Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

8-October-2012

Mozilla Project: 2012-10-08

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

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of the Tree

  • Everybody who worked on the stub installer, both before and on Friday, when we launched it with a Herculean effort! [stephend]

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 09 October

Wednesday, 10 October

Thursday, 11 October

Next Week

the support mobile meetings will be every wednesday for the next couple of weeks until further notice in michelle luna room

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox OS

Speaker Location:’PDX’

  • Product teams are reviewing the requirements against the specifications and the implementation to ensure we’ve got every square inch of the OS validatable.
  • Development teams focusing on bug fixing and performance, including operation SLIM FAST.
  • Dogfooding devices are in, porting in progress.

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: Kate in San Fransisco

  • The deadline to submit a proposal for MozCamp Asia is October 15th. For more information on how to submit a proposal, please see here
  • Mozilla Reps: Everything you wanted to know but never dared to ask. Mozilla Reps Brownbag this Thursday 2012-10-11 13:30 PST in MV.

Speakers

Title Presenter Topic Media More Details
Introducing Webmaker, the Product Erin Knight (phone) (I was on the conference line but couldn’t hear you or speak, will try again next week) Webmaker! Slides http://webmaker.org; http://erinknight.com; erin@mozillafoundation.org
Click-to-play plugins and prompting updates David Keeler (pdx) Plugins Blog post by Jorge

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location Will be working on
John Bernard David Slater London Carrier and OEM Marketing for Firefox OS
Karolina Shaw Barbara Hueppe Berlin Communications Manager
Felix Klock David Herman France Research Engineer
Massimo Gervasini [:mgerva] Chris AtLee Vidyo (if possible) Making Release Engineering even more awesome
Justin Wood [:Callek] Chris Cooper Remote (Phone) Tegras and Pandas and testing (oh my)
Eric Pang [:epang] Ian Barlow Toronto Production Design on Firefox for Android and Firefox OS
William Chen Johnny Stenback San Francisco
Nikhil Marathe Johnny Stenback Mountain View
Matthew Wobensmith Bob Moss Mountain View Security QA
Erv Thomas Mathew Caldwell Mountain View College Recruiting
Nikhil Marathe Doug Turner Mountain View Content/DOM
Aaron Druck Todd Simpson Mountain View User Experience Designer

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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)

QA

WebQA

  • Affiliates
    • Coming soon – bug 760631 – Allow affiliates to link back to a personal website – display website on leaderboard
  • Mozillians (automation)
    • The team is doing an outstanding job of fixing and refactoring our automation suite. A huge shout our and thank you!
    • In discussions to move the project to continuous deployment.
  • Socorro
    • Milestone 21 shipped Thursday — features/bugs
    • Django-based Socorro is queued for sec review

B2G

  • We need help doing manual testing- B2G: browser & email client

Automation & Tools

  • BIG FREAKIN NEWS: sut_tools is updated with modern devicemanager and many patches. This gets us 90% of the way towards changes needed to that toolchain to run on the panda boards
  • Minimal rooting for Android 2.3 phones up to (and including) 2.3.6 is now a 5 minute, pain free process. Contact bc for details
  • Created longer term sheriffing goals
  • We did a hard pivot toward B2G, our revised goals are up, contact ctalbert if you have comments
  • More news here

Engagement

PR

Foundation Updates

Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2012-10-08“
  • 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

3-October-2012

Mobile: 2012-10-03

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

Schedule

  • Next merge is 2012-10-08

Major Topics for This Week

ARMv6

Based on data and feedback, we are not opening Fx16 final release up to ARMv6 devices. We will keep gathering data on the Beta channel (Fx17).

B2G Prioritization

In order to ensure b2g hits it’s “basecamp” timeline, the Mozilla Engineering org is temporarily moving some developers from other projects to work on the remaining b2g and gaia blockers. From Mobile, Margaret Leibovic and Chris Peterson are moving to work on b2g. The overall change has affected our Q4 goals, but Product and Project management have been working to clarify the roadmap and goals.

Graphics, Layout and Media work week;

It is Nov 12-16 in Vancouver. If you are working with the graphics, layout or media teams, you should attend.

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 / This week
  • Fix some updater bugs
  • Try to figure out why TextureView is slow
  • Finish WebGL SurfaceTexture patch (but could be obsolete already)
  • Work on some of the 256-meg project bugs

GBrown

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

  • Done
    • bug 794130 – Aborting painting outside the viewport (waiting on review)
    • bug 797393 – FrameMetrics == operator is broken (waiting on compile, then review)
    • Plan out low-res tiles for progressive tile drawing with BenWa
  • Now/next
    • bug 795259 – Enable progressive tile drawing by default on Android
    • Helping with progressive tile drawing
    • bug 798998 – Planeswalker Points website fails to invalidate correctly
  • Low priority/blocked
    • Blog about invalidation work
    • Invalidation bugs (finishing progressive tiles work first)
    • bug 785069 – tcheckerboard2 has regressed substantially since Jul 22nd
    • bug 792415 – Covered areas of fixed position elements are not rendered
    • bug 783914 – WEBGL_depth_texture doesn’t work using ANGLE (low priority)
    • bug 786412 – Consolidate ContainerLayer functions (waiting on nrc’s shadow layers work)

Chris Peterson

  • Done
    • bug 747629 – java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: getChars (a … b) ends beyond length c or has end before start at android.text.SpannableStringBuilder.checkRange(SpannableStringBuilder.java) at android.text.TextUtils.getChars
    • bug 784329 – Stagefright: Galaxy Nexus hardware decoder video is blank. Need OMX_TI_COLOR_FormatYUV420PackedSemiPlanar color conversion.
    • bug 669361 – ASUS Transformer and Slider hardware keyboard is always en-US (pre-Jelly Bean)
  • Next
    • Assist B2G team with keyboard/IME bugs

