Firefox/Meeting/16-Apr-2013

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  • "Firefox" Vidyo Room

Round Table

  • [gavin] Potential fx-team work week update
  • [gavin] Discussion of Australis tab approaches and making a decision
  • [jaws] Bug triage update. Will be scheduling a EU-time triage and later a PST-time triage

Friends of the Firefox team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

  • [jaws] I have an update but will need to write it later.

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!

gavin

  • filed a bunch of main thread IO bugs
  • then went back and realized I'd made a mistake about the main-thread impact of NetUtil.asyncCopy
  • landed a bunch of small removal patches: bug 862186, bug 703377, bug 862152
  • fixed a beta regression: bug 851630

paolo

mak

Last week:

  • bug 748894 - Move the bookmark star button outside of the location bar - Got review, some details to finish yet, trying to land before end of the week
  • bug 789348 - make about:home not use localStorage - Splitted 2 blockers
    • bug 861302 - Allow indedexDB to be used from about: pages - Pending review
    • bug 861308 - IndexedDB keeps nsGlobalWindow alive until a transaction is complete - Possible solution in browser-test cc-analyzer
  • bug 834545 - Add new async removePlaces API in mozIAsyncHistory - Started API designing part, in the meanwhile finalized GetPlacesInfo API with Mano
  • bug 851519 - Keyboard commands may apply to the wrong downloads panel entry - Ready to land, should backport
  • First Async & Responsive meeting, Yoric manages the team (https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Async-Responsive)
  • Collected and reordered feedback on downloads panel for a Phase 2, meeting this week? (WIP https://etherpad.mozilla.org/downloads-panel-phase-2)
  • Triaged some recently filed Places bugs
  • Reviews: bug 830492, bug 834539, bug 855190, bug 855842

This week:

  • Send mail to organize downloads panel phase 2 meeting, Wed or Thu?
  • Polish and land star button
  • Get accepted solutions for about:home indexedDB blockers
  • Get first working patch for RemovePlaces API

enn

felipe

  • Finished the work on the hotfix to change update interval
  • Working on the AddonRepository.jsm SQLite -> Json replacement
  • Some meetings about e10s and context setting, looked at bugs to build a list of work to do
  • Met with brazilian community for FISL 2013 planning
  • Review for Stephen Pohl and some WIP review for Shane
  • Firefox triage
  • Guiding various students who are writing their drafts for GSoC proposal
  • Working on blog post about GSoC

mano

This week:

  • bug 834539 - GetPlacesInfo API, mostly done.
  • Started working on Neil's password manager patch (bug 853549).
  • Still need to discuss solution for migration shared-component with Benjamin (bug 848533).

Reviews:

  • bug 748894 - Move the bookmark star button outside of the location bar.
  • bug 846635 - Use asynchronous getCharsetForURI in getShortcutOrURI
  • bug 852034 - Replace restoreBookmarksFromJSONFile with importFromFile
  • bug 851519 - Keyboard commands may apply to the wrong downloads panel entry
  • bug 852041 - Apply use of BookmarkJSONUtils.exportToFile

ttaubert

  • Worked on and investigated a couple of sessionstore regressions.
  • Wrote a patch to include a secret Google API key at build time (GeoLocation etc).
  • Investigated a regression caused by the BC/IonMonkey merge.
  • Started to work on a couple of e10s patches, taking parts from the original patch by int3.
  • Talked to Avih about plans to tackle tabopen animation further.
  • Met with Yoric and talked about how to improve thumbnailing.
  • Organized de:hacking meetup and JSDay attendance.
  • Lots of reviews and more to come.

adw

  • bug 841495 - implement background tab thumbnailing service
    • posted new patch for review, waiting on Josh's thoughts on a second patch
  • bug 856270 - Update nsEditorSpellCheck to use nsIContentPrefService2
    • working on fixing tryserver failures, tricky
  • bug 806046 - Intermittent browser_bug719271.js | Test timed out, | Found a tab x2
    • investigating
  • bug 436801 - XHTML not properly supported in Feed titles
    • reviewed
  • triage

dolske

  • Mini team workweek, yay!
  • Filed some mixed content blocking bugs
  • So. Many. Meetings.

