{"id":589,"date":"2011-06-28T23:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/589"},"modified":"2011-06-28T23:00:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T03:00:03","slug":"mozilla-platform-meeting-minutes-2011-06-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/589","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Platform Meeting Minutes: 2011-06-28"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"with-menu\">\n<h1 id=\"page-title\">Platform\/2011-06-28<\/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\/2011-06-21\" title=\"Platform\/2011-06-21\">\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\/2011-07-05&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"Platform\/2011-07-05 (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\"> Q3 Goals <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Realize Android as a top-tier supported platform alongside Windows, Mac, and Linux.\n<li> Implement priortized list of features required to support Web Apps (Joint with Product and Apps teams).\n<li> Ship a new developer tool prototype in a release.\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Notices \/ Schedule <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Firefox 5 looks great, thanks everyone for your hard work!\n<li> Next mozilla-central \u2192 mozilla-aurora source migration is on 2011-07-05 (<b>1 week!<\/b>)\n<li> We&#8217;ll have a rapid-release process postmortem this Thursday, 2011-06-30 from 10:00 am PDT &#8211; 12:00 noon PDT. Details will be sent to dev-planning today\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox Development <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> GFX <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Bas landed the new Azure Canvas backend using Direct2D on mozilla-central. Nightly is much faster on a lot of benchmarks!\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.basschouten.com\/blog1.php\/comparing-performance-azure-vs-cairo\" rel=\"nofollow\">Preliminary results were published a while ago.<\/a>\n<li> Please test sites that use Canvas, and report bugs!\n<\/ul>\n<li> If you&#8217;re using Windows 7 or Vista, please fill out <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nattokirai\/2011\/06\/23\/directwrite-text-rendering-survey\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Daggett&#8217;s DirectWrite font rendering survey<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> JS <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> We got a break on an EnterMethodJIT crash!\n<ul>\n<li> Users had been reporting crashes on Yahoo Mail Beta (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=655660\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 655660<\/a>) and others.\n<li> David Anderson was able to reproduce the crash and fix it.\n<li> The bug was a too-small bitfield holding patch locations for ICs that could grow very large.\n<li> This bug might be a good fraction of the EnterMethodJIT crashes we get.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> We&#8217;re starting work on GC topcrashes\n<ul>\n<li> Bill McCloskey is finishing a new Breakpad feature to snapshot stack traces at desired points (e.g., when GC runs) and put them in minidumps: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=662646\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 662646<\/a>.\n<li> Figuring out these crashes will take a while&#8211;we&#8217;ll need to experiment with different measurements and analyze data over time.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Layout <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> text-overflow landed! Includes text-overflow:ellipsis and text-overflow:&lt;string&gt; <del>and text-overflow:&lt;left&gt; &lt;right&gt;<\/del>! Handles all sorts of edge cases other browsers don&#8217;t reach! (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=312156\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 312156<\/a>)\n<li> Looks like Jonathan Kew got a 6% Tp win on MacOS 10.6 using some new font APIs\n<li> Zzzzz\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Plugins <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> DOM <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> DOM memory reporting starting to shape up, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=663271\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 663271<\/a> (Mounir)\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> Initial landing of ifdefs almost complete.\n<li> Initial dynamic analysis of chrome-content interactions up for review.\n<li> Bugs for multiple content processes posted, see <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=641683\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 641683<\/a> for details.\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Tree Management <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> disable tp4 (except for older release branches)\n<ul>\n<li> tp5 catches the same regressions and has been running side-by-side it for almost two weeks on all branches\n<li> this was announced last week on this meeting and through mailing lists\n<li> everything is ready to disable it on this Thursday\n<li> please read more about it on this <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/armenzg.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/disabling-tp4.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">blog post<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Turning off Firefox 3.5 automation this week.\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/oduinn.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/27\/stopping-firefox-3-5\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/oduinn.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/27\/stopping-firefox-3-5\/<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=666407\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 666407<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Stability Report <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Trunk crashes have been a bit wild\n<li>List for yesterday &#8211; <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/crash-analysis.mozilla.com\/chofmann\/20110627\/top-7.0a1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/crash-analysis.mozilla.com\/chofmann\/20110627\/top-7.0a1.html<\/a>\n<li>Top Crash on the trunk is now fixed: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=666751\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 666751<\/a>\n<li>New regressions on the trunk:\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=667624\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 667624<\/a>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=667618\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 667618<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Spike in plugin crashes on the trunk on 2011-06-25: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/crash-analysis.mozilla.com\/chofmann\/20110626\/top-plugin-crashes-7.0a1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/crash-analysis.mozilla.com\/chofmann\/20110626\/top-plugin-crashes-7.0a1.html<\/a>. Needs some investigation.\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=665775\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 665775<\/a> should alleviate some of the datamngr.dll crashes which affect all versions (#19 top non plugin crash on Firefox 5 currently)\n<li> If you want to discuss crashes more, come to <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/CrashKill\" title=\"CrashKill\">CrashKill<\/a> on Monday.\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Roundtable <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Telemetry is on, start adding probes: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/tglek\/2011\/06\/22\/developers-how-to-submit-telemetry-data\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/tglek\/2011\/06\/22\/developers-how-to-submit-telemetry-data\/<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li> It&#8217;s easy! It can take as little as 10 minutes!\n<li> If you&#8217;re not sure whether a new probe would introduce privacy problems, ask Asa (who will check with legal &amp; privacy teams).\n<\/ul>\n<li> MSVC 2010 Migration: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.kylehuey.com\/post\/7015378885\/migrating-to-msvc-2010\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/blog.kylehuey.com\/post\/7015378885\/migrating-to-msvc-2010<\/a> &#8211; followup to .platform\n<ul>\n<li> Means dropping support for Win2000 and WinXP-before-SP2\n<\/ul>\n<li> Aurora is next week, time for features-of-note!  Please mail blizzard@mozilla.com if you have new developer or platform features, new developer tools or performance improvements of platform changes worth noting in our public communications or records.\n<li> WebGL Security Discussion\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2011-06-28\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2011-06-28<\/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\/2011-06-28 &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; Q3 Goals Realize Android as a top-tier supported platform alongside Windows, Mac, and Linux. 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