Platform/2014-12-09

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Engineering Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2014-12-09 - 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98411
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  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • 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
• Engineering Vidyo Room / Air Mozilla / MTV Alien Nation / TOR Finch / SFO Warfield / PDX Hair of the Dog
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Need To Know

(Release and system issues that may impact engineering this week.)

Notices/Schedule (lsblakk/sylvestre/lmandel)

Next Merge: July 8, 2024		Next Release: July 9, 2024
Trains
Central: 129	Aurora: 54	Beta: 128	Release: 127

• Firefox 34.0.5 updates are enabled at 100% as of this morning
• We might need to do a mobile-only 34.0.1
• Firefox Beta 35.0b2 shipping today
• Fennec Beta 35.0b2 delayed go to build until Thursday
  • We're still working on split apk for Gingerbread users, should have that in place in the next couple of weeks

Build Changes (gps)

(Build changes of which engineers should be aware.)

RelEng (catlee)

(Repo, test, and other information for engineers from the release engineering team.)

Upcoming Outages/Upgrades

(System outages/upgrades and tree closures that impact engineering.)

Quality Programs

(An opportunity to hear about status with the various quality programs that do not have a formal team structure.)

MemShrink (njn)

<Read Only> No update.

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.)

Electrolysis (e10s) (blassey)

• Please help test e10s in Nightly!
  • Known issues: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#What_to_Expect

GFX (milan)

• B2G: the follow up to 2.1 ("2.X") looks to be based on Gecko 37...
  • Graphics plans are unchanged from 2.2 to 2.X
  • Graphics plans were based on Gecko 38
  • So... will likely keep the 38 time frame and uplift to B2G 37 branch past the trunk. Will figure it out by mid January when this becomes relevant.

Shumway (tschneidereit)

• As part of the FlashKill initiative, the Shumway team's Q1 goal is to whitelist Shumway for Facebook's Flash Video Player:
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Shumway/Roadmap#FB1_Milestone
  • Facebook test videos: https://www.facebook.com/gopro/videos
• Working with JS team on JS startup performance and Media team on video buffering.

Roundtable

(Comments and questions that arise during the course of the meeting or otherwise do not have a section.)

Touch input standardization update (mbrubeck)

• W3C Pointer Events going to Proposed Rec. Shipping in IE, portions shipping in Chrome, partially implemented in Gecko.
  • Chrome and Safari have no plans to ship full Pointer Events implementation.
• Touch Events CG is actively discussing errata and extensions, about to start a weekly-ish telecon. Let me know if you want to get involved.
• Gecko/Touch has a breakdown of our implementation status and various missing pieces.

<Read only beyond this point>

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.)

• "Mastering Version Control at Mozilla" (Gregory Szorc)
  • https://people.mozilla.org/~gszorc/mastering-vcs/
• "How Microsoft Uses C++ to Deliver Office Across iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac" (CppCon 2014 video)
  • Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HROqnw-nf4 (one hour)
  • Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGMoRu5yrVc (one hour)
• "Emscripten and asm.js: C++'s role in the modern web" (CppCon 2014 video with Mozilla's own Alon Zakai)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhMlWj4tCDo (one hour)