Mobile/Notes/20-Nov-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge is 2013-12-09
• Release calendar has been tweaked for the following merge

Topics for This Week

Meeting Free Week

Next week is Meeting Free Week, which although it might only be observed by a handful of people, has the benefit of canceling this meeting next week. Plan accordingly.

WebRTC QA

Bugs for known regressions have landed. There might be unknown ones caused by the 3.43 uplift.

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 contributor: Swaroop Rao, bug 936727 - Garble account name that is logged by UpgradeReceiver.
• capella fixed bug 934470 - Cursor pin disappears on drag in textarea input
• ckitching is working on landing bug 913985 - Automagically generate C++ classes wrapping Java classes

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

<Read Only>

• Continuing to work on metro and keeping an eye on fennec bugs.
• Going on PTO until Dec 1. Will probably not be reading bugmail.

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

• Doing
  • bug 912148 - Fix tiled update coherency issues (patch done, sorting out Talos issues now)
  • Writing an article on efficient animation in html5 games/apps

• On radar
  • bug 941050 - Async scrolling of fixed position content has regressed
  • bug 907743 - Align APZC display ports to tile boundaries

JChen

<Read Only>

• Past week
  • Getting hang reporting patches reviewed (bug 932865)
    • Dealing with test failures right now
  • Fixed bug 938368 - Make ANR reporter use new telemetry ping format
  • Looked at bug 869584 - inputmode titlecase and autocapitalized are broken on HTC keyboard
• Next
  • Get hang reporting landed

GCP

<Read Only>

• Last week:
  • Preparation & EBU talk about Opus in Geneva
  • Some performance measurements for Opus
  • Regressions from WebRTC 3.43 fixed
• Next week:
  • ASUS crasher for WebRTC
  • WebRTC load adaption

Randall Barker

<Read Only>

• Last Week: bug 895358 in review, bug 932295 patch posted for feedback
• Next Week: Continue pushing bug 895358 forward, work on more WebRTC related issues.

Brian N

<Read Only>

• Finally landed Bug 874985 - Create session restore unit tests
• Bug 881378 - Calls to GeckoProfile.get() can result in initialization races
• Starting to look at form autofill

Sriram

<Read Only>

• Quick share improvements: http://cl.ly/image/2V3N3c3X3C2q
  • Main menu quick share improvements landed
• Cleaning up prompt service.

WesJ

<Read Only>

• Out with a sick kid most of last week.
• Bounced "bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+" due to 2.3 issues. Working to reland.
• Polishing up payments stuff
• Reviewing/iterating on bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
• Put up a WIP in bug 940453 - Helper widgets for error pages

LucasR

Last week

• PTO on Monday, and Wednesday (Morning)
• bug 929982 - ClassCastException: org.mozilla.gecko.home.TwoLinePageRow cannot be cast to org.mozilla.gecko.home.BookmarkFolderView
• bug 883500 - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: the bind value at index <n> is null at
• bug 938141 - Thumbnail flickering when Home is loaded
• bug 939060 - Incorrect thumbnail is sometimes displayed on the last empty grid position
• Patch reviews

Next week

• Land pending patches
• Finish refactoring toolbar
• Fx26 bug fixing

liuche

• bug 932092 - UI Telemetry probe jsm
• bug 934596 - Support OpenSearch engines in search shortcuts
• bug 939802 - error in template used in adding search engine (investigating)

Margaret

• Done
  • TRIBE "I Am Typing"

• (Still) In Progress
  • Dynamic snippets - bug 937820
  • API for adding custom panels to about:home - bug 862805

• Next
  • PTO next week (Tokyo/Kyoto)

mcomella

• Past
  • bug 916507 - Make Robocop testing no longer rely on Reflection on our own code.
  • bug 935604 - (& uplifted) Regression: Graphical corruption shown on screen during page load
    • bug 929088 - (duped) Typing "about:home" into URL bar hides awesomescreen if "about:home" is the selected tab
• Present
  • bug 910859: Bootstrap new UI testing framework
    • Near-final revision up, taking feedback until Friday(ish) unless there's major pushback
  • FHR architecture docs
  • bug 939329: [meta] Enable JavaScript linting in mobile/android/
  • bug 935807: D-pad arrow keys move focus outside textarea instead of navigating within
• Future
  • FHR: create bugs/roadmap for potential next steps
  • bug 898613: [fig] Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)

BLassey

• working on tab streaming, mostly banging my head against a wall
• GeckoView, landed the example app
  • needs bug 930059 to run without compat libs
• bug 930059 now has an implementation of overscroll glow for pre-ICS
• waiting on review for color picker

MFinkle

• Landed support for network link type so JS can know what type of network it is using.(bug 939680)
• Wes found a recently landed feature that allows SSPD discovery in JS too. I migrated the patches for supporting "Casting video to a TV" (bug 938571) to use this approach. It also works on desktop and metro.
• Participating in planning:
  • MyList integration
  • PDF.js in Fennec
  • UI Telemetry
  • Casting video to TV

Ian Barlow

This week

• Project Chameleon work week (visual design unification project)
• Wrapping up some designs for the next Home sprint, would like to join the FE meeting on Friday to walk through them, if that's ok with y'all

Arun

This week

• Research on Form Auto-fill. Expecting to wrap up the research this week.

Next week

• Kick off design for Form Auto-fill.

Security/MGoodwin

• Playing with WebRT a bit more.
• Working on some reviews related to Android services

WebRT

• no patches for feedback yet; still working out some issues with install/run code flows
• mgoodwin digging into security review
• myk researching client-side APK generation as fallback in case of issues w/server-side generation
• "apks" branch and comparison with head remain the source of truth until patches posted

Feature Focus

Fx26, Ships 12/10

• [ON TRACK] AMO discoverability
• [ON TRACK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for en-US, FR, DE, es-ES and en-GB
• [ON TRACK] About:home redesign
• [ON TRACK] search provider management in settings menu
• [ON TRACK] Add-ons can add content to the "promotional banner" tile
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued

Fx27, Ships 02/04

• [ON TRACK] Overhaul of the favicon system bug 914296
• [ON TRACK] Marketplace discoverability - simple UI polish
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Remove overscroll and show highlight instead bug 705246 and bug 791475
• [ON TRACK] Developer improvements: IDE support bug 924961
• [ON TRACK] Memory usage improvements: bug 931843
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Thai (th)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Lithuanian (lt)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovenian (sl)

Fx28, Ships 03/18

• [ON TRACK] bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
• [ON TRACK] bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile ignores <link rel="search">
• [ON TRACK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets add-on
• [ON TRACK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare Contexts
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Belarusian (be)
• [PROPOSED] Developer improvements: Geckoview support for 2.3 -> 4.3 <== nightly only

Fx29, Ships 04/29

• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Serbian (sr)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Vietnamese(vi)
• [PROPOSED] WebApp experience - APK Synthesis
• [PROPOSED] PDF.js support (v1 cupcake)

Fx30, Ships 06/10

• [PROPOSED] Third-party service integration MVP
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language