Platform/2012-07-10

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2012-07-10 - 11:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 95312
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 95312
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 95312
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
  • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
• Warp Core Vidyo Room / SFO-Boardroom
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Kilimanjaro

• No triage this Wed as we're deciding if and how to restructure these meetings

Notices / Schedule

• FF14.0.1 beta 12 (our final planned beta) just went to build for both desktop and mobile
• FF14.0.1 sign-off is at 10AM PT tomorrow in Holodeck
• Merge day is 7/16
• FF14.0.1 release is 7/17
• Please start re-focusing on bugs tracked for FF15

Firefox OS

• Feature-complete deadline on 7/20
• String-freeze on 7/27
• Detailed weekly status at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/b2g-status

Firefox Developer Tools

• Releasing a 1.8.1 to fix a small problem with the last release
• Work is ongoing on developing a repacking script that should work for the majority of AMO add-ons using old SDK versions

JS

• FIXED: bug 769754 Crash while using the debugger. This impacts Aurora and should get uplifted (Flags: approval-mozilla-aurora?). - Jim Blandy

Layout

• CSS3 Flexbox style-system patches have landed in Nightly.
• DLBI (DisplayList Based Invalidation) moved to birch branch.
• meeting next week (with Graphics and Video too)
• a bunch of CSS unprefixing happened (transforms bug 745523, transitions bug 762303, animations bug 762302) and hopefully more soon (calc bug 771678, maybe device-pixel-ratio bug 771329)
• css3-flexbox and css3-values likely to go to Candidate Recommendation very soon
• Notable Patches:
  • bug 666041 - (css3-flexbox) CSS Flexbox Layout Level 3 (dholbert)
  • bug 767936 - Use Element* as the cache key for CanvasImageCache. (bz)
  • bug 765906 - synthetic bold should be used where appropriate with system fallback fonts (jkew)

Media

• Webrtc preffed on, minor fallouts (mostly symlinked objdirs - patch ready to land)
• navigator.mozGetUserMedia() will land this week!

Tree Management

• ARMv6 nightly builds w/ updates
• Starting to use EC2 VMs for linux B2G builds. We'll be able to scale up # of machines in response to demand. Expect more here soon!
  • One thing RelEng want to do soon is change our base build platform for linux desktop firefox to something more modern, Centos6 for example. This may have binary compatibility consequences - who can we talk to about this?

Stability Report

Desktop

Beta

• Beta 11 now has over 1 million ADUs
• bug 763237 continues to be the top crash but that signature comprises a variety of different crashes that we are working on trying to isolate.
  • • See bug 772410 where we are reprocessing some signatures

Aurora

• bug 771780 Startup crash in nsFileStreamBase::Write
• {{Bug}772320}} crash in nsFrameManager::CaptureFrameState

Trunk

• bug 771983 crash in nsHTMLEditor::DoInsertHTMLWithContext @ nsEditor::GetNodeLocation

13.0.1

• Some new hang/plugin bugs are showing up
  • bug 763237 [Vista] Firefox @ hang | GetLogicalDriveStringsA
  • bug 771347 Firefox hang in F_1089413192
  • bug 771345 crash in mozilla::plugins::PluginInstanceChild::EnsureCurrentBuffer

Mobile

• Highlights
  • bug 722034 This needs push to aurora; already has aurora approval. This is the reason for bug 760955
  • bug 766867 is waiting for aurora approval
  • more libxul signatures in nightly. Will be investigating correlations in why this is occurring.
  • Beta has a bunch of flash crashes listed in the top 10 bugs : bug 732059, bug 759109, bug 732059, bug 750217, bug 758259

• See Mobile Notes for Mobile specific Socorro notes
• Top Crash List Bugs

• 14.0 Release top crashes
  1. bug 749186 - crash in nsFontInflationData::FindFontInflationDataFor at crash address 0x28 (((nsIFrame*)0)->GetStateBits())
  2. bug 763173 - Startup crash in AndroidGLController::ProvideEGLSurface during LayerManagerOGL::CreateContext
  3. bug 767713 java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApp.onPrepareOptionsMenu(GeckoApp.java)

• 14.0b10 Beta top crashes
  1. bug 767713 java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApp.onPrepareOptionsMenu(GeckoApp.java)
  2. bug 769893 - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot draw recycled bitmaps at android.view.GLES20Canvas.drawBitmap(GLES20Canvas.java) on Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 7 with Jelly Bean
  3. flash crashing

• Aurora top crashes
  1. bug 760955 - crash in mozilla::net::nsHttpChannel::InstallOfflineCacheListener
  • bug 722034 This needs aurora push, possible beta nom as well?
  1. bug 767713 org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApp.onPrepareOptionsMenu(GeckoApp.java)
  2. bug 766867 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApp$23.run(GeckoApp.java)

• Nightly top crashes
  1. bug 763166 - crash in mozilla::AndroidGeckoLayerClient::SetFirstPaintViewport
  2. bug 765156 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.PropertyAnimator.invalidate(PropertyAnimator.java)
  3. bug 755638 - java.lang.SecurityException: caller uid <n> is different than the authenticators uid at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java)

Roundtable

• If you depend on watching QA contacts, you need to update your Bugzilla email configuration [dbaron]
• Call for help to cut down on string changes on aurora/beta [Pike]