Platform/2013-11-12
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Engineering Meeting Details
- Tuesday 2013-11-12 - 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time
- Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98411
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Contents
- 1 Actions
- 2 Hot Bugs
- 3 The Need To Know
- 4 Key Issues
- 5 Team Stand-ups
- 5.1 Accessibility (dbolter)
- 5.2 Add-on SDK (dtownsend)
- 5.3 App Tools (dtownsend)
- 5.4 B2G Services (dougt)
- 5.5 Developer Tools (robcee)
- 5.6 DOM (jst/dougt)
- 5.7 Firefox Desktop (gavin)
- 5.8 Firefox Metro (bbondy/jmathies/mbrubeck)
- 5.9 Firefox Mobile (mfinkle/blassey)
- 5.10 Firefox OS Communications (scravag)
- 5.11 Firefox OS Devices Porting/Bluetooth (ttsai/mchen)
- 5.12 Firefox OS Media Apps (hema)
- 5.13 Firefox OS Media Recording (cjku)
- 5.14 Firefox OS Performance (mlee)
- 5.15 Firefox OS Productivity (doliver)
- 5.16 Firefox OS Radio/WIFI/NFC (kenhkchang)
- 5.17 Firefox OS Systems - Front End (gwagner)
- 5.18 Firefox OS Systems - Platform (timdream)
- 5.19 GFX (milan)
- 5.20 Identity (jedp)
- 5.21 JS (naveed)
- 5.22 Layout (jet/dbaron)
- 5.23 Media (mreavy)
- 5.24 Necko (dougt/jduell)
- 5.25 Performance (vladan)
- 5.26 Seceng (mmc)
- 5.27 WebAPI (overholt)
- 6 Quality Programs
- 7 Roundtable
- 8 <Read only beyond this point>
Actions
Hot Bugs
(Important bugs for which we need to find owners or additional help. If known, please include suggested team or knowledge needed to advance the bug.)
- Orange Factor
- Stability
- Other
The Need To Know
(Release and system issues that may impact engineering this week.)
Notices/Schedule (akeybl/lsblakk/bajaj)
Next Merge: November 25, 2024 | Next Release: November 26, 2024 | ||
Trains | |||
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Central: 134 | Aurora: 54 | Beta: 133 | Release: |
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Unresolved Aurora 54 Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta) | Unresolved Beta 133 Trackers (non-security) |
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Build Changes (gps)
(Build changes of which engineers should be aware.)
Upcoming Outages/Upgrades
(System outages/upgrades and tree closures that impact engineering.)
- Trees Closed Nov 16 0900PT - 1700PT. Also impacts repositories, mdn, etc.
- Trees Closed Nov 22 or 23 -- MTV power work will take tegras offline, closing trees. Landlord has not set final time yet.
Key Issues
(Non team specific issues that impact engineering.)
Team Stand-ups
(In <2 mins, what did your team accomplish last week, on what is your team working on this week, and on what, if anything, is your team blocked? No questions during the stand-ups. All questions should be asked during the roundtable.)
Accessibility (dbolter)
<Read Only>
Add-on SDK (dtownsend)
App Tools (dtownsend)
B2G Services (dougt)
Developer Tools (robcee)
Q4 goals posted here: 2013Q4 Goals.
Landings:
- Shader Editor! (Blog post on hacks to follow)
- Preffed off by default
- Fast pretty printing bug 930141
- Inspector works remotely on Metro bug 934744
45 bugs closed this week.
DOM (jst/dougt)
Firefox Desktop (gavin)
Proposed list of Firefox Desktop goals for Q4 has been posted to the mailing list.
Firefox Metro (bbondy/jmathies/mbrubeck)
Firefox Mobile (mfinkle/blassey)
Firefox OS Communications (scravag)
<Read Only>
- Bug reports
- 3 koi? http://goo.gl/hTxzSk
- 13 koi+ http://goo.gl/HRgvAi
- Status
- DSDS and some Message user stores may need until Sprint 6 to finish.
- Gecko/UX close to finish up on DSDS
- UX close to finish up on MMS
- Gecko/Gaia worked on MMS user stories
- Gaia started working on Dialer user story
- Identified Risks
- DSDS is at risk and may introduce regressions
- Some messages features could be postponed to 1.4
Firefox OS Devices Porting/Bluetooth (ttsai/mchen)
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- bug 876583 - To support bluedroid backend on Gonk-JB version. (V1.3 feature)
- The basic infrastructure is landed then starting to port profiles.
- To provide BT related patches for NFC task.
- Partner Support: Helix, fugu and Flatfish - Media, Bluetooth, Camera, Memory/Stability issues.
Firefox OS Media Apps (hema)
Firefox OS Media Recording (cjku)
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- {bug|709490} - Run WebGL on Web Worker with Off-Main-Thread-Compositing
- {bug|911046} - WebRTC OmxCodec coding path support
- Look into rendering pipeline to understand how to convert Content tree into Layer Tree.
Firefox OS Performance (mlee)
Firefox OS Productivity (doliver)
Firefox OS Radio/WIFI/NFC (kenhkchang)
<Read Only>
- Last week
- Fix koi+ issues.
- RTSP Client, to add suspend and resume functions and to support rtsp protocol in url bar.
- NFC, to fix the NFCD crash problem and to add test cases.
- EAP-SIM, Partner are going to do more porting for EAP-SIM.
- Multi-SIM, to land all DSDS implementations into Gecko.
- WPA-EAP, to import PKCS#12 CA by wifimanager, reviewing.
- WIFI-Direct, to implement the main codes of wifi-direct, reviewing.
- Power metering, to implement PowerStats API.
