{"id":626,"date":"2011-08-16T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/626"},"modified":"2011-08-16T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T03:00:08","slug":"mozilla-platform-meeting-minutes-2011-08-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/626","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Platform Meeting Minutes: 2011-08-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"with-menu\">\n<h1 id=\"page-title\">Platform\/2011-08-16<\/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\/2011-08-09\" title=\"Platform\/2011-08-09\">\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\/2011-08-23&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"Platform\/2011-08-23 (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> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/new-tools-in-mozilla-firefox-help-developers-drive-the-web-forward\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">We shipped Firefox 6<\/a>!\n<ul>\n<li> They sent us a <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/johnath\/6049526005\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">cake<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<li> Migration day is going smoothly so far, still ongoing at time of meeting\n<ul>\n<li> aurora-&gt;beta migration complete\n<li> central-&gt;aurora migration underway, using <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/hg.mozilla.org\/mozilla-central\/rev\/41b84b87c816\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/hg.mozilla.org\/mozilla-central\/rev\/41b84b87c816<\/a> as the migration changeset (current tip)\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox Development <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Paul O&#8217;Shannessy landed some pref UI to expose a &#8220;load tabs on demand&#8221; (AKA bartab) pref for sessionrestore (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=648683\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 648683<\/a>)\n<li> Margaret landed a new blank tab icon (created by Stephen Horlander) (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=648668\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 648668<\/a>)\n<li> Ongoing e10s work:\n<ul>\n<li> e10s-compat build time flag has browser standing up, but no progress events\n<li> felipe is working on having the WPL listeners work (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=666801\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 666801<\/a>)\n<li> coming week we&#8217;re going to be filing some additional bugs and directing fx-team&#8217;s full attention to them (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=fxe10s\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug fxe10s<\/a>)\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox Developer Tools <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Performance <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Telemetry will soon be opt-out (rather than opt-in) on development channels.\n<ul>\n<li> To opt out in automated-testing profiles, set toolkit.telemetry.enabled = false\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> GFX <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> The Cairo update looks like it&#8217;s going to stick despite the regressions, mostly due to the benefits mobile got from it. Please let us know if that&#8217;s a bad choice.\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=660264\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 660264<\/a> &#8211; Tp4 regression due to D3D9-accelerated layers &#8211; we&#8217;re still working through the issues here, but we believe that this doesn&#8217;t actually affect users. Please see that bug for more discussion.\n<li> For more details, see <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/GFX\/2011-August-15\" title=\"Platform\/GFX\/2011-August-15\">this week&#8217;s graphics meeting notes<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> JS <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Layout <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> DOM <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Landed William&#8217;s patch to add File, Blob and FileReaderSync support to workers. This means that pages and addons can read files off the main thread. <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=664783\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 664783<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> WebAPI <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Network <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Steve Workman has joined the networking group full-time, working out of Mountain View. Steve comes from Cisco.\n<li> Work on SPDY support coming along. Patrick McManus has posted two discussions to mozilla.dev.tech.network:\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.tech.network\/browse_thread\/thread\/3907c7edb646cf41#\" rel=\"nofollow\">TLS Next Protocol Negotiation integration for SPDY<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.tech.network\/browse_thread\/thread\/ddaea7bae96398e8#\" rel=\"nofollow\">SPDY::HTTP dataflow &#8211; a first sketch<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Plugins <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Mobile <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Jim Chen (badass intern!) found the cause of long standing Tegra crash bug <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=662936\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 662936<\/a> while running many of the Talos tests.\n<li> Master Password landed\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> Planned tree closure today for network work\n<li> Currently having unplanned tree closure due to tinderbox backlog <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=676822\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 676822<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li> Can try using <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/tbpl.allizom.org\/?usebuildbot=1\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/tbpl.allizom.org\/?usebuildbot=1<\/a> as an alternative\n<li> IT is currently shuffling storage around to try and get us on faster spindles\n<li> Other options we&#8217;re looking at:\n<ul>\n<li> delete data from old builds (especially try builds) &#8211; reduces volume to migrate\n<li> cut some trees and setup separate tinderbox instance for some branches on separate dedicated RelEng machines\n<li> stop sending emails for certain branches &#8211; disruptive to developers. try\u00a0?