Mobile/Notes/05-Sep-2012
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Schedule
- Next merge is 2012-10-08
- Fx16b2 was built and is being tested
- Reader fixes
- Feedback Solicitation (en-US only)
- Initial ARMv6 support
- Fx15.0.1 will is being triaged
- Crash fixes for mobile
Major Topics for This Week
- ARMv6
- We are getting ready to start limited ARMv6 support from Fx16. Expanding the current minimum requirements is important and will require Dev and QA support.
- Feedback Solicitation
- Fx16b2 will introduce feedback solicitation. This should start pushing more feedback into input.mozilla.org, along with some device info. Community reaction to the prompt will be worth watching as well.
- Blog posts from Boston work week
If you ran a breakout session at the planning day, please write up and post what happened there. In addition, the following posts are needed
- Personals mock ups - Shorlander
- make sync not suck - Shorlander
-
readability 2.0 - kats + scott - opt in for search suggestions - madhava
- sub menus - sriram
- jimDB - jchen
-
reader mode - lucas - reader mode memory hog - brian
- addon docs - mfinkle
- panda burn-in scripts - clint/joel
- platform viewport - mbrubeck
- benchmarks - jeff
- webGL leak - ??
- webapps.sqlite - ??
- remote about:memory - jeff + blassey
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
- Failed to land new updater
- PTO Friday
- This week
- Landed updater
- Now working on a few plugin bugs
Kats
Aug 29 - Sep 4:
- bug 787322 - fix multiple consecutive rotations throwing off zoom values
- bug 787427 - fix clicking on small misshapen elements inside larger clickable elements (pending review)
- bug 787060 - fix nsWindow::RedrawAll so it works with DLBI
- wrote some code to build an object graph and dominance tree from a heap dump and malloc/free data, but the data looks incomplete. investigating getting better data out of valgrind
- blogged about getting valgrind running on the android emulator
Next:
- bug 769369 ([ARMv6] Fennec loses responsiveness after time)
- steal bug 760229 from romaxa (reduce java transient memory allocations)
GBrown
Last week:
- Set up a local panda board
- Bug 783639 PixelTest failures on panda
- caused by ... Bug 787115 Hang and high CPU during robocop tests on panda: java.lang.StringToReal.parseDouble
- Bug 777440 Estimate releng work for supporting 2 pass linking
- Still have problems with valgrind and OpenGL-in-emulator; will re-visit wrt :kats blog post
- Bug 783011 - xpcshell on android fails with "failed to get nsJSRuntimeService!"
- Wrote a blog post on performance measures
Next:
- Continue work on bug 777440
- Figure out how to deal with bug 787115
- Bug 784242 PixelTest failures: Pixel at 100, 0 - Color rgba(0,0,0,255) not close enough to expected rgb(32,100,0)
- Bug 767215 Intermittent testAxisLocking, testLoad, testFlingCorrectness | Pixel at 0, 0 - Color rgba(255,255,255,255)
Chris Lord (cwiiis)
- Now
- bug 786502 - Static background on Bungie.net appears to scroll away with the content
- bug 788202 - When listing a frame tree, subdocument frames are not entered
- Next
- Blog about position:fixed work
- bug 786412 - Consolidate ContainerLayer functions
- bug 786740 - CSS transition with rounded borders cause rendering issues
- bug 785069 - tcheckerboard2 has regressed substantially since Jul 22nd (blocked on regression range)
- bug 783914 - WEBGL_depth_texture doesn't work using ANGLE (low priority)
- Blog about invalidation work
Chris Peterson
- Done
- Investigating Stagefright video bugs
- Mentoring a contributor working on bug 756504 - Android D-pad and game controller key events should specify DOM_KEY_LOCATION_JOYSTICK
- (Waiting for review) bug 782096 - NullPointerException at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java) on Galaxy Tab 7.7" (GT-P6800) with Honeycomb
- (Waiting for review) bug 769894 - IllegalStateException: Hardware acceleration can only be used with a single UI thread
