Mobile/Notes/28-Nov-2012

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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.

Fx17 & ARMv6

Quick napkin calculations show a slow uptake of ARMv6 devices over the first week of Fx17. As of Nov 26th, we have 0.1 % of active device installs on ARMv6. For comparison, we had ~1% when Fx17 was on Beta.

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)

• Last week
  • Hiding header
  • Bug 808595 - Firefox mobile (Nightly) doesn't obey 'only over Wifi' setting for downloading updates on Sunday/early Monday (MEZ)
  • Bug 813675 - Updater doesn't work with proxy

• This week
  • Off Monday/Tuesday
  • More work on hiding header
  • Profiling work for B2G

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

GBrown

• Last week:
  • bug 813858 Intermittent robocop shutdown failure with no summary...
  • bug 814481 Intermittent robocop "DMError: Invalid process line: Test results for FennecInstrumentationTestRunner=."
  • bug 814496 SUT: long-running exec'd process corrupts response to future commands
  • bug 814805 Android xpcshell tests: chmod permission problems on rooted device
  • bug 815699 xpcshell test_NetUtil.js fails with SIGSEGV on Android
  • bug 814767 devicemanager: mkDirs optimization
  • bug 813724 Determine if it is possible to run Android tests in emulator-x86 - on-going
  • bug 816131 Determine if it is possible to run Android tests in virtualbox - on-going
• Next:
  • bug 815786 Disable testCheck3 (rck3) in Talos
  • bug 742804 Dialog dictates user to attempt to save downloads elsewhere
  • bug 815726 fennec consumes 55% cpu and 350MB+ RSS, then reboots frequently on panda boards ?
  • bug 761987 Intermittent Android shutdown, crashtests/468771-2.xhtml, basn2c16.html crash [@ nssCertificate_Destroy]  ?
  • Small backlog of unresolved robocop issues: bugs 770483, 769524, etc.
• Stalled/blocked:
  • bug 810471 Crash on startup during various tests
  • bug 768491 xpcshell on android hangs or crashes on exit, on tegra only

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

GCP

• Last week:
  • bug 815883 - fix WebRTC builds for ARM chips with neon FPUs
  • WebRTC on Android linking issues
• Next week:
  • Further WebRTC work, clean up patches
  • https://webrtc-apps.etherpad.mozilla.org/4
• Notes:
  • FOSDEM: I signed us up and I see cwiis volunteerd to hold the talk.

Brian N

• Done
  • Bug 813057 - Google search engine field stops resizing if suggestions change during animation
  • Bug 813346 - getBitmapFromDataURI() assumes fixed-length data URI header
  • Bug 810732 - Fennec tests are not running on Nightly
• Next
  • More Fx19+ bugs

Sriram

• Almost ready to land first set of Private Browsing patches. bug 806927 and bug 806937
• Working on optimizing ShapedButton. bug 814224
  • Adding states instead of levels for Tabs and Menu button.
• Re-created back/forward button in code
  • Supports persona and private-browsing.
• Next:
  • Cleanup custom menu code (patch ready), to support it in GB phones for private browsing.
  • Change the tabs-tray for the new private-browsing mode.
  • Daydreaming (http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.2.html#Daydream)

WesJ

Last week:

• Continued working on Bug 783312 - Make top sites customizable on about:home
• Another round on Bug 681805 - [TABLETUI] Hide forward button when there is not forward shistory... (edit)
• Blogged about webapps. Hoping to keep this out calling out webapps that are doing things well.

This week:

• Finish working on Bug 783312 - Make top sites customizable on about:home

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)

Scott (jwir3)

Last Week:

• Family over for Thanksgiving (so it seems like just yesterday that we had a meeting...)
• bug 803719 : Reflow-on-zoom should zoom in and snap into a piece of text.

This Week:

• bug 803719 : Reflow-on-zoom should zoom in and snap into a piece of text.
• bug 800805 : Reflow on zoom moves the position sideways on the screen incorrectly.
• bug 806430 : Panning not working on some sites if reflow on zoom is enabled.
• bug 808031 : Double tapping to focus on a text column does not work (B2G).

BLassey

Done

• ate turkey

Next

• Working on RelEng patch for x86 builds

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

• Customizing about:home - I owe Wes some feedback :)
• 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
• Really have to start blogging again :P

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?

Community

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

SUMO

Google Play Reviews are jumping up significantly. We are now at a visible 4.1 stars on the Google Play store. There aren't any major issues SUMO has seen, yet. I'm still recovering from thanksgiving weekend feedback piling up. A full report is coming.

ARMv6 This Etherpad has all the information we've seen come in so far, no major problem devices we didn't point out already (Samsung Admire)