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- Mobile Vidyo Room
Schedule
- Next merge: 2014-10-13
Topics for This Week
- Tablet refresh v0 soon in Nightly (disabled by default)
- Tentative merge to m-c happening tomorrow.
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.
- Julien Sanchez fixed bug 680392 - Localize trademark notice string in about:firefox
- manu.jain13 fixed bug 1060423 - Cut function in a readonly textarea
- amoghbl1 fixed bug 1019045 - Unify magnifying glass/search icon
- eedens fixed bug 1042960 - Create UI elements for facet bar
- Tristan Pollitt fixed bug 1057613 - Telemetry for search widget buttons
- vivek fixed bug 799562 - Update about:feedback to use new feedback API
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)
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Alan K. (ack)
- enable cloudsync in nightly + uplift to aurora
- ad-hoc issues on flame (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065081)
- transitioning from cloudsync -> standalone webrtc w/GCP
JChen
Fixed
Working on
- More startup perf (bug 888482, etc.)
- Coming up with ideas for bug 1060009.
GCP
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Last week
- 1060796 - Limit screen capture FPS
- 1053264 - Mouse cursor flickers after activating screensharing on Windows
- bug 1059573 Add support to using DSP-based echo canceller and noise suppressor
Next week
- bug 1059573 Add support to using DSP-based echo canceller and noise suppressor
- Standalone WebRTC
- Media sandboxing
Randall Barker
Last week:
- Fixed minor issues with Roku Player (aspect ratio, detect dropped stream, etc.)
- Created SSDP/ECP simulator to debug discovery issues.
- Rebased standalone WebRTC code and it broke. Started fixing.
Next week:
- Finish fixing standalone WebRTC.
- Set up private channel with Roku WebRTC Player to enable testing. Waiting on Roku to do this.
- Investigate bug 1053426 Fennec crashes when tab sharing is active (Looks to be memory leak)
- Continue to try and land standalone code.
- Investigate sending H.264 instead of VP8 video to standalone WebRTC. (Not certain how critical this is as performance of VP8/OpenGL appears adequate)
- Land bug 1048425 Enable support for tab sharing with Roku device. Possible now that there is something to test against.
Eugen Sawin
Past
- Janus Proxy (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Janus)
- Fixed (disabled) DOM injections for HTTPS resources on HTTP sites (gh node-janus/56)
- Fixed websockets support (gh node-janus/54 gh node-janus/55)
Present & Future
- Janus Proxy
- Investigating performance issues (using the new metrics and marionette tests)
- Looking into <picture> element injection
- Adding TCP/socket stats
- bug 1034114 - WebApp startup slowed significantly by debug server
Sylvain Cleymans
Last week:
- Fixed performance testing
Next week:
- Finish performance testing
- Finish image compression
Brian Nicholson
- Transitioning to dougt's team to work on privacy and security
- Wrapping up review queue and some bugs
WesJ
<Read Only> Landing these guys (its taking a bit)
- bug 1058150 - Use a restricted profile for guest mode. Landed again this morning.
- bug 966493 - Cannot request fullscreen when inside a touchstart event.
- bug 815682 - Lock screen widget/shortcut for Guest Sessions on Android 4.2 and above Widgets. Chasing down some Android 2.3 nits. There are little changes for this scattered through startup. Hopefully with:
- bug 897711 - [guest] Provide an indicator for guest mode in the UI. it will be clear if we make a mistake. :)
- bug 1042199 - Widget for searching from error pages. This changes how we decide what url to show in the urlbar a bit.
Also looking at:
- bug 901360 - Convert to Downloads.jsm in Firefox for Android and bug 1063217 - Support a PDF DownloadSaver
- bug 1064611 - Allow requesting cached content from nsIWebNavigation. For better offline/error experiences.
