Mobile/Notes/02-Oct-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge is 2013-10-28

Topics for This Week

New Home Page

Core work was uplifted to Aurora. Landed a few performance and memory usage fixes on m-c, which need to be uplifted too.

Favicon Work

We have a few favicon issues that need patches and uplift to Aurora. These must be done with care. We have a large favicon patch landing on Nightly soon. Watch for regressions.

Friends of the Mobile Team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Make sure friends also get awarded a badge.

• errietta filed and fixed bug 921756 - ButtonToast tries to modify views it can't (first mobile patch!)
• capella fixed bug 917944 - Remove "Most recent" header in history page and bug 917297 - Clicking on a link sometimes results in a JS error to logcat instead of navigation

Stand ups

Suggested format:

• What did you do last week?
• What are working on this week?
• Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 2 minutes!

Kats

• Last week:
  • landed bug 911574 to fix scrolling on yahoo fantasy sports and other pages
  • landed bug 911152 to fix scrolling on thedissolve.com but it was backed out for seemingly-unrelated randoms. currently debugging
  • landed bug 921477 to fix a typo in cert code
  • landed bug 918682 to fix fullscreen mode in some scenarios
  • landed bug 916379 to fix a koi+ bug on B2G where pages were rendered zoomed in initially
  • landed bug 919437 to fix the values of window.innerWidth and window.innerHeight to be consistent with other browsers
  • discussed and came up with a plan for compositor-thread input event handling with roc, BenWa, and nrc
  • reinstalled linux on my desktop machine because python is hard to upgrade
  • interviews, reviews, overhead, etc.

• Next week:
  • re-land bug 911152
  • get back to working on bug 920036 (input events on B2G) now that we have a consistent plan for making that happen
  • summit!

Mina

Last week:

• Almost done Spatial Navigation bug 698437
• Resolved bug 813379: sending speculative connections to default search engine
• worked on bug 813380: sending speculative connections to links in the awesome screen, but that got marked WONTFIX
• started work on bug 852935: enabling gamepad API for android
• almost done bug 863966: caching selector list for querySelector and querySelectorAll
• Granted my first review! changes to a bit I wrote in the DOM

Next week:

• Work on enabling gamepad APIs
• Refactor code in mobile/android

LucasR

Last week

• New about:home
  • Uplifted new-new-abouthome to Aurora
  • bug 919516 - [Tablet] The previous bookmark in the list is opened when opening bookmarks from the Bookmarks list
  • bug 906230 - Hide the Reading List page in about:home on low memory devices
  • (In progress) bug 918007 - Tapping on back/forward buttons should dismiss editing mode on tablets
  • (In progress) bug 917776 - The Custom Menu should not be accessible while in edit mode
• Startup glitches
  • bug 917805 - Current tab is briefly visible when you open an external link
• Misc
  • bug 911695 - Reader mode toolbar icons are blurry
• Many patch reviews

Next week

• Reading List / Reader Mode v2 planning with ibarlow
• Bug Triaging FAQ
• about:home bug fixing for Fx26
• Summit!

Margaret

• Done
  • bug 921023 - Cannot enable Mixed Content Blocking after disabling it
  • bug 921265 - Home banner won't get updated if about:home is showing when first message is added
  • bug 910106 - Frequent intermittent failures caused by the home pager not being hidden
    • Filed bug 923109 as a follow-up to figure out a reliable way to directly load urls in test
  • Blog post about home page snippets: http://blog.margaretleibovic.com/post/62378620575/home-page-snippets-for-firefox-for-android

• In Progress/Next
  • More new-about-home fixes needed for 26
  • Summit!

nalexander

• At an appointment, so status update on wiki only.

• Firefox Accounts:
  • Landed BrowserID crypto tools and Mozilla Token Server client (Bugs 799734 and 799732, respectively).
  • First working Sync demo against Firefox Account (new auth) + Sync 1.1 code base (old Sync protocol).
• JUnit 3 testing:
  • Landed build system improvements and code to build background.apk (the JUnit 3 test suite) (Bugs 919563 and 903534, respectively).

• Next:
  • Summit!
  • Trying to push Eclipse/IntelliJ project building forward
  • Landing more Sync updates and Firefox Account IDP client
  • Building a test harness for JUnit 3 testing

MFinkle

• Getting second-screen patches started through feedback cycle
• Getting GeckoView patches started through feedback cycle
• Fixed a GeckoView issue
• Summit
• Feature planning

Round Table

QA

• Firefox 25
  • Tracking 25+
  • Crashes
    • Beta 25 is higher in crash rates than 24 betas was
    • bug 917515 (mozilla::Selection::Collapse) is #2 on Beta 25, needs uplift
    • bug 903993 (spike in libflashplayer.so@0x75..) is #3, should have landed for b4.
• 24 release has ~50% higher crash rates than 23 did
  • bug 890985 and bug 760394 need followup investigation
  • bug 884047 should be fixed in 25.