TPE-Layout/2016-Q3-Goals

Guideline

SMART Criteria

 (S)pecific   - What do you want to achieve in your areas of focus ?
 (M)easurable - How will I know when it is accomplished ?
 (A)chievable - How can the goal be accomplished ?
 (R)elevant   - Does this match our other efforts/needs? Is this the right time?
 (T)ime-bound - By when can you achieve this goal ?

Template

 [*|#] <Task-Category>
 [**|##] <Task-Expected-Result> <Task-Description>
 [**|##] <Task-Expected-Result> <Task-Description>
 ...
 
 Example:
 * Implement the support of HTML5 details & summary.
 ** [land] bug123456 - calc(1+2+3+4+5+6) 
 ** [OOAD] bug234567 - integrate stylo into gecko

Personal Goals

Astley Chen

• [Workflow Enhancement] Engage platform triage process and drive regression investigation for all release channels.
  • Engage platform triage process regularly.
  • Investigate how to ensure regression bugs can be handled seamlessly when found.
  • [Outcome] A plan by working with release manager to enhance current flow.
• [Workflow Enhancement] Implement a layout dashboard for bugs management and status reflection.
  • Functional Spec:
    • Manage bugs in various stages: triage, backlog, enqueue, wip, completed, regression.
    • Snapshot team status in a place from management perspective.
• [Workflow Enhancement] A workflow to come up with solid features development plan.
  • Define feature development scope.
  • Break down development into different milestones.
  • Given clear criteria for each milestone.
  • Figure out problems with responsiveness.

Boris Chiou

• Web Animations API Implementation
  • [land] Security bugs
  • [land] Bug 1049975 - Writeable effect (including null effects)
  • [land] Bug 1273784 - Animation effect copy constructor
  • [land] Bug 1272549 - Support paced spacing on transform, shape, and filter function
• SVG
  • [land] Bug 1245751 - Allow href attribute without xlink on SVG elements
• Servo Animation
  • Roadmap. Understand what we have to do and have a meta bug to track them. I will update this after 7/18.

CJ Ku

• SVG
  • [land] Bug 652991 - SVG path fill rendering can break after window.history.pushState.
• gradient
  • [land] Bug 628480 - Inconsistent rendering of -moz-repeating-linear-gradient across different OS's
  • [land] Bug 759985 - [Mac only] repeating linear gradients repeat at incorrect intervals
  • [land] Bug 870524 - Linear gradient rendering fails on tall pages. Windows, Linux, Android.
  • [land] Bug 957025 - radial gradients on OS X don't repeat as expected
  • [land]Bug 1225372 - [Mac] -moz-linear-gradient renders slightly differently if I specify "0%" & "100%" explicitly on color stops

Jeremy Chen

• Layout code refactoring
  • [land] bug 906116 - replace NS_STYLE_HINT_FRAMECHANGE with nsChangeHint_ReconstructFrame, etc.
  • [land] bug 1287308 - remove old NS_STYLE_HINT_NONE constant
  • [land] bug 1287728 - convert RestyleResult to enum class
• Implement initial-letter
  • [land] bug 1289007 - Add initial-letter support to the style system
  • [OOAD] bug 1223880 - Implement initial-letter (from CSS Inline Layout Module Level 3)
    • initial-letter size hacking (::first-letter only)
    • initial-letter sink hacking (::first-letter only)
• Enhance developers' debug/testing work flow
  • [land] bug 1287019 - [mozlog] Make mozlog's HTML format support wptrunner screenshots
  • [land] bug 1287480 - [mozlog] Bump version to 3.3 and release to PyPI
  • [land] upstream the enhanced function to wptrunner
  • [land] provide the enhanced function to servo
• Best practice of project planning
  • take initial-letter property as a best practice
  • learn how to break down tasks, measure time lines, estimate outcomes, and set scopes/milestones
  • send intent to implement letter to dev-platform

Shing Lyu

• Implement flexbox in Servo
  • Manually test Servo against flexbox spec, file bugs for what's missing.
  • Start fixing the bug found. Offload some easy ones to new contributors.

• Stylo
  • Implement unfinished properties from this list

• Promote Servo & Rust
  • Servo intro talk at Modern Web Conf 2016 (Aug)
  • Servo intro talk at COSCUP 2016 (Aug)
  • Servo intro talk at NTU EE/CS seminar (Sep?)
  • Host Rust meetup and study group

Tingyu Lin

• Implement shape-outside
  • [land] bug 1288626 - Add shape-outside support to the style system
  • [OOAD] bug 1098939 - Implement CSS shape-outside property
    • Implement shape-box + border-radius
    • Implement basic shape: circle, ellipse
  • [OOAD] bug 1265342 - Implement 'shape-margin'
• Support AccessibleCaret on Fennec
  • [land] bug 1283828 - Crash in nsContentUtils::ComparePoints | mozilla::AccessibleCaretManager::RestrictCaretDraggingOffsets
  • [land] bug 1266922 - Remove checking "visibilitychange" reason from ActionBarHandler.js

Weekly Report

• TPE-Layout/2016-07-05
• TPE-Layout/2016-07-12
• TPE-Layout/2016-07-19
• TPE-Layout/2016-07-26

• TPE-Layout/2016-08-02
• TPE-Layout/2016-08-09
• TPE-Layout/2016-08-16
• TPE-Layout/2016-08-23
• TPE-Layout/2016-08-30

• TPE-Layout/2016-09-06
• TPE-Layout/2016-09-13
• TPE-Layout/2016-09-20
• TPE-Layout/2016-09-27