GCP

  • Last week:
    • bug 727370 Bad(?) files in safebrowsing folder in user profile prevent loading any site after installing update
    • bug 794354 Valgrind on tbpl detects leak with mozilla::safebrowsing::Classifier::ApplyUpdates on the stack
    • bug 708812 Add investigate and add telemetry probes for android startup
    • bug 794513 Add Telemetry for Awesomebar performance
    • bug 741808 Finish enabling URL classification in SafeBrowsing.js component
  • This week:
    • bug 741808 Finish enabling URL classification in SafeBrowsing.js component
    • Tab thumbnails
    • bug 785960 “Don’t keep activities” developer option gets counted as OOM in telemetry
    • bug 715376 implement per-page event queue, to allow timeout grouping/prioritization/etc
    • bug 797287 Improve image quality in image scaling
  • Telemetry:
    • 75% icon startups, 25% external link startups
    • 5% for which the awesomebar takes >5 to fill
    • 25% for which about:home takes >6 seconds to fill
    • 10% for which Gecko takes >10 seconds to start up

Brian N

  • Done(ish)
    • Bug 769145 – Add an opt-in for the search suggestions feature
    • Bug 797075 – Implement Java-side tab stubs
  • Next
    • Bug 722661 – Stub restored tabs before Gecko starts
    • Bug 582244 – Implement Private Browsing

Sriram

  • Done:
  • Next:
    • Complete Personas as per ibarlow’s mockup
    • Complete widget and Google Now integration.

Wesj

‘Last week’

  • Bug 795053 – White screen on start with WebApps installed, some test failures I need to fix
  • Bug 793197 – Multiple selection dropdown listbox options are not visible [ICS] [JB]
  • Bug 795013 – accepts attribute not working correctly on input elements
  • Bug 786061 – Disable session restore in webapps
  • Bug 784887 – Add message passing for pinch-to-zoom to JS – disabled our swipe gesture support for now. Not aware of anyone using it, but if you were, ping me!

‘Next week’

  • Finish Bug 795053
  • Bug 794245 – Putting an app in the background before gecko is loaded can leave the splash screen showing forever

Lucas

Last week

  • bug 767980 – Tab drawer animation should be smoother
  • bug 786638 – Implement testing infrastructure for reader mode
  • bug 772940 – Swipe to close animation janky
    • bug 778625 – Fade tabs as user swipes to delete
    • bug 766710 – On swipe to close, fade the tab row when it will be deleted
    • bug 787335 – Tabs close at a high speed if swiped both ways and then released to close

Next week

  • bug 759041 – Add swipe between screens in AwesomeScreen (if wesj is not working on it)
  • bug 793771 – Use drawing cache on the tabs pane sliding on pre-ICS phone
  • bug 793769 – Tab pane switching is not smooth on tablets because web content resizes
  • Other UI responsiveness bugs

Margaret

Done:

  • Continued looking into top sites perf – bug 785945 and friends
  • Started preparing for talk at JSConf EU
  • Started transitioning to Gaia development

Next:

  • Speaking about Firefox for Android at JSConf EU
  • Working on Gaia

BLassey

Last week

  • bug 790139 – crash in FT2FontEntry::CreateFontEntry when visiting any site in CM10
    • Bandaid patch posted for review, looks like a much deeper issue though
  • bug 785291 – Add support to load fonts from an APK
    • patch just got r+
    • now we need to add fonts to the product
  • bug 797015 – Add a pref to completely disable screenshot code (including memory allocation)
    • potentially for ARMv6
    • waiting for review from mfinkle
  • bug 795234 – crash in _pixman_implementation_
  • bug 792825 – Crash in js::gc::MarkObjectRange on CyanogenMod 10

This week

  • In SF/MV
  • get all that landed
  • reviews

MFinkle

Done:

  • Landed Google Play campaign tracking (bug 784157)
  • Landed DPI caching to avoid JNI calls (bug 795132)
  • Landed some fixes to menu problems (bug 795911 and bug 793136)
  • Goal planning and re-planning
  • Manager stuff

Ian Barlow

Welcome Eric Pang (epang), our new production designer!

In Progress

UX Bonus Bugs

bug 716403 Scroll header off screen: Double bonus bug – 2 boxes of cookies to whoever fixes this!

General

  • bug 792407 Colour difference between title bar and in content UI background
  • bug 715258 Favicons are low quality for internal / local pages
  • bug 716051 Favicons are low quality for Mozilla-owned web properties

Title bar

  • bug 784362 Fix forward button bg alignment (tablets)

About:home

  • bug 787765 Update about:home thumbnails (Wes taking this)

Menu

Tabs

Reader

  • bug 792420 Toolbar menu shouldn’t allow its text to be selected

Madhava

  • quick introduction of Gregg Lind

Round Table

QA

  • ARMv6 16.0b6 testing blocker -> bug 792428
  • Data so that we can mine crash stats has been acquired bug 794265

Socorro/Breakpad/Stability

Hightlights:

  • From Kairo: “note to be careful with current stats on FennecAndroid Nightly, I’m not 100% sure bug 795349 impacts only /daily or more than that”
  • nhirata still on b2g more so.
  • kairo’s report : fennecandroid.16.0b2.armv6.topcrash

Socorro bugs

Skiplist

Breakpad Integration bugs

Please see Platform Meeting Notes for Stability report

SUMO

Release
Firefox Ratings on Google Play:

5 star -> 55,047

4 star -> 20,203

3 star -> 13,381

2 star -> 8,840

1 star -> 13,831

Overall rating: 3.84

111,302 Total Reviews

Trending Topics:

  • Crashing on Galaxy S Devices (May be bug 786000)
  • Wanting to either change the Home Page, or remove Top Sites (bug 783312)
  • Bookmarks seem hard to access (bug 795331)

Beta
Google Play

Firefox Beta Ratings on Google Play:

5 star -> 10,110

4 star -> 4,018

3 star -> 1,937

2 star -> 1,001

1 star -> 1,716

Overall rating: 4.05

Total Reviews 18,782

Beta feedback is largely following Release for now. Main issues are crashes and website issues (Google Images and Facebook).

