Mobile/Notes/18-Jan-2012

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Schedule

• String freeze: 2012-01-17 (Aurora)
  • Missed! We still have several patches that need to land on m-c and/or m-a
• Next merge: 2012-01-31
  • This will put Native on Beta
  • We will be discussing whether Native is ready for Beta over the next week

Major Topics for This Week

• Sync landed is working (History and Bookmarks)
  • Top Sites is flooded with desktop sites. Might need a top sites algorithm change (bug 704977)
  • Awesomebar loads much slower with all that data. Reports of taking 2.5 to 4.6 seconds.
• Uplifting panning/zooming improvements to Aurora
  • gralloc
    • blacklist/whitelist devices/vendor/version
    • make sure the dependent bug fixes are moved too
  • tiling
  • paint suppression
  • others?
• Crashes
  • Triaged this list last week
  • One bug (bug 718765) accounted for >50% of yesterday's crashes. It's backed out now and we are watching crash-stats.
  • A few groups of crashes: Flash, gralloc/tegra, Java Cursor, Java misc, Other

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!

GBrown

• Last week:
  • Bug 716937 Robotium testBookmark is failing
  • Bug 717023 convert robotium Log.* calls to dumpMessage calls
  • Bug 717018 merge robotium logs into a single logfile
  • Bug 715198 browser is loading compressed data directly to the page
  • Bug 712277 Crash in nsCacheEntryDescriptor::nsCompressOutputStreamWrapper::Close @ MOZ_Z_adler32
• Next week:
  • Bug 718829 Robocop: testNewtab is unreliable
  • Bug 717684 Robocop: UnboundLocalError if TEST_PATH set incorrectly
  • Bug 718827 Robocop: testBookmark uses key events
  • Bug 718528 Robocop: upgrade to robotium-solo-3.1.jar

AlexP

Last week

• bug 717902 - Form autocomplete pop-up with the available suggestions is not displayed in landscape mode when HKB is used
  • Debugged on a phone with HKB
  • Implemented and pushed the fix
• bug 711648 - Pre-commit underline is not shown for the composing text
  • Investigated a better way to fire and handle composition events
  • Submitted a WIP patch, which implements composition events properly and handles composing text styles

This week

• Finish composition events fixes
• Work on the assigned bugs

Need feedback

• bug 712972 - Can't type mzl.la into awesome bar
  • The same issue marked P1: bug 718909 - Awesomebar eats my explicitly-entered URLs
  • The patch disables autocompletion and text prediction in the AwesomeBar, but seems like we have to go with it

GCP

• Last week:
  • bug 713228 SQLiteDatabaseCorruptException: database disk image is malformed: PRAGMA synchronous=1;
• This week:
  • bug 713283 Profile migration takes forever
  • bug 673470 Replace the sqlite safeb store with a flat file
  • bug 715550 Migration of Sync settings from XUL Fennec
• Blockers:
  • None

WesJ

• Last week:
  • Finished up multitouch patch. Tests all pass. Added ifdefs for potentially landing on Aurora (waiting for review)
• This week:
  • Password provider for sync bug 704682
  • Deleted password handling bug 718817
  • Use Java crypto for passwords bug 718760
• Blockers:
  • None

Margaret

Done:

• Click events in iframes (bug 710704)
• Tab count animation on startup (bug 706835)
• Small fixes (bug 715889, bug 717284, bug 711993)

Next:

• More bug/polish fixes

Scott (jwir3)

Last Week:

• Finished bug 706198, waiting for review from dbaron.

This week:

• Bug 707195: news.ycombinator.com comments are varied sizes
• Bug 713241: nightly.mozilla.org footer text inflated too much

MFinkle

Done:

• Landed updated Add-ons Manager theme (bug 704415)
• Made a WIP for Add-ons options (bug 696533)
• Massive aurora merge. There is still many more patches to do.
• Started triaging crash list
• Started a presentation for a Mobile talk at Mozilla Vision 2012 conf in Tokyo
• Started planning for how to land gralloc on Aurora
• Reviews

Next:

• Wrap up presentation / trip to Tokyo (Jan 19-24)
• Land core add-on options patch

Upcoming:

• Trip to MV (Feb 13-17)
• Trip to MWC (Feb 26-Mar 1)

Madhava

• Repercussions of Sync:
  • now that we can really evaluate our frecency quality, how is it?
    • bug 704977 - Awesomeness calculation should use nicer recency decay
  • synced bookmarks from desktop are flooding our Bookmark list
    • bug 716918 - keep desktop (synced) bookmarks in a folder

• On the sync side
  • bug 718242 - [meta] Android Sync UI improvements
  • bug 718848 - Include Sync Setup UI changes
• On the Firefox side
  • bug 698594 - Ux Designs for Sync Setup (meta/design bug)
  • bug 708414 - invite users to set up sync on about:home
  • bug 716906 - Add "Firefox Sync" item to settings

Round Table

• (johnath) Are we sending good startup stats to telemetry? Once we push to beta, we'll have sufficient telemetry volume from the real world to be able to calibrate our own testing ("we see 2400ms startup internally, but telemetry reports median startup of 2800ms, neat!")