Mobile/Notes/18-Jul-2012

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Schedule

• Next merge is 2012-08-27
• Release
  • Fx14.0.1 was release on 2012-07-17
• Beta
  • Fx15 Beta 1 was built on 2012-07-017. Will be released after QA.

Major Topics for This Week

Fx15 Uplifts

We uplifted several patches for Tablet UI support. Several features were also uplifted to Fx15 before it merged to beta. We will need to track the Tablet UI and these features for additional issues and uplift fixes as needed. Features include:

• Find in Page
• Text Selection
• Clear Private Data
• Request Desktop Site
• Search Suggestions (defaulted off)
• History and Bookmark Import

Fx16 Uplifts

Fx16 is now in Aurora and carried a few features with it that still need followup work. Make sure we track and request approval as needed:

• Reading Mode and List
• WebApp RT
• Helper Apps

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

• Last week
  • bug 772890 - fix AIOOBE in GfxInfoThread
  • bug 772993 - fix compiler warnings in widget/android
  • bug 769269 - fix loading pages when "don't keep activities" is checked
  • bug 773393 - move filepicker and activity-result code out of GeckoApp
  • bug 773268 - rename class variables in Tabs.java to follow conventions
  • bug 773772 - fix subdocument scroll speed when zoomed in
  • bug 766647 - improve screenshot coalescing
  • reviewed dRdR's patches on bug 750974 and start looking at hooking it up to fennec

• Next week
  • bug 775071 and bug 775102 - fix tcheckerboard3 to actually test what it's supposed to test
  • look more at hooking up dRdR's AsyncPanZoomController to fennec
  • get back to networking-land

• Blockers
  • tryserver is slooow and broken.

GBrown

• Last week:
  • Bug 757468 OutOfMemory exception on createBitmap after 330+ page loads
  • Bug 774797 Robocop: upgrade to robotium-solo-3.3.jar
  • Bug 774322 Long-running robocop tests run over sut may fail: waitForFinish does not wait
  • Bug 770456 Intermittent Robocop | testHistoryTab | Exception caught - junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: View is null and can therefore not be clicked!
  • Bug 773074 Robocop verifyUrl is timing sensitive
• Next week:
  • Bug 747787 Intermittent Tegra crash in libdvm.so during tests

GCP

• Last week:
  • bug 772676 History visit counts are all 1 after migration
  • bug 769527 Syncing bookmarks between desktop and current mobile build (14) causes bookmarked feeds to turn into empty folders.
  • bug 769896 Make "Import from Android" use MultiChoicePreference
  • Opus: Fixes for compiling under MSVC, adding project files
• This week:
  • Opus: Make tunables exposed to commandline tools
  • Opus: Try to implement lowpass by using high-band splits
  • Opus: Tuning tool using above tunables
  • SafeBrowsing: Database comparison tool
• Blockers:
  • None

Margaret

Done:

• Try our best to avoid reflows to improve text selection performance - bug 767070
  • Set all styles for text selection handles in one call - bug 773730
  • Avoid using ElementTouchHelper methods in text selection code - bug 773813
  • Avoid calls to getBoundingClientRect in text selection code - bug 773819
  • Use nsIDOMWindowUtils to get scroll, and cache it - bug 773864
  • Use cached x/y values and some arithmetic instead of also caching left/top values- bug 774491
  • Don't cache range.getBoundingClientRect() - bug 773718
  • An experiment to use native handles - bug 774938

Next:

• Continue hacking on this native handles experiment

Arkady

Done: Bug 773943 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApp.getTempDirectory(GeckoApp.java)

Working on: Bug 649371 - implement support for ClipData in Android clipboard

MFinkle

Done:

• Triaging Fx15 uplift features/risk
• Landed some optimizations for Reading Mode check

Next:

• PTO Next week