You can View all Raw Data at the following docs:

Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Notes/03-Oct-2012“

Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 99998
    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 99998
    • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99998
    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 99998
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2012-10-03

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases

Basecamp

Support readiness meetings begin in earnest this week!
See https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mobile-meet-2012-03-10

Also, the first ever SUMO Help Article Day! is this week, help us document Firefox OS!

Write Help Articles October 4th!

Firefox Desktop

Releases/Firefox_16/Final_Signoffs — 16.0 release is signed off, no blocking issues

Release (15, 10esr)

  • 10.0.8esr being released on Tuesday Oct 9th

Beta (16)

  • Releasing, throttled, next Tuesday (Oct 9th) due to Patch Tuesday

Aurora (17)

  • Merge Day is MONDAY Oct 8th — get your approval-mozilla-aurora+ patches landed before then

Nightly (18)

  • Merging to Aurora on MONDAY Oct 8th – get your no-approval-nom-required r+ patches landed before then

Firefox Mobile

Aurora (17)

  • ARMv6 is staying on Beta channel so continue to request approval/land on 17 in preparation for a 17.0 ARMv6 release to GA
  • Merge Day is MONDAY Oct 8th — get your approval-mozilla-aurora+ patches landed before then

Nightly (18)

  • Merging to Aurora on MONDAY Oct 8th – get your no-approval-nom-required r+ patches landed before then

Add-on SDK

Release (1.10 -> Firefox 16, 17)

Stabilization (1.11 -> Firefox 17, 18)

Development (1.12 -> Firefox 18, 19)

Landing progress:

No audible update as I tripped and went to Berlin for the week, will be back next week.

Feedback Summary

Desktop

No updates today. Prepping for 16 this week.

Mobile

No Major changes this week. See Mobile meeting notes for specifics. 15.0.1 is stable, 16 is stable and go from the SUMO Side.

User Experience (design and research)

  • [desktop]
    • [Misc!] Most of Retina/highDPI has landed: http://cl.ly/image/3K2q153x3z0L/o (about:home changes are still in review)
    • [Australis] (Zhenshuo, Blake)
    • [dev tools] (Brian Dils)
    • [Social API] (Boriss)
      • Mocking up multi-provider & provider switching scenarios
      • Working on installation flows for users with less-than-optimal scenarios (such as out-of-date Firefox)
    • [newtab2/hometab] (Boriss)
      • assembling a concept document for end of week
      • general project information is on this wiki page
    • [stub installer] (Madhava, Stephen)
  • [Behavioral Segmentation Study] (Lindsay, Bill, Leo)
    • is underway!
    • writing participant screeners; have selected a recruiter; in process of selecting a firm to help with the diary study
    • anticipate being in the field the last week of october/first week of november
    • more detail here in last week’s update

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Google

Microsoft

  • Microsoft unveiled TypeScript, a Javascript source processor that allows large development teams to more easily create more strongly-typed code.

OpenWebOS

Opera

  • Opera 12.10 beta was released, offering SPDY support, touch support on Mac and Windows 8 Classic mode, the Share button in Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Mac Retina display support as well as the Fullscreen and Page Visibility APIs. It also supports a number of webkit-prefixed CSS properties

Yandex

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

  • Mobile devices account for more than 10% of page views in the US and select European countries
  • The average tablet users in the US does not generate more page views than the average phone user, despite longer browser sessions
  • Difference in data tracking at infrastructure and device levels exposed in US study
  • Upgrade to 4G speeds increases data demand of users
  • Rumoured announcement of 7.8-inch iPad Mini in October
  • 55% of Androids are on Gingerbread, 23% on Ice Cream Sandwich and 12% on Froyo
  • Chrome is default browser on the Motorola Razor M
  • 25% of Americans own a tablet, half on iOS and half on Android
  • Device with 1.7 GHz quad-core CPU soon available in Europe and North Asia
  • Jolla got 200 million euro funding, setting up a Hong Kong data center link

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Press

Safeguard your online Persona with Mozilla ID system

Mozilla launches first beta version of ‘Persona’ website authentication system

Firefox Will Soon Support Apple’s MacBook Pro Retina Display

Internet Explorer 8 falls below 25% market share, Firefox 15 passes 10% mark, Chrome loses users

Browser Speed Tests, Mac Edition: Chrome 22, Firefox 15, Safari 6, and Opera 12.02

Questions, Comments, FYI

  • (catlee) Working on something that’s going to require changes to how we build, ship, or update products? Please talk to ReleaseEngineering as early in your project as possible!

Actions this week

Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Planning/2012-10-03“

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

2-October-2012

SeaMonkey: 2012-10-02

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

Agenda

  • Who’s taking minutes? -> Ratty
  • Nominees for Friends of the Fish Tank (all for Equinox Bug Triaging):
    • Px
    • lenochod
    • Tonymec

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 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

  • TBD

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 (also see below in the clang section, sea-mini-osx64-1..4).
    • 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.
    • bug 740633 set up seamonkey HPs in scl3. Hardware installed and iLO configured. CentOS 6.3 installed. sea-puppet is online. Callek to set the host up as a puppet master.
  • Linux builds have been failing because the GTK version installed on the tinderboxen was too told. See bug 795354 on updating the GTK version on the tinderboxen. bug 794285 has lowered the GTK version requirement back to 2.10 for now (also see bug 793634 on this, in the future GTK 2.18 and glib 2.22 will be required).
  • Windows builds have been failing because of an out-of-date version of NSIS. bug 794351 took care of updating the Windows tinderboxen to a current NSIS version.
  • Build SeaMonkey using clang bug 775539. In progress.
    • bug 776426 Set up ccache on all MacOSX systems. CCACHE is installed on the MacOSX systems. Buildbot config changes to enable ccache usage have been checked in.
    • bug 791442 Mac trunk build with clang and XCode 4.1 failing. Callek is investigating. Current solution will be to install Mac OS X 10.7 (already done) and all required software on sea-mini-osx64-1..4. There is no solution yet for the machines cb-sea-miniosx64-01..3.

