Mobile/Notes/17-Jun-2015
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Schedule
Topics for This Week
- Whistler hacking: https://mobile.etherpad.mozilla.org/whistler-2015
- startup time wins
Tracking Review
Release
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Beta
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Aurora
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Nightly
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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. New contributors are highlighted in bold.
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)
- Worked on some build system junk to enable colorized warnings/errors, bug 1171610 (need to push)
- Got a couple patches up for feedback for paint throttling, bug 1150172
- Dramatically improves page load speed (up to 50%)
- Reduces power consumption
- Needs some tweaks still, but I hope to land before or during Whistler
JChen
Fixed
Working on
GCP
- Last week
- Video sandboxing: Mac and Windows failures fixed, all green on try now, patches up for review
- Next week
- bug 1175562 Persist last update time for updates/gethash completion
- Whistler prep work
Randall Barker
Last Week:
- Landed: bug 1163664 Don't check for plugin blocklist state on Android.
- Uplifted to beta and aurora: bug 1159830 Autophone - webappstartup should not use console.log to output WEBAPP STARTUP COMPLETE
- Working through review: bug 1173844 - Video would not playback after seek seekbar if media.autoplay.enabled = false
- Investigating: bug 1171337 - black window during browsing
Next Week:
- Continue examining bug 1171337 - black window during browsing
- Get reviewed: bug 1166961 Re-enable missing video UI when element does not have controls.
- Land: bug 1173844 - Video would not playback after seek seekbar if media.autoplay.enabled = false
- Work Week.
Note: Will be on PTO June 29 -July 20.
Eugen Sawin
- MP3 demuxer
- Looking into intermittent initialization issues
- Startup performance optimization
- Landed on-demand loading of Webapps.jsm (1171013)
- Looking into on-demand loading of heavy modules (XPIProvider.jsm, GMPProvider.jsm)
Fixed
Working on
Brian Nicholson
Bryan Munar
- Sad that Brian is on PTO for forever (3 weeks) :(
- Happy that Whistler!!!!!
Finished:
Working On:
- Bug 1109684 - Let other developers directly open pages in Firefox for iOS
- looking for more small bugs to conquer/filing bugs
WesJ
- Family visiting
- Still pounding on sqlcipher. bug 1147071 - Use encrypted database storage for passwords
- Reviews
liuche
Highlights:
- More doorhangers work
- Apparently testSettingsMenuItems is turned off - trying to fix it to re-enable
Present:
Past:
karim
Past:
- WWDC!
Present:
- 602818 - Integrate QR code scanner into Fennec
- 1132125 - show voice input UI in New Tab's default URL bar
Margaret
Highlights:
- Add-on signing UI
- Planning for privacy-focused Fx42
- Talking with participation team about effort to promote Fennec in India
- PTO Thursday afternoon/Friday
Past:
- 1170384 - [JavaScript Error: "ReferenceError: gBrowser is not defined" {file: "chrome://browser/content/browser.js" line: 4547}]
- 1170844 - Display error message when add-on fails to be installed because it isn't signed
- 1170843 - Show a warning when a user attempts to install an unsigned add-on (if the pref allows)
- 1173895 - App-disabled add-ons can be enabled through the add-on manager context menu
- 1170851 - Warn about add-ons detected as no longer signed during the periodic check
Present:
jonalmeida
mcomella
Past:
- 1172201 - Correct GradleDynamicVersion lint warning
- 1164114 - Handle intent uris without an explicit package set
- 1168998 - Filter intent:// URIs use to prevent malicious attacks against the browser & installed apps
- 1171789 - `TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | testSettingsMenuItems | Waiting for settings item default ^Queue links for later` permafail on Android 4.0
- 1173228 - [Linter: SetJavaScriptEnabled] Audit WebView.setJavaScriptEnabled call
- 963873 - [Linter: UseSparseArrays] Consider using SparseArray for HashMap in AndroidGamepadManager.java
- 1168980 - Search app stores when opening an intent:// URI that doesn't have an appropriate app installed
Present:
rnewman
Fixed
Working on
nalexander
<Read Only>
- Partners
- Bi-directional Java Addons: bug 1168407:
- "final" patch over to mfinkle for review (already has r=rnewman)
- Working out "final" patch test failures on Android 9
- Documentation under-way at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Firefox_for_Android/API/JavaAddonManager.jsm
- Integration with third-party identity services
- Working on exposing WebChannel to Fennec privileged content: bug 1174458
- Started attaching patches for small things: bug 1161234
- --with-android-distribution-directory
- No movement
- Bi-directional Java Addons: bug 1168407:
- Contributors: working with Ahmed and vivek this week.
