Firefox/Planning/2014-08-06
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Planning Meeting Details
- Wednesdays - 11:00am PT, 18:00 UTC
- Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
- Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
- irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
- (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)
Video/Teleconference Details - NEW
- 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99696 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
- Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
- Vidyo Guest URL
- AirMozilla: for broadcast and saved recordings
REMEMBER
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Contents
- 1 Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases (Lukas/Sylvestre/Lawrence)
- 2 Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)
- 3 Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team (Kev)
- 4 Marketing, Press & Public Reaction (Arcadio)
- 5 Questions, Comments, FYI
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases (Lukas/Sylvestre/Lawrence)
- Firefox 32
- Desktop beta4 shipped yesterday, beta5 ships Friday
- Mobile beta4 ships today
Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)
Summary of Work In Progress
- You can find the most recently completed iteration performance report here
- You can see the status of the current iteration in progress here
Uplifts
Beta (133)
- Update the icons in the context menu to have the correct size, HiDPI, and inverted variants ( Bug 1016405 )
- The New Tab Page should be smarter about showing more tiles when on large screens ( Bug 1026561 )
- allow snippets in about:home to highlight sync in the firefox menu ( Bug 1035586 )
- Unable to close tab after slow script warning at chrome://browser/content/tabbrowser.xml:1989 ( Bug 1041788 )
- Disabled icons in context menu are invisible if hovered in High Contrast White theme ( Bug 1041969 )
- Page should be drawn in accordance with the high contrast themes ( Bug 1042625 )
- White list about:home for Firefox Accounts landing page ( Bug 1043505 )
- Empty language to translate to drop down on localized builds ( Bug 1046142 )
Aurora (54)
- mac: killing plugin-container with SIGABRT doesn't trigger the crash reporter ( Bug 1012912 )
- Intermittent browser_946320_tabs_from_other_computers.js | Uncaught exception - Subview (PanelUI-history) did not show within 20 seconds. ( Bug 1027181 )
- Make the 'Translations by' string localizable ( Bug 1032139 )
- allow snippets in about:home to highlight sync in the firefox menu ( Bug 1035586 )
- remove existing webrtc indicator in the browser toolbar ( Bug 1037415 )
- Trigger explicit OpenH264 updates from OpenH264Provider ( Bug 1039226 )
- Changing the URL in a pinned tab opens new tab instead ( Bug 1039904 )
- Non-functional "preference" button for Open H264 plugin (depending on state) ( Bug 1040941 )
- Investigate repeated & redundant GMPInstallManager log lines ( Bug 1041181 )
- GMPChild should finish IPC setup before calling Crashreporter IPC method ( Bug 1041226 )
- Possible deadlock in Crashreporter::OOPInit() from GMP plugin initialization ( Bug 1041525 )
- handle dragging the global webrtc sharing indicator ( Bug 1041663 )
- Fix positioning of the global webrtc sharing indicator if there are multiple screens ( Bug 1041667 )
- show hidpi icons in the mac global webrtc sharing indicator ( Bug 1041685 )
- replace place holder screensharing icons with final icons ( Bug 1041687 )
- Unable to close tab after slow script warning at chrome://browser/content/tabbrowser.xml:1989 ( Bug 1041788 )
- Disabled icons in context menu are invisible if hovered in High Contrast White theme ( Bug 1041969 )
- Visual issues with the global indicator for screen/device sharing ( Bug 1042163 )
- Page should be drawn in accordance with the high contrast themes ( Bug 1042625 )
- White list about:home for Firefox Accounts landing page ( Bug 1043505 )
- OpenH264 crash reporting notification not shown ( Bug 1043531 )
- Crash reporter notification cuts off OpenH264 plugin name ( Bug 1045500 )
- Empty language to translate to drop down on localized builds ( Bug 1046142 )
Summary of Recent Landings
- Team landed 54 bugs over the last week, for a total of 92 for the 34.1 iteration.
- Details of landings from the past week can be seen here
UX (Madhava)
Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)
Work In Progress
- Search activity: Enabled in Nightly! Try it out. See blog post for some details.
- Tablet refresh: Good progress on the tab strip implementation (screenshot). Initial patches submitted for review.
- bug 1046200 - Create BrowserApp.isNewTablet()
- bug 1046212 - Rename tabspanel to tabsui
- bug 1047561 - Create settings UI for enabling the new tablet UI
- bug 1048575 - Disable dynamic toolbar when in new tablet UI
- bug 1048865 - Sync with upstream TwoWayView
- bug 1048903 - Change TabCounter to take layout id as an attribute
- bug 1048907 - Cast tabs button to ThemedImageButton instead of ShapedButton
- Janus https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Janus
- Janus Proxy - Cache improvements
- UI improvements/fixes to addon
You can find more on upcoming feature plans in the[roadmap]
Uplifts from the past week
Beta (133)
- Video controls are displayed in the middle of the video ( Bug 1005031 )
- Regression: lost the ability to set and or remove an existing master password ( Bug 1042657 )
- Reader mode (ambient light detection) prevents device from sleeping (holds CPU wakelock) ( Bug 1043920 )
- Add architecture to logged library load errors ( Bug 1046369 )
Aurora (54)
- No need to removeObserver in Snippets ( Bug 1042502 )
- Regression: lost the ability to set and or remove an existing master password ( Bug 1042657 )
- Tweak Browser:Quit to maintain existing support for add-ons ( Bug 1043539 )
- Reader mode (ambient light detection) prevents device from sleeping (holds CPU wakelock) ( Bug 1043920 )
- Add architecture to logged library load errors ( Bug 1046369 )
Landings from the past week
Nightly (134)
- Enable search activity in Nightly builds ( Bug 992963 )
- ButtonToast doesn't do anything with duration parameter ( Bug 1018417 )
- Auto-selecting a phone number does not stop at element breaks ( Bug 1023418 )
- Fail to launch webapp with TypeError: navigator.mozApps is undefined ( Bug 1035867 )
- support tab casting to chromecast ( Bug 1037015 )
- Regression: lost the ability to set and or remove an existing master password ( Bug 1042657 )
- Reader mode (ambient light detection) prevents device from sleeping (holds CPU wakelock) ( Bug 1043920 )
- Add architecture to logged library load errors ( Bug 1046369 )
UX (Ian)
Developer Tools (Jeff/Rob/Dave)
- Outbound
- The Aurora hacks post got some traffic on Sunday, including some good feedback
- People have been saying nice things on twitter about us and also reporting bugs.
- Landings
- Lots of stuff in flight for 34:
- WebIDE on track to be preffed on
- the new Profiler tool bounced due to test failures and leaks in the profiler's platform implementation and is re-landing, more info here, relevant bugs: 879008, 1047124,
- Devtools SDK
- Maybe a storage inspector?
- 43 bugs fixed
- Lots of stuff in flight for 34: