Mobile/Notes/06-Jun-2012
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Schedule
- This week was a merge: Fx16 is m-c, Fx15 is m-a, Fx14 is m-b
- Next merge is 2012-07-16
- Beta
- Fx14 Beta 5 went live in the Market on 2012-06-01
- Fx14 Beta 6 build was tagged/built on 2012-06-05 and planned to be in Market on 2012-06-08
Major Topics for This Week
- Blockers - Landing
- Since Fx14 is now on mozilla-beta, make sure you ask for Aurora and Beta approvals when needing to uplift patches.
- Blockers - Status
- We are closely watching and scrubbing the release blocker list. Drivers would like frequent updates (daily would be nice) in the bugs so we know the status.
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!
MBrubeck
Done:
- bug 760740 - Use compatible-screens to control filtering of split Android builds
- bug 742207 - Use the same code for sizing SVG documents as for other synthetic documents
Next:
- bug 756473 - Tests for meta viewport
- bug 756474 - Harden the SimpleScaleGestureDectector against missed events
- UI polish for Fx15/16 (e.g. bug 760087, bug 761216)
James W. (snorp)
- Fullscreen Flash on ICS - just got it working!
Kats
- Last week
- bug 760094 - ignore .egg-info directories in src tree
- bug 760458 - fix thumbnails for RTL pages
- bug 759775 - fix checkerboard telemetry for RTL pages
- bug 758635 - double resize events getting sent to gecko when keyboard comes up
- bug 758361 - fixed viewport reset during page load
- bug 757362 - investigated why fixed-position elements are getting clipped out
- bug 756003 - scrollable divs with different overflow-x and overflow-y weren't scrollable
- Next week
- help out with any release blockers that need helping out with
- work on soft blockers assigned to me
- start planning for post-1.0 work and clean out my assigned bugs as much as i can
GBrown
Chris Lord (cwiiis)
- Last week
- Silicon Milkroundabout
- Holiday :D
- This week
- Catch up
- bug 758620 - Improve zooming with fixed position elements
Chris Peterson
- Last Week
- Fixed bug 756429 - Accented characters are substituted when entering other characters and can also remove the content before it on mobile.twitter.com when using HKB
- This Week
- Investigating bug 751513 - Typing characters in the contenteditable div causes the whole line to be deleted
- Investigating bug 755517 - Input not accepting angled brackets on Galaxy SII
- Investigating bug 758820 - Form autocomplete of partially-entered words will replace the entered prefix characters with the autocompleted suffix characters
GCP
- Last week:
- bug 710330 implement bookmarks and history import from Android System DBs
- bug 758193 Excessive battery usage
- bug 738168 Moving Fennec to the SDCard will prevent crash reports
- bug 761536 Do not hardcode /data/data directories
- Next week:
- bug 710330 implement bookmarks and history import from Android System DBs
- bug 754575 Cache.Trash* files fill up disk space
- bug 756912 Some thumbnails missing from Firefox Beta home screen
- Blockers:
- Bookmarks/history import UX
Brian N
- Done
- WIP bug 758392 - Enforce test type in Robotium tests
- Finally landed bug 586885 - show search suggestions when entering text in awesome bar
- bug 747388 - .part files from failed downloads are not removed from sdcard/download
- Investigated bug 752245 - Interactions on the Google Play website are slow
- Next
- bug 751650 - Favicons/titles not updated for redirected pages
- Find some bugs
Sriram
- Last week:
- Started with the tabs-tray and had done required plumbing
- Worked on re-writing "showAsAction" part for custom menu
- Additional proof-of-concepts: http://cl.ly/3P3v2V043u2O1B3O0v18 and http://cl.ly/3S07070E0m1l0a0b2Q03
- This week:
- Fixed scroll-to-top in custom menu
- Started working on new tabs-ui: http://cl.ly/2q0B2C3o2F1p3Y31293E
WesJ
Last week:
- Waiting for reviews.
- bug 713450 - Close tabs by slide
- bug 759041 - Add swipe between screens in AwesomeScreen
- Chromeless webapps
- bug 753102 - Refactor GeckoApp into a better base class
- bug 715307 - Add ability to read profiles.ini
- bug 740586 - launch of basic app in a chromeless window
- bug 722591 - Longtap on page title (not awesomescreen) should show an editbox context menu
- bug 760708 - Add ability to remove shortcuts
This week:
- Push the rest of chromeless stuff through reviews. Land on central?
