Mobile/Notes/22-May-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2013-06-24
• Next release: 2013-06-25

Major Topics for This Week

About Home Work

Work has been landing on "fig". More changes should be ready to test by end of week.

Friends of the Mobile Team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

• Jamie Hewland fixed bug 849072 - Improve tab flushing and syncing behavior (first patch!)

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

• Previously:
  • bug 866184 - use gfx::Point instead of individual floats in some functions
  • bug 867685 - Make GeckoLayerClient.setIsRTL hold the GLC lock when updating viewport
  • bug 867582 - Fix some jittery behaviour at page edges in APZC
  • PTO
  • bug 860898 - add a verbose option to mach build options
• Now:
  • Catching up on bugmail, reviews, etc.
  • start looking at async subframe scrolling (bug alias multi-apzc + dependencies)

GBrown

• Last week:
  • Mostly PTO
• Now:
  • bug 869030 Robocop testDoorHanger and testSystemPages cause future reboots on pandas
  • bug 867360 Watcher dies sometimes on Pandas
  • bug 870553 A blocklist/whitelist for Shumway

Chris Peterson

• Help our new intern Shane Tully get up to speed on hg and Bugzilla
• bug 776223 - NullPointerException: at android.content.ClipboardManager.setPrimaryClip(ClipboardManager.java)
• bug 863103 - Add BackgroundService runIntentInService() and WakeLock
• bug 872076 - Catch "missing CONTROL_LOCATION_UPDATES permission" exceptions

GCP

• Last week:
  • bug 862808 Local Video is upside down on Android when in portrait mode
  • bug 873812 Trying to establish a call from an Android device to a Windows machine fails to render the remote video streams
  • bug 859430 Add Bluetooth headset functionality to WebRTC calls
• Next week:
  • bug 874572 getUserMedia - Browser holding lock on device camera despite browser activity in the background and paused
  • bug 874546 getUserMedia - Video playback does not resume when browser returns to being the foreground activity

LucasR

• Last week
  • Google I/O + PTO on Monday
  • Launched The Layout: http://thelayout.cc
  • Catching up with patch reviews
  • Prep work for the Summit Planning Assembly
• Next week
  • bug 867608 - Gap between forward button and favicon after backing out of reader mode
  • bug 844502 - In landscape orientation, tab menu overlays content, page stuck resizing and shifting around
  • New about:home stuff

Margaret

• Done
  • bug 872737 - Support distribution bookmarks from a /system location
  • bug 873429 - Form assistant suggestions is not dismissed while entering different letters
  • bug 872005 - Reader Mode: Able to add pages to reading list on devices incapable of accessing Reader Mode
  • bug 872965 - Exit Reader Mode icon takes user back, but not necessarily to original article
  • bug 872962 - Reader Mode text formatting pop-up is incorrectly positioned on device rotation
  • bug 873146 - about: page favicons are not displayed in the "Your tabs from last time" section of about:home screen
  • (fig) bug 871639 - Incorrect title when leaving editing mode while on about:home
  • (fig) bug 872834 - Finish adding editing mode to browser toolbar
  • Interviews

• In Progress
  • (fig) bug 871645 - Consolidate names of browser toolbar's element

• Next
  • Investigate some reader mode regressions caused by dynamic toolbar - bug 872961, bug 872956
  • More new about:home stuff

MFinkle

• Recruiting
• Planning around WebRT and Marketplace
• Pitching in ideas for the PR Tour happening over the next two weeks
• Misc manager stuff

Ian Barlow

• In SF this week

• Work in progress
  • Mixed Content blocking
  • FHR - about:healthreport (Arun)
  • OUYA design refinement / future TV concepts (Zhenshuo)
  • Future tablet browsing concepts (Yuan)
  • Updated Settings UI

Feature Focus

Firefox 22

Features

• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovak
• State of good repair:
  • [ON TRACK] ANR Reporter - Not user facing
  • [ON TRACK] Refining Tab UI
  • [ON TRACK] Performance improvements - Including WebGL, texture streaming, async canvas updates

Firefox 23

Features

• [AT RISK] Firefox Health Report
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Turkish
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Hungarian
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic URL bar
• [ON TRACK] NFC bump for tab sharing
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, confirmed: preffed OFF
• [ON TRACK] L10N foundation improvements
• [ON TRACK] UI for changing search engine default
• [ON TRACK] RSS/Atom feed handling
• [ON TRACK] API: Payments

Firefox 24

Features

• [PLANNED] Packaged apps support
• [PLANNED] Web Audio API
• [PLANNED] API: Push notifications
• [PLANNED] SkiaGL improvement
• [PLANNED] Set Top Box optimization
• [PLANNED] Directional game console navigation
• [PLANNED] Quickshare
• [PROPOSED] Shumway: generic video player
  • Will create new project page with Mobile-specific work to be done when known
• [PROPOSED] Change default search engine for zh-CN

Firefox 25

Features

• [PROPOSED] Privileged apps support
• [PROPOSED] Shumway - v2 branded players
  • Will create a project page for Mobile-specific work when known
• [PROPOSED] API: Cloud
• [PROPOSED] Solid developer environment
• [PROPOSED] API: Alarm
• [PLANNED] API: Web activities
• [PLANNED] API: Contacts
• [PLANNED] Dynamic Snippets
• [PROPOSED] About:home redesign

Round Table

User Advocacy

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