\n<li> extended downtime to speed up the migration of data\n<li> wait for webdev\/IT to get new TBPL to be deployed (will take a long time!)\n<ul>\n<li> last meeting was with\/laura, IT on friday; code already sec-reviewed.\n<li> mongodb deployment worries\n<li> more time to revisit after today(tuesday) releases &#8211; bunch of work blocking ship FF6.0.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Security <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Reviews this week: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2011\/08\/15\/scheduled-security-reviewsdiscussions-week-of-15-aug-2011\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2011\/08\/15\/scheduled-security-reviewsdiscussions-week-of-15-aug-2011\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reminder: Changes to scheduling reviews (dev-planning): <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.planning\/browse_thread\/thread\/d8299dd16187909\/2e709b73eca89ae9?lnk=gst&amp;q=koenig#2e709b73eca89ae9\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.planning\/browse_thread\/thread\/d8299dd16187909\/2e709b73eca89ae9?lnk=gst&amp;q=koenig#2e709b73eca89ae9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Items marked as sec-review-needed: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Security\/Radar#Review_Needed\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Security\/Radar#Review_Needed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Schedule and review\/discussion questions can be directed to curtisk.\n<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Stability Report <\/span><\/h1>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Desktop<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Socorro<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Socorro 2.2 released over the weekend.\n<li> Top crashes and crashes per user now split between individual Betas and Release.\n<li> A couple of data query issues introduced: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=679182\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 679182<\/a> and <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=679229\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 679229<\/a>.\n<li> Bugs are fixed in staging but no ETA on deployment to production.\n<ul>\n<li> Update: deployed this morning [laura]\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Trunk 8.0a1<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Trunk is a bit unstable &#8211; 4.0 crashes per 100 ADU.\n<li> A number of crash regressions on 8.0 &#8211; looks as though many of these will be promoted to Aurora so we will be tracking them.\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=679030\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 679030<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=679035\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 679035<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=678181\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 678181<\/a> &#8211; Causing a number of Font crash signatures. Backed out the patches for <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=668813\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 668813<\/a> &#8211; Need a couple more days to figure out if got rid of all the crashes.\n<li> Spike in old signature which looks related to a certificate change <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=678710\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 678710<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=677273\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 677273<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Aurora &amp; Beta<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> On top of 7.0 issues.\n<li> Better data after 7.0b1 goes out.\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Other<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Shockwave issue emerging across all versions <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=679148\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 679148<\/a>\n<li> Added a new keyword[needs-URLs] to indicate that we need to run a query to see if there is any site correlations to crashes. The crash team can query on this and make sure we have reports for these bugs.\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Mobile<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=679065\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 679065<\/a> &#8211; Some Fennec 6.0b6 topcrash signatures return an empty report list\n<li> Still missing sympbols for a number of crashes (no signatures). There is an open bug on this <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=664510\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug 644510<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/index.php?title=QA\/Fennec\/crash_rep_15Aug2011\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/index.php?title=QA\/Fennec\/crash_rep_15Aug2011<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Roundtable <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> discuss use of purify\/sm-purify01 and disposition of license and hardware. \/bc\n<li> Hiring a power measurement engineer: if you know of someone, please link them to <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/hire.jobvite.com\/CompanyJobs\/Careers.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa&amp;cs=9Kt9Vfw1&amp;page=Job%20Description&amp;j=oGzRVfwL\" rel=\"nofollow\">the job posting<\/a> and encourage them to apply.\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2011-08-16\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2011-08-16<\/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\/2011-08-16 &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 We shipped Firefox 6! 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