Meeting 2024-02-27

• Team calendar

  • Next on Necko triage: Manuel

• Round Table

  • Moving team discussions to matrix to encourage and support external contributors

    • Let's use more matrix instead of slack ourself?

      • Slack #quicdev -> Public #neqo:mozilla.org

        • Move to matrix

        • Close quicdev

      • Slack #necko-team -> Internal #necko-team:mozilla.org

  • (greg) Necko Bug Bash Day review bug stats 🎉

    • Total Bugs updated: 210

      • Closed: 69!

        • S3: 48 (Total S3 reduced by 2.6%)

        • S4: 3

        • NA: 18

      • Priority/severity updated: 20

      • Blocks updated: 73

      • Necko Priority Queue: 2 added 

      • Necko Next: 68 (added 19)

      • Necko Priority Review: down to 16

    • How could we improve by 10%?

      • Focus on another area next time

      • Rotate on areas, divide and have more overlap

        • One person focus on one area, rest of team move on to next ones, increase parallelism 

      • Try to fix some bugs together outside bash days (1-2hrs per week, with another team member)

    • Meta bug owners: Necko Meta Owners

      • (Sunil) What should be our plan going forward for driving our meta bugs?

        • Should we try to push 1-2 bugs into priority queue?

        • Discuss them in bug review and take appropriate action?

      • (greg) Meta Owner responsibilities?

        • Project meta

        • Maintenance 

          • Promote priorities to queue

          • Clean up bugs and drive fixes

          • Raise larger issues/initiatives  in roadmap planning

      • (manuel) Displaying ownership (meta bug assignee) in the necko-triage-helper

  • https://mozilla.social/@necko/ posts updates on our meeting notes.

  • [acreskey] FYI, thumbs up from Denis Jackson dns-prefetch for https

    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1596935

  • [jesup] Planning for possible ‘book club’ around “The Software Engineer’s Guidebook”

    • By Gergely Orosz, the author of The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter and Building Mobile Apps at Scale

    • Perhaps in place of some Deciphering Necko sessions

  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1805796 tracked in Fx124/125

  • [cam] https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Code-Setting-Software-Engineer/dp/B0CV5YMJB1 

• Active Projects

  • Active Projects: Fx124 code freeze Feb 15th roadmap Fx123 rel Feb 20

    • OMT: Move OnStartRequest and OnStopRequest to the content process (paused, target: TBD)

      • OMT OnStart/OnStop Request (content) threading/api model

      • new Project Plan

      • Split HTML5Parser OnStop - OMT Shipped in Fx122 

        • Release experiment ends next week

      • Split CSSLoader OnStop - OMT to track in Fx125

        • Debugging TSAN issue and testing updated changes.

        • [jesup] let’s push a perf try run

      • OnStart consumer

        • Jrmuziel positive on idea

        • Tnikkel responded, opening email conversation with him

    • Optimize, Measure and add tests for Speculative Connections (in progress, target: Fx125) 

      • Beta experiment live, ends Mar 19, 2024

    • Native HTTPS RR Implementation (in progress, target Fx125)

      • Landed a bunch of fixes. Turning on again this week.

    • H3 Upload speed

      • Status of HTTP/3 upload speed

        • Project Plan - Advancing neqo Library Performance and Developing a Robust Testing Framework

        • https://lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/4b5fbec3-2ead-40c1-864b-26490b85b6f5/page/p_7d9166xidd 

        • [kershaw]

          • Bug 1881490 Avoid duplicate process_output calls

            • Small fix to save 0.2~0.5% CPU usage

            • [jesup] r+’d

          • Investigating the performance difference between chrome and firefox

          • Packet reordering issue

            • Manuel will work on a patch to handle multiple ACKs at the same time

        • [jesup] issue with qlog cpu use at high bandwidths, even without qlog enabled

    • 3rd Party Cookie Deprecation (in progress, target TBD)

      • [Ed]

        • WIP patch in progress for cookie capping

          • https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D201757

        • Will be reviewing this patch ASAP

    • Fetch keepalive: target H1 2024 - Scheduled

    • WebTransport over H2: Targeting 2024 - Scheduled