Release Train

  • 2.13b4 shipped September 23
  • 2.13b5 shipped September 28

Extensions Compatibility Tracking

  • See Basics page. Please only list current changes here.
  • Addon Compatibility Listings
    • Nothing to highlight.
  • We’ve had reports of some extensions shipped by default (among them CZ) not being compatible with SM 2.12. InvisibleSmiley guesses we missed to version bump them so people with compatible-by-default pref’ed off run into issues now.
    • IanN to check with Callek/ewong to see if they have updated the release notes to account for version bumping on the extensions we ship as standard.
    • mcsmurf talked to KaiRo about the language pack, but did not come to a conclusion, only that it was “complicated”.
  • 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.
    • Need some traction on this. IanN spoke to Serge at MozCampEU. Serge is waiting for Callek/ewong to agree what needs to happen and to say what is workable or not.

2.x (Last, Current, Next)

  • 2.12 had ~132,900 ADU by last Tuesday and 2.12.1 ~103,600 downloads so far.
    • Of the released versions, as of last Tuesday, we have 11.1% on 2.0, 3.2% on 2.1-2.3, 4.2% on 2.4-2.6, 7.1% on 2.7-2.9, 2.9% on 2.10, 9.8% on 2.11 and 61.7% on 2.12. So, in the last two weeks, ~0.6k (an additional 0.5% of ADU) have migrated to 2.7 or above.
    • ADUs continue increasing after the summer dip (up to ~133k) but still not back up to June levels yet (~144k).
    • 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.
    • We now have a webpage for latest builds available for “Legacy Platforms” like PPC (bug 759315) but hikerbiker suggests making the Legacy/PPC link more discoverable (Mozillazine post). IanN agrees that the current link is not easily found. InvisibleSmiley said that he didn’t want it to be too obvious or highlighted. IanN thinks splitting and renaming Old to Previous isn’t a bad idea and moving Unofficial Releases after it. Perhaps merging Contributed builds into it.
      • This is now bug 788543 SeaMonkey – PPC Legacy links are not easy to find.
      • IanN to check with InvisibleSmiley what he wants to do about this.
  • See Basics page for the usual reminders.

2.12

open tracking (0)
tracking requests (7)
targeted (2)
fixed (12)

  • 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. The ka l10n maintainer has made some recent updates but.
    • Callek needs to look into whether to remove |ka| from our [current] automation entirely or if ka can be sustained going forward. Tracked in bug 667147. [Needs update from Callek].
  • SeaMonkey 2.12 Release Notes
  • Fixes in 2.12.1

2.Next

  • Mozilla-central bugs that affect us:
    • Note: Please file bugs if you notice any landing on mozilla-central that might break us. Please don’t depend on Ratty noticing such landings.
    • [RELANDED] bug 769764 move proxy resolution to separate thread and remove sync api. Tracked in:
      • MailNews bug 791457 MailNews calls synchronous nsIProtocolProxyService::Resolve which doesn’t exist any more since bug 769764 removed it [FIXED].
      • MailNews bug 791645 Rewrite calls to synchronous nsIProtocolProxyService::DeprecatedBlockingResolve with Async code before DeprecatedBlockingResolve disappears as well.
      • porting bug needed for the packaging changes?
    • bug 741059 Make network favicon requests inherit private browsing context of document. Tracked in:
      • bug 792157 Update callers in SeaMonkey code to reflect changes in nsIFaviconService [FIXED].
    • Bug 789546 – Convert all JS users of imgICache service to use privacy-aware imgITools API instead. Tracked in:
      • SM Bug 792700 – Convert all JS users of imgICache service to use privacy-aware imgITools API instead (SeaMonkey part) [IN PROGRESS].
    • bug 695399 Remove calls to nsICacheSession::openCacheEntry on the main thread; and bug 737615 Remove use of synchronous cache API from unit tests. Tracked in:
      • bug 792735 Remove synchronous calls to nsICacheSession::openCacheEntry in SeaMonkey [IN PROGRESS].
    • bug 777292 (nsresult-enum) Make nsresult an enum. Tracked in:
      • bug 793394 Thunderbird build is broken after Bug 777292 (error: cannot convert from ‘int’ to ‘nsresult’) [FIXED].
      • bug 793468 SeaMonkey build is broken after Bug 777292 (error: invalid conversion from ‘unsigned int’ to ‘nsresult’) [IN PROGRESS].
    • bug 793634 Force builds to be compatible with gtk 2.18/glib 2.22. Tracked in:
      • bug 794285 Bug 793634 broke comm-central builds [FIXED].
      • bug 795354 Migrate SeaMonkey Linux builders to CentOS 6.
    • bug 713802 Build with GIO support (and drop GnomeVFS). Tracked in:
      • bug 795359 Temporarily force-enable gnomevfs and disable gio until our Linux builders are upgraded (bug 795354) due to bug 713802 landing in mozilla-central [IN PROGRESS].
      • bug 794772 Port |Bug 713802 – Build with GIO support (and drop GnomeVFS)|
      • bug 795354 Migrate SeaMonkey Linux builders to CentOS 6.
    • bug 795144 default –disable-gnomeui icon theme support
      • porting bug needed for the two configure.in changesets?
    • bug 737833 Implement install/uninstall/helper changes in Fx desktop installer for Fx metro. Tracked in:
      • bug 794071 !insertmacro: macro “__WinVer_DefineOSTest” requires 2 parameter(s), passed 3!
      • bug 794351 have nsis 2.46 installed on Win system [FIXED]
    • bug 322206 Firefox net / stub installer.
      • bug 795580 Stub shouldn’t be copied when it isn’t built (regression from bug 322206) [FIXED].
  • Lightning:
    • bug 785692 Implement the AppButton on toolbars of all tabs.
      • bug 795342 Toolbars in Task/Calendar tabs missing due to undefined entities in SeaMonkey [IN PROGRESS].

