Mobile/Notes/12-Sep-2012
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Schedule
- Next merge is 2012-10-08
- Fx15.0.1 shipped
- Fx16b2 shipped
Major Topics for This Week
- ARMv6
- Collecting data. Looking for feedback on Play Store and Input.
- Usage Milestone
- We broke 1 million ADIs yesterday (combining Fx14, Fx15 and Fx16).
- Focus on Nightly
- Most work is happening on features slated for Fx18 or greater. We seem to be moving away from our "uplift the world" curse.
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)
- This week
- Bug 789791 - Firefox for Android Nightly 20120905 fails to update ("No updates found") if system language is not en-US
- Bug 789964 - Root usage in updater scares users, doesn't work
- Bug 786248 - Video is rendered upside-down at dailymotion.com on Honeycomb
- Bug 750217 - Android crash in nsNPAPIPluginInstance::TimerWithID
- Bug 778091 - Low resolution version of flash displayed on all 4.x tablets (in progress)
- Next week
- Some UI tweaks for updater
- Probably start on reducing memory usage for our ARMv6 friends
Kats
Sep 5 - Sep 11:
- filed a couple of valgrind bugs which are blocking my heap graph tool
- bug 760229 - reduce transient object creation on java heap during composition
- interviews
- bug 780975 - some cleanup in browser.js
- bug 767449 - don't hard-code sdcard path in robocop/talos
- bug 770912 - take out log lines that leak user information
- did an overhaul of the build instructions posted at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android
- bug 789889 - (WIP, some numbers) speculatively connect to links on touchstart
- bug 789923 - drop thumbnails that we're unlikely to need (r-'d, need to do this differently)
- bug 761706 - (WIP) make our broadcast receiver classes not tied to GeckoApp
- code reviews
Next:
- more work on bug 761706
- start working through the ideas list we brainstormed at boston workweek
- see if we are/can generate thumb2 code and if it's better
- see if using basic layers instead of GL layers works and helps
- shrink the displayport size
- ... more
GBrown
Last week:
- bug 777440 Estimate releng work for supporting 2 pass linking
- Demonstrated method for doing this in the emulator; now over to :hwine
- Blogged about emulator tricks
- bug 783639 PixelTest failures on panda
- bug 787115 Hang and high CPU during robocop tests on panda: java.lang.StringToReal.parseDouble
- Wrapped up investigation; work-around on the way in bug 727352
Next:
- Robocop pixel test failures (eg bug 784242, 767215)
Chris Lord (cwiiis)
- Now
- bug 786502 - Static background on Bungie.net appears to scroll away with the content
- Waiting for review + writing tests
- Merge bug 785333 and bug 786672 into Aurora
- Looking at BenWa's progressive tile painting work
- bug 786502 - Static background on Bungie.net appears to scroll away with the content
- Next
- Blog about position:fixed work
- bug 786412 - Consolidate ContainerLayer functions
- bug 786740 - CSS transition with rounded borders cause rendering issues
- bug 785069 - tcheckerboard2 has regressed substantially since Jul 22nd (blocked on regression range)
- bug 783914 - WEBGL_depth_texture doesn't work using ANGLE (low priority)
- Blog about invalidation work
Chris Peterson
- Done
- bug 786103 - Stagefright: Galaxy S III hardware decoder video is green (OMX_COLOR_FormatYUV420SemiPlanar)
- bug 786117 - Stagefright software decoder crashes playing Bloomberg video
- bug 785536 - Add MPAPI GetPref so platform decoders can query about:config prefs
- bug 782096 - NullPointerException at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java)
- bug 788600 - AutoComplete causing multiple entries of the same word
- bug 780543 - Holding backspace causes enormous repeats of content
- bug 768105 - Hacker's Keyboard inserts typed characters at wrong position after autocompleting a word
- bug 777591 - Compile new namespaces packages into separate .jar packages (and link .dex from .jar files, not .class files)
- Next
- bug 784329 - Stagefright: Galaxy Nexus hardware decoder video is blank. Need OMX_TI_COLOR_FormatYUV420PackedSemiPlanar color conversion
- bug 785275 - Galaxy S III hardware decoder shows green bars when playing non-720p videos (OMX_COLOR_FormatYUV420SemiPlanar)
- IME bugs
GCP
- This week:
- bug 741808 Finish enabling URL classification in SafeBrowsing.js component
- fallocate on Android (same bug)
- OOM Telemetry investigation (28% OOM kills)
- bug 785960 "Don't keep activities" developer option gets counted as OOM in telemetry
Brian N
- Done
- Bug 788609 - Check for about: URIs in isMarketPlace()
- Bug 790448 - Search rows in AwesomeScreen aren't vertically centered
- Bug 789340 - Session store uses wrong tabs from last time
- Bug 582244 - Implement Private Browsing (in review)
- WIP: Bug 769145 - Add an opt-in for the search suggestions feature
- Next
- Bug 769145 - Add an opt-in for the search suggestions feature (animations)
Sriram
WesJ
Last week:
- MozCamp! Did a talk on touch and some demos at the keynote. Spent lots of time talking to people. Everyone loves Fennec!
