Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

11-April-2016

Mozilla Project: 2016-04-11

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  • Every Monday @ 11:00am Pacific Time (19:00 UTC)
  • http://air.mozilla.org/ to watch and listen
  • join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion
  • Presenters only: Vidyo room “Brownbags”. Do not use this room if you’re not planning to speak.
  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (max 48 users at any time)
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 8600
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 8600
    • sip:conf8600@mozilla.com or, for some clients, sip:conf8600@anonsip.scl3.mozilla.com (may not work for all rooms)
    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn’t look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
    • If you plan on presenting, please join the Vidyo BrownBags 20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting and announce to the A/V Technicians that you will be speaking so that they can confirm your Audio and Video.

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of Mozilla

  • Thanks to Martin Giger for writing up a JPM changelog for the latest update! JPM releases contain crucial bug fixes that matter to developers, and this is the first time someone has documented them.
  • Daniele Scasciafratte, for his Python script for packaging WebExtensions. Tools like these really improve the experience of developing WebExtensions, so thank you!
  • Thanks to Mozilla Tech Speakers Rabimba Karanjai for speaking at IoT Summit in San Diego last week; Gabriel Mičko for participating in the Game of Code hackathon in Luxembourg; and Aya Soufan for her talk at the NablusTechMeetup at The Arabic American University in Palestine, introducing Mozilla contribution opportunities to attendees.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 11 April

Wednesday, 13 April

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox and Cloud Services

Speaker Location: Toronto

  • Firefox 46 release date has changed to Apr 26

The Firefox release date for Firefox 46 has been pushed out from April 19 to April 26. The corresponding merge dates and releases for beta 47, aurora 48, and nightly 49 will also move to be in sync with 46. If you have any questions please ask Liz Henry (:lizzard in #relman)

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per topic. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week. The meeting is streamed in a 4:3 format in order to allow for split screen. If your slides are 16:9 “widescreen” format, please indicate in the “Sharing” column below.

Presenter Title Topic Location Sharing Media More Details
Who Are You? What Do You Do? What are you going to talk about? Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space) Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, 4:3 or 16:9) Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information
An-Me Chung Director of Strategic Partnerships, Mozilla Foundation Mozilla’s new, interactive Web Literacy Map Remotely Yes https://teach.mozilla.org/web-literacy https://teach.mozilla.org/web-literacy
Lucy Harris Program Manager, Participation Team The New NDA Process Toronto Yes https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1IA7Y-W2z19zmWVSxXe7pvphwPhfQKByoCV_J_4O76MM/edit?usp=sharing https://wiki.mozilla.org/NDA

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer Introduced by Speaker location New Volunteer location Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where will the new person be contributing from? What will the new person be working on?

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Farhan Patel Stefan Arentz Toronto Canada Remote Mobile UI
Calvin Chan Mike Poessy San Francisco Vancouver End User Services

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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)

Developer Relations

Developer Relations at Mozilla
Monday, April 11, 2016

Notices:

Planning: MozFest, Tech Speakers v2, Code Schools, Web Compat, content licensing

Events / Talks / Meetups / Trainings

Bugs

Blog posts & Podcasts

Hacks Posts

Calendars

Follow

Help

Engineering Productivity (Automation & Tools)

Engagement

Events

Connected Devices meetup in San Fransisco on April 21st. We have one great speaker planned and are confirming 2 more.

6-April-2016

Mobile: 2016-04-06

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Schedule

Topics for This Week

  • Firefox 46 released delayed by one week

Friends of the Mobile Team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Make sure friends also get awarded a badge. New contributors are highlighted in bold. Want to update this section?

