Mobile/Notes/21-Mar-2012

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Schedule

• Next merge is 2012-04-24

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)

• Last Week
  • Fixed Flash lifecycle bugs (still, again, etc)

• This Week
  • Fixed another Flash lifecycle bug (sigh)
  • Worked keyboard and fullscreen support for Flash, thought about solutions for some crashes. Likely need some reworking of how we interact with Flash.

GBrown

Last week:

• Reftest failures: bugs 734456, 732535
• Robocop: bugs 735461, 737411, 735856, 736246
• Screenshot: bugs 723251, 700776, 703295, 698718

This week:

• Focus on reftests
• Continue with screenshot bugs

GCP

• Last week:
  • bug 727370 - Bad(?) files in safebrowsing folder in user profile prevent loading any site after installing update
  • bug 729532 Improve first-run profile import experience
  • bug 725150 Need logic to prevent sync and profile migration happening at the same time
• This week:
  • bug 725150 Need logic to prevent sync and profile migration happening at the same time
  • bug 721898 - Specify history truncation behavior, ensure that implementation matches specification
• Blockers:
  • None

Sriram

• Last week:
  • Investigated reasons behind activity not resuming with "don't keep activities" option - bug 730688
  • Fixed bottom center area in Tabs-tray to consume click events - bug 734880
  • Investigated strict mode violation for class instance limit - bug 735238
    • Found this to be false alarm.
  • Worked on proof-of-concept to show "custom menu"
• This week:
  • Finally found the reason behind inflation crash in BrowserToolbar - bug 727454
    • Fix for this now flashes the Fennec UI as soon as the application icon is pressed -- even on first run.
  • Found the grey band in URL bar is because ibarlow confuses android ;) bug 727438
    • Fixed it with 2 options. Patch will land today.
  • Fixed strict mode violation on database objects not closed - bug 736296
  • Found that flashing of URL bar has nothing to do with our code - bug 735741
  • Cleanup up about:home with re-usable UI components - bug 735741
  • Fixed remote tabs with empty title on about:home - bug 736455
  • Faster query and priority based AsyncTask - bug 734893
  • Investigated the way "custom views" are shown and found that we should be using LayoutInflater.Factory
• Blockers:
  • None.

LucasR

Last week

• bug 735636 - PromptService list view has bad scroll performance
• bug 737867 - Apply ViewHolder pattern on AwesomeBar listviews
• bug 708149 - Handling of unsupported bookmark records
• bug 730105 - top sites takes almost 3 seconds to load content
• Attending DevTools Work Week (part-time)
  • Discussing remote inspector/debugger for web pages in Fennec
• Tons of patch reviews

Next week

• Fix rest of my beta/1.0 blockers
• Document mobile devtools plans/ideas
• PTO on Friday and Monday morning

Blockers

• None

Margaret

Done:

• Fix back button behavior and folder header style in bookmarks UI - bug 732104
• Ignore "All Bookmarks" folder and its badly rooted parent - bug 731267
• Only show mobile bookmarks folder contents if there are no desktop bookmarks - bug 727449
• Awesomeness calculation should use nicer recency decay - bug 704977
• Show bookmarks in awesomebar results - bug 721731
  • Needs some updated patches
• Style HTML5 form validation popup - bug 731654
  • Needs review

Next:

• Finish bug 721731 and bug 731654
• More blockers