mconley

Last week

  • Hacking in Mountain View!
  • We hit kinda M2 for Customization (still a few missing widgets, still waiting on Bookmarks change to land in m-c). Quite a few improvements have landed in UX
    • Subviews are more reliable now
    • More prettiness / smoothness
    • Customizable areas are more reliable too
  • MacBook drive died. :/
  • Did some triage last week


This week

  • Got a new drive for my MacBook, restored from CrashPlan. Amazingly, it worked! Back up (pun intended) and running.
  • Working with MattN, dao and avih trying to move bug 813786 forward. Milestone 2 for tabs is tomorrow, and we'd like to get that one resolved.
  • Tackling bug 685059 and bug 857088 for curvy tabs M2
  • Starting to piece together plan for user migration for customization (see bug 860814). Meeting with jaws (and maybe Unfocused) after this meeting.


Blockers:

  • bug 748894
  • Decision on Character Encoding subview for panel

dao

mikedeboer

Last week:

  • Unofficial workweek (yay!)
  • promised to work on NodeJS connect module for Personas (spare-time project)
  • bug 738818 landed on m-c! (thanks Gavin)
  • bug 819493 landed on m-c! (thanks again, Gavin :P)
  • bug 712514 on hold until the AMO team resolves bug 859516; Autocomplete search in Add-ons Manager
  • worked on https://github.com/mikedeboer/mozAsync, port of a VERY popular NodeJS library and included Unit Testing framework. More info soon! (spare-time project)

This week:

  • bug 860560, a follow-up from bug 738818
  • Wade through MattN's Australis dashboard and pick up bugs from there.
  • send mail to firefox-dev about mozAsync

gijs

  • Landed bug 851702, bug 851701, bug 860033 (remove block image/js prefs from UI + associated refactor)
  • Landed bug 125082 (native anon content in DOMI) and did a WIP patch for bug 777674 (XBL/anon content in devtools)
  • Patched bug 851009 (australis tab highlights (waiting for ui-review + review from MattN))
  • Looked into bug 853415 (australis tab issues because of customization when opening about:addons), bug 853415 (australis tab issues on windows)
  • Discussions about Fx reset, tiny bit of work on keeping tabs for a reset (bug 833943)
  • WIP Patch for bug 726240 (Use HTML for video controls), going faster now that anon content shows up in devtools inspector, would be still faster if I can get the style panel working)
  • Got review for bug 763890 (using separate folders for profile reset work) looking into doing a test for profile reset, is harder than I thought, will ask bsmedberg this morning, if it's hard I may land without starting to write tests)
  • Worked on bug 845555 (HTML5 video statistics completely broken on nightly and aurora, half-broken on beta) - but got feedback from bholley and jaws this morning and should re-do the patch there to be less stupid.

Unfocused

MattN

Last week:

  • Australis follow-ups
    • Measured perf of LWT patch
  • Discussed next steps and Q2 goals for Firefox Reset with Gijs and Dolske
  • Hotfix discussion with Felipe
  • Getting others started with Australis patches
  • GSOC Emails

This week:

  • Finalize LWT
  • More Australis follow-ups
  • Reviews!

jaws

This past week

  • Did a small work week in Mountain View
  • Landed the history subview for the Australis menu panel (bug 855803)
  • Landed bug 861087 to resize subviews when they are fully expanded
  • Fixed bug 859576 for some jar.mn cleanup
  • Organized a bug triage where we closed 70 bugs!!!
  • Started fixing bug 853972 so clicking on a desktop notification will take you to the originating tab.

This week

  • Start working on migration for Australis customization
  • Scheduling a triage for this Friday, with a EU-centered time

cers

mixedpuppy

this week:

  • telemetry, social marks and share
  • investigate async annotations before review on marks
  • hope to be review ready on share early next week

waiting on:

  • mockup of share ui

UX Updates

lco

Click-to-Play

  • rev-6 of the design spec: http://people.mozilla.com/~lco/CtP/current/
  • proposal for multiple plugins: (image was blocked by our spam filter... grr... it's in the design spec though)
  • still stuck on strings, as usual (Allow Now = allow short term; Add Exception = allow long term)


Mixed Content


Task Continuity

  • working on a framework for a set of features that the UX team wants to explore. "Task Continuity" is a terrible name for it. More in a couple of weeks :D

Decisions needed/Action items

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