Mobile/Notes/17-Apr-2013

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

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!

GBrown

• Done
  • Research (Shumway) work week
  • Contributed to bug 855130 Media Source Extensions API
• Working on
  • bug 859563 GeckoEventExpecter instances are reused incorrectly
  • Panda test reliability
  • Re-enable more robocop tests
  • Turn on more xpcshell tests

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

• Done
  • bug 859100 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.BrowserToolbar.canToolbarHide(BrowserToolbar.java)
  • bug 859031 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.BrowserApp$8$1.run(BrowserApp.java)
  • bug 861246 - Layer refactor broke async scrolling of fixed position margins
  • bug 856932 - Incorrect layer position when panning down to make the urlbar visible
  • bug 852955 - [AccessFu] Trying to activate items at top of pages brings up awesome bar or menu instead
  • bug 855240 - Regression: Video trailer playback on imdb.com is broken (still broken, but fixed other bugs with this patch)
  • Interviews

• Now
  • bug 858969 - window.scrollTo() cannot ensure compatibility when dynamic toolbar is enabled

GCP

• Last week
  • Landed Android WebRTC
  • Various bugs related to getting it landed
• Next week
  • Blog about it
  • bug 862808
  • bug 862377
  • The 100 others that will get filed soon.
  • Acquire 2.2 device.

Sriram

• Pushed layout and styles - bug 823644
  • An all green push. cl.ly/image/3O0d432U3i2G
  • Regressions are getting fixed: bug 861314, bug 861994
  • Working on next set of styles cleanup.
• Settings screen color reverted to white - bug 861655
• Edited wiki pages for https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Extensions/Mobile/API/NativeWindow/menu
• Next:
  • Rebase widget namespacing with AboutHome changes
  • Remove GeckoViewsFactory

Margaret

• Done
  • Don't wait until shutdown to save search engine order - bug 858809
  • Unable to uninstall or disable added search engine - bug 862125
  • Add Serif/Sans Serif font toggle to Reader Mode - bug 857989
  • URL bar retains address entered after editing a top site on about:home - bug 860326
  • Selection is black if content isn't focused when selection starts - bug 858323
  • Killed a bunch of unused files - bug 861005, bug 838368, bug 862440

• Next
  • Continue work on some pinned sites bugs I picked up - bug 858994, bug 860759, bug 857661
  • Investigate some caretPositionFromPoint issues found while working on bug 667243

Ian Barlow

• Last week
  • UX Summit in London, a good time was had by many

• This week
  • Filed bunch of multipage about:home bugs
    • Will be adding more detailed mockups to these over the next couple of days
    • bug 862793 - [meta] Multipage About:home
    • bug 862806 - Swipeable panels on about:home
    • bug 862813 - Entry points into about:home
    • bug 862794 - About:home "visited" panel
    • bug 862796 - About:home "bookmarks" panel
    • bug 862798 - About:home "save for later" panel
    • bug 862799 - About:home "Add-ons" panel
    • bug 862801 - About:home Snippet
    • bug 862805 - Add support for custom panel add-ons on about:home
  • Settings re-org in progress https://etherpad.mozilla.org/settings-reorg
    • Feedback welcome
  • Rethinking the tab counter icon. It doesn't work very well with the new single colour tab design.

• Up next
  • Reader enhancements
    • Serif view
    • Rich preview of article
    • Update toolbar menu styling
    • Add a way to navigate through articles without going back to reading list
    • Add a way to add to reading list without entering reader mode
    • Figure out what to do for articles that Reader mode can't parse