Mobile/Notes/16-Nov-2011
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Schedule
Major Topics for This Week
- Xul Fennec is moving!
- mobile/* -> mobile/xul/*
- Perf Regressions
- Page load?
- mfinkle has data that suggests we are slower
- disk cache?
- Startup?
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Arku3jleCA0UdFNQdkpuWVZIbjBPQ1gxa3RldzF2b1E&hl=en_US#gid=0
- between the 9th and 10th possible regression range
- possible last saved screenshot
- Page load?
Application
Native Front-end
Android Platform
- Flash landed on birch. Enabled by default.
Stand ups
Suggested format:
- What did you do last week?
- What are working on this week?
- Anything blocking you?
Snorp
Kats
Last week
- Mostly working on the layers patch queue and landing those patches
- Spent some time trying to track down the test failures
This week
- Bugs assigned to me - mostly reimplementing previous patches on top of the layers code
Blockers
- Bug 696319 (scroll web content input into view) depends on the architecture of the layers code, which is still evolving
GBrown
Last week:
- bug 700916: can run mochitest-remote on birch via adb now
- bug 648429: network cache compression: sorted out the crash, running microbenchmark to investigate performance issue
- bug 602611: 2-level (memory/disk) network cache: new patch is under discussion
Next week:
- more of the same
Blocked..."languishing"
- bug 696095: precompiled startup cache -- I could use some guidance on how to use qemu
AlexP
- Last week
- Reviewed and investigated new IME bugs.
- bug 697773 - Cannot type in AwesomeBar URL bar with hard keyboard
- Had to revert the first workaround fix due to regressions
- Did more investigation, and submitted a new fix
- bug 699792 - ALT key not working correctly on Motorola DROID PRO
- Investigated the bug and submitted a fix
- This week
- Continue working on IME bugs: Mobile/IME_Bugs
Chris Lord
GCP
- Last week: Fixed some Fennec crasher bugs, urlclassifier bugs.
- This week: Rebase (and review? that would be cool!) of new UrlClassifier code. Investigating Add-on Manager overhead.
- Blockers: None yet.
Brian N
- Last week
- Session store
- Favicon patches
- Preferences loading
- User agents
- This week
- User agents
- Session store
- Blocked on
- Nothing
Sriram
- Last Week:
- Reskinning doorhangers, Tab counter animation
- This week:
- Moving tabs to the right
- Changing focus color for the URL bar
- More better tab counter animation
- Blockers: None
WesJ
- Last week
- Double tap zoom. Landed. Unlanded. Just needs testing.
- This week
- Touch events. Got review. Fixing comments. Working on tests.
- Keep pushing useragent stuff. I think we're spidering the web with some test UA's?
LucasR
Last week:
- Bug fixing: 696833, 699793, 698816, 702306, 702688, 701014, 702962, 697189
- "State of Firefox Mobile" talk at MozCamp Europe in Berlin
- Blog post: http://lucasr.org/?p=2579
Next week:
- More bug fixing
Blockers
- None
MBrubeck
- Landed doorhanger code to enable indexedDB in birch.
- Meta viewport work is mostly complete; integrating with new graphics work.
- Beta 9 and Aurora 10 are in good shape; no more active development happening in XUL fennec.
- Reviewed some Meego-specific patches contributed by romaxa.
Margaret
Done:
- Add persistence/timeout to doorhangers (and follow-up fixes): bug 701305, bug 700913, bug 702386, bug 702778
- Fullscreen follow-ups: bug 701771, bug 700679
- Favicon regression from layers work: bug 701285
- Cancel download prompts: bug 701722
Next:
- Continue working on rewriting about:config in XHTML: bug 699418
- Lap back to form history: bug 695444
BLassey
Last week
- java-based about:home bug 701380
- reviews and code fixes
Next week
- more code fixes
DougT
- Worked on moving piece that can land back on m-c
- Thrusday doing the mobile/* -> mobile/xul move (well, some east coaster is going to do the push)
- Starting to look at more sane ways to save the last screenshot.
- May just disable it for now to get the Ts under control
MFinkle
Done:
- Patch ready for Password doorhangers
- Addressed feedback on Add-on Manager
- Worked on porting some add-ons to work in Native Fennec
- Got Zippity (add-on and website) working for Native Fennec
- Updated my talos dashboard to show XUL and Native side by side
- Reviews!
Next:
- Get a "works good enough" patch of Add-on Manager landed
- Blog on add-ons in Native Fennec
Madhava
- Last week: sync, misc. bugs
- This week: sync setup and pref flow, prefs, general misc bug coverage; these lovely bugs
- This page knows all, UX-wise: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/UserExperience
Ian Barlow
- Last week:
- UI Reviews
- Working on new designs for a Start Page, Reading Mode,
- This week:
- Same thing
- Blockers: Nope
Patryk Adamczyk
Last Week
- Door hangers: Delivered 9 Slice Graphics to Sriram > bug ref #698598
- Add ons: Delivered colour spec > bug ref #696532
This Week
- Supporting dev in implementation if any new graphics / specs are needed.
- Working on some Firefox widget designs (may not be for FF11)
Blockers
None
Round Table
- MIT hack-a-thon
- birch sheriffs
QA
- Well attended testday! Triaged > 50 bugs
- Concern about support for 2.1 I believe every device we've tested has a crash on startup
If there's just one crash that is worked upon atm in time...
- bug 702365 - Large screenshot can cause OOM on startup
- bug 702624 - Crash Reporter crashes
- bug 702255 [ICS] - Startup crash
- bug 702619 - Fennec crashes if at least 2 tabs are closed
- bug 694566 - [birch] crashes on install [@ mozalloc_abort __swrite ]
RelEng
- as contingency plan, working on being able to ship Fennec from birch. Should have in place by 14-20 Dec. bug 701817 (joduinn)