  • Dinesh Polathula (:dineshp) fixed bug 1257217 – Remove unused method GeckoPreferences.broadcastPrefAction()
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 1044556 – Tabs unloaded from memory occasionally forget their browsing history and current page
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 1260113 – Fix remaining issues with zombification of tabs that are playing audio
  • Jan Henning [:JanH] fixed bug 852267 – Interruption during session restore results in loss of session data
  • Mouaad fixed bug 1255394 – Fix package of Restrictions class
  • litunone fixed bug 1227321 – Settings indentation on tablets is funky

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

Android front-end

margaret, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, ahunt, grisha (nalexander/rnewman)

iOS

bkmunar, bnicholson, fluffyemily, jhugman, sleroux, st3fan

  • Almost ready to cut a tag for v 4.0
  • Landed:
    • Work towards rekeying our strings to make multiple localisations for the same string easier
    • Including bookmarks in awesomebar search results
    • Opening new tabs from the Today widget
    • Sync on Exit
  • In Development
    • Menu – looking at turning menu functionality into easily repeatable actions that can be called from anywhere
    • Improving security of Logins behind passcode/touch ID when app is backgrounded
    • Updating the URL toolbar to include new button layouts
    • Creating a toolbar for the Tab Tray

UX

tecgirl, antlam, gemma, sevaan

  • iOS
    • Bookmarks management
    • Control center
    • Search engine customization
  • UR
    • Hiring
    • Germany research analysis
    • Monthly tablet study

QA

Feature Focus


Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 99998
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 99998 (max 48 users at any time)
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 99998
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 99998
    • sip:conf99998@mozilla.com or, for some clients, sip:conf99998@anonsip.scl3.mozilla.com (may not work for all rooms)
    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn’t look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room

5-April-2016

Channel: 2016-04-05

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

lizzard, Axel, kmoir, philipp, flod, jst, ritu, calixte, bsmedberg, KaiRo, sylvestre,elan, blassey

Schedule Update

  • Best to push the schedule back for 46. beta->release merge, Apr 18 Merge: Apr 25 Release: Apr 26
    • We missed nearly 3 betas (with beta 1 only being for en-US). Beta 3, beta 6 skipped, beta 7 late (released yesterday)
    • Firefox 47 still planned to release on June 7.
  • The schedule allowed for a 7 week cycle between 46 and 47 release. Changing that to 6 weeks for 47.
  • This helps l10n as well for 46 (delayed by the infrastructure issues last week)
  • more time to iron out any issues with build promotion
  • more time to land crash fixes and react to beta 7/8 changes
  • Better crash data with e10s disabled (experiment cut-off didn’t land till beta 8)
  • If we delay 46, we will do a 45.0.2 (probably tomorrow)
    • Discussed about cancelling it because only 2 weeks away from the release but as we are delaying 46 …
    • A top crash
    • Some web compat issues
    • No single drivers but all combined…
    Bug 1254980 -       Copy-pasting selected HTML from Firefox to a new Thunderbird message (using TB 38) or to BlueGriffon is broken as of Firefox 45
    Bug 1257861 -       Firefox 45 fails to send Cookie header with XHR post requests done from a web worker when third-party cookies are blocked
    Bug 1260961 -       Legitimate CORS requests are blocked by Firefox 45.0.1
    Bug 1258562 -       Crash in dom::MediaSource::Duration - top crash
    Bug 1256442 -       Ship 1.1.x of the Loop system add-on to the release population
    Bug 1258650 -       Yahoo finance chart comparison "overlays" not displayed properly because of bad interaction with scaled clip and mask combo
    Bug 1259482 -       Product image not changing upon selection in Woocommerce/Wordpress

Stability

Aurora

Overall rate: 2.5 – browser: 1.0, content: 1.5 – red

  • signatures of bug 1259699 are the top 3, fix uplifted yesterday

Beta

Overall rate: 1.3 – browser: 1.1, content: 0.2 – red. Not worse than beta 5, anyway (these numbers are still mostly about b5 and earlier)

  • Looks like e10s is still on for a significant amount of people, is there still an ongoing experiment? Yes, it turns off in beta 8
  • bug 1246108 (wasapi_stream_start) is fixed in b7
  • AsyncShutdown crashes are 1.9% of early b7 data
  • bug 1189715 (gfxContext::gfxContext, #6 top crash in b7, 1.4%) still happening in beta 8 although we though we had a fix in bug 1259810

Release

Overall rate: 1.0 – yellow

  • Trusteer crash bug 1255026 definitely decreasing on Windows, but the OS X signature continues to be high #16 or so on release? How bad is bad?
  • Flash game crash bug 1252152 has decreased noticeably last week

QE

Beta

  • 1262149 – Firefox users with OS X 10.11 and QuickTime 7.7.3 cannot playback video content requiring this video player and are prompted to use Safari instead. (all branches – not just beta)
  • I noticed with OS X 10.11, each time I restart (or maybe reboot) I am prompted to make Safari my default browser now (or later) There is no option to say “never ask me again”.

