Mobile/Notes/27-Mar-2013
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- irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
- Mobile Vidyo Room
Schedule
- Next merge is 2013-04-01
- Release is 2013-04-02
Major Topics for This Week
- Stability
- From yesterday's Platform stability update: "Firefox 20 for Android might be better in stability indicators than any other before, good work!" Let's keep working to drive down crashes.
- ANR Reporter
- is turned on in Nightly (and soon Aurora). Right now the data is hidden inside Metrics database dungeon. Next step is getting better access to that data.
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)
- Bug 829747 - Do Async Canvas layers update (finally!)
- Bug 734691 - Support multiple threads [in profiler]
Kats
- Mar 20 - Mar 27
- snappy work week
- bug 850318 - don't block the UI thread on the background thread when calling getClipboardText
- lots of reviews/needinfo's
- got AWSY/mobile hooked up to a new device (galaxy nexus) since the old one was pretty dead
- bug 853366 - clean up of app lifecycle events
- bug 847499 - prevent loss of telemetry data due to fennec getting killed
- bug 814282 - debugged intermittent failure of testVkbOverlap on pandas
- bug 854971 - make gamepad buttons work better on url entry field
- bug 839767 - make rows on about:home focusable
- bug 855016 - make row items on about:home usable using gamepad buttons
- Next
- more ouya stuff
GBrown
- Done
- bug 854549 Robocop screenshots
- see also http://gbrownmozilla.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/screenshots-for-robocop/
- bug 853502 Report disk partition fullness during automated tests
- Talos regression investigations
- bug 781179 Android PGO investigations: got valgrind working; reported results for pandaboard
- Investigated bug 854863 20MB regression in application 'Data' size after first startup
- Working on
- Helping rel-eng with xpcshell tests
- Always more intermittent test failures
Chris Lord (cwiiis)
Chris Peterson
- Done
- Working on IME tests
- bug 847839 - Remove obsolete files for Android XUL Fennec: embedding/android/ and mobile/xul/
- bug 852714 - Amazon search URLs should include Mozilla sourceid and tag
- Next
- Land some IME test
- Continue work on Push WebAPI
JChen
- Past week
- Wrote new wiki page and blog post about JimDB update
- Fixed bug 839683 - Enable ANR reporter in appropriate channels
- Fixed bug 853819 - VKB does not appear when tapping on text inputs on flash sites
- Worked on bug 842013 - keyup, keydown and keypress Event is not fired
- Worked on bug 847983 - IME in designmode doesn't seem to work very well
- Next
- More IME bugs
GCP
Brian N
- In progress
- Eclipse support
- Eclipse plugin: https://github.com/thebnich/fennec-adt
- Branch with mach project creation scripts: https://github.com/thebnich/mozilla-central/tree/eclipsify-fennecadt
- Eclipse support
- Next
- Session restore bugs
- about:home fragments
- More Eclipse
Sriram
- Temporary fix for artifacts on dynamic toolbar - bug 848719
- Back button should be transparent - bug 854493
- Awesomescreen text unreadable - bug 844816
- Screen artifacts on search suggestions - bug 850217
- Debugging styles problem in 2.2 device - bug 823644
- Splitting about:home views to custom views - bug 852312
- Quick patch for throbber - bug 853844
- List and Grid view for new about:home
- Blog post on View Reduction
- First addon (in progress)
WesJ
LucasR
Last week
- bug 853300 - click on android's menu button should bring up the toolbar if its hidden in dynamic mode
- bug 853497 - Remove spacer view from gecko_app.xml
- bug 854457 - Accessibility support in TwoWayView
- bug 854458 - Implement keyboard navigation in the new tabs tray (In progress)
Next week
- bug 854458 - Implement keyboard navigation in the new tabs tray
- Prototype refactorings: UI message bus and transition manager
- Tabs tray bug fixing
Margaret
(At community building meetup, so read the wiki)
Done:
- Put "Set as Wallpaper" feature behind confvars variable - bug 851170
- Remove "Idea" section from about:feedback (to match new input.mozilla.org backend) - bug 853022
- Started cleaning up text selection code - bug 853508, bug 853691
Next:
- Continue to work on text selection - bug 854605, bug 667243
Scott (jwir3)
BLassey
MFinkle
Done
- Commenting and Review on Roadmap
- bug 854340 - Firefox for Android cannot break out of a loop + alert attack
- bug 854107 - Lazy load more JS objects in browser.js
- Needs some verification for click-to-play, find-in-page, offline appcache and clear site settings
Working On
- Better timelines for items on Roadmap
- bug 852828 - Add basic support for subscribing to feeds (RSS/Atom)
- Might be ready for r?
- bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile ignores <link rel="search">
- bug 853844 - Investigate removing the pageload throbber
- Lots of good feedback
- Making something happen ASAP at start of pageload is important
- Starting to focus on the "end of pageload" part of the spectrum next
- I want to explore using the page background as the "loading indicator" which goes away as the page loads
PTO Thursday and Friday
Ian Barlow
This week
- Epic UX sync up with Karen
- Refinements to about:home redesign
- Work in progress: cl.ly/0z1f2d2m3l1V
- Reorganizing Settings
- Work in progress: etherpad.mozilla.org/settings-reorg
- Refinements to title bar / tab tray interaction
- Work in progress: cl.ly/image/3x2P3W3K082Q
Security/MGoodwin
Contributors
Round Table
Tracking FX21 Bugs : http://bit.ly/13xpZ6x