Mobile/Notes/22-Aug-2012

Details

  • Wednesdays - 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 95312
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 95312
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 95312
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 95312
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 95312
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 95312
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 95312
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 95312
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 95312
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 95312
    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Warp Core Vidyo Room

Schedule

  • Next merge is 2012-08-27 (~5 days from now)
  • Fx15b6 was built yesterday

Major Topics for This Week

WebApps Testday
QA is hosting a testday focused on WebApps in Firefox for Android.
Brainstorming Output
We are in the process of churning through the output of the brainstorming sessions held last week in Boston. Feature pages, bugs and research projects will start appearing soon.
Blog It
Lots of interesting things happened last week in Boston, besides Finkle's inability to bowl well. Feel free to blog about the ideas you heard (or pushed) as well as any new things landing in Firefox.
H.264
We got it! Only ICS and JB for now, but Gingerbread is in the works.

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 a Flash crasher, merged to Beta/Aurora
    • Started on new updater
  • This week
    • Continued on updater, talking to UX tomorrow to finish it up

Kats

GBrown

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

Chris Peterson

  • Done
    • bug 782508 - Enable use of hardware H.264/AAC/MP3 decoders in Android libstagefright omx plugin
    • bug 781748 - NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoInputConnection.onCreateInputConnection()
    • bug 783954 - Move mozglue utility code into org.mozilla.gecko.mozglue package
    • Started a blog! :) http://www.cpeterso.com/blog/
  • Next
    • Debugging bug 782830 - AwesomePlayer intercepts Stagefright video decoding on Galaxy S III
    • Investigate Stagefright hardware whitelist/blacklist

GCP

Brian N

Sriram

  • First year anniversary at Mozilla! Yaaay!
  • Last Week:
    • Near complete edit-box thumb for cursor. Patch coming soon.
    • Submenu prototype. More work this week.
    • Squishy button has a better fix.
    • Started with a horizontally scrolling list.
  • This Week:
    • Ensured we are release-ready on tablets - bug 784203
    • Working on minor bugs like bug 784395 and reviewing patches.

WesJ

LucasR

Last week

  • bug 771380 - Reorganize toolbar layout to better handle dynamic icons
  • bug 784683 - Don't create temporary H1 element for title
  • bug 784682 - Penalize nodes with "hidden" class or id in Readability.js
  • bug 784680 - Remove utility nodes from Wordpress blog posts
  • bug 784674 - Better byline fetching in Readability
  • bug 774914 - Convert divs with only a P element child into plain P elements
  • bug 782285 - Don't offer reader in pages with too much reading competition
  • bug 784055 - Remove all code dealing with offsetWidth in Readability.js
  • bug 784050 - No need to remove stylesheets and style tags in Readability.js
  • bug 782348 - Fetch byline info from articles to show on Reader
  • bug 766948 - Implement new Reader style

Next week

  • Land browser toolbar changes
  • Better understand current performance issues in reader (memory usage)
  • Incremental improvements in the readability algorithm and reader front-end
  • Investigate testing infrastructure for reader mode
  • Blog about Reader Mode

MBrubeck

Margaret

  • Currently working on feedback solicitation UI - bug 774479
  • Also preparing a talk/hack session about mobile add-on development for MozCamp EU
    • Let me know if you have ideas for add-ons that I can use as inspiration

Scott (jwir3)

Arkady

MComella

BLassey

MFinkle

Done:

  • Figured out the Boston Commuter vs Subway distinction
  • Fixed updater/blocklist ping prefs (bug 783909)
  • Added more conservative GC settings for ARMv6 (bug 783912)
  • Filed bug to add MemoryObserver back into Fennec (bug 784040)

Next:

  • Triage brainstorming ideas, and bugs

Madhava

Ian Barlow

GFX

Round Table