Platform Rendering Work Weeks in Taipei
By jet
The Platform Rendering team is back in Taiwan this month. This time, we’ve split the team across 3 work weeks (Media, Layout, and Graphics.) This lets us focus on the issues specific to each team but still allow for free time to hack and socialize.
Here’s the week’s agenda for the Platform Media team:
| Monday 10th March | Tuesday 11th March | Wednesday 12th March | Thursday 13th March | Friday 14th March | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 – 10:55 | Introduction / Lightning talks Anthony Jones | Platform Decoder Modules, MP4 Chris Pearce | Media Stream Graph Refactoring Paul Adenot | Stingray – Introduction and demo of TV Ide | Content enablement session Chris / Ide |
| 11:00 – 11:55 | Beginner’s guide to <video> code Chris Pearce | “MediaCodec for playback” Bruce Sun “Video Codec Resource Management” Blake Wu “Adjust priority/nice value for media playback threads” Star Cheng | Testing JW Wang | Stingray – Introduction of hardware Nakajima | Shumway (Mozilla Flash Player) Jet Villegas |
| Lunch | |||||
| 13:00 – 13:55 | |||||
| 14:00 – 14:55 | Process reflection Anthony Jones | Async Decoder Changes Chris Pearce | Daala Tim Terriberry | Stringray – AV related achetecture Yoshioka | TaskTracer Demo Shelly Lin 4th floor, Mozspace |
| 15:00 – 15:55 | Pre-Discussion about Panasonic TV Shelly Lin | New Recording Features John Lin Video Recording Randy Lin | Seccomp etc Paul Terriault | Stringray – GFX related achetecture Ohtani | Hell Kitty Chris Pearce |
| 16:00 : 16:55 | Manager Session Anthony Jones | Chaos mode debugging and rr Robert O’Callahan | Media Source Extensions Chris Double | Our Proposals for Panasonic TV Shelly Lin | SUPERFLUOUS MEETING #25 Chris Pearce |
| 19:00 – | Team dinner @ Din-Tai-Fung, Taipei 101 |
Here’s the week’s agenda for the Platform Layout team:
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9am | — | SVG buffered-rendering (small group) | — | — | Elephant Mountain walk |
| 10am | lightning talks (jet) | Shipping CSS Variables (heycam) | Vertical Text (smontagu) | OMTA (birtles) | — |
| 11am | position:sticky (kip) | CSS scroll snapping (roc) | Platform Priorities (jet) | CSS flexbox (dholbert) | — |
| Noon | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 1pm | free | vsync/refresh driver | Platform Priorities (jet) | — | — |
| 2pm | Intro to Layout (roc/dbaron) | rr & chaos (roc) | use of performance tools demo (dbaron) | SVG performance work (small group requested by Taiwan based employees) (jwatt) | wifi display demo (kenchang) |
| 3pm | Selection (roc) | competitive & standards landscape (dbaron) | — | XPCOM and String classes (dbaron) (hopefully 4th floor) | B2G Layout Discussion (jet) |
| 4pm | free | Moz2D (small group) | Platform Priorities (jet) | — | tbd |
| 5pm | — | — | — | Restyle performance patch testing (heycam,vilin,cjku) | tbd |
| 6pm | — | Team Dinner | — | — | tbd |
This morning, the Layout team decided to take a walk up to Elephant Mountain near the office. A walk in the park with the Layout team has equal parts of viewing the scenery, and discussing rendering issues for Chinese text (both horizontal and vertical!) It was quite fun.
I’ll post the Platform Graphics team agenda in two weeks after they’re in Taiwan for their work week. Apologies for the use of acronyms and unfamiliar jargon as the Rendering teams often use these terms to describe complex features. Send me a comment if I can help clarify anything.
The Taiwan teams have been very gracious and welcoming as always. See you all again soon!