Feature List, Planning

Bug statistics for the last two (full) weeks: 41 new, 15 fixed, 162 triaged.

  • Great triaging effort due to Fall Equinox bug event. 🙂

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

Good First Bugs

  • Note: The GFB list is open to all including our regular contributors.
  • Ratty is working on an updated GFB list, suggestions welcome.
  • Currently there are 30 GFBs open, 5 are being actively worked on.
  • List of Open mentored bugs.
    • Ratty notes that there are 24 bugs that are GFBs but without the mentor keyword. These need to be audited to see if they are really suitable as GFBs.
  • In the last two weeks since the previous meeting:
    • Ewong is working on bug 791238 and has fixed bug 715410.
    • Tonymec is working on bug 789865.
    • Newcomers are working on bug 752331 (Amod) and on bug 791266 (idlike2dream).
    • Newccomers Andres Hernandez and Liu have expressed interest in working on some of our GFBs.
    • bug 735333 (Use Services.prefs instead of preferences-service / gPrefService, in SeaMonkey code). Work on this was stalled but Archaeopteryx has picked this up.
    • Work on bug 768025 appears to have stalled.
  • Mentors of stalled bugs should try to communicate with the assignees and if they can’t work on them any more to unassign/free up those bugs.

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).

IanN

  • Usual testing, reviewing and commenting.
  • Fixed:
  • Waiting for review:
  • Checked in pending review:
  • 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 Add en-GB locale to Firefox for Android
  • 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 773979 [META] Switch to new drag and drop api in SeaMonkey
    • 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 793512 Update SeaMonkey website for 2.13 Beta 4
    • bug 789724 Rename “Other Languages” to “Unicode” on the Fonts pref pane (port TB bug 323747)
  • Prepared:
    • bug 795116 Update SeaMonkey website for 2.13 Beta 5

mcsmurf

  • Helped with Equinox Bug Event, resolved a few bugs and investigated a few real bugs
  • Fixed bug 603066 – Path in shell\open\command registry key in installer SetAsDefault function should be quoted
  • Fixed bug 792157 – Update callers in SeaMonkey code to reflect changes in nsIFaviconService
  • Fixed bug 795434 – Port changes to installer manifest from Bug 770778 (e10s support for JS TCP Socket)
  • Filed bug 795476 – Fix out-of-date error message on tinderboxpushlog
  • Created patch for bug 795509 – Port |Bug 645288 – Associate the webm file extension with Firefox|

Mnyromyr

  • Working on bug 127399 Allow sending emails with IDN based email addresses.

Ratty

Fixed:

  • bug 529418 Name of Default HTML Message Font not shown in Preferences.
  • bug 785580 Lightning Calendar/Task icons don’t show up in the SeaMonkey All-Tabs popup menu.
  • bug 791226 navigator.js: Remove some dead code: initConsoleListener and friends.
  • bug 793425 Bookmarks Manager Tools-> Import HTML Wizard not working due to sytax error in migration.js.
  • bug 794067 Sync Feed Preview with Firefox as at 2012/09 (Need to backport to branches).

Working on:

  • bug 789954 TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | /tests/suite/browser/test/test_contextmenu.html | Test timed out. (Port Port bug 778420 Fix up tests that don’t like the new enablePrivilege). Mostly fixed, waiting for post landing reviews.
  • bug 792700 Convert all JS users of imgICache service to use privacy-aware imgITools API instead (SeaMonkey part).

Other:

  • Good first Bugs: See the Good First Bugs section above.
  • Tracking mozilla-central bugs that affect SeaMonkey.
  • Bug triage and Bug discussions.
  • End user support and PR in newsgroups and Mozillazine.

stefanh

  • Fixed:
    • bug 794170 Silence ‘equality comparison with extraneous parentheses [-Wparentheses-equality]’ in nsMsgFolderDataSource.cpp
    • bug 794558 Remove 2 unused vars in mailnews/base/src
    • bug 795712 Silence [-Wunused-private-field] warnings in mailnews
    • bug 795736 Silence some [-Wunused-variable] warnings in mailnews/
    • bug 795997 Silence remaining[-Wunused-variable] / [-Wunused-private-field] warnings in mailnews/
  • Waiting for review:
    • bug 433254 Implement Mac shell service for SeaMonkey
    • bug 783822 [Mac default] adopt editBMPanel to new light coloring

tonymec

  • FIXED
    bug 204553 askViewZoom.xul should use communicator.css instead of navigator.css.
  • ASSIGNED
    bug 789865 Port front-end parts from bug 440794 (Initial sendInBackground support) to SeaMonkey. Has review. Check-in needed.

    bug 794777 Upgrade license to MPL 2 for /suite/installer/license.txt.
  • QA: business as usual.
  • Fall Equinox Bug Event:

Any other business?