LucasR
Last week
- UK public holidays on Monday and Tuesday
- Landed the Java side of Reader mode (Screenshots: http://flic.kr/p/ca2Rq7, http://flic.kr/p/bUJjc6, http://flic.kr/p/bUJo4g)
- bug 750707 - Reader Mode: Implement "Add to Reading List" action
- bug 750684 - Reader Mode: Implement reading list in awesomebar
- bug 757776 - Reader Mode: Show a special icon on awesome bar search entries that are in the reading list
- Regressions quickly fixed:
- bug 761132 - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: column display does not exist at android.database.AbstractCursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(AbstractCursor.java)
- bug 761131 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.BrowserToolbar.from(BrowserToolbar.java)
Next week
- More Reader Mode hacking:
- bug 750712 - Reader Mode: Implement about:reader
- bug 750702 - Reader Mode: Cache pages in readable style (text + images) when they're added to reading list
- bug 750698 - Reader Mode: Implement "read now" action
- bug 760724 - Reader Mode: Update all icons in the URL bar and awesome screen
Blockers
- None
Margaret
Done:
- Landed find in page and some follow-ups - bug 695172
- Making progress on text selection - bug 695173
- Remaining challenges include addressing touch event flakiness and figuring out the best way to bind handle nodes to the document
Next:
- Finish text selection
Scott (jwir3)
- Finished:
- bug 749186 : Crash in nsFontInflationData (need to add a followup bug so that this can be fixed properly)
- This Week:
- PTO Thur, Fri, Mon
- Writing a blog post on font inflation details
- bug 758079 : Cutoff numbers for ordered lists
- bug 753211 : Text in forums for boardgamegeek.com is too small
BLassey
Last week
- Landed and backed out screenshotting patches several times
- currently backed out due to panning regression
- several try builds in process to pick the patch bomb apart
- Fixed looper to not throw on HTC EVO 4G LTE and HTC One J
- Made GeckoAppShell.pumpMessageLoop() return a bool so we know if it did work or not (and can there for not poll in the message loop)
Next week
- In MV and SF next week, ping me if we need talk
- Triage like we've never triaged before
- Maybe figure out what we should do about screenshotting, if anything
MFinkle
Arkady
Still working on flash support for honeycomb.
working on passing an eglimage between flash's context and the one we are drawing to. Creating a new Java layer to encapsulate the new plugin.
Madhava
- picking up a bit of the reading list question-answering
- that's it
Ian Barlow
Last Week - UX Summit, mostly offline
This Week - providing support on
- bug 739355 - Title bar updates (tablet and phones)
- bug 739364 - Awesomebar updates (tablet and phones)
- bug 739407 - Tab menu updates (tablet and phones)
- bug 713450 - Close tabs by slide
- Getting started with Lucas on a number of Reader mode bugs
- Font inflation issues (ongoing)
Patryk Adamczyk
GFX
Round Table
QA
- Firefox beta testday this friday, June 8th. Please join #testday in irc to help with questions!
- Sign off work on Fx14 beta 6 today/tomorrow.
- focus areas: font-inflation issues, more flash and crash testing, web compatibility, and beta verifications
- A bunch of older devices that have been ordered, should arrive this and next week.
- Fx15 and Fx16 work:
- investigating regression tests from Fx14 for robocop
- identifying new features, and assigning QA owners for testplans
- porting over old and new litmus tests to our new testcase management system, MozTrap.
- mfinkle commented that we should be sure to flag testcases that are automatable in robocop, and file bugs if work is needed
Socorro/Breakpad/Stability
Hightlights:
- Skiplist additions to be implemented this wednesday
- Search fixes to be implemented this wednesday
- bug 759341 - Unable to view crash queries and bugs in advanced search and top crashers with a signature containing /
- bug 727286 - Incorrect messaging when failing to submit a crash report
- bug 672606 - Aggregate numbers and topcrashes for Nightly and Aurora channels based on build ID date instead of crash date
- Report being worked on
- Filtering for reports based on official builds are in place. bug 748194
- bug 750348 A large number of devices are not showing up with the device identifiers
- bug 717472 - Can't retrieve crash report that shows in about:crashes
- bug 732629 crash report failed to send due to : javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Not trusted server certificate
Please see Platform Meeting Notes for Stability report
SUMO
Some fallout from blocking tablets: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/928753
http://meetup.com/Firefox-Android-superheroes
Beta5 summary reviews (based on 108 written reviews):
12 one-star: not working (htc EVO 4g), not loading, text selection, buggy and youtube videos don't play, permissions
7 two-star: techcrunch display incorrect, crashing constantly (photon 4g), crash when syncing and crash phone (Samsung SGH-T989), slow
22 three-star
29 four-star
38 five-star
398 pts/ 108 reviews= 3.7 stars for beta5