Mobile/Notes/13-Feb-2013
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Schedule
Next merge is 2013-02-19 (U.S. Holiday on the 18th)
Major Topics for This Week
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 839456 - do some in-process crash annotation with plugin versions on Android
- Bug 829747 - Do Async Canvas layers update
- 7-10% performance increase in WebGL on top of the increase we get from the streaming buffers patch (bug 716859)
- Bug 837734 - IonMonkey: gl-matrix.js: use NEON to optimize vectorized functions.
Kats
- Feb 6 - Feb 12:
- bug 794982 - landed autogeneration of bindings in APKOpen.cpp
- bug 837821 - catch calls to libxul functions that happen before libxul is loaded
- bug 839325 - reduce string compares in GeckoViewsFactory
- bug 839622 - remove some unneeded JNI bindings
- bug 833777 - fix null selectedTab dereference
- bug 839641 - (in progress) add a codepath to use APZC in fennec
- reviews, needinfos, getting visa stuff sorted out for workweeks
- Next:
- continue working on bug 839641 + blockers
- start looking at multiple profile support
GBrown
- Done:
- bug 823452 Android's checkForCrashes "No crash directory found on remote device" error is misleading (obscures startup java stacks)
- bug 838636 java.lang.NullPointerException at org.mozilla.fennec.tests.BaseTest.setUp
- bug 840725 Access awesome bar tabs consistently across all robocop tests
- bug 840661 Android PGO: failure in expandlibs_exec when building with SYMBOL_ORDER
- bug 770483 Intermittent Robocop testAboutPage | GeckoEventExpecter - blockForEvent timeout: Tab:Added
- Working on:
- Helping releng with Android PGO builds
- Shumway performance on Android
- bug 837318 testVkbOverlap - Found 0 green pixels after tapping; expected 2427 -- on Pandaboard
- bug 803158 if no crash report is generated by a tegra ... use ndk-stack to get a stack
Chris Lord (cwiiis)
- Now
- bug 716403 - Scroll the location bar off the top (will hopefully finish, excluding reviews, this week)
- Attending Facebook London tech talk - CPU Optimisation approaches (today, after meeting)
- bug 822810 - Unexpected painting behaviour with low-res tiling code
- Hack up some patches to get fennec working reasonably on Ouya
- Next
- Investigate canvas performance
- Meet a Mentor event on 25th Feb
- More Ouya stuff
Chris Peterson
- Done
- Basic Push Notifications working on Android
- Next
- Upstream my Android changes to Nikhil's WebAPI branch
- Implementing Android polling service
JChen
- Past week
- Still driving ANR reporter
- Need to land one final patch in bug 826053 - Detect and report ANRs through our own channel
- Metrics is working on server scripts bug 834086 - Server backend for Android App Not Responding (ANR) reporting
- Sec review bug 833991 - Security Review for Android App Not Responding (ANR) Reporting
- Async IME
- Landed bug 835906 - Run InputConnection on a separate thread
- But working on regression :( bug 839882 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at android.text.Selection.setSelection
- Fixed bug 836589 - "New Tab" input switches from numbers to letters after one digit
- Still driving ANR reporter
- Next week
- In progress items from above
- bug 831144 - Implement editor key bindings on Android
- bug 838177 - Add more debugging output to GeckoEditable and GeckoInputConnection
GCP
- Past week:
- W3C/IETF meeting in Boston
- Getting home
- Next week:
- Fix oustanding MWC demo issues, test: https://webrtc-apps.etherpad.mozilla.org/4?
Brian N
- Done
- bug 833777 - UI fails to load intermittently
- bug 838583 - Favicons are tiny in Awesomebar history tab
- bug 840823 - Race condition when removing tabs at startup
- bug 840601 - Clear saved reader mode page in tab destroy
- In progress
- bug 838793 - Don't keep a reference to AboutHomeContent
- bug 823285 - Private browsing downloads not cleared from Android notification bar
Sriram
- Flat icons - bug 838807
- Removed 66% of all icons!! Available in today's nightly.
- Flat UI - bug 840346
- No more textures. Solid colors for better performance.
- Overdraw - bug 840871
WesJ
LucasR
Last week
- Finalizing new tabs UI
- Fixed all known issues in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=817732#c17
- First test build for UX team today
- Organizing a tech talk at the London MozSpace
- Mentoring 2 contributors on reader mode bugs
- Investigating black rectangle bug (issue seems to be on the background curve)
Next week
- More tabs UI and TwoWayView hacking
- Work on tech talk with Chris Lord
Margaret
Done:
- Default bookmark support for distributions - bug 836450
- Started writing tests for distribution stuff - bug 840825
- Started working a patch for perceived location bar performance - bug 839602
Next:
- More test writing
Scott (jwir3)
Last Week:
- bug 803719: Reflow-on-zoom should zoom in and snap to a piece of text (was in review, but dbaron and I discussed a slightly different approach)
- Sent email to www-style re: adding a GetClientRect() method to CaretPosition API, for above bug (message available here )
- Worked on a number of non-mobile related things.