  • Bug Day:
    • Useful link: [1], also see [2] for results.
    • please insert results and impressions here
  • 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.
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SeaMonkey Meeting Details

Thunderbird: 2012-10-02

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

Agenda

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

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

  • Box.com referral codes have landed. Woo!
Instant Messaging
  • gtalk fixes to make it easier to configure IM for gtalk have landed in TB17

Google Summer of Code Projects

App Tabs for Thunderbird
  • Overview, Blog, bug 761727
  • Aimed at bringing the App-tab concept of Firefox into Thunderbird.
  • The basic design worked, but session persistence was difficult to implement.
  • Technical issues meant the project didn’t complete.
Improving GMail Integration
  • Overview, bug 721316
  • This work was focussed on improving Thunderbird’s integration with GMail accounts
  • Atul worked primarily on reducing the duplication of email downloaded onto the user’s hard drive
  • This patch landed last week on trunk
  • Atul would like feedback on how the disk space is performing for GMail users now (note: it won’t take effect for emails already downloaded).
Get ISPDB into Production
  • Overview
  • Many bugs have been fixed and the implementation is almost complete
  • Sancus will need to do a little bit of remaining work to get this fully deployed
‘No reply’ reminder for Thunderbird
  • Overview, Status reports, Commits
  • Seems that the code has mainly completed
  • Some good videos on the Weekly Status report page
  • Code is aimed at Lightning, the bug for landing it is here: bug 778533
  • Code currently has a ui-r- from mconley, and is awaiting code review from Fallen
GSoC Summary
  • Lessons to take away:
    • It is critical that students post patches regularly to Bugzilla, or up to their Github fork, regardless of their quality. This way, the mentor can keep tabs on progress, and the student has a back-up in case disaster strikes.
    • It is also important that students are aware of how long ui review and code review takes, and budget that in to their timeline (i.e. reviews along with fixes post-review and re-reviews take at least 4 or 5 days, it’s not the type of thing you can do in 48 hours; better yet is to do reviews of work in progress code)

Schedule and Progress

Extension of the week

  • This week it’s a theme airmail that gives thunderbird a very mail/mailman/airmail look.

Marketing Updates

  • Getting ready for TB16: New feature page on web, What’s New page, blog post…
  • New TB governance: keep on looking for Engagement volunters

Build / Release Update

  • Linux builders moving to CentOS 6 sometime this week. (bug 794378)
    • To pick up updated gtk & glib versions to match mozilla-central and mozilla-aurora
    • Hence, this will be on the TB 17 train
  • Mac OS X 10.8 unit test machines are being added to comm-central and try-comm-central (at least). (bug 786177)
    • Tests may be failing initially (possibly due to address book integration), and will need investigation.
  • bug 793628 – Produce Lightning Nightly builds during Thunderbird build process
    • No Lightning nightlies recently due to CentOS 6 build dependency. Working on a solution.

Web Update

  • Start Page updated
  • Still working on bedrock/mozillians stuff, not much to report yet
  • Audited ISPDB bugs — it looks like all the pieces are done except for the actual step of making the configs accessible to Thunderbird
    • Going to file bugs to get a staging server up from IT

Support

  1. TB Support Community Meeting September 22, 2012 Minutes – Tentative next meeting is Saturday October 13, 5a.m. Pacific
  2. TB16 Support Day is next Wednesday Octoer 10, 2012! – Please add any issues to the Thunderbird 16.0 Support issues page using the tagging convention from the TB16 Support Day Etherpad. Use the following tags and any other relevant Get Satisfaction tags as appropriate: tb16, tb16upgrade, tb16ubuntuone, tb16im,tb16twitter, tb16irc, tb16gtalk, tb16xmpp, tb16compactlost
  3. 1189 new support topics (1234 one week ago ) – Media:24-30September2012-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png
  4. See this week’s Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Status Updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

  • Q: what is the status for windows 8? if possible can you link to bugs
    • Andreas will try it. Please try Thunderbird and let us know if it works on Windows 8 and file bugs if appropriate.
  • If you have a Mac Book Pro Retina, please try Andreas’s try build. Andeas will post a link to the build and bugs.

Attendees

florian, wsmwk, irving, rolandtanglao, standard8, jb, rkent, mconley, andreas, bwinton

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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

Mozilla Platform: 2012-10-02

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

Notices / Schedule

  • FF15 beta 5 was released last Thursday
  • FF16 beta 6 went to build earlier today, will be released in the next 1-2 days
  • FF16 sign-offs will be held tomorrow. Still investigating:
  • CTP blocklisting (FF17) and the OS X 10.5 EOL hotfix (FF16) will be in external testing over the next couple of days
  • FF16.0’s final build will be Friday, shipped on Tuesday
    • ARMv6 support will remain on Beta (FF17) for further testing coverage
    • ESR10.0.8 will be shipped alongside 16.0
  • Merge day is Monday, late morning PT. Make sure any changes you’d like uplifted are on mozilla-central (not inbound)

Firefox OS

  • Feature freeze. Some features straggling in, being tracked heavily. Everyone else focusing on performance, stability and polish.
  • Reconfiguring the ecosystem post-feature-freeze – pushing on new Gaia developer requirements: unit tests, reviews, automation, bugzilla.
  • Coordinating with engineering managers who are donating resources, and coordinating with Developer Engagement outreach for external contributions.
  • Prototype devices: If you’re a developer working on Boot2Gecko, request an Unagi device on ServiceNow, explaining that it’s for development not for dogfooding program.

Firefox Development

  • Stub installer landed! Great work by Robert Strong and Brian Bondy in bug 322206
  • Frank Yan and Stephen Horlander landed the front-end parts of our initial stab at HiDPI support (for Mac Retina displays): bug 781327
  • Mark Hammond, Shane Caraveo, Jared Wein and Felipe Gomes continue to rock it on Social API fixes
  • Margaret Leibovic landed telemetry for web page load time, as measured by the Firefox front-end: bug 790213
  • Good number of front-end random orange bugs were fixed by Tim and Dao: bug 789709, bug 789003, bug 774009, bug 789102, bug 794436

Firefox Developer Tools

Work week in London last week. Progress was made on chrome debugging, b2g web console, source maps, the developer toolbox, and other small improvements.

