{"id":615,"date":"2011-08-02T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/615"},"modified":"2011-08-02T23:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T03:00:04","slug":"mozilla-platform-meeting-minutes-2011-08-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/615","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Platform Meeting Minutes: 2011-08-02"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"with-menu\">\n<h1 id=\"page-title\">Platform\/2011-08-02<\/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\/2011-07-26\" title=\"Platform\/2011-07-26\">\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\/2011-08-09&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"Platform\/2011-08-09 (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\"> Applications <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Installing an app to the platform\n<ul>\n<li> DOM API\n<li> App points to URI with json meta data\n<li> Permissions granting is up in the air\n<li> How to offer apps -&gt; via a website\n<li> Profile integration for stand alone apps\n<\/ul>\n<li> Web Activities\/Intents\n<ul>\n<li> Webkit working on this too\n<li> W3C proposal\n<\/ul>\n<li> Mail threads to dev-planning\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Apps\" title=\"Apps\">Apps<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Notices \/ Schedule <\/span><\/h1>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Old and busted<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> The code freeze for Firefox 3.6.20 was <b><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Firefox_3.6.20\" rel=\"nofollow\">YESTERDAY<\/a><\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>  <b>If you have a bug in <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL%20blocking1.9.2%3A.20%2B%20-status1.9.2%3A.20-fixed\" rel=\"nofollow\">this list<\/a> you have outstanding work<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li> Andreas and Benjamin: If you won&#8217;t get to the fix, think it is too risky, or think we don&#8217;t need to block please let us know (w\/ reasoning of course)\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\">New hotness<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>Beta<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Planning to create the last beta build \/ &#8220;RC&#8221; for this cycle <b>TOMORROW<\/b>, 2011-08-03\n<li> If no issues are found we will ship the last beta build \/ &#8220;RC&#8221; as final on 2011-08-16\n<ul>\n<li> <b>If you find any issues that would require a respin or prevent us from releasing please email <a class=\"external text\" href=\"mailto:release-drivers@mozilla.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">release drivers<\/a><\/b>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Aurora<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The AMO automated compatibility bump was done late last week\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Nightly<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <b>Reminder: <\/b> The next mozilla-central \u2192 mozilla-aurora source migration date is 2011-08-16, <i>~2 weeks away<\/i>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox Development <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Marco Bonardo landed a patch to collect telemetry data about places databases (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=671001\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 671001<\/a>)\n<li> Frank Yan landed tab dragging animations last week (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=455694\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 455694<\/a>) &#8211; \\o\\\n<li> Ran into some issues with sessionstore dataloss due to sessionhistory bugs, Paul O&#8217;Shannessy worked to develop some workarounds on the session restore side (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=669196\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 669196<\/a>), and Tim Taubert and Justin Lebar have been doing great work investigating the underlying issues (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=670318\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 670318<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=673467\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 673467<\/a>)\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox Developer Tools <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Performance <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> GFX <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> JS <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Sean Stangl joined Monday, initially working on IonMonkey\n<li> A few ARM perf wins from Marty (with a little help from Jacob Bramley, I think):\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=673314\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 673314<\/a>: enable ARM multiply instructions in JM\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=674143\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 674143<\/a>: new value tags that are easier to compare on ARM (this is also worth a few percent on x86)\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Layout <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> DOM <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Network <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Plugins <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Mobile <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Switched to new toolchain from NDKr5\n<li> Testing update\n<ul>\n<li> make targets for mochitests and reftests, coming soon for xpcshell tests\n<li> Weekly meetings to coordinate work between dev, ateam and releng (<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Mobile\/Testing\" title=\"Mobile\/Testing\">Mobile\/Testing<\/a>)\n<\/ul>\n<li> Need help diagnosing individual test failures\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Accessibility <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Multi-Process <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Tree Management <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> enabling more android unittest, talos on different project branches.\n<li> NDK5 rolled out in production.\n<li> win32+linux builder machines vibration fix done (joint w\/IT)\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Stability Report <\/span><\/h1>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Socorro<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> New Socorro release going out to production today.\n<ul>\n<li> Fix for graph\/line colors in crashes per user page.\n<li> Includes plugin and content crashes so the numbers might change a bit.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Desktop<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Beta<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Juanb &#8211; seems very easy to crash using WebGL.\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=675625\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 675625<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=675634\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 675634<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<li> Firefox freezes in full screen mode on youtube &#8211; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=675645\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 675645<\/a>\n<li> Fixed the spike in plugin hangs but most users still on beta3 so we haven&#8217;t seen those crashes go down yet.\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=469267\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 469267<\/a> &#8211; this has spiked up between b2 and b3.\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Aurora<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Verified the fix for the Flash hang.\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Trunk<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Some new signatures showing up only for 8.0a1.\n<li> Some regressions late last week due to a parser change.\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=675492\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 675492<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=675437\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 675437<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<li> All major regressions seem to have bugs and are being worked on.\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\">General areas of concern<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Flash\n<ul>\n<li> Flash hangs and crashes seem to be rising &#8211; worse on 5.0 today than 2 weeks ago.\n<li> For the particular crashes we looked into, they seem to be rising across all versions.\n<li> Largest rise we saw was with <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=675200\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 675200<\/a>\n<li> Doesn&#8217;t seem to correlate to particular Flash versions.\n<li> Might be due to websites making some changes.\n<li> Reach out to Adobe for help diagnosing the issue and the crash team is going to work on gathering more data.\n<\/ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espnw\/news-opinion\/6823356\/x-games-17-bang-bruise-fall\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espnw\/news-opinion\/6823356\/x-games-17-bang-bruise-fall<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li> Reporter makes a comment that she is getting a lot of Firefox crash reports.\n<li> Probably site related &#8211; we are looking into it.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Fennec<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Nothing new to update today.\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Roundtable <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Dropping the 10.5 OS X *SDK* (not support for OS X 10.5)\n<ul>\n<li> Email thread dev-platform\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2011-08-02\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2011-08-02<\/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\/2011-08-02 &lt; 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