaMonkey
    • bug 755758 – Port |Bug 629620 – Copied bookmarks shouldn’t inherit all annotations, since they are new entitities| to SeaMonkey
    • bug 760942 – install python ‘ssl’ module on SeaMonkey Windows machines
    • bug 774991 – stop support OSX 10.5 in SeaMonkey
    • bug 776428 – Port |Bug 755145 – Define CCACHE_CP2 when using ccache and Clang| to SeaMonkey
    • bug 780185 – Turn on frame pointers on Nightly builds (–enable-profiling)
  • Working On:
    • bug 574955 – Make webconsole work in SeaMonkey
    • bug 757693 – Debug > TBPL points to an invalid URL
    • bug 762264 – Help->About SeaMonkey page should link to about:rights and SeaMonkey privacy policy
    • bug 775539 – Build SeaMonkey using clang
    • bug 776426 – Set up ccache on all MacOSX systems
    • bug 768380 – sea-vm-linux64-1 need to set up for our builds. (buildbot part done)

IanN

  • Usual testing, reviewing and commenting.
  • Fixed:
    • bug 774063 Use image instead of html:img in addressbook contacts
    • bug 774064 Use const nsIAbDirectory and remove and set tooltiptext in msgHdrViewOverlay
    • bug 774069 Convert address book to Services and mailServices
    • bug 774125 Switch to new drag and drop api for home button
    • bug 774362 Switch to new drag and drop api for go and search buttons
    • bug 778446 Fix late change to plugins.dtd [en-GB]
  • Waiting for review on:
  • Fixing review comments before checkin:
    • bug 757230 When using add button for permissions in Data Manager set a displayHost
  • Reviewed and waiting for other patches before checkin:
  • Reviewed and waiting for feedback from mobile peer:
    • bug 689253 Update en-GB for Mobile 10.0 (comm-aurora)
  • Working on:
    • Various SM Council documents.
    • bug 606683 Allow customization of toolbar in Composer and MailNews Composition
    • bug 639690 [META] Re-arrange code between editor and editorOverlay
    • bug 657234 Move pasteQuote and pasteNoFormatting into contentAreaContextOverlay
    • bug 778534 Use image instead of html:img in instant messaging
    • File/Folder selection in windows.
  • To Do:
    • bug 639395 Get cmd_fontSize to reflect current state of selected content / content at caret.
    • Prefs-in-a-tab.
    • Create FAQ for Friends of the Fish Tank.
    • Help get composer standalone builds working with –enable-tests.

InvisibleSmiley

  • Fixed:
    • bug 780283 Update SeaMonkey website for 2.12 Beta 3
    • bug 778224 Update SeaMonkey website for 2.12 Beta 2
  • Working on:
    • bug 759315 Add a page to the SeaMonkey website about the latest releases available for Legacy Platforms (e.g. PPC)

KaiRo

mcsmurf

Working on bug 777005 Fix Bookmarks and history menus behave incorrectly due to non-node weak map keys (Port bug 760940).

Misak

Mnyromyr

MReimer

Neil

Fixed:

  • bug 632585 Port Firefox Set as wallpaper dialog to Seamonkey.
  • bug 776052 double click on column headers should not to open selected history item in History window(Ctrl+H).
  • bug 777063 Crash when sending mail, on window close @ nsChromeTreeOwner::SetTitle.
  • bug 779300 Implement desktop background colour on GNOME.
  • bug 780278 Sidebar “Tabs” dropdown doesn’t display properly on Linux.

In Progress:

  • bug 746166 Remove use of cmd_backgroundColor from comm-central.
  • bug 767839 Don’t preprocess application.ini and update-settings.ini twice.
  • bug 779616 Stop using DOMAttrModified events.

Ratty

Fixed:

  • bug 778076 mochitest-plain 1852 TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | /tests/suite/browser/test/test_contextmenu.html | checking item #0 (popupwindow-reject) name – got popupwindow-allow, expected popupwindow-reject.
  • bug 780179 SeaMonkey should use the asynchronous API from nsIBrowserSearchService.

Other:

  • Good first Bugs: See the Good First Bugs section above.
  • Did some reviews.
  • Bug triage and Bug discussions.
  • End user support and PR in newsgroups and Mozillazine.