LucasR
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Last week
- Top crasher fix
- bug 1041448 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.home.PinSiteDialog$3.onFocusChange(PinSiteDialog.java)
- Prep work to merge larch to m-c
- bug 1053252 - Create different package name for larch so it can be installed beside Nightly
- Tablet refresh (Fixing reftest failures)
- bug 1014987 - Display tabs horizontally
- bug 1015447 - Add a new tab from horizontal tab strip
- bug 1017307 - Close a foreground tab on horizontal tab strip
- bug 1017313 - Close a background tab from horizontal tab strip
- bug 1018426 - Switch a tab on horizontal tab strip
- Toolbar refresh
- bug 1055536 - Too many differing background greys throughout the browser
- bug 1057438 - Rewrite FadedTextView
- bug 1060394 - Move FadedTextView to the widget package
- bug 1061508 - Consider fading edge in toolbar's title instead of ellipsis
- bug 1063914 - Restore edit mode's [x] icon
- Misc
- bug 1020505 - Regression: Browser menu has width issues
- bug 1062231 - Menu share icon is misaligned to the right
- bug 1065369 - Consolidate 'add tab' behaviour in Tabs
Next week
- Merge larch to m-c
- More tablet and toolbar stuff
liuche
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- Follow-ups for Onboarding (bug 1059792, bug 1063748)
- bug 1062257 - "Remove" behavior in home panels
- reviews, chatting with UX about future onboarding
- Next: search activity, Private browsing contextual hints
Margaret
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Highlights:
- Settings telemetry
- Search activity
- Attending JSConf EU this weekend
Past:
- 1061644 - crash in java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Couldn''t find search engine for identifier: YAHOO at org.mozilla.search.providers.SearchEngineManager.createEngine(SearchEngineManager.java)
- 1062632 - Remove unused history panel view and styles
- 1063128 - UI Telemetry for Settings records empty preference name
- 1058813 - Add telemetry for custom preferences
- 1063177 - "+" button overlaps text in long search suggestions
- 1057631 - Use real locale when pulling search engine out of the jar
- 1059537 - Add support for parsing icons out of search plugin XML
- 1049206 - Design for the "blank state"/"first run" experience when user has no search history
Present:
mcomella
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Past
- bug 1046017 - Taps are offset on some devices
Present
- Browser toolbar refresh
- bug 1058909 - Implement new tablet toolbar display mode
- bug 1001655 - Replace applicable Strings in test code with StringHelper references
- bug 960746 - Back/forward button state can get out of sync on tablets
- bug 1020534 - Tablet toolbar icons hard to read on dark lightweight themes
- bug 1062338 - Regression: Back button icon missing in menu on some small screen (?) hardware (?) devices
Future
- Too busy with other things:
- Herding bug 941155 (fix talos on mobile to have pageloader tests working in regular mode and nochrome mode) along
- bug 939350 - Create Python linter wrapper
- bug 983437 - Delay FHR pruning until the screen is off
- bug 989441 - Centralized documentation for writing tests
rnewman
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- Attempting to kick-start a discussion around services to boost usage. Please chime in. https://mobile.etherpad.mozilla.org/service-brainstorming
- Hacking away at dead code and obsolete libraries.
- Landing stages of splitapk work.
- Got frustrated, decided to fix Sync's scheduling on desktop. We now sync automatically when your machine wakes from sleep.
- Reviews, advice, perf, etc. etc. -- the usual.
Fixed
Working on
Upcoming
- Accept-Language stuff.
- More perf/APK work.
ckitching
nalexander
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- Code: Remote Tabs home panel has landed (bug 1014994). Many small tickets still open to hammer out issues (bug 1063742, bug 1063765) and re-instate cut features (bug 1064304). Split pane tablet view should hit review this week.
- Reviews: working with ckitching to make annotation processing a Real Child. ckitching claims significant code size wins (~100s of kb) if we can make Proguard obfuscate our sources safely. Action in bug 1064554.
- Testing: first meetings (jlund, gbrown) and feedback cycle for running instrumentation tests in automation (meta bug is bug 1064004).
- Testing: |mach robocop| has landed (bug 874729).