- Network metering, to centralize the code for network per-app metering.
- This week
- RTSP Client, to add suspend and resume functions and to support rtsp protocol in url bar.
- NFC, to add test cases.
- EAP-SIM, to integrate Partner's EAP-SIM solution.
- Multi-SIM, to land all DSDS implementations into Gecko.
- WPA-EAP, to import PKCS#12 CA by wifimanager, reviewing.
- WIFI-Direct, to fix sychronisation problem, reviewing.
- Power metering, to implement PowerStats API.
- Network metering, to add metering function for FTP.
Firefox OS Systems - Front End (gwagner)
Firefox OS Systems - Platform (timdream)
<Read Only>
- Cursor management: no update.
- DSDS: API changed on Gaia landed (except IccManager in review). Next: features/UI in Settings app
- NFC: System app patch from DT engineers in review, BT handing in discussion. App features in progress, need better instructions
- Tablet: On-going, schedule retargeted. Need to address some brand swapping branding issue
- 3rd-party keyboard follow-up: v1.2 bugs has been stabilized. Moving on to v1.3 improvements.
- EAP-SIM: UX and Gecko devs to sync-up on device capability.
- Format SD card: UX spec available, need to find out if the partition in use (by music app or USB storage).
- CDMA: Bug on string replacement filed. Need to address some follow-up bugs.
- Window management: Had system front-end work week. Some of the window transition patches landed. Planned things on system browser, etc. Last patch to remove WindowManager need feedback.
- Build script: home screen customization prototype available.
- Zhuyin IME: landed yesterday. Community will test that along with localization altogether. Need to figure out tests.
- Settings: Little update. Sub-panel work on halt.
Gaia/Team/Taipei/Meetings/2013-11-12
GFX (milan)
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- Prioritizing for 2014
Identity (jedp)
Working hard on Firefox Accounts for FirefoxOS FTU
Wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Firefox-Accounts (Please see the FAQ if you have questions)
- Targeting a working alpha build this Thursday:
Layout (jet/dbaron)
Media (mreavy)
<Read Only>
- W3 conference is this week. Many WebRTC folks are at the conference this week.
- Update to the webrtc.org code was landed (branch 3.43) late last week. If there are any regressions, please file a WebRTC bug and copy Maire (mreavy at mozilla.com) on the bug.
Necko (dougt/jduell)
Performance (vladan)
Seceng (mmc)
WebAPI (overholt)
- No update
Quality Programs
(An opportunity to hear about status with the various quality programs that do not have a formal team structure.)
CritSmash (dbolter)
- risk is trending up slightly - your attention appreciated.
MemShrink (njn)
Proper memory reporting for child processes has landed. Among other things, about:memory's "Measure and save" now measures child processes. This only affects Firefox and Fennec; B2G uses a different mechanism that already handled child processes.
OrangeFactor (ryanvm)
Stability (kairo/bsmedberg)
Roundtable
(Comments and questions that arise during the course of the meeting or otherwise do not have a section.)
<Read only beyond this point>
Friends of the Tree
There were great changes by volunteers in Core and Toolkit during the past week. Thanks to all of these contributors for their passion and hard work! Here are some highlights:
- Tom Schuster (evilpie) fixed some browser and SpiderMonkey papercuts (bug 926033, bug 934557).
- Yura Zenevich (yzen) improved B2G form input accessibility (bug 934737).
- Joe Olivas implemented power usage profiling (bug 769431).
- Zack Weinberg (zwol) extended the PSL testsuite (bug 933494).
- Martin Husemann fixed an OS.File problem on NetBSD (bug 935962).
- Peiyong Lin (lpy) streamlined some accessibility code (bug 935756).
- [first patch!] Horia Iosif Olaru added background-blend CSS support (bug 841601).
- Avinash (hardfire) fixed cases of passing undefined to underlying OS.File methods (bug 891110).
- Steve Singer (stevensn) eliminated a crash while playing a video (bug 885002).
- Robert Longson (longsonr) fixed an SVG filter problem (bug 935902).
- Ziga Seilnacht fixed several Windows build system problems (bug 782037, bug 874210, bug 935050).
- Andy Wingo (wingo) did some SpiderMonkey work (bug 922070, bug 931414, bug 937058).
- Ms2ger helped out with the build system conversion and performed janitorial duties (bug 909254, bug 921718, bug 923251, bug 928741, bug 931404, bug 931459, bug 931461, bug 931462, bug 933326).
- Sankha Narayan Guria (sankha93) fixed some main-thread I/O and implemented Math.hypot (bug 867776, bug 879724, bug 931328).
- Chiaki Ishikawa broadened some nsresult error conversion code (bug 931703).
- Vendelin Ruzicka (vendo) made showModalDialog warn (bug 933040).
- Michael (Earth4) fixed a PSM oversight (bug 933995).
- [first patch!] Kai Strecker (kstrecker) made the find bar button more clickable on Windows (bug 911876).
- Gordon P. Hemsley (gphemsley) fixed a mach bootstrap issue with clang (bug 934165).
- Kai Engert (kaie) upgraded NSS (bug 935568, bug 935959).
- Kamil Muszyński (kamilm) improved accessibility for table cells (bug 782544).
- Benjamin Bouvier (bbouvier) fixed a SpiderMonkey assertion (bug 926431).
- [first patch!] Maurizio De Santis fixed a mach bootstrap problem for Italian locales (bug 935741).
- [first patch!] jmaccor93 fixed a memory leak (bug 934673).
Mailing List Threads
(Threads that are likely to be of interest to engineering from various mailing lists.)
Good Reads
(Links to blog posts, books, videos, etc. that you think will be of interest to others.)