- (Waiting for review) bug 785536 - Add MPAPI GetPref so platform decoders can query about:config prefs
- Fixed bug 777591 - Compile new namespaces packages into separate .jar packages (and link .dex from .jar files, not .class files)
- Next
- Fix and possibly slipstream with any Firefox 15 chemspills:
- bug 780543 - Holding backspace causes enormous repeats of content
- bug 669361 - ASUS hardware keyboard is always en-us
- Fix and possibly slipstream with any Firefox 15 chemspills:
GCP
Brian N
- Done
- bug 786623 - Unable to play YouTube videos on tablets; redirection loop on 'Play'
- Reader bugs (bug 784386, bug 787597, bug 786842, bug 787570)
- WIP bug 582244 - Implement Private Browsing
- Next
- bug 582244 - Implement Private Browsing
- bug 769145 - Add an opt-in for the search suggestions feature
Sriram
WesJ
- MFinkle points to Wes' work in bug 787271 - Expose some JNI to js through js-ctypes
LucasR
Last week
- bug 786073 - Lock animation distracting/confusing while switching tabs, loading pages/etc
- bug 787078 - Fix back behavior for Reader
- bug 784359 - Fix left urlbar edge on tablets
- Started co-mentoring four students to implement Reader Mode on desktop Firefox:
- Blog post: Reader Mode in Firefox Beta for Android:
Next week
- bug 786638 - Implement testing infrastructure for reader mode
- bug 768268 - Reader Mode: Reader mode should not be entered automatically from an Awesomescreen choice
- bug 778489 - Implement nice transition to Reader Mode
- More Reader Mode bug fixing
- UI Responsiveness planning
MBrubeck
Done:
- Got Windows 8 running and Metro Firefox building
- bug 779527 - resolution media query broken on Android
- bug 786062 - remove unused PanZoom:PanZoom observer
Next:
- Working on Metro patches
- Final reviews for platform viewport patches
Margaret
Scott (jwir3)
Last Week:
- bug 780258 : Add support for max line box width API (finished review, polishing before landing)
- Prototyping Reflow-On-Zoom Blog Post
- PTO Friday
This Week:
- Still working on prototype for Reflow-On-Zoom. Almost complete, but there are still some small annoyances.
- bug 784887 : Message passing from java -> JS re: pinch-to-zoom
- Iterate with UX on mapping function for font inflation.
MComella
BLassey
Last week
- went to Korea
This week
- tying up some loose ends
- bug 770289 - JNIEnv->NewString can throw and needs to be caught before another JNI call
- bug 761503 - return a bool from PumpMessageLoop to indicate if work was performed
Next week
- Warsaw for performance work week
MFinkle
- Getting ramped up for Windows Metro
- Making sure we have people looking at the things that came out of Boston
Madhava
Ian Barlow
Recently
- bug 774479 Google Play feedback solicitation
- bug 769145 Search Suggest opt-in
This Week / Next week and beyond
- Google Cloud Messaging
- Private Browsing / Guest Mode
- Safe Browsing UI Refresh
- Improved Sync Setup Flow / First Run UX
- List of UI responsiveness tweaks https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/BostonBrainstorm/UIPerf
- Mocking up ARMV6 (small screen) design tweaks
Round Table
QA
- Need to update platforms supported devices page with ARMv6. Submit a pull request with your recently tested min-spec phone please.
Socorro/Breakpad/Stability
Hightlights:
- nhirata still on b2g more so.
Please see Platform Meeting Notes for Stability report
SUMO
Feedback for the last week of Google Play Reviews (Full week of Firefox 15)
5 star 48,086 (+4509, 67% of Growth)
4 star 18,277 (+1392, 21% of Growth)
3 star 12,522 (+430, 6% of Growth)
2 star 8,414 (+166, 2% of Growth)
1 star 13,078 (+267, 4% of Growth)
Average rating: 3.79 (+.04)
Average Rating of this Week's Reviews: 4.43 (+.23)
100,377 Total Reviews (+6764)
Observations: The Text Input bug Bug 780543 is the #2 issue on Google play (behind crashes, which are about the same as in 14). Bundling this fix into a 15.0.1 will help.
Haven't been able to run through Beta Feedback Yet (due to Labor Day Weekend).