Mobile/Notes/27-Mar-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge is 2013-04-01
• Release is 2013-04-02

Major Topics for This Week

Stability

From yesterday's Platform stability update: "Firefox 20 for Android might be better in stability indicators than any other before, good work!" Let's keep working to drive down crashes.

ANR Reporter

is turned on in Nightly (and soon Aurora). Right now the data is hidden inside Metrics database dungeon. Next step is getting better access to that data.

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)

• Bug 829747 - Do Async Canvas layers update (finally!)
• Bug 734691 - Support multiple threads [in profiler]

Kats

• Mar 20 - Mar 27
  • snappy work week
  • bug 850318 - don't block the UI thread on the background thread when calling getClipboardText
  • lots of reviews/needinfo's
  • got AWSY/mobile hooked up to a new device (galaxy nexus) since the old one was pretty dead
  • bug 853366 - clean up of app lifecycle events
  • bug 847499 - prevent loss of telemetry data due to fennec getting killed
  • bug 814282 - debugged intermittent failure of testVkbOverlap on pandas
  • bug 854971 - make gamepad buttons work better on url entry field
  • bug 839767 - make rows on about:home focusable
  • bug 855016 - make row items on about:home usable using gamepad buttons

• Next
  • more ouya stuff

GBrown

• Done
  • bug 854549 Robocop screenshots
  • see also http://gbrownmozilla.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/screenshots-for-robocop/
  • bug 853502 Report disk partition fullness during automated tests
  • Talos regression investigations
  • bug 781179 Android PGO investigations: got valgrind working; reported results for pandaboard
  • Investigated bug 854863 20MB regression in application 'Data' size after first startup
• Working on
  • Helping rel-eng with xpcshell tests
  • Always more intermittent test failures

Chris Peterson

• Done
  • Working on IME tests
  • bug 847839 - Remove obsolete files for Android XUL Fennec: embedding/android/ and mobile/xul/
  • bug 852714 - Amazon search URLs should include Mozilla sourceid and tag

• Next
  • Land some IME test
  • Continue work on Push WebAPI

JChen

• Past week
  • Wrote new wiki page and blog post about JimDB update
  • Fixed bug 839683 - Enable ANR reporter in appropriate channels
  • Fixed bug 853819 - VKB does not appear when tapping on text inputs on flash sites
  • Worked on bug 842013 - keyup, keydown and keypress Event is not fired
  • Worked on bug 847983 - IME in designmode doesn't seem to work very well
• Next
  • More IME bugs

Brian N

• In progress
  • Eclipse support
    • Eclipse plugin: https://github.com/thebnich/fennec-adt
    • Branch with mach project creation scripts: https://github.com/thebnich/mozilla-central/tree/eclipsify-fennecadt
• Next
  • Session restore bugs
  • about:home fragments
  • More Eclipse

Sriram

• Temporary fix for artifacts on dynamic toolbar - bug 848719
• Back button should be transparent - bug 854493
• Awesomescreen text unreadable - bug 844816
• Screen artifacts on search suggestions - bug 850217
• Debugging styles problem in 2.2 device - bug 823644
• Splitting about:home views to custom views - bug 852312
• Quick patch for throbber - bug 853844
• List and Grid view for new about:home
• Blog post on View Reduction
• First addon (in progress)

LucasR

Last week

• bug 853300 - click on android's menu button should bring up the toolbar if its hidden in dynamic mode
• bug 853497 - Remove spacer view from gecko_app.xml
• bug 854457 - Accessibility support in TwoWayView
• bug 854458 - Implement keyboard navigation in the new tabs tray (In progress)

Next week

• bug 854458 - Implement keyboard navigation in the new tabs tray
• Prototype refactorings: UI message bus and transition manager
• Tabs tray bug fixing

Margaret

(At community building meetup, so read the wiki)

Done:

• Put "Set as Wallpaper" feature behind confvars variable - bug 851170
• Remove "Idea" section from about:feedback (to match new input.mozilla.org backend) - bug 853022
• Started cleaning up text selection code - bug 853508, bug 853691

Next:

• Continue to work on text selection - bug 854605, bug 667243

MFinkle

Done

• Commenting and Review on Roadmap
• bug 854340 - Firefox for Android cannot break out of a loop + alert attack
• bug 854107 - Lazy load more JS objects in browser.js
  • Needs some verification for click-to-play, find-in-page, offline appcache and clear site settings

Working On

• Better timelines for items on Roadmap
• bug 852828 - Add basic support for subscribing to feeds (RSS/Atom)
  • Might be ready for r?
• bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile ignores <link rel="search">
• bug 853844 - Investigate removing the pageload throbber
  • Lots of good feedback
  • Making something happen ASAP at start of pageload is important
  • Starting to focus on the "end of pageload" part of the spectrum next
  • I want to explore using the page background as the "loading indicator" which goes away as the page loads

PTO Thursday and Friday

Ian Barlow

This week

• Epic UX sync up with Karen
• Refinements to about:home redesign
  • Work in progress: cl.ly/0z1f2d2m3l1V
• Reorganizing Settings
  • Work in progress: etherpad.mozilla.org/settings-reorg
• Refinements to title bar / tab tray interaction
  • Work in progress: cl.ly/image/3x2P3W3K082Q

Round Table

Tracking FX21 Bugs : http://bit.ly/13xpZ6x