Roundtable

inquiry from sumo: will we go ahead with the plan to deprecate support for os x 10.6-10.8 and migrate those users to esr 45.1.0 instead of 46?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255589

Followup on thread about stub install alerting: who is the first line on-call for release issues?

  • liz to ask catlee and lawrence about this. relman, or releng?

Tracked bugs with no owners! Let’s triage on Tuesday since these can potentially block release.

Tracked bugs with no owners, for Thursday triage.


Channel Meeting Details

Video/Teleconference Details – NEW

  • 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99951 (US/INTL)
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99951 (US)
  • Vidyo Room: ReleaseCoordination
  • Vidyo Guest URL

Thunderbird: 2016-04-05

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Thunderbird notes 2016-04-05. NOON PT (Pacific). For meeting time, previous notes and call-in details see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings

Attendees

marcoagpinto, aceman, ba, Jorg K, Paenglab, wsmwk, rkent, mkmelin, makemyday

MAIN FOCUS OF MEETING

  • release 45

Action items from last meetings

Current status / Announcements

Current Release Critical Issues

Leave critical bugs here until confirmed fixed. If confirmed, then remove.

blocking

  • bug 1224846 (esr45) – TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | toolkit/components/osfile/tests/xpcshell/test_read_write.js
    • Fallen?
  • bug 1250723 (esr45) – startup CRASH: C-C TB ASSERTION: can’t be your own parent aka morkTable::AddRow (v45 topcrash)
    • rkent is taking this, reproducible result of exceeding limit of key size – FIXED, LANDED
  • bug 1251120 (esr45)- crash in nsMsgI18NConvertFromUnicode (v45 topcrash) – FIXED, LANDED
  • Bug 1162148 – Warning: Identity file /builds/.ssh/{ffxbld_rsa,tbirdbld_dsa} not accessible: No such file or directory (won’t be needed after esr38, fixed in 42) – status?
  • status TBD – bug 1182629 – update to 38.1.0 from 38.0.1 re-enables disabled Lightning
  • status TBD – bug 1176399 – Multiple master password when GMail OAuth2 is enabled
  • status TBD – bug 1176748 – fix main thread proxies to the migration code (jorgk and m_kato helped in past)
  • proxy (eg causing foxyproxy problems)
  • topcrash bug 1149287 is ** 31% of our crashes** – see below
  • bug 1211291 (esr38, unknown in esr45) – Folders are visible, but messages are not. (?related to bug 1211358 lightning chrome.manifest not updated in 38.3.0 ?)
    • nobody has a clue about what to do with this, leaning toward shipping 38.7.0 with not fix. (wsmwk) agree, ship without fixing it
  • Problems updating to 38.6 to do with Lightning bug 1249894 and its five duplicates. Two users attached their extensions folder.
    • Isn’t this the same as the one above, bug 1211291?

Version 45

  • tracking-tb45 flags: unfixed ?/+ – http://mzl.la/1PMzNiK
  • Items that may need to be checked and tested: gtk3, windows 10

Releases

  • Past
    • 45.0b1 2016-02-04 with GTK3 built but updates not enabled
    • 45.0b2 with GTK2 2016-02-19
    • 45.0b3 (shelved)
    • 38.6.0 2016-02-12
    • 38.7.0
    • 38.7.1 (shelved)
    • 38.7.2

Lightning

Past releases:

  • 4.0.7.2 (bundled)
  • 4.0.5.2 (AMO)

Upcoming releases:

  • 4.0.8 (bundled) (TB 38.6)
  • 4.7.0 – bug 1225778 (TB 45 tracking)

Round Table

Jorg K

  • Landed in last four weeks:
  • Awaiting review:

wsmwk

  • triage Neil review and NI requests
  • releases

rkent

  • donation website is “live” but procedures to report and spend income are not established. Meeting on Thursday 2016-04-07 with MoFo admin on this.
  • beginning to investigate bug 1260724 IMAP failing with godaddy servers in TB 38
  • investigated and landed bug 1250723 (esr45) – startup CRASH: C-C TB ASSERTION: can’t be your own parent aka morkTable::AddRow (v45 topcrash)
  • releases
  • I have a huge project to convert ExQuilla to JS (prototype for a possible similar conversion for Thunderbird) that will take the majority of my time for the next six months.