Blog posts:

Add-on SDK

Performance

  • Jeff has a prototype of bug 792199 that only decodes visible images immediately when switching to a tab
  • Necko team landed bug 769764 gets rid of nasty proxy-related issues
  • Brian’s work to prevent cache lost on crash (bug 105843) shows the following expected improvements
    • Windows: 9.3% -> 2.88%
    • Linux: 22.34% -> 6.07%
    • Darwin: 11.85% -> 2.96%
  • Robcee is working to integrate the SPS profiler into dev tools – defaulting to JS only (bug 795268) http://cl.ly/Jloc

GFX

  • Images are now downscaled using a high-quality scaling algorithm (bug 486918).
    • This is disabled on mobile, where we worry about speed/multicore abilities.
    • It’s also disabled on OS X, which has high-quality downscaling built in.
    • There have been some regressions (crashes mostly), but we hope to keep it on for Fx 18.
  • Q4 GFX goals; important parts:
    • Deliver a D3D10 OMTC implementation for the Windows Metro product.
    • Work on OMTC for other platforms.
    • Work on the Azure project to improve drawing performance.
    • All of this is subject to B2G project needs.

JS

  • Work week in Mountain View – October 22nd through October 26th.

Layout

  • CSS3 Flexbox implementation landed: bug 666041
    • Currently disabled via a build flag by default, pending followups for correctness & conformance with later-game spec-changes. (tracked in bug 783409)
    • Soon to be controlled by a pref instead of build flag (bug 796212), so that nightly testers can turn it on.

Media

  • Most remaining pieces of WebRTC are about to land (most are r+ already)
    • DataChannels and SCTP
    • PeerConnection DOM
    • media/mtransport
    • media/webrtc/signaling
  • Initial landing will be preffed-off by default; we hope to pref-on for FF19

WebAPI

  • majority of work landed for B2G feature freeze
  • sms:, tel:, and mailto: URI schemes landed

Identity

We’ve got a B2G implementation plan for ID (and Payments).

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794552

Need some help on PopupManager (+ crashing B2G Linux desktop build).

Plugins

  • Update on click-to-play eng status (dkeeler)

Mobile

  • progressive tile by tile drawing landed, pref’d off (pref: “layers.progressive-paint”)
  • safe browsing landed and pref’d off

Accessibility

  • No Audible.
  • Helping FF OS priory work: implementing crash reporting (hub)
  • Good progress on mobile a11y.
  • Fixing oranges.

Tree Management

  • armv6 and armv7 testing is enabled per checkin on all branches; armv7-no-ion is per checkin on m-c, m-i and try only
  • new record # of test jobs run on September 26: 41,598 test jobs in one day.

Security

Bugs needing info for security action

ID Summary Status Priority
744538 Security Review:Can’t transfer File objects with postMessage cross domain NEW —
750428 SecReview: Support element.outerHTML property NEW —
744962 Blocklist UX enhancements [Plug-ins] NEW —
787480 SecReview: activation click from about:home or other local content 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 —
773042 SecReview: Filelink: Add account auto config NEW —
780220 Vendor Sec Review: [Akamai] NEW —
749378 SecReview: Network manager API NEW —
744913 Add-On Tab API NEW —
755950 SecReview: Provide a thumbnail service NEW —
789296 [Security Review] Cloud-to-Device Messaging for Firefox for Android NEW P1
749372 SecReview: Relax same-origin XHR restrictions for privileged applications NEW P2
761810 SecReview: Simplify signing XPIs in Jetpack NEW P5
744926 Hang Detector and Reporter ASSIGNED —
744948 Sign into the browser ASSIGNED —
744938 DOMCryptAPI (a Crypto API in the DOM) ASSIGNED —
744934 Speedy Session Restore ASSIGNED —
750736 SecReview: (minotaur) [meta] Implement a script debugger ASSIGNED —
773040 SecReview: Allow launching installed native apps from WebappsInstaller ASSIGNED —
749221 Security Review of Media Plugin API (MPAPI) ASSIGNED —
749355 SecReview: WebContacts (or Contacts+) ASSIGNED P2

Stability Report

Desktop

18.0a1 Nightly

  • bug 795594: Extremely huge (startup) crash spike with Windows 64bit, probably MS compiler issue with PGO, bug 795748 turned off PGO for Win64 for the moment to fix for now.
    • Made us aware that running no tests at all for Win64 means that we don’t even check if builds start up, despite us having quite a few Nightly users on Win64.
    • Discussion brought up that while we’re running tests for tier-1 by-checkin builds (and implicitly testing startup through them), we’re not gating pushing Nightlies (or daily Aurora builds) and their updates on running any tests on those builds and therefore can push updates that don’t even launch.
  • Unassigned new crashers: bug 795728 (GFX, probably from DLBI landing), bug 771407 (layout, recurring DLBI regression), bug 795819 (layout, probably from DLBI landing)
  • bug 795940 is a new crash that has a patch up for review, probably also fixes bug 795942.
  • bug 793175 is a high-rank topcrash (#2/#3 depending on the view) with a reviewed patch up, but not landed and no comment for a week. bug 758531 is probably a duplicate.
  • bug 795829 crash in mozilla::layers::Layer::CalculateScissorRect
  • bug 795826 crash in mozilla::`anonymous namespace’::ContainerState::Finish
  • bug 795819 crash in mozilla::FrameLayerBuilder::BuildContainerLayerFor
  • bug 795749 crash in mozilla::FrameLayerBuilder::DrawThebesLayer
  • bug 795728 crash in mozilla::layers::ContainerLayer::DefaultComputeEffectiveTransforms

Beta

  • bug 795683 crash in mozilla::plugins::PStreamNotify::Transition with abort messages: “__delete__()d actor” or “corrupted actor state” mainly with FlashGot
  • bug 795675 crash in JSC::Yarr::interpret on JB
  • bug 795962 crash in F412627940
  • hangs dominate the landscape of Top 20 crashes in Beta 5

Aurora

  • bug 795104 crash in _VEC_memcpy | js_NewStringCopyN

Flash

  • New labs version of Flash was released on 9/26 – version 11.5.x

Mobile

Nightly :

  • 9 out of top 10 are startup crashes
    • mostly due to bug 790139 has better symbols; freetype font issue.

