Mobile/Notes/28-Nov-2012

Details

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• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

• Next merge is Week of 2013-01-06
• Fx18 Beta 1 shipped

Major Topics for This Week

Private Browsing

First set of patches have been reviewed. Likely to land this week. This will allow for initial PB testing in Nightly.

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!

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

• Done
  • bug 783368 - Low-res tile cache for tiled layers (mostly r+, green try, will push soon)
    • This bug fixes several other progressive-tile related regressions, such as bug 810278

• Now/next
  • Fallout from bug 783368:
    • bug 814437 - Major talos regression in checkerboard tests
    • bug 814864 - Low precision tile rendering takes too much time from high precision
  • Progressive-tiles related invalidation issues (probably)
  • Mentoring morrison to help snorp with bug 716403 (Request to hide the navigation bar when scrolling down content)
  • Going on PTO from December 8th - January 1st (inclusive)

• Low priority/blocked
  • bug 798539 - Jerkiness at the end of panning
  • bug 788522 - Enable asynchronous opacity and transform animations
  • Blog about invalidation work
  • Blog about low-res tiles work
  • bug 785069 - tcheckerboard2 has regressed substantially since Jul 22nd
  • bug 792415 - Covered areas of fixed position elements are not rendered
  • bug 783914 - WEBGL_depth_texture doesn't work using ANGLE (low priority)
  • bug 800475 - Fade in new content tiles

JChen

• Past week
  • Thanksgiving
  • Landed bug 814886 - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid selection offsets
  • Been working on bug 811755 - Holding backspace in a designMode editor repositions cursor
• Next week
  • Continue on bug 811755 - Holding backspace in a designMode editor repositions cursor
  • bug 810249 - Some VKB are not triggered in landscape mode
• Low priority/Blocked
  • bug 809329 - Duplicate letters when Xperia pro keyboard has suggestions
    • Waiting for feedback from bug reporter
  • bug 810821 - Tapping on url bar with Samsung Galaxy Note's II stylus doesn't have url text selected
    • Just requested a Galaxy Note

LucasR

Last week

• bug 709433 - animate awesome bar transition from tab bar to keyboard input
• Brainstorming ideas with Margaret to track and attract new coding contributors to Fennec

Next week

• Submit patches for bug 709433
• More bug fixing

Margaret

(Can't make the meeting today, but not much has changed)

• Helping kill Gaia blockers
• Training people to help kill Gaia blockers
• Met with lucasr to brainstorm ways to improve contributor acquisition/retention/quality (he'll give an update on that)

MFinkle

Done:

• Reviews
• Fixed some search engine bugs (bug 815076 and bug 762046)
• Fixed support for multiple-profiles (bug 809942)
• Added actions to context menu for HTML video (bug 701785)
• Blogged about Android x86 test build

Next:

• Traveling to MV/SF next week

Round Table

QA

• IME
  • Thoughts on bug 805162 for 18? (Aaron)