Question Time

rkent, there is no 64-bit version of TB 45 for Windows. It seems only 46+ but the next public will be 52. 🙁 Is there a possibility of compiling 45 in 64-bit?

  • Someone needs to work on the release engineering to figure out to enable those builds.

Help Wanted

  • Accessibility lead
  • Person comfortable (not necessarily technical experts) with Core type issues. Example, graphics to guide bug 1195947 Thunderbird hardware acceleration (HWA) issues to be resolved
  • Lead to run the donation campaign after TB 45 is released.

4-April-2016

Mozilla Project: 2016-04-04

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm
  • Every Monday @ 11:00am Pacific Time (19:00 UTC)
  • http://air.mozilla.org/ to watch and listen
  • join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion
  • Presenters only: Vidyo room “Brownbags”. Do not use this room if you’re not planning to speak.
  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (max 48 users at any time)
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 8600
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 8600
    • sip:conf8600@mozilla.com or, for some clients, sip:conf8600@anonsip.scl3.mozilla.com (may not work for all rooms)
    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn’t look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
    • If you plan on presenting, please join the Vidyo BrownBags 20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting and announce to the A/V Technicians that you will be speaking so that they can confirm your Audio and Video.

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of Mozilla

  • Elio Qoshi, Kristi Progri, Ardian, Redon and the rest of the Mozilla Albania community who hosted and attended Moz Tech Speaker weekend workshop in Tirana, Albania.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 04 April

Wednesday, 06 April

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

IT/Ops

Speaker Location: Mountain View

VidyoDesktop 3.6.3 for Windows and OS X live on the Vidyo Portal today.

  • Active Speaker Icon
  • Multiple Missed Call log
  • Improved Far End Camera Control
  • Improved CPU handling
  • General Stability and Security fixes

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per topic. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week. The meeting is streamed in a 4:3 format in order to allow for split screen. If your slides are 16:9 “widescreen” format, please indicate in the “Sharing” column below.

Presenter Title Topic Location Sharing Media More Details
Who Are You? What Do You Do? What are you going to talk about? Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space) Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, 4:3 or 16:9) Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information
Mike Hoye I talk too much. Engineering Onboarding Redux: The Reduxening Mozilla Toronto no none GDocs link.

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer Introduced by Speaker location New Volunteer location Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where will the new person be contributing from? What will the new person be working on?

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Thom Chiovoloni Chris Karlof SF Mozilla Boston Firefox Sync
Jess Lin Lisa Gray San Antonio, TX San Francisco Office WPR Office Service Coordination to keep SFO office running smoothly.
Abbie Woods Lisa Gray San Antonio, TX Mountain View Office All things WPR that make MTV a great MozSpace.
Jennie Hayes Lori Jashinsky MTV Vancouver WPR
Johann Hofmann Panos Astithas Recording Berlin Firefox Desktop
Janis Greenspan Mary Ellen Muckerman San Francisco San Francisco Brand Strategy & Marketing
Andreas Farre Andrew Overholt Toronto Sweden Remote Platform Engineering

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Edouard Oger Chris Karlof SF SF Firefox Sync

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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)

Developer Relations

Events / Talks / Meetups / Trainings

  • Jason Weathersby is attending MS Edge conf in SF
  • Jen Simmons is speaking at An Event Apart Seattle and at Respond Sydney & Melbourne later this week
  • Dietrich and Tech Speaker Rabimba Karanjai are speaking at OpenIoT Summit in San Diego
  • Bill Walker speaking at Web Audio Conf in Atlanta
  • Belén Albeza and Sole Penadés speaking at Word Camp London next weekend
  • Rails Girls Summer of Code – team applications due date is on April 10. Mozilla is sponsoring! Rails Girls SOC

Bugs

Hacks Posts

Calendars

Follow

Engineering Productivity (Automation & Tools)

Engagement

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