{"id":578,"date":"2011-06-14T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/578"},"modified":"2011-06-14T23:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T03:00:04","slug":"mozilla-platform-meeting-minutes-2011-06-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/578","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Platform Meeting Minutes: 2011-06-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"with-menu\">\n<h1 id=\"page-title\">Platform\/2011-06-14<\/h1>\n<hr>\n<div><span class=\"subpages\">&lt; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\" title=\"Platform\">Platform<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2011-06-07\" title=\"Platform\/2011-06-07\">\u00ab previous week<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\" title=\"Platform\">index<\/a> | <a class=\"new\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/index.php?title=Platform\/2011-06-21&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"Platform\/2011-06-21 (page does not exist)\">next week \u00bb<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;script&gt;if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = &#8220;show&#8221;; var tocHideText = &#8220;hide&#8221;; showTocToggle(); } &lt;\/script&gt;<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Notices \/ Schedule <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> 3.6.18 is going to the beta audience today. If Christian contacts you about an issue found in beta, please jump all over it\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Firefox 5 is in the end game\n<li> We built beta 6 yesterday for a fix on 10.7 (thanks RelEng!)\n<li> We are pushing the build out to the beta audience right now (thanks QA and RelEng!)\n<ul>\n<li> <b>If you find any issues we need to be aware of before ship, please <a class=\"external text\" href=\"mailto:release-drivers@mozilla.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">email release-drivers<\/a> or <a class=\"external text\" href=\"mailto:clegnitto@mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christian<\/a>, find Christian on IRC (LegNeato), or poke a release driver in the office<\/b>\n<\/ul>\n<li> We will officially determine if our current Firefox 5 build is the RC today @ 2:00 pm PDT (Warp Core, x8605)\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Next source migration is <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 5th<\/a>. That means we&#8217;re 1\/2 way through the Aurora and Nightly periods for Firefox 6 and 7 respectively\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox Development <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Looking at instrumentation of browser to dynamically assess cross over points between content\/chrome, as a next step to inform e10s work\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Platform <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> GFX <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> JS <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Bill McCloskey has a working version of incremental GC.\n<ul>\n<li> We&#8217;re currently seeing 3% slowdown on benchmarks due to write barrier. Bill&#8217;s working to track down where that&#8217;s from and improve it.\n<li> Pause times can be dialed all the way down below 1 ms without further slowdown.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Layout <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Bidi performance improvements have landed; performance loading Tinderbox logs should have improved.\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Plugins <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Work on <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=90268\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 90268<\/a> (plugins owned by content) has been progressing well. Basically working on Mac OS X and Linux now, hopefully Windows by the end of the day. Have reserved the &#8220;holly&#8221; branch, if people can help test once the branch is producing builds that would be great.\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> DOM <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> The DOM&#8217;s JS_ClearScope() usage is going away <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=637099\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 637099<\/a> (peterv)\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Network <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Accessibility <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Multi-Process <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Drew needs help from gal\/mrbkap\/bz about dynamic instrumentation of chrome\/content interaction, but has had no response to emails.\n<li> dherman beginning the matching static analysis\n<li> felipe is working on a build-time switch which will let Firefox start up with content processes (with some features disabled)\n<li> multiple content processes has been identified as a primary goal, so that CPU-hog or misbehaving content will be somewhat isolated from other content. bsmedberg will be going through the remaining platform work required for this to make sure we understand the implications.\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Tree Management <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> <b>DOWNTIME<\/b> 4-8am PT Thursday <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.tree-management\/browse_frm\/thread\/a5175a1b38737143#\" rel=\"nofollow\">announcement<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li> Some talos numbers expected to change. We will trigger extra jobs to get a new baseline.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Stability Report <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Trunk pretty stable &#8211; ~ 49K ADUs, 1.91 crashes per 100 ADU.\n<li> Several regressions have surfaced over the past few days.\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=663916\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 663916<\/a> &#8211; Showed up in low volume for 4.0.1 and 5.0 but seems to be much higher on the trunk (131).\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=663924\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 663924<\/a> &#8211; Only a handful on 4.0.1 but rising number on the trunk since June 8th.\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/crash-stats.mozilla.com\/report\/list?product=Firefox&amp;version=Firefox%3A7.0a1&amp;query_search=signature&amp;query_type=contains&amp;query=nsHTMLTextAreaElement%3A%3AAddRef%28%29&amp;reason_type=contains&amp;date=06%2F14%2F2011%2010%3A24%3A47&amp;range_value=1&amp;range_unit=weeks&amp;hang_type=any&amp;process_type=any&amp;do_query=1&amp;signature=nsHTMLTextAreaElement%3A%3AAddRef%28%29\" rel=\"nofollow\">nsHTMLTextAreaElement::AddRef()<\/a> &#8211; not super high volume and some dups but new signature appearing on the 12th.\n<li> Crash team is trying to focus on some of the harder top crashes appearing on 4.0.1 and get the tools\/reports in place for better diagnosis.\n<li> Tracking what happened since we turned off JS PGO &#8211; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=605033\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 605033<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Roundtable <\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2011-06-14\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2011-06-14<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"catlinks catlinks-allhidden\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platform\/2011-06-14 &lt; Platform \u00ab previous week | index | next week \u00bb &lt;script&gt;if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = &#8220;show&#8221;; var tocHideText = &#8220;hide&#8221;; showTocToggle(); } &lt;\/script&gt; Notices \/ Schedule 3.6.18 is going to the beta audience today. 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