Mobile/Notes/23-Nov-2011
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Schedule
- Dec 20 - next merge
Major Topics for This Week
- We moved nightly fennec users over to Birch. OMGWTFBBQ
- Watch the tree when you push patches
- Before and after the push
- Star issues
- We'll get a cheatsheet to make finding the right bug easier
Application
Native Front-end
Android Platform
Stand ups
Suggested format:
- What did you do last week?
- What are working on this week?
- Anything blocking you?
Snorp
Kats
- Last week:
- landed some more layers patches (702416, 702412)
- mostly worked on a bunch of crasher bugs (703004, 703256, 700559, 704114, 704117, 699917, 704225)
- fixed log output so logcat is greppable (703059)
- some more pan/zoom work: axis lock (701586), overpanning bug (699937)
- java scrollbars (701351)
- reviewing more layers patches (703141)
- Next week:
- work on follow-ups for layers, scrollbars
- work on other P1/P2 assigned bugs
- Blockers:
- waiting on UX for scrollbars, find-in-page
GBrown
Last week:
- Several small device manager / testing bugs: able to run mochitest-remote against native now
- Disk cache: found a problem in one of the benchmark tests
Next week:
- Continue on device manager / testing bugs
AlexP
- Last week
- Reviewed older IME bugs. Closed some which are not reproducible anymore.
- Investigated the bugs introduced with the new pan/zoom architecture:
- bug 701706 Virtual Keyboard is not dismissed if a tap is performed outside the focused input field
- bug 701947 VKB does not appear when tapping into an iframe text box
- Found the cause of the problems, submitted a fix for bug 701947
- bug 685537 [HKb] Fn key + key is not working properly on Desire Z's Android keyboard
- Investigated the bug, confirmed its major part is fixed by the change in bug 699792
- bug 704156 Unable to overwrite selection in awesome bar using HKB
- Investigated the bug, have a WIP patch
- This week
- Continue working on IME bugs: Mobile/IME_Bugs
Chris Lord
AWOL
GCP
- Last week:
- Reworked UrlClassifier according to review comments.
- Added missing features/documentation.
- Debugged various obscure things.
- This week:
- Iron out the last bugs.
- Rest/Holiday.
- bug 699199 - Upgrade path from XUL to native fennec.
- Blockers: None.
Brian N
(PTO Today)
Sriram
- Last Week:
- Investigated the "black url bar" problem in Honeycomb.
- Found problems with using textColorHighlight in Honeycomb.
- This Week:
- Fixed the "black url bar" problem.
- Investigated the heap allocation problem that caused application to kill (Bug 704162).
- Optimized TabsTray implementation.
- Basic support for "action bar" and "holo" themes in Honeycomb/ICS.
- Working on ContentProvider for passwords.
- Blockers:
- Android's lack of proper documentation for ActionBar :(
WesJ
(PTO Today)
LucasR
Last week
- Bug fixing
This week
- More bug fixing
- Focus on local DB for bookmarks/history
Blockers
- None
MBrubeck
Margaret
(PTO Today)
Done:
- Landed about:config rewrite (bug 699418, bug 703922)
- Disabled share menu item for some protocols (bug 703630)
- (Mostly) fixed save as PDF progress notifications (bug 701797)
Next:
- Host Thanksgiving dinner!
- Finish fixing save as PDF progress notifications (bug 704691)
- Form history (bug 695444)
BLassey
Last week:
- worked on native about:home bug 701380
- disabling plugins for aurora bug 704612 and bug 703815
- fixed quit bug 704217
- disabled animation when returning from awesome screen bug 704043
- investigating saving screenshot in saved instance bundle
- null pointer exception (caught) on start up bug 702183
- got rid of unnecessary permissions in the manifest bug 702183
Next week:
- eat lots of turkey
- work on native about:home
- investigating saving screenshot in saved instance bundle
DougT
- Backed out multithread DNS. See bug 694325.
- Kicking off dns request from java to startup the radio. See bug 689713.
- Lots of merging.
- Two more patches to land before we can migrate over to m-c. (plugins legal, and a roc/layout patch)
- Gobble.
MFinkle
Done:
- Landed an ugly version of the Add-ons Manager
- Blogging about Native UI, add-ons and emulator
- Worked on the Nigthly switchover from XUL to Native
Next:
- Make the Add-ons Manager pretty
- Port over a simple remote error console
- Blog about the error console -> logcat system and how to use logcat
Madhava
- Last week: sync, misc. bugs
- This week: sync flow (minor additions); first-run flows; addons install flows; character encoding; flash-enabling pref; these lovely bugs
- This page knows all, UX-wise: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/UserExperience
- Visualization of over UX doneness: http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/6379276093/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Ian Barlow
- Last week:
- UI Reviews
- This week:
- Start page in progress - bug 701380
- About:firefox in progress - bug 704588
- Revisiting tab menu to iclude thumbnails - http://cl.ly/003X1R2o2v0i3n1s0k2v (quick sketch) bug 704864
- Working with Madhava on a blog post about the new Nightly
- Blockers: Nope
Patryk Adamczyk
Last Week
- Delivered basic widget design for both high and low resolution devices to Sriram.
This Week
- Aiming to deliver spec for add ons manager for both high and low resolution devices to Mark today or tomorrow.
- Aiming to deliver optimal text size spec to remedy bug #703029
Blockers
None
Round Table
- Next steps on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702829
- When to stop taking P3-P5