Ricardo

sgautherie

Stanimir

stefanh

tonymec

  • ASSIGNED
    • bug 768015 Override Toolkit and increase image.mem.max_decoded_image_kb to 250MB
      • checkin-needed
  • FIXED
    • bug 439312 Site Navigation Bar misses its tooltip when minimized
      • no-l10n variant ported to 2.13Aurora & 2.12Beta
    • bug 633730 Port |Bug 630484 – Properly support plural forms in advance search dialog status message| to SeaMonkey
      • Aurora-wontfix (l10n)
    • bug 779077 Don’t focus the content area when closing a places context menu (Port Bug 776271)
      • approval requested for branch

Any other business?

  • Bug Day: Should we looking to do a bug busting day in the next 3 months?
    • Useful link: [1].
    • IanN suggests that we go for the top 3 or 6 in the list tonymecc sent out, and probably September or October whichever is most convenient. Tonymec suggests 21-22-23 September. No objections raised so it is now confirmed scheduled for the weekend before the fall equinox.
    • Tonymec will start to advertise on newsgroups and forums.
  • Geolocation
    • Geolocation now works out of the box. MoCo turned it on by default for all applications that build off mozilla-central.
    • For comm-beta all we need to do is (bug 494421) to add pref("geo.wifi.uri", "https://www.google.com/loc/json"); to browser-prefs.js. However we’re not even sure we are legally allowed to ship with the URL in, we might need to actually put in a pref to disable that in newer builds.
    • No news to date. Callek will have to reach out to his MoCo legal contact again soonish.
  • Test failures
    • qawanted, especially on Linux and MacOSX specific issues: reproducing and reporting would already help.
    • Serge says that on Linux and MacOSX, he just needs someone to actually run the tests and report what they see (screen, console, etc). For example, there is a Mac test about Ctrl+W not working. This should be so trivial.
    • tonymec suggests that any enthusiastic user, even non-technical, should be able to do some testing (litmus?) and not be scared by technical language and such.
    • IanN suggests reaching out to the user community using the newsgroups and forums.
    • Serge to do a write up and send it to Ratty to propagate to the community.
      • Ratty is ***still*** waiting for Serge.
  • MozCampEu
    • Tonymec and InvisibleSmiley have received invitations but can’t go. IanN is going. Neil doesn’t know why he’s getting MozCamp mail as he isn’t going.
  • Date of next meeting
    • IanN is away for the expected date of the next meeting (21st August), propose that meeting is cancelled so next meeting will be on 4th September.
    • Should an alternative time of day/day of week be selected for future meetings? Perhaps 16:00 UTC?
      • No consensus was reached so we will stick to 12:00 UTC while IanN will post to the newsgroup for a wider consultation.
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Thunderbird Meeting Minutes: 2012-08-07

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

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Agenda

  • Who’s taking minutes? –> jhopkins
  • Minute taking Schedule. Talk to Standard8 for schedule changes/additions.
  • Note: this meeting is for interactive discussion. Feel free to ask questions!

Action Items

Friends of the Tree

Thanks to our Friend of the Tree. When adding someone to this section, please get their T-Shirt size, phone number (needed for shipping!) and send it to abourcier@mozilla.com that she can send them a shirt!

Thunderbird Development

Feature Work

Test Pilot
Filelink (Big Files)

bwinton looking at incoming patch this week.

Instant Messaging

Fixing the last few chat bugs that are important for Thunderbird 15.

Google Summer of Code Projects

App Tabs for Thunderbird
Improving GMail Integration
Get ISPDB into Production
‘No reply’ reminder for Thunderbird

Schedule and Progress

Beta Version
ESR

Extension of the week

QA Updates

Marketing Updates

Build / Release Update

  • Thunderbird 15.0b3
  • Going to production this week: bug 773120 – turn off Mac OS X 10.5 test machines for Firefox 17

Web Update

  • Fix for bug 755074 will be applied as soon as gozer’s available and a couple other bugs
  • Yes, bug 661003 is still on the radar, I’m working on it today. Think I have an “easy” solution for it.
  • Working on moving our landing page to bedrock, to get used to the migration process.
  • What’s new page has content~, Start Page updated…

Documentation

Support

Lightning Updates

Status Updates

See the Mozilla Status Board for status updates specific to developers.