Aurora:

  • Aurora crash rate seem to have spiked up a little
  • bug 777460, bug 791441 are on the rise in Aurora
  • lots of libxul crashes. Not sure what to do with them as of yet.

Beta:

  • Crashes are almost as good as Release crashes. Because the ADU are lower comparatively to Release, Naoki believe that the crash rate may be lower in the release channel once beta is pushed to release.

Release :

QA:

  • a lot more libxul crashes are shown at the bottom of nightly and other channels which is disconcerting.
  • bug 752828 looking at the patch from bug 741224, it might be helpful to get the API levels for the crashers?
    • Need STR from QA.
  • bug 750217 is not fully fixed.

Monitoring:

See Mobile Notes for Mobile specific Socorro notes

B2G

  • B2G crashes are starting to show in socorro!
    • We still need to get symbols for these crashes to make them useful (which requires builds coming from releng infrastructure).
  • Discussions on UX flow nearing final decision, will need implementation soon.
  • Work is ongoing on getting content crashes to work and getting annotations up – see dependencies of bug b2g-crash-reporting.

Roundtable

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Platform Meeting Details

  • Tuesday 2012-10-02 – 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

1-October-2012

Mozilla Project: 2012-10-01

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

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of the Tree

Potch would like to thank Ben Adida and everyone involved in the Persona Beta launch for nailing it and getting the broader Web community excited about Identity!

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, 03 October

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mobile-meet-2012-03-10 – 2:30pm pst in Michelle Lunas room about firefox for mobile support – satdav

Thursday, 04 October

Grow Meeting 10 AM Pacific https://wiki.mozilla.org/Grow/Meeting_10_04_12 – satdav

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: Mountain View (johnath)

  • Next week is release week!
    • FF16 becomes release
    • FF17 becomes beta (remember, this is ESR17, too)
    • FF18 becomes Aurora
    • Nightly becomes FF19
  • Stub installer has landed
    • Working with *lots* of people about roll out

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: Mountain View (johnath)

  • Next week is release week!
  • Making the call on ARMv6 this week for FF16

Mozilla Festival

Speaker Location: OpenMatt in Toronto

If you’re Mozilla staff and would like to attend:

  • Get approval from your managers to cover travel & accommodation
  • Sign up here when you know you’re coming
  • Let us know how you’d like to plug in (run a session, volunteer, etc)
  • We’re especially looking for: UX designers, Javascript developers, and Firefox OS / mobile hackers

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Dietrich

  • Freezing feature work. Some pieces remaining, will straggle in over the next couple of weeks. Most development turning to bug fixes, polish and performance.
  • Stabilization period policy
  • Gaia issues moving over to Bugzilla for the remaining portion of the release cycle.
  • Open Gaia blockers – Need web developers to help out with any of these bugs that aren’t labeled “feature”.
  • Dogfooding – Device arrival is imminent, expect communication once initial flashing procedures are worked out.

Grow Mozilla

MozCamp Asia Call for Participation was sent out to Paid-staff this morning. All participation proposals are due by October 15th. If you have any questions about your proposal, please do not hesitate to reach out to mozcamp@mozilla.com. More information on how to submit a proposal can be found here

Speakers

Title Presenter Topic Media More Details
New Business Ideas Christopher Arnold New Wiki Link for submitting business concepts https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:IdeaEvaluation.jpg https://wiki.mozilla.org/Legal/New_Business_Ideas
Firefox for Android – Expanding to ARMv6 Karen Rudnitski Call to Action: testing Firefox for Android on ARMv6 phones https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2012/09/07/firefox-for-android-beta-is-expanding-support-to-new-devices-help-us-test/ https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2012/09/07/firefox-for-android-beta-is-expanding-support-to-new-devices-help-us-test/

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location Will be working on
Massimo Gerva [:mgerva] Chris AtLee Vidyo (if possible) Making Release Engineering even more awesome
Justin Wood [:Callek] Chris Cooper Remote (Phone) Tegras and Pandas and testing (oh my)
Eric Pang [:epang] Ian Barlow Toronto Production Design on Firefox for Android and Firefox OS
William Chen Johnny Stenback San Francisco
Nikhil Marathe Johnny Stenback Mountain View
Matthew Wobensmith Bob Moss Mountain View
John Bernard David Slater London Carrier and OEM Marketing for Firefox OS
Erv Thomas Mathew Caldwell Mountain View College Recruiting

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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)

QA

WebQA

  • Affiliates
  • AMO
  • Marketplace
  • Mozillians (automation)
    • rbillings, stephend, and mbrandt met with cmore to discuss coverage
  • Mozilla.com
  • MDN
  • Socorro
  • SUMO
    • First iteration of new SUMO UI went out to all users successfully – yay!
    • Upcoming roll outs are based on a few bugs here and there, Ricky confirmed that the team would not need concentrated QA on any of the releases.
  • MozTrap
    • Planning October development, and discussing B2G needs
  • Wiki
  • B2G
    • Test case writing bonanza

Automation & Tools

  • Bugzilla Per-comment tagging patch ready this week (will land upstream first, then in BMO). Follow along in bug 793963
  • Intermittent Orange work:
  • Patched over an issue with the newer tegras and reftest bug 792212 should allow us to turn on some new tegras for android tests.
  • Got a subset of Reftests green on B2G!! Layout team is helping pick off reftest issues coming up in that testing.
  • More details here

WebFWD

As we’re kicking off our 2nd class (“WebFWD II”) this week, we will be featuring each of our teams on our blog in the next week or two – please get to know them! http://blog.webfwd.org

Foundation Updates

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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
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