Firefox/Meeting/5-Mar-2013

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Friends of the Firefox team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

See the email on firefox-dev for a comprehensive list of contributions over the past two weeks.

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!

paolo

Last week:

• Bug Triage
• Downloads API
  • bug 835876 - Add the ability to restart downloads
  • bug 835880 - Implement the basic DownloadList object
  • bug 835803 - Add tests for downloads whose size is zero bytes
• Submitted talk proposal for jsDay

Next week:

• Connect the Downloads API with the Downloads Panel experimentally
  • bug 847191 - Integration with legacy interfaces to start new downloads
  • bug 847863 - Use the JavaScript API instead of nsIDownloadManager as the back-end for the panel
• Review bug 769348 - URLs auto-completed in address bar might unexpectedly use ftp:// instead of http://.

mak

Last week:

• Cleaned up patches for frecency (bug 737836, still needs new test) and autofill (bug 769348) improvements
• Landed about:home storage abstraction and test rewrite (bug 820834, bug 820834)
• Investigated downloads panel regression bug 845836
• Helped UP team figuring out failures in UP prototype patch we made during the work week
• Handled requests: (bug 566746, bug 822200, bug 834543, bug 835581, bug 835803, bug 842553, bug 844958, bug 846754)

This week:

• bunch of reviews, included async form history, dom storage rewrite, new bookmarks backups module
• investigate possible performance win for Places and autofill (bug 843357 - Evaluate dropping "www." from rev_host column)
• indexedDB in about:home

blockers:

• need shorlander UI-r on bug 748894 - Move the bookmark star button outside of the location bar
• need Mano reviews on API deprecations (bug 838874, bug 838839), and perf win (bug 830423)

enn

• New patches for asynchronous form history uploaded
• Bug 407983, work on patches for clipboardData and clipboard events, adding constuctor and addressing review comments
• Review download manager patches, as well as arrow panel patch in bug 824963.

Will miss meeting due to appointment.

felipe

• Reviewed bug 786133, bug 809085, almost finished with bug 673875
• Started work at bug 831208 - async content prefs
• Working and talks about AOM perf improvements - AOM itself and identifying bad add-ons

ttaubert

• Finally landed the patch that avoids black borders for thumbnails.
• Corrected the ProfLD directory on Android after we changed it for Linux.
• Worked on fixing disappearing CTP icons after swapping docShells.
• Investigated new tab page performance impact (XUL -> XHTML, XUL flexbox -> CSS 3 flexbox, delayed loading).
• Various reviews.

dolske

• Triaged all the bugs (all the bugs) in FF:Phishing Protection in prep for bug 810114. Went from 120 to 71 open.
• I blogged on IRC notifications.
• Misc reviews. Still a mostly-empty queue!

mconley

Last week:

• Australis tabs
  • Re-ported curvy tab changes to Linux GTK theme (super-easy thanks to shared/)
  • Found some old mstange patches that we need to make tabs-in-titlebar on OSX performant. Landed bug 676250, testing bug 676248
  • Coordinated with spohl for other OSX platform changes needed for performant tabs-in-titlebar (bug 676241) - he's getting in touch with rstrong and areinald to arrange how we want to attack this
• Customization
  • Jared and I are working under the jamun project branch (https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Jamun)
  • Tried de-tangling panel from customization code, then abandoned that - the panel is very much a part of customization.
• Downloads panel
  • Wrote a patch that fixes the alignment problems in the panel that I mentioned last week: bug 830182.

This week:

• Australis tabs
  • Finish Linux curvy tabs patch and r? it
  • Keep leaning on bug 738335 and dependencies
• Customization
  • Start removing hard-coded strings, and moving them into .properties and .dtd files
  • Other stuff from this Etherpad

Blockers:

• Need shorlander eyes on bug 830182.
• Need tab-active-middle.png from shorlander to get Linux curvy tabs to ready-to-review state

dao

no new getUserMedia blockers discovered so far, fingers crossed. focused on finishing the review of the revised patch for the mispositioned-pinned-tabs regression and reviewing the better performing australis tab shape styling.

mikedeboer

• worked on Good First Bugs the past week and attached first patch for my first somewhat larger bug 819493.
• this week I will start working on Search hijacking and consolidating Search prefs to prevent that

MattN

• Australis tabs for OS X landed on UX and getting polish
• Working on shared/tabs.inc.css which makes porting and rebasing much easier.
• Polishing Windows tabs

Community:

• Thanks to Guillaume C. [:ge3k0s] for all his testing of Australis tabs

jaws

This past week:

• Made a lot of progress on drag/drop for Australis customization
• Got the Jamun project branch checked out for :mconley and myself to work on for menu & customization
• Put up a new patch for plain/text document handling, bug 253564
• Sent out a contributor email to firefox-dev and got good feedback from people for the next ones
• Did reviews for "playback rate switching on HTML5 video controls, bug 840745" and some social bugs

This week:

• Start landing patches for Australis customization on Jamun
• Need to schedule another bug triage for later this week

mixedpuppy

last week:

• social about:addons management landed
• started giving feedback on persona patches

this week:

• social service installation landing
• some future planning with asa
• QA/investigation on providers for Fx21

ongoing:

• need-ux on a bunch of stuff
• work on share
• planning and discussion around new providers
• work on requirements for services list in AMO

UX Updates

shorlander

• Working on ui-r for a few bugs
• Investigating the curvy tab image
• Click-to-Play - http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/click-to-play-prototype/clickToPlay-Mockup-03.html
• FHR - http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/firefox-health-report/firefox-health-report-01.html

lco

• FHR
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=832547
  • Current Spec: http://cl.ly/2q3V1n1c0k0n
  • only the header (everything from pg. 4-7 of the spec) will be in Firefox, rest will be server-side. Check with Mconnor for implementation
  • No Android work yet, but maybe something to bring up on the weekly call (Wed 1:30 pm PST at MV-Zobocom)
  • Strings from Matej coming: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=844170
• Click to Play
  • User Research in progress. In general, people want to "always enable plugin" but don't discover how to do so, even now that we've put a gear icon on the in-content UI. Shorlander and I are talking about potentially displaying a disappearing doorhanger for all plugins.
  • Working on insecure vs. regular CtP design this week

Decisions needed/Action items

[MattN] - Test out Australis work on the UX branch. See the etherpad for a list of patches there and let the patch authors know about bugs.

Decide if we want a leading 0 in the wiki page name when this meeting falls between day 1 and day 9 of the month :-)