- vivek is leading the push for Firefox Account profile avatars in Firefox 42 \o/
- First ticket landed: bug 1055264, next in review: bug 1171141
- Testing:
- Still need a blog post for mach gradle runBrowserTests
- Still need a blog post mach robocop --serve
- mach package-frontend: pushed for re-review but gps is busy (?)
- Using taskcluster and the local pushlog database to seamlessly fetch binaries
- Working very well locally \o/
Sebastian
- Home Panel APIs: bug 1157539 bug 1172136
- RecyclerView: bug 1171288
All:
- 1158295 - Dynamically determine space between search engines in search engine bar
- 1158275 - Remove old method of selecting non-primary search engines in BrowserSearch
- 1170824 - Empty search engine bar is shown after removing non-default search engines
Martyn Haigh
Past:
Present:
Stefan
Past:
- 1146596 - Apply a content security policy to the reader view content that we serve
- 1173015 - Crash in xliff-to-strings when exporting empty target element
Present:
Also, lots non-coding things: coordinating with lastpass, 1password, pwSafe. github/bugzilla gardening, making new builds (aurora is out, testflight waiting for legal?), picked up the apple app store discussion about our app name, talking to webkit team to find out what we can do for iOS9.
Steph
Last week: Desktop/Android URL Bar Highlight algorithm
- 1168130 - Allow deleting of individual Top Sites Tiles
- 1171463 - Regression: grey area shown where bottom toolbar used to be on about:home
- 1163122 - Optimize BrowserViewController.viewDidLoad
- 1173773 - scrollablePage.html not found during UITests
- 1173372 - Tapping the URL bar during top site thumbnail editing mode, or backgrounding the app, should exit editing mode
- 1173204 - Memory leak in TabTrayController
- 1162539 - Unable to scroll to top in landscape orientation
Coming week:
James Hugman
Ally
- 1170786 about:logins v1 minimum shippable product
- Part 2 of 1136477 Unify terminology of Passwords/Logins for about:logins (nee about:passwords) waiting on review
- 1148524 Add "edit login" option in about:passwords context menu
- Bug 1144413 - Remove "details" page from about:passwords (done)
- Other
- 1174878 Update robocop test testSettingsMenuItems.java to use StringHelper.java in all cases
- 1141769 Implement new style(unified) FHR/Telemetry password manager probes (waiting on 2nd r+)
- reviews
Emily
Highlights:
- WWDC
- Jetlag
- Getting into Sync
Closed:
Current:
BLassey
Fixed
Working on
Antlam
- Past
- Partner stuff
- On-boarding for Android
- Doorhangers bug triage
- Passwords follow up
- Private browsing improvements
- Cleaning up about:addons
- Upcoming
- More of the same!
- Prep for Whistler
Robin
Went to Palm Springs for YxYY, did all the things.
iOS
- Continuing to find any bugs, specifically UI-related.
- Improve CSS for Reader View on iPad
- Finalize spinner for loading Reading View/pull-to-refresh
Android
- Kinderfox: still reading all the research.
Darrin
Past:
- WWDC!
Present + Future:
- Quick Search visual context – https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172065
- Onboarding Improvements – https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172054
- Default Search not shown if suggestions turned off – https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1163219
A-Team
QA
Feature Focus
<Read Only>
- Android Roadmap in Aha!
- Not much changed this week.
- 'Option to always use private browsing' holding on nightly channel pending outcome of user testing
- Suggest new features for the Android Roadmap Here
- iOS Roadmap in Aha!
- Suggest new features for the iOS Roadmap Here
- Priority #1/Biggest concern right now - finalizing our end-game plan to push V1.0 out the door! This is a goal for Whistler.
- 2nd Priority - Start discussion/planning for V1.1 & V2.0... may get into this at Whistler if we can knock out Priority #1 above!