Roundtable Highlights

sid0: Pymake on build slaves (bug 593585)

Attendees

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Mozilla Platform Meeting Minutes: 2012-08-07

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Platform Meeting Details

  • Tuesday 2012-08-07 – 11:00 am Pacific
  • Dial-in: conference# 95312
    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 95312
    • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312
    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 95312
  • Warp Core Vidyo Room / SFO-Boardroom
  • join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Contents

Notices / Schedule

  • We are in our fourth week of the cycle, going to build with Beta 4 end of day Pacific
  • 14.0.2 respin for JB crashes is going to be released for JB users only bug 769893, bug 780668
  • Softblock for Java exploit going out Thurs/Fri – currently with QA
    • bug 780717 – Blocklist Java versions affected by CVE-2012-1723
  • Meeting with Adobe tomorrow to review crash data for their latest 11.3 and 11.4 candidates
  • Code Freeze for 15 is next Friday 8/17, please focus on bugs tracked for FF15 and FF16
  • Next merge day is 8/27

Firefox OS

Firefox Development

  • Social UI work continues: polish fixes, Linux styling for the toolbar have landed, and performance improvements (bug 777176) are the main focus. You can continue testing using “MoTown” in Nightly builds, by setting social.enabled = true.
  • Security research intern Devdatta Akhawe has landed telemetry for our security UI, you can watch his presentation about it on Air Mozilla (bug 767676)

Firefox Developer Tools

Add-on SDK

  • Releasing 1.9 today
  • Working on getting the builder site updated

Performance

  • This week’s Snappy summary
  • Neil Deakin joined the Snappy effort to eliminate pointless reflows in the tab strip. He’s already landed bug 752486 and is working on bug 752376 and bug 752496 next.
  • Brian Bondy removed prefetch (bug 770911). xul.dll preload is now always on based on our telemetry startup study in bug 765850.
  • Bill McCloskey continued to reduce garbage collection pauses. (bug 777919, bug 778993, bug 767209)
    • See Bill’s comments in bug 767209 for some insight into the complex heuristics that go into minimizing GC interruptions.
  • MozCamp Snappy (ok, not the official name) is Sept 8-9, in Warsaw, Poland. Find Snappy people talking All About Performance. We are also working on scheduling for a Snappy work week following MozCamp EU in Warsaw.

GFX

JS

Layout

Media

  • IETF last week
    • Opus accepted as a mandatory-to-implement codec (yeah!)
      • Widely described as a beats-the-world, state-of-the-art codec
    • Video codec decision deferred until November
    • Lots of interest in WebRTC and DataChannels
  • Major progress going into IETF on PeerConnections and the rest of WebRTC
    • Audio and video via PeerConnections, with actual JSEP negotiation, over ICE transport channels, encrypted with DTLS-SRTP
    • DataChannels nearing completion, working in PeerConnections
    • Working to set up interop tests with Chrome (via their command-line test program for WebRTC)
  • Microsoft lobbed a hand-grenade into the WebRTC spec work Monday (first work day after IETF)
    • If you get questions on this, especially from press or blog authors, point them to Maire Reavy (mreavy@mozilla.com) and/or press@mozilla.com

DOM

WebAPI

  • lots of work to support lowered rights processes (blobs, Device Storage, etc.) (bug 746280 and friends)
  • string encoder/decoder review comments being addressed (bug 764234)
  • WebSockets in Workers patch up for review (bug 504553)

Network

Identity

Plugins

Mobile

  • TBPL is now much greener thanks to wlach noticing a configuration issue with our watcher, fix deployed in bug 778177

Accessibility

Tree Management

Security

  • Security Assurance work week next week may affect responses to some items
  • Retirement of 2 keywords: sec-review-needed, sec-review-complete
    • replaced by sec-review flag
      •  ? = nomination / shows assignment
      • + = completed
    • We did this to get more accurate metrics, assignment and responsiveness
  • Process and workflow details coming: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Reviews

