Mobile/Notes/17-Jun-2015

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Schedule

• Release calendar

Topics for This Week

• Whistler hacking: https://mobile.etherpad.mozilla.org/whistler-2015
• startup time wins

Tracking Review

Beta

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Aurora

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Nightly

• Next Build:

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Friends of the Mobile Team

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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!

James W. (snorp)

• Worked on some build system junk to enable colorized warnings/errors, bug 1171610 (need to push)
• Got a couple patches up for feedback for paint throttling, bug 1150172
  • Dramatically improves page load speed (up to 50%)
  • Reduces power consumption
  • Needs some tweaks still, but I hope to land before or during Whistler

JChen

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Working on

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GCP

• Last week
  • Video sandboxing: Mac and Windows failures fixed, all green on try now, patches up for review
• Next week
  • bug 1175562 Persist last update time for updates/gethash completion
  • Whistler prep work

Randall Barker

Last Week:

• Landed: bug 1163664 Don't check for plugin blocklist state on Android.
• Uplifted to beta and aurora: bug 1159830 Autophone - webappstartup should not use console.log to output WEBAPP STARTUP COMPLETE
• Working through review: bug 1173844 - Video would not playback after seek seekbar if media.autoplay.enabled = false
• Investigating: bug 1171337 - black window during browsing

Next Week:

• Continue examining bug 1171337 - black window during browsing
• Get reviewed: bug 1166961 Re-enable missing video UI when element does not have controls.
• Land: bug 1173844 - Video would not playback after seek seekbar if media.autoplay.enabled = false
• Work Week.

Note: Will be on PTO June 29 -July 20.

Eugen Sawin

• MP3 demuxer
  • Looking into intermittent initialization issues
• Startup performance optimization
  • Landed on-demand loading of Webapps.jsm (1171013)
  • Looking into on-demand loading of heavy modules (XPIProvider.jsm, GMPProvider.jsm)

Fixed

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Bryan Munar

1. Sad that Brian is on PTO for forever (3 weeks) :(
2. Happy that Whistler!!!!!

Finished:

• Bug 1141240 - Persist tab history for session restore
• yay

Working On:

• Bug 1109684 - Let other developers directly open pages in Firefox for iOS
• looking for more small bugs to conquer/filing bugs

WesJ

• Family visiting
• Still pounding on sqlcipher. bug 1147071 - Use encrypted database storage for passwords
• Reviews

liuche

Highlights:

• More doorhangers work
• Apparently testSettingsMenuItems is turned off - trying to fix it to re-enable

Present:

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Past:

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karim

Past:

• WWDC!

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• 602818 - Integrate QR code scanner into Fennec
• 1132125 - show voice input UI in New Tab's default URL bar

Margaret

Highlights:

• Add-on signing UI
• Planning for privacy-focused Fx42
• Talking with participation team about effort to promote Fennec in India

Past:

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Present:

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jonalmeida

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mcomella

Past:

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Present:

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rnewman

Fixed

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Working on

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nalexander

<Read Only>

• Partners
  • Bi-directional Java Addons: bug 1168407:
    • "final" patch over to mfinkle for review (already has r=rnewman)
    • Working out "final" patch test failures on Android 9
    • Documentation under-way at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Firefox_for_Android/API/JavaAddonManager.jsm
  • Integration with third-party identity services
    • Working on exposing WebChannel to Fennec privileged content: bug 1174458
    • Started attaching patches for small things: bug 1161234
  • --with-android-distribution-directory
    • No movement
• Contributors: working with Ahmed and vivek this week.
  • vivek is leading the push for Firefox Account profile avatars in Firefox 42 \o/
  • First ticket landed: bug 1055264, next in review: bug 1171141
• Testing:
  • Still need a blog post for mach gradle runBrowserTests
  • Still need a blog post mach robocop --serve
• mach package-frontend: pushed for re-review but gps is busy (?)
  • Using taskcluster and the local pushlog database to seamlessly fetch binaries
  • Working very well locally \o/

Sebastian

• Home Panel APIs: bug 1157539 bug 1172136
• RecyclerView: bug 1171288

All:

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Martyn Haigh

Past:

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Present:

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Steph

Last week: Desktop/Android URL Bar Highlight algorithm

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Coming week:

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Emily

Highlights:

• WWDC
• Getting into Sync

Closed:

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Current:

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BLassey

Fixed

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Working on

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Antlam

• Past
• Upcoming

Robin

iOS

• Continuing to find any bugs, specifically UI-related.
• Improve CSS for Reader View on iPad
• Finalize spinner for loading Reading View/pull-to-refresh

Android

• Kinderfox: still reading all the research.

Darrin

Past:

• WWDC!

Present + Future:

• Quick Search visual context – https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172065
• Onboarding Improvements – https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172054
• Default Search not shown if suggestions turned off – https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1163219

QA

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Feature Focus

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• iOS Trello Board
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