Firefox/Meeting/12-Feb-2013

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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!

paolo

Past week:

• Downloads API: bug 835872 - Handle download errors.
• Review: bug 829832 - BackgroundFileSaver should support hash computation.

Next week:

• More Downloads API

mak

Bugs:

• Places synchronous APIs removal, about 150KB of removal patches (bug 826409, bug 838798, bug 838839, bug 838841, bug 838872, bug 838874, bug 838875). Needs review, superreview.
• Evaluated frecency improvement for redirects (bug 737836). Needs tests.
• bug 790934 - Don't run BrowserOnAboutPageLoad twice for each about page load. Landed. (blocking about:home storage abstraction)
• Snappy: bug 830423 - Avoid repeated execution of expensive daysOfHistory query. Needs review.

Requests:

• Places synchronous APIs removal (bug 834915, bug 839034)
• Downloads panel (bug 836271, bug 836283, bug 838175, bug 838599, bug 838663, bug 839054)
• Storage: bug 836493 - fix race condition with ServiceMainThreadInitializer in mozStorageService.cpp by enforcing consumers to first get a service handle on main-thread.
• bug 840177 - Record searches from about:home for FHR (investigated test failure)

Other:

• Triaged Places (included location bar and downloads panel) bugs, closed about 150

This week:

• Review new Async Form History patches (bug 566746)
• Feedback new part of Downloads API (bug 835872)
• Downloads Panel blocker bug 837117 fixed last week has been reopened, investigate more
• about:home storage abstraction

dao

mostly reviews. not blocked.

jaws

• Worked on and reviewed a couple click-to-play bugs (bug 825035, bug 821892, bug 836194, bug 831921, bug 820678, bug 840414)
• Reviewed a couple social API bugs (bug 824875, bug 811514)
• Worked on a few UI animation bugs (bug 809733, bug 836867, bug 838757, bug 838784)
• Filed and some mentored devtools bugs (bug 840241, bug 840245, bug 840247, bug 840261, bug 767669), and finished my patch for bug 801067
• Wrote up an etherpad document of the work left for the Panel UI and began working on fixing the bugs (https://etherpad.mozilla.org/customization-panel-workleft, bug 770135, bug 839701)

This week: I will be continuing work on the Panel UI. There will be a meeting later today (12:10PST) to triage the remaining work.