- Reviews
- Bug 783921 - Application shortcuts wrongly scaled? (DPI)
This week:
- Finish JNI.js stuff
- Bug 787765 - Retheme about:home thumbnails
- Even more WebApps fun
LucasR
Last week
- bug 788119 - Don't even parse home pages in Reader's worker thread
- bug 785992 - Sanitize parsed reader mode article when viewing
- bug 786073 - Don't animate lock icon when switching or restoring tabs
- bug 768268 - Never show duplicate URLs in awesomebar results
- bug 778489 - Implement nice transition to enter Reader Mode
- bug 787877 - History list doesn't update after you remove the last history item using context menu
- bug 788157 - Enable sharing while on Reader Mode
Next week
- bug 786638 - Implement testing infrastructure for reader mode
- bug 767980 - Tab drawer animation should be smoother
- bug 788488 - Do not enter loading mode for pages already in session history
MBrubeck
Margaret
Done:
- MozCamp EU (blog post about mobile add-ons session)
- Community building meetup (blog post to come)
- PopupWindow crash fix - bug 774209
- Helping smaug collect cycle collector logs on mobile
- Investigating top sites query perf
- Slow query - bug 785945
- Issuing multiple queries when we shouldn't - bug 789887, bug 789947
Next:
- More top sites perf investigation
- More travel/PTO, back to normal next Thursday
Scott (jwir3)
(I won't be in the meeting this week, but please read the wiki for my updates. Feel free to email me with any questions.)
Last Week:
- bug 780258 Landed. We now have the ability to specify a max line box width for all line boxes on a page.
- Fixed a number of quirks with the reflow-on-zoom prototype. Working on developing a decent demo video for all to see.
- Worked on bug 784375: Add ability to specify a maximum font inflation ratio.
This Week:
- Fix review comments from bug 784375 and land it.
- Develop reflow-on-zoom prototype demo video (and probably blog about it).
- Isolate behavior for -webkit-text-size-adjust: percentage% so that we can add this to the newly developing spec by dbaron and tantek.
BLassey
Last week
- bug 770289 - JNIEnv->NewString can throw and needs to be caught before another JNI call
- bug 761503 - return a bool from PumpMessageLoop to indicate if work was performed
This week
- in Warsaw for performance work week
- last call for things you want me to talk to perf people about
- bug 727352 - get rid of JSON usage in viewport updates
- bug 785291 - add support for in-product fonts
- bug 790614 - report broken mobile site feature
Next week
- hopefully back to a more normal schedule
MFinkle
Madhava
- have been on vacation for 2 weeks, if you haven't noticed
- this week: planning and roadmapping with Ian and Karen
Ian Barlow
Recently
- Android Snippets (formerly Google Cloud Messaging)
This Week
- Working with Karen and Madhava on roadmap
- Improved First Run / Update UX
- Private Browsing / Guest Mode
- Improved Sync Setup Flow / First Run UX
- Search enhancements
- Widget
- Better search suggestion / autocomplete
- Search multiple providers at once
- Safe Browsing UI Refresh (GCP)
- Tweaking strings for new updater (snorp)
Security/MGoodwin
Round Table
l10n proposal
Axel needs feedback on the proposal in .mobile
QA
- fennecandroid.16.0b2.armv6.topcrash.html Tracking ARMv6 crashes
- Quick look at it has a number of stacks related to OOM in JS
- Need to follow up with Kairo to check on what devices are crashing
- need progress on bug 756140
- Working on driving down the regressionwindow wanted bugs
Socorro/Breakpad/Stability
Hightlights:
- nhirata still on b2g more so.
- kairo's report : fennecandroid.16.0b2.armv6.topcrash
Please see Platform Meeting Notes for Stability report
SUMO
Firefox 15.0.1 Mobile Google Play Feedback
5 star 49,963 (+1877, 64% of Growth)
4 star 18,844 (+567, 19% of Growth)
3 star 12,762 (+240, 8% of Growth)
2 star 8,513 (+99, 3% of Growth )
1 star 13,259 (+171, 6% of Growth)
Average rating: 3.81 (+.02)
Average Rating of this Week's Reviews: 4.30 (-.13)
103,341 Total Reviews (+2964)
Observations: 15.0.1 did fix the keyboard input issue. crashes remain our biggest concern, but they are still not significantly higher than 14.0.1.
Firefox Beta Google Play Feedback
5 star 8,592 (+507, 69% of Growth)
4 star 3,599 (+123, 17% of Growth)
3 star 1,797 (+30, 4% of Growth)
2 star 939 (+22, 3% of Growth)
1 star 1,625 (+54, 7% of Growth)
Average rating: 4.00 (+.01 from last week)
This Week's worth of Reviews Average Rating: 4.41 (+.17)
16,552 Total Reviews (+736)
Observations: Feedback solicitation landed, which is most accounts for the huge spike in positive reviews (we went from 51% of reviews being 5 star to 69%). Next week Input is going to feature in this report.