{"id":717,"date":"2011-11-30T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/717"},"modified":"2011-11-30T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T04:00:04","slug":"mozilla-platform-meeting-minutes-2011-11-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/717","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Platform Meeting Minutes: 2011-11-29"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"with-menu\">\n<h1 id=\"page-title\">Platform\/2011-11-29<\/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\/2011-11-22\" title=\"Platform\/2011-11-22\">\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\/2011-12-06&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"Platform\/2011-12-06 (page does not exist)\">next week \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Platform Meeting Details<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Tuesdays &#8211; 11:00 am Pacific\n<li> Warp Core Vidyo Room\n<li> 650-903-0800 x92 Conf# 95312 (US\/INTL)\n<li> 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)\n<li> join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Notices \/ Schedule <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> FF9 beta 4 to be ready for &#8220;go to build&#8221; today\n<li> Working to get FF8 onto the Amazon Appstore to work through any approval issues\n<li> 3.6.24-&gt;8.0.1 advertised update to occur Thursday 12\/1\n<li> Triage meetings continue to be held for 3.6.25 security bugs\n<li> 8.0.1 Post-Mortem in WarpCore Fri 12\/2 10AM-12PM PT\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox Development <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=505192\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 505192<\/a> &#8211; excellent work by Makoto Kato on a Chrome profile migrator (reviews by Marco Bonardo)\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Silent Update\n<ul>\n<li> Windows UAC service progressing towards completion early next week\n<ul>\n<li> Brian Bondy will be in Toronto Thurs-Fri this week to complete the work\n<\/ul>\n<li> Background updates on hold pending the completion of Windows UAC Service\n<li> Add-ons compatible by default testing and bug fixing ongoing\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<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> GFX <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Work on <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/GFX\/OffMainThreadCompositing\" title=\"Platform\/GFX\/OffMainThreadCompositing\">off main thread compositing<\/a> has begun, with Ali Juma and Benoit Girard taking point.\n<ul>\n<li> Our initial goal is for this to be Android only, but in order to accomplish that goal, we&#8217;re going to also implement OMTC on OS X.\n<ul>\n<li> We expect most of the fundamental issues to be cross-platform, and development on OS X is easier than Android. But a releasable product on Android is our only goal for this work.\n<\/ul>\n<li> We plan to use Helgrind on OS X to detect thread issues, which may need some work from the Valgrind team.\n<li> We will also likely need some help from the A-team in developing a general browser usage test suite.\n<ul>\n<li> A sort of browser usage fuzzing, to detect edge cases that break down with OMTC.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> JS <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> The tracejit is history; RyanVM has closed about five bazillion bugs (~300ish?) that were relevant only to the tracejit.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> The tracejit has been given an honorable discharge:\n<ul>\n<li> It&#8217;s been replaced by JM+TI, and removing the tracer will help simplify things, which speeds along further perf improvements.\n<li> Let us know if you see any bits left, there&#8217;s still some cleanup going on.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Layout <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> font size inflation for mobile landed:  see <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/dbaron.org\/log\/20111126-font-inflation\" rel=\"nofollow\">blog post<\/a>.  Feedback requested (see blog post) on how it interacts with individual Web pages (i.e., whether it&#8217;s picking the right things to make larger and the right things not to make larger)\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Video <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> DOM <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> WebAPI <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Progress on telephony. Hope to have basic dialing by the end of the week\n<li> Sending\/receiving SMS landed for android\n<li> Lots of progress on IndexedDB. Getting close to &#8220;done&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Network <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Hopefully landing a number of NSS and SSL\/TLS changes today. Should be good for performance and some changes are pre-requisites for SPDY.\n<li> Hopefully landing SPDY (pref&#8217;d off) tomorrow.\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Plugins <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Mobile <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Accessibility <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Tree Management <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Security <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Stability Report <\/span><\/h1>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Socorro<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> 2.3.3 released yesterday\n<ul>\n<li> Found a regression and we are pushing a fix as soon as the network issues are resolved &#8211; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=706058\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 706058<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=680013\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 680013<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<li> A couple of bugs\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=702384\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 702384<\/a> &#8211; signature summary updates according to filters &#8211; defaults to 7 days, all versions\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=705883\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 705883<\/a> &#8211; Mac crashes not showing up\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Desktop<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Hang Monitor<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Patch checked in last week &#8211; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=429592\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 429592<\/a>\n<li> Ran into a couple of issues &#8211; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=705154\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 705154<\/a> and <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=705365\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 705365<\/a>. Both were fixed on Nov 26th.\n<li> Lots of new signatures prefaced with chromehang. Crash rate has gone up as a result &#8211; we expected this.\n<li> Going to pref it off &#8211; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=705748\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 705748<\/a> to double check it&#8217;s working as we expect and to analyze the data we have so far.\n<li> Hangs appearing in top 25 crashes for yesterday\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=705258\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 705258<\/a> &#8211; gfxDWriteFontEntry::GetFontTable\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=705761\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 705761<\/a> &#8211; ZwQueryFullAttributesFile\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=705757\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 705757<\/a> &#8211; CreateFileMappingA\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=705781\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 705781<\/a> &#8211; kernelbase.dll@0x141f\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=705695\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 705695<\/a> &#8211; js::EqualStrings(JSContext*, JSString*, JSString*, int*)\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=705588\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 705588<\/a> &#8211; js::gc::MarkAtomRange\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=705562\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 705562<\/a> &#8211; NtOpenFile\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Crashes<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Firefox 8.0.1\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=705669\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 705669<\/a> &#8211; Firefox Crash &#8211; Report [@ js_ReportOutOfMemory ] (Mac only that affects other versions)\n<\/ul>\n<li> Firefox 9\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=705496\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 705496<\/a> &#8211; Firefox crashes in &#8211; npswf32_11_2_202_96 (Adobe labs new version, over 3000K crashes in last week)\n<\/ul>\n<li> Startup Crashes:\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=705646\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 705646<\/a> (Relevant Knowledge, in 8.0.1 but affects all versions)\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=704866\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 704866<\/a> &#8211; (Mac only, no correlations yet)\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=704762\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 704762<\/a> &#8211; (Trunk)\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\">Mobile<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Socorro\n<ul>\n<li> We need a way to split up XUL Fennec crashes and Native Fennec crashes in Socorro.\n<li> KaiRo and dougt are working on some options so we can get this fixed quickly.\n<li> Currently we are using manual reports to track Birch crashes.\n<li> <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/crash-analysis.mozilla.com\/rkaiser\/2011-11-27\/2011-11-27.fennec.nightly-birch.components.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/crash-analysis.mozilla.com\/rkaiser\/2011-11-27\/2011-11-27.fennec.nightly-birch.components.html<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<li> Weekly report &#8211; <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/QA\/Fennec\/crash_rep_28Nov2011\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/QA\/Fennec\/crash_rep_28Nov2011<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Roundtable  <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Platform goals page posted <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2012-Q1-Goals\" title=\"Platform\/2012-Q1-Goals\">Platform\/2012-Q1-Goals<\/a>\n<li> (dbaron) unit tests running on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), but many are hidden because of <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/showdependencytree.cgi?id=700503&amp;hide_resolved=0\" rel=\"nofollow\">failures<\/a> (still need more bugs filed too)\n<li> (dbaron) unit tests running on Windows 64-bit (all hidden, though green)\n<li> (dbaron) try chooser platform names for Android builds have changed, see <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/trychooser.pub.build.mozilla.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">syntax builder<\/a>.  android gives a native UI build; 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