Mobile/Notes/09-Nov-2011

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Schedule

• Merge happened yesterday
• Next merge date is 2011-12-20

Major Topics for This Week

• A release roadmap for Fennec Native is coming soon
  • Trying to overlap with normal release channels
  • Likely release 1.0 from birch
• Working on a change to UA
  • The big issue is how do we get websites to send Firefox Mobile ideal content
  • The UA itself is only seen as a step to get better content
  • See bug 701056 for a different approach
• Landing of the Pan/Zoom patch queue
  • kats/cwiis/dougt/blassey/patrick looking a general test failure

Stand ups

Suggested format:

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

Kats

Last week

• Started looking at find-in-page, then dropped it for higher priority things
• Mostly working on the pan-zoom patch queue:
  • Fixed up some pinching/panning behaviour
  • Put up a patch for having per-tab scroll/zoom information
  • Put up a patch for saving/restoring scroll/zoom information for the screenshot
• This morning: fixed a bug causing crashes on Honeycomb
• Hopefully figured out what was causing the pan-zoom build to fail tests

Next week

• Continue working on pan-zoom issues
• Pick up other P1/P2 issues as needed

Blockers

• Need to land birch-pan-zoom! Working in patch queues has very high overhead, and generally is FAIL.

GBrown

Last week:

• mobile network disk cache has been enabled (finally!)
  • 10 M capacity
  • see about:cache
• build startup cache at package time: works for development environment, but there are complications for nightly builds -- discussing with ted (bug 696095)
• network cache compression: testing, analysis in progress

Next week:

• wrap up startup cache
• concentrate on disk cache

AlexP

• Last week
  • Investigated IME bugs: 630576, 632538, 696319, 698419, 698352, 697838, 699465, 667619.
  • Implemented a WIP patch for the bug 630576
  • Finally got a phone with hardware keyboard to work on the HKB-specific bugs
  • Submitted a patch for hardware keyboard bug 697773 "Cannot type in AwesomeBar URL bar with hard keyboard", but this broke the touch mode, so needs another solution.
• This week
  • Continue working on IME bugs, focus on HKB-specific ones

GCP

• Last week: Finished popup doorhangers. Doing some UrlClassifier patches.
• Now: Finishing up those patches wrt review comments. Will be looking at bugs. If no more urgent issues, will look at Download Manager.
• Blockers: Nothing

Margaret

Last week:

• Full screen video - bug 698836, bug 688082
• Started on form history - bug 695444
• Started on html version of about:config - bug 699418

This week:

• Continue work on form history and about:config

DougT

• Helping land the panning zooming patch queue
• fixed some of the offline mode bugs we had

MFinkle

Done:

• More reviews!
• Landed basic Password Manager prompts
• Close to asking for review on the new add-ons manager
• Banging head on mobile UA story

Next:

• Add support for new DoorHanger features so we can finish PasswordManager w/ Doorhangers
• Land basic add-on manager rewrite
• Encourage some additional context menus - great first bugs for contributors!
• Get around to blogging

See online status

Round Table

QA

• Crash report changing from this to more simplified version of Native only crashes.
  • If there are any more improvements to make it easier to look at please let nhirata know.
  • big crash following the quit - bug 700720 (not in the current report as of yet) Kats got this fixed.

• Performance :
  • Working with Waverly to crunch numbers
  • cTalbert has stuff automated as can be seen in elancaster's video; missing part is that it needs to log to a server. he will have something towards the end of the week.