Past
- 1003877 - [meta] Custom server support for Firefox Accounts on Android
- 1058160 - Specify main activity org.mozilla.fennec.App with a default intent over org.mozilla.search.MainActivity
- 1056707 - Kindle: No way to remove Firefox account
- 1040945 - Make AndroidEclipse backend make target install native libraries more aggressively
- 785199 - Give remote tabs a context menu
- 1014994 - create a synced tabs panel
- 1062566 - Update to Java 1.7 and bump SDK version in AndroidEclipse backend templates
- 1062638 - crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.RemoteTabsExpandableListAdapter.getChildView(RemoteTabsExpandableListAdapter.java)
- 1063028 - Change tests/browser/junit3 Java package root to be org.mozilla.gecko
- 874729 - Add ability to run robocop tests to mach
Present
Martyn Haigh
BLassey
MFinkle
Antlam
- Past
- Toronto Work week
- N2R project moving forward
- Started co-ordination with Arcadio's team for Firefox for Android's own website
- bug 946471: Firefox channel on Roku
- Firefox Search UX work
- Upcoming
- bug 1065065: Firefox Search visuals for history items
- bug 1060413: V1 visuals for default state of tablet UI
- Tablet's overview presentation with Yuan
Yuan
- Last week
- Synced up with Robin on addons and N2R
- Presented launcher and lock screen study to mobile team
- Talked to Arcadio about onboarding "Get Started"
- Worked with Anthony on Tablet Refresh
- Gave UX feedback to bug 1062257, bug 1061612, bug 1060678
- This week
- Continue the work on Tablet Refresh with Anthony
- Coordinate with mozilla.org and creative team on Android product page and in-product onboarding: bug 1064538
- Follow up the implementation of Share to Firefox, light-weight onboarding screen
- Give UX feedback to bug 847435,bug 989094.
Robin
Last week
- Met with Yuan and Anthony re: (N2R)
- Add-on research
- Menu refresh
This week
- N2R \m/
- Continue Add-on research
- Continue Menu refresh
- Syncing up with Anthony and Yuan
- Provided feedback on bug 1044401
Security/MGoodwin
WebRT
- bug 960584 - notify user of download progress indication when fetching APK - landed
- bug 1021395 - Web app machinery dumps lots of semi-sensitive data to logcat - WIP rebased
- bug 1029691 - Manifest not being checked on APK installation - needs rebasing
A-Team
QA
Garvan
- Stumbler currently off due to start time regression: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1064677
- cpeterson following up on to-do item for UX: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027078
Feature Focus
- Note:If you are working on a feature targeting anywhere up to 35, and it is not listed below already, please call it out to me.
- Updated including proposed 35 feature set
- See Roadmap for more information, Meta bug details etc...
Firefox 33 (Beta) - Release: Oct 14, 2014
- [ON TRACK] Videocasting (Roku, Firefly, Chromecast)
- [ON TRACK] Form auto-fill improvements - Backend
- [ON TRACK] OEM distro service
- [ON TRACK] Suggested sites v2(Distribution support & non-Mozilla suggested sites)
- [ON TRACK] Tabs updates and improvements
- [ON TRACK] Privacy: option to clear history on exit or after a certain amount of time
- [ON TRACK] Janus - Phase 1 (Client)
- [ON TRACK] Added locale(s):Aragonese (an), Kazakh (kk), Xhasa (xh), Frisian (fy-NL)
Firefox 34 (Aurora) - Release: Nov 25, 2014
- [ON TRACK] Provide a wifi toggle widget on error pages
- [AT RISK] Tab mirroring (Roku)
- [ON TRACK] Tab mirroring (Chromecast)
- [ON TRACK] Toolbar Updates
- [ON TRACK] Add support for Restricted Profiles (Prefer: safe)
- [ON TRACK] Share handler overlay (landed but not turned on, nightly & aurora only)
- [ON TRACK] Form auto-fill improvements, native client-side work
- [ON TRACK] Kindle-related fixes
- [ON TRACK] First-run Splash Screen Overlay
Firefox 35 (Nightly) - Release: Jan 6, 2015
- [PROPOSED] Tablets: tabbed browsing refresh v2
- [ON TRACK] Sync Tabs panel
- [PROPOSED] Settings Rewrite (includes:bug 975377
- [IN PROGRESS] Fatfennec: Minifying JS
- [ON TRACK] Search activity v1
- [ON TRACK] Moz Stumbler
- [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language
- [PROPOSED] Tablets: tabbed browsing refresh v1
- [PROPOSED] Change default search engine to Bing
- [IN PROGRESS] Fatfennec: Splitting the APK – gingerbread phone release
- [BLOCKED] {{{1}}} Turn on HTTPS for Bing bug 958873
- [PROPOSED] Privacy: DDG as a built in search engine