This Week:
- More non-mobile related things, hopefully get bug 803719 landed.
Other:
- Will be in SF next two weeks.
BLassey
- done
- bug 839883 - Don't match zh-* based on just language
- bug 829596 - backed out the removal of "Tablet" from the UA
- bug 674739 - Implement DOM3 KeyboardEvent types for audio
- MWC training
- next
- press training (I gotta get learned to talk good)
- final wrap ups for MWC
MFinkle
Done:
- More work on partner repacking - We will use a "safe, system location" for preloaded ROMs
- bug 839242 - Remove unused onunload handler from about:apps
- bug 838745 - Prevent crashing if a promo type is dropped
- bug 837393 - Remove webapps from the recent apps list
- bug 835399 - Allow launching non-privileged webapps with a URL
Next:
- More MWC work/training
- Kick off a "refactor that code" push for the Frontend team
- bug 838332 - URL shorteners alongside their associative URL's get placed as top-site thumbnails
Ian Barlow
- Ongoing Project Holo stuff
- [DONE] Icon unification / flattening
- [DONE, landing soon] Flatten UI backgrounds
- Unify and retheme dialogs / doorhangers
- Selection colour refinement (orange vs neutral highlight)
- Reduce number of font sizes used
- Unify in-content UI
- Loading progress indicator
- Interaction refinements (Multi-pane about:home, possible tweaks to scrolling dynamics)
- Top of mind right now:
- Project PICL, kickoff today
- Ongoing MWC requests
- Tab UI refinements
- Header scrolling
- Looking forward to starting new feature work:
- Search (multi-search suggest, widget)
- First Run UX
- New Reader Mode stuff (new themes, reading list)
Security/MGoodwin
Contributors
- Capella landed his patch to add distribution info to about:firefox - bug 836451
- Christian Vielma landed bug 454880 - Allow access to recent history through back/forward buttons
Round Table
- [bajaj] Needs assignee : bug 818345 - Crash: Swipe to close for tabs causes ArrayIndexOutOfBounds
QA
- Post mortem notes from last week's OpenGL crashers hotfix: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/gfxinfo
- next testday, fx20 beta 1: friday 2/22
- team working through MWC demo script
- feature planning for fx20 features
- Robocop Automation testing status
- Progress on Smoke test Automation
- Bugs with work in progress:
- bug 820276 - Robocop: Make editBookmark and checkBookmarkEdit methods available to other tests
- bug 822259 - Robocop: Add test for Find in Page feature
- bug 836341 - Robocop: Add test for "Clear download history"
- bug 833832 - Robocop: Add test for Import from Android feature
- Bugs awaiting review:
- bug 830834 - Robocop: Add test for 'Show Search Suggestions' feature
- Bugs with accepted patches:
- bug 745041 - Robocop: Add test for 'Clear History'
- bug 830755 - Robocop: Add test for 'Settings Menu Items' feature
- bug 777719 - Batch of Robocop tests
- bug 818390 - Robocop: Improve the solution for identifying the device type and OS
- bug 747835 - Robocop: Add automated test for Back and Forward Buttons
- bug 732212 - Robocop: Add tests for doorhanger notifications
- bug 826261 - Robocop: Add test for Share Link option from the Firefox Mobile Menu
- bug 822681 - Robocop: Add test for 'Tabs Drawer Menu' feature
- bug 817970 - Robocop: Add tests for Bookmark remove and edit from context menu
- bug 822256 - Robocop: Add test for 'System Pages' feature
Stability
- bug 839882 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at android.text.Selection.setSelection(Selection.java)
- Highest Crash in Nightly; Patch about to land, just needs touch up.
- bug 827171 - crash in nsPluginStreamListenerPeer::OnStartRequest
- Highest crash in Aurora; need to catch in debug
- bug 823236 - crash in mozilla::layers::ShmemYCbCrImage::IsValid on ICS and above
- Second highest crash in Beta (first is a corrupt dump stack); need QA for STR
- bug 752828 - android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabaseLockedException: database is locked at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteStatement.native_executeSql(Native Method) on ICS
- Second highest crash in Release (first is a corrupt dump stack);STR in the bug, waiting for community feedback
SUMO
No major updates from feedback, getting ready for Firefox 19.