Mobile/Notes/17-Jun-2015

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Schedule

• Release calendar

Topics for This Week

• Whistler hacking: https://mobile.etherpad.mozilla.org/whistler-2015
• startup time wins

Tracking Review

Release

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Beta

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Aurora

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Nightly

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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.

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)

• Worked on some build system junk to enable colorized warnings/errors, bug 1171610 (need to push)
• Got a couple patches up for feedback for paint throttling, bug 1150172
  • Dramatically improves page load speed (up to 50%)
  • Reduces power consumption
  • Needs some tweaks still, but I hope to land before or during Whistler

JChen

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GCP

• Last week
  • Video sandboxing: Mac and Windows failures fixed, all green on try now, patches up for review
• Next week
  • bug 1175562 Persist last update time for updates/gethash completion
  • Whistler prep work

Randall Barker

Last Week:

• Landed: bug 1163664 Don't check for plugin blocklist state on Android.
• Uplifted to beta and aurora: bug 1159830 Autophone - webappstartup should not use console.log to output WEBAPP STARTUP COMPLETE
• Working through review: bug 1173844 - Video would not playback after seek seekbar if media.autoplay.enabled = false
• Investigating: bug 1171337 - black window during browsing

Next Week:

• Continue examining bug 1171337 - black window during browsing
• Get reviewed: bug 1166961 Re-enable missing video UI when element does not have controls.
• Land: bug 1173844 - Video would not playback after seek seekbar if media.autoplay.enabled = false
• Work Week.

Note: Will be on PTO June 29 -July 20.

Eugen Sawin

• MP3 demuxer
  • Looking into intermittent initialization issues
• Startup performance optimization
  • Landed on-demand loading of Webapps.jsm (1171013)
  • Looking into on-demand loading of heavy modules (XPIProvider.jsm, GMPProvider.jsm)

Fixed

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Bryan Munar

1. Sad that Brian is on PTO for forever (3 weeks) :(
2. Happy that Whistler!!!!!

Finished:

• Bug 1141240 - Persist tab history for session restore
• yay

Working On:

• Bug 1109684 - Let other developers directly open pages in Firefox for iOS
• looking for more small bugs to conquer/filing bugs

WesJ

• Family visiting
• Still pounding on sqlcipher. bug 1147071 - Use encrypted database storage for passwords
• Reviews

liuche

Highlights:

• More doorhangers work
• Apparently testSettingsMenuItems is turned off - trying to fix it to re-enable

Present:

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Past:

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karim

Past:

• WWDC!

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Present:

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• 602818 - Integrate QR code scanner into Fennec
• 1132125 - show voice input UI in New Tab's default URL bar

Margaret

Highlights:

• Add-on signing UI
• Planning for privacy-focused Fx42
• Talking with participation team about effort to promote Fennec in India
• PTO Thursday afternoon/Friday

Past:

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jonalmeida

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mcomella

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rnewman

Fixed

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nalexander

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• Partners
  • Bi-directional Java Addons: bug 1168407:
    • "final" patch over to mfinkle for review (already has r=rnewman)
    • Working out "final" patch test failures on Android 9
    • Documentation under-way at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Firefox_for_Android/API/JavaAddonManager.jsm
  • Integration with third-party identity services
    • Working on exposing WebChannel to Fennec privileged content: bug 1174458
    • Started attaching patches for small things: bug 1161234
  • --with-android-distribution-directory
    • No movement
• Contributors: working with Ahmed and vivek this week.
  • vivek is leading the push for Firefox Account profile avatars in Firefox 42 \o/
  • First ticket landed: bug 1055264, next in review: bug 1171141
• Testing:
  • Still need a blog post for mach gradle runBrowserTests
  • Still need a blog post mach robocop --serve
• mach package-frontend: pushed for re-review but gps is busy (?)
  • Using taskcluster and the local pushlog database to seamlessly fetch binaries
  • Working very well locally \o/

Sebastian

• Home Panel APIs: bug 1157539 bug 1172136
• RecyclerView: bug 1171288

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Martyn Haigh

Past:

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Present:

• 1017338 - Swipe up to close a tab from tab panel

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Stefan

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Also, lots non-coding things: coordinating with lastpass, 1password, pwSafe. github/bugzilla gardening, making new builds (aurora is out, testflight waiting for legal?), picked up the apple app store discussion about our app name, talking to webkit team to find out what we can do for iOS9.

Steph

Last week: Desktop/Android URL Bar Highlight algorithm

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Ally

• 1170786 about:logins v1 minimum shippable product
  • Part 2 of 1136477 Unify terminology of Passwords/Logins for about:logins (nee about:passwords) waiting on review
  • 1148524 Add "edit login" option in about:passwords context menu
  • Bug 1144413 - Remove "details" page from about:passwords (done)
• Other
  • 1174878 Update robocop test testSettingsMenuItems.java to use StringHelper.java in all cases
  • 1141769 Implement new style(unified) FHR/Telemetry password manager probes (waiting on 2nd r+)
  • reviews

Emily

Highlights:

• WWDC
• Jetlag
• Getting into Sync

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BLassey

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Antlam

• Past
  • Partner stuff
  • On-boarding for Android
  • Doorhangers bug triage
  • Passwords follow up
  • Private browsing improvements
  • Cleaning up about:addons

• Upcoming
  • More of the same!
  • Prep for Whistler

Robin

Went to Palm Springs for YxYY, did all the things.

iOS

• Continuing to find any bugs, specifically UI-related.
• Improve CSS for Reader View on iPad
• Finalize spinner for loading Reading View/pull-to-refresh

Android

• Kinderfox: still reading all the research.

Darrin

Past:

• WWDC!

Present + Future:

• Quick Search visual context – https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172065
• Onboarding Improvements – https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172054
• Default Search not shown if suggestions turned off – https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1163219

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

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• Android Roadmap in Aha!
  • Not much changed this week.
  • 'Option to always use private browsing' holding on nightly channel pending outcome of user testing
• Suggest new features for the Android Roadmap Here

• iOS Roadmap in Aha!
• Suggest new features for the iOS Roadmap Here
• Priority #1/Biggest concern right now - finalizing our end-game plan to push V1.0 out the door! This is a goal for Whistler.
• 2nd Priority - Start discussion/planning for V1.1 & V2.0... may get into this at Whistler if we can knock out Priority #1 above!