Mobile/Notes/16-Oct-2013

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Schedule

  • Next merge is 2013-10-28

Topics for This Week

Favicon Work Landed
Chris Kitching's major overhaul of the favicon system landed (see bug 914296). We found a few regressions, but keeping looking. This is a Fx27 feature. Any bugs that were fixed by the overhaul, but are also needed on Fx26 need other less risky patches.
RTL Work
The group of students working on RTL have been making some progress. A patch is up for changing our AndroidManifest.xml to advertise that we want to use RTL (see bug 924418). More layout and code patches are needed before we land anything though.

Friends of the Mobile Team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Make sure friends also get awarded a badge.

  • Lauren Ko fixed bug 919301 - When in private browsing stop showing "switch to tab" from normal browsing (her first patch!)
  • kar fixed bug 903084 - Add Bing as a general search provider for specified locales for Fennec (also her first patch!)
  • fedepaol fixed bug 921776 - Notifications aren't properly dismissed when multiple downloads are started from private tabs
  • capella fixed bug 923086 - "Add to reading list" button does not save it's state and bug 923764 - An intermittent failure in testBookmark (maybe we should make a new badge for fixing robocop bugs!)
  • ckitching (finally) landed bug 914296 - The favicon cache re-write! And also some other favicon-related bugs bug 923218 and bug 926497

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)

Kats

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

JChen

GCP

Botond

Mina

Brian N

Sriram

WesJ

LucasR

Last week

Next week

liuche

Margaret

mcomella

  • Past
    • bug 888086 - sync/Utils.java claims `StringBuffer should be used instead`
    • bug 902560 - All FakeProfileTestCase tests fail in setUp() if fake profile dir is not removed
  • Present
    • bug 870925: (r-) Add submissions info to FHR documents
    • bug 915918: (r-) If a different tab is selected in the background while in editing mode, URL being entered will open in that new tab
    • bug 924480: (r?) With talkback, Swiping right from toolbar brings you to content, event when about:home is visible.
    • bug 925546: (r?) Rename TopSitesGridView.OnPinSiteListener to OnEditSiteListener
    • bug 919234: Regression: Unpinning a site flashes thumbnail into neighbour thumbnail spot
  • Future
    • bug 910859: Bootstrap new UI testing framework
    • FHR
      • Architecture docs
      • Minor bugs and regressions
    • bug 898613: [fig] Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)

RNewman

nalexander

BLassey

MFinkle

  • Coding
    • GeckoView fixes and review comments
    • Chromecast/Roku review comments
  • London next week
    • Techtalks
    • DroidconUK

Ian Barlow

Currently:

Recovering from Post Summit Reorg Workweek UX-workshop Travel Mozflu Syndrome. It's a thing.

This week:

  • Looking through Summit feedback, and what we can start to act on. Could include:
  • Finalized UI flows for selecting your preferred language for web content (Accept-language header customization) -- this is ready for implementation now.
  • bug 927006 Adding a split action bar to our phone UI
  • Thinking about a preliminary Kinderfox feature set
  • Working with Madhava on a desktop/mobile UX strategy for the next year, with a focus on looking for how we can continue to converge the Firefox experience across all of our platforms.

Arun

  • PDF.js experiments with Ian

Security/MGoodwin

WebRT

Performance

A-Team

Feature Focus

Fx25 (Ships 10/29)
Fx26 (Ships 12/10)
Fx27 (Ships 01/21)
Fx28 (Ships 03/04)
Fx29 (Ships 04/15)

Round Table