Mobile/Notes/15-Jan-2014

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2014-02-03

Topics for This Week

Startup Performance

Last week we talked about the ongoing work to improve pageload performance. We also started looking at startup profiles and filed a meta bug for making improvements. Several bugs have been filed and are in-progress. Please take a read this mailing post to learn how you can do your own profiling or at least look over the posted profiles.

Crashes

Wanted to point out some crashes that could use a look. (1) NPE in LayerView.setZoomConstraints (bug 936008) (2) ConcurrentModificationException in NotificationHelper.clearAll (needs a bug).

Welcome Eugen Sawin

Joining the mobile platform team and will be in Mountain View this week and next, afterwards he'll be working from home in Germany.

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. New contributors are highlighted in bold.

• Daniel Holbert filed and fixed bug 958734 - Add extra layer of parens to fix JS warning in JSDOMParser.js
• Christian Legnitto filed and fixed bug 935377 - Firefox should fix common scheme typos (a change that makes all Firefox better on all platforms!)
• Veeti fixed bug 951024 - Provide haptic feedback on text selection
• capella fixed 951943 - SelectionHandler._updateCacheForSelection() Error
• Isura fixed bug 944165 - Implement remaining functions in JUnit API
• Errietta fixed bug 948899 - Move inline scripts and styles into separate file for about:addons
• nbleasdale fixed bug 957052 - Move remaining event handlers in about:feedback to JS
• Peiyong Lin fixed bug 943021 - Safebrowsing service should use fallible arrays for its buffers

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!

James W. (snorp)

Working on

bug 939276 - [SkiaGL] [Feature] Support multiple Skia DrawTargets backed by a single GLContext

JChen

<Read Only>

Worked on

• BHR dashboard
• Interview

GCP

Last week

• Some guiding around new contributors
• bug 877954 Adapt video encode resolution & framerate according to available bandwidth and CPU use

Next week

• More Load Adaption
• FOSDEM presentation

Notes

• bug 951782 Firefox 26 for Android crashes on HTC Desire Z
• Can't be caught by telemetry. Does FHR measure this?

Brian Nicholson

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• Done: Bug 949458 - (Nexus 7 2012) - the tabs button is wrongly displayed after open a link in new tab
• Done (pending review): Bug 917896 - Replace progress throbber with a progress bar
• In progress: Bug 942270 - Add Quickshare buttons to Context menu

Margaret

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• Home list/panel design discussions and hacking
  • Bugs here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/Third-party_service_integration_MVP
  • Meeting notes here: https://mobile.etherpad.mozilla.org/firefox-hub
• Working on sync promo banner snippet - bug 958891

mcomella

Past

• 956858 - Menu is incorrectly accessible via hardware menu button in editing mode

nalexander

bug 923950: got r+ on fix for Beta; asking for uplift of relevant code to Aurora.

bug 951865: new patches up to address this.

bug 927388: looking into just doing this as follow-up.

FxAccounts:

• got feedback on first try build from edwong;
• lots of UI progress with alam; plan is still to land first cut by EOW;
• enlisted rnewman to build more of the things, because the ticket list is growing, not shrinking.

BLassey

• bug 944045 - geckoview example makefile should handle deps better
• wrote standalone WebRTC client

MFinkle

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• Pageload and startup profiling and patching
• Second screen Roku work (so close)
• FxA overhead
• PTO on Friday

Ian Barlow

• Sync / FxAccounts
  • Working with Ryan and Anthony in UX to nail down Android flows - mostly done
  • Offering suggestions on equivalent desktop flows
• Homepage + 3rd party service work
  • Looking forward to our hack week in SF!
• Tablet refresh - starting our first UX sprint!
  • Sprint Goal: Determine the best overall form factor for:
    • switching between multiple pages
    • creating a new tab
  • Some background on our focus areas and working process https://firefox-ux.etherpad.mozilla.org/tablets-2014
  • More updates to come each week!
• Couple of things have come up around optimizing file sizes
  • bug 959203 Experiment: Try using only XHDPI resources
  • bug 959833 Evaluate pngquant for PNG size reduction
• Project Chameleon
  • Visual design unification project
  • Expect to see visual tweaks starting to pop up in coming months

Security/MGoodwin

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• is still here

WebRT

• install/launch/uninstall
  • bug 934756 landed and stuck (but disabled at build/runtime)
  • team working on followups
  • will enable feature on Tuesday, January 21 (for Wednesday, January 22 nightly builds)
• automatic updates
  • patch attached to bug 934760
  • pending review from WesJ and Fabrice
• developer testing/debugging
  • in progress
• APK Factory service
  • security reviews added requirement for hardware security module (HSM) to secure signing keys
  • will point nightly builds to a development server
  • andym and kumar have joined project to assist ozten

A-Team

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• Reftests running on Android 4.0 Opt beginning today -- bug 929447
• Startup crashes affecting some tests -- bug 959254