Calendar: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review.html

For updates to meetings please see the Security Review Calendar

Bugs marked sec-review-needed that need to be scheduled

ID Summary Status Priority
744967 Add plugincheck functionality to Add-on Manager NEW —
748945 Review iframe auto-height feature (part of seemless iframes) NEW —
748949 Review changes to Cache-Control: no-cache on https pages NEW —
749235 Security Review of Enable HTTP pipelining by default NEW —
749337 SecReview: Thunderbird should (semi-)automatically improve the security-related server configuration settings when it knows an improvement could be made NEW —
749339 SecReview: Thunderbird auto-configuration database should be expanded & updated by regularly spidering every domain on the internet ( NEW —
749341 SecReview: Teach FileSaver to take URIs as well NEW —
749344 SecReview: WebUSB NEW —
749363 SecReview: Preffing out CSS should be easier NEW —
749364 SecReview: WebPrint (or WebIPP) NEW —
749368 SecReview: Use a pref to determine whether we auto-launch downloaded files NEW —
749379 SecReview: [WebAPI] Expose JS API for settings app permissions NEW —
749625 SecReview: (camera) camera support for desktop NEW —
776616 input.mozilla.org refresh NEW —
780220 Vendor Sec Review: [Akamai] NEW —
749372 SecReview: Relax same-origin XHR restrictions for privileged applications NEW —
749378 SecReview: Network manager API NEW —
749221 Security Review of Media Plugin API (MPAPI) ASSIGNED —
749233 Security Review of turn on “don’t load tabs until selected” by default / Tabs on Demand ASSIGNED —
749355 SecReview: WebContacts (or Contacts+) ASSIGNED P1

Stability Report

Socorro

Socorro releases are on hold until the staging environment works well again.

Desktop

Flash

Beta

  • bug 734921 Startup Crash @ _moz_cairo_destroy
    • Two other related bugs spiked as well
    • We have reached out to Google to find out more information about the doodle that may be causing it.
    • Affects 14.0.1, Aurora and trunk as well
  • bug 779447 js::types::TypeObject::addProperty

Aurora

Trunk

Release

Mobile

  • Highlights
    • 14.0.2 needs release (more ADU) before we see the graph
    • 15b3 under 10 crashes per ADU
    • fixing bug 776334 would be a big win in all channels.

  • 14.0.1 Release top crashes
    1. bug 769893 – java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot draw recycled bitmaps at android.view.GLES20Canvas.drawBitmap(GLES20Canvas.java) on Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 7 with Jelly Bean – (fixed in 14.02; need more ADU on 14.0.2 before reporting it. will show it next week)
    2. bug 729129 – crash @ dlmalloc_walk_free_pages | dvmHeapSourceTrim | dvmRunFinalizationSync | dvmDetachCurrentThread | __thread_entry – ( memory corruption? )
    3. bug 732059 – crash in TimerThread::UpdateFilter @ libflashplayer.so@0x53.. – ( Flash crashing )
    4. bug 758259 – libstagefright crash in _ZN7android8OMXCodec14configureCodecERKNS_2spINS_8MetaDataEEEj on Samsung GT-I9100G with Gingerbread
  • 15.0b3 Beta top crashes
    1. bug 776334 – crash in mozilla::gl::GLContextEGL::ReleaseSharedHandle on Honeycomb and JB
    2. bug 763166 – crash in mozilla::AndroidGeckoLayerClient::SetFirstPaintViewport – End users need to update
    3. bug 776329 – crash in nsSurfaceTexture::GetTransformMatrix on Honeycomb and JB
  • Aurora top crashes
    1. Fixed on all chans : bug 776909 – Crash Report [@ java.lang.IllegalStateException: MultiChoicePreference entryKeys and initialValues arrays must be the same length at org.mozilla.gecko.MultiChoicePreference.loadPersistedValues(MultiChoicePreference.java) ] – ( Still showing in crash reporting due to users needing to update )
    2. Fixed in Nightly bug 776331 – crash in nsNPAPIPluginInstance::RedrawPlugin on ICS and JB – ( pushed on Aurora & Beta )
    3. bug 776334 – crash in mozilla::gl::GLContextEGL::ReleaseSharedHandle on Honeycomb and JB
    4. bug 765156 – java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.PropertyAnimator.invalidate(PropertyAnimator.java) – ( Reopened )
    5. bug 763166 – crash in mozilla::AndroidGeckoLayerClient::SetFirstPaintViewport
    • End users need to update
  • Nightly top crashes
    1. bug 779826 – java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid size <n> at org.mozilla.gecko.mozglue.DirectBufferAllocator.allocate(DirectBufferAllocator.java)
    • Crash should be fixed, 8/2 is the last time it crashed, 17 only bug. Should ride the train.
    1. bug 765156 – java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.PropertyAnimator.invalidate(PropertyAnimator.java)
    • reopened and being worked on.
    1. bug 780367 – java.lang.IllegalStateException: ScrollView can host only one direct child at android.widget.ScrollView.addView(ScrollView.java)
    2. bug 776334 – crash in mozilla::gl::GLContextEGL::ReleaseSharedHandle on Honeycomb and JB

Roundtable

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