Mobile/Notes/28-Nov-2012

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• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

• Next merge is Week of 2013-01-06
• Fx18 Beta 1 shipped

Major Topics for This Week

Private Browsing

First set of patches have been reviewed. Likely to land this week. This will allow for initial PB testing in Nightly.

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!

Kats

• Nov 21-28
  • bug 813204 - remove redundant touch listener notifications from js -> java
  • bug 792603 - disable reader mode on devices with less than 512 MiB of MemTotal
  • bug 807998 - free dirty heap pages on memory pressure
  • bug 814418 - make fennec build with NDK r8c (pending review)
  • went through all the open bugs blocking 800673 and WFM'd a bunch; fixed a couple:
  • bug 775511 - disable panning and scrollbars when in full-screen mode
  • bug 768887 - hide url bar when rotating in full-screen mode
  • bug 783521 - hide tabs sidebar in full-screen mode
  • bug 815684 - send some logcat info with crash reports (pending review)
• Next
  • triage font-inflation bugs with scott to get some good examples of constrained-height problems that we can work on
  • continue working on armv6 + thumb and other memory-reduction things

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

• Done
  • bug 783368 - Low-res tile cache for tiled layers (mostly r+, green try, will push soon)
    • This bug fixes several other progressive-tile related regressions, such as bug 810278

• Now/next
  • Fallout from bug 783368:
    • bug 814437 - Major talos regression in checkerboard tests
    • bug 814864 - Low precision tile rendering takes too much time from high precision
  • Progressive-tiles related invalidation issues (probably)
  • Mentoring morrison to help snorp with bug 716403 (Request to hide the navigation bar when scrolling down content)
  • Going on PTO from December 8th - January 1st (inclusive)

• Low priority/blocked
  • bug 798539 - Jerkiness at the end of panning
  • bug 788522 - Enable asynchronous opacity and transform animations
  • Blog about invalidation work
  • Blog about low-res tiles work
  • bug 785069 - tcheckerboard2 has regressed substantially since Jul 22nd
  • bug 792415 - Covered areas of fixed position elements are not rendered
  • bug 783914 - WEBGL_depth_texture doesn't work using ANGLE (low priority)
  • bug 800475 - Fade in new content tiles

JChen

• Past week
  • Thanksgiving
  • Landed bug 814886 - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid selection offsets
  • Been working on bug 811755 - Holding backspace in a designMode editor repositions cursor
• Next week
  • Continue on bug 811755 - Holding backspace in a designMode editor repositions cursor
  • bug 810249 - Some VKB are not triggered in landscape mode
• Low priority/Blocked
  • bug 809329 - Duplicate letters when Xperia pro keyboard has suggestions
    • Waiting for feedback from bug reporter
  • bug 810821 - Tapping on url bar with Samsung Galaxy Note's II stylus doesn't have url text selected
    • Just requested a Galaxy Note

LucasR

Last week

• bug 709433 - animate awesome bar transition from tab bar to keyboard input
• Brainstorming ideas with Margaret to track and attract new coding contributors to Fennec

Next week

• Submit patches for bug 709433
• More bug fixing

Margaret

(Can't make the meeting today, but not much has changed)

• Helping kill Gaia blockers
• Training people to help kill Gaia blockers
• Met with lucasr to brainstorm ways to improve contributor acquisition/retention/quality (he'll give an update on that)

MFinkle

Done:

• Reviews
• Fixed some search engine bugs (bug 815076 and bug 762046)
• Fixed support for multiple-profiles (bug 809942)
• Added actions to context menu for HTML video (bug 701785)
• Blogged about Android x86 test build

Next:

• Traveling to MV/SF next week

Ian Barlow

In progress

• Tab menu refinements in progress http://cl.ly/1U1O2p3f262K
• Private browsing polish
• Guest mode
• Multi-search
• Starting to run low on bonus bugs, need to re-up

UX Bonus Bugs

bug 716403 Scroll header off screen: Double bonus bug - 2 boxes of cookies to whoever fixes this! Snorp working on it!

General

• bug 792407 Colour difference between title bar and in content UI background
• bug 715258 Favicons are low quality for internal / local pages
• bug 716051 Favicons are low quality for Mozilla-owned web properties

Title bar

• bug 784362 Fix forward button bg alignment (tablets)

Menu

• bug 784366 Menu opens in the wrong direction

Tabs

• bug 792410 Update tab thumbnails
• bug 792414 Add bottom shadow to tabs tray

Round Table

QA

• IME
  • Thoughts on bug 805162 for 18? (Aaron)

Community

• Ideas to track and attract new coding contributors to Fennec (Lucas & Margaret)