March 21, 2014

Platform Rendering Work Weeks in Taipei

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:

July 15, 2013

Planet Mozilla Rocks!

My last two posts didn’t make it on to planet.mozilla.org due to a recent junglecode server move. I asked Robert Accettura to update the entries in the planet database so that server-side redirects aren’t necessary. This post is just testing those changes. It’s also a plug for Planet Mozilla, a most excellent public resource for the Mozilla community. If you missed these two posts on planet, here you go: Software Project Estimates: Go Fly a Kite!

July 11, 2013

Software Project Estimates: Go Fly a Kite!

Building Open Source software presents challenges to engineers and managers that differ greatly from proprietary systems. Open Source doesn’t eliminate the need for proper estimates and the predictability of costs that accurate estimates bring. Open Specifications like the W3C web standards add additional complexity to the estimation process. How are you supposed to know how long a project will take, when the specifications are frequently modified by authors and editors who aren’t under your control?