Mobile/Notes/13-May-2015
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Schedule
Topics for This Week
- Major stumbler bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1164468. Pinging release drivers to see if we can get it to a 38 point release.
Tracking Review
Beta
- Next Build:
No results.
0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);
Aurora
- Next Build:
No results.
0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);
Nightly
- Next Build:
No results.
0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);
Friends of the Mobile Team
Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Make sure friends also get awarded a badge. New contributors are highlighted in bold.
Android
- Tomas Flek fixed bug 1127139 - BounceAnimator incorrectly overrides start
- Clayton Bodendein fixed bug 1159904 - Fix syntax error in Reader.js.
- Giorgos fixed bug 1155579 - Allow multiple countries per snippet
- Nathan Toone fixed bug 1161195 - Don't hard-code class names in AppConstants.java.in and AndroidManifest.xml
- Vivek fixed bug 1162254 - default icon for entries in about:passwords list
iOS
- dusek fixed bug 1161324 - Aural feedback with VoiceOver needed when loading a webpage
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)
Bugs 1141693, 1084456, 1163841
JChen
- Looked at small startup/pageload optimizations
- Looked at click-to-play for images
Fixed
Working on
GCP
<Read Only>
- Last week
- WebRTC video sandboxing: lots of small fixes
- WebRTC video sandboxing: investigating try failures
- Set up a Mac
- Fried a Mac
- Next week
- More of the same I fear
Randall Barker
Last Week:
- Worked on bug 659285. Trying to get video to show errors and play button when autoplay has been blocked by pref media.autoplay.enabled=false. Code seems to work but still trying to fix test breakages.
Next Week:
- Continue on bug 659285
- Examine start up performance.
- Land patch for: bug 1159830. After patch lands, will need to set a preference (consoleservice.logcat) to see gecko console in logcat for release builds.
Eugen Sawin
- MP3 demuxer (bug 1093815, bug 1153731)
- Improved MP3 seeking stability
- Landed MP3 demuxer and tests
- Next: improve seeking performance
- Landed bug 1160204 - Delay update service startup
- Uplifts
- bug 1158131 - Retrieving update URL pref from Gecko causes pref URL to be dereferenced as a complex pref, resulting in an HTTP request
- Blocked on
- Gecko profiler add-on crashing when retrieving profile (jemalloc.c#4711)
Brian Nicholson
- Search engine localization
- bug 1120729 - Support other locales for search engines
- bug 1163800 - New search engines don't appear
- bug 1164145 - Ship locale-specific default search engines
- Tap area fixes (bug 1162323, bug 1162314, bug 1162724)
- bug 1158539 - Closing tabs causes other tab thumbnails to disappear
- bug 1151530 - Site list polish
WesJ
- bug 1153300 - Consider returning user to an about:home tab after closing last tab. Patch up for review.
- bug 1134532 - Pages can lock the urlbar from scrolling on screen. Working through some comments.
- bug 1147071 - Use encrypted database storage for passwords. Working through some comments.
- Some snackbar cleanup - bug 1151432 - Hide snackbars when switching tabs and bug 1162315 - Cleanup snackbar constraints
liuche
Highlights:
- "Select Login" fallback UI in review
Present:
Past:
Margaret
Highlights:
- Making sure add-ons work in distributions
- Investigating options for bundling home panel images in distribution add-ons
- New home panel API for specifying default panel
Past:
- 1129029 - Telemetry probes for reader mode performance
- 1161701 - Intermittent testReaderView | testReaderView.js - == Article title - See following stack:
Present:
mcomella
- Making search engine bar stick
- Misc. bugs that make us a better part of the Android ecosystem (intent:// URIs & Browser.EXTRA_APPLICATION_ID)
Past:
- 840574 - Browser.EXTRA_APPLICATION_ID not handled
- 1161150 - Intermittent Android 4.3 PROCESS-CRASH | Automation Error: Missing end of test marker (process crashed?) during testFilePicker
- 1162423 - Implement Browser.EXTRA_CREATE_NEW_TAB
Present:
rnewman
- Sync and Push meetings.
- Partner work is breeding.
- Reworking iOS history to support Sync. Thanks to Nick for vetting design yesterday.
- Reviews, meetings, et al.
Fixed
Working on
nalexander
- mach package-frontend is unusable due to some time-stamp issues that lead to terrible binary incompatibilities. Thanks to vivek for reporting this issue first! I have the fixes in hand and additional review comments to address so expect movement early next week.
- Partners: working on --with-android-distribution-directory, which opens a can of build system worms: bug 1163082
- Partners: working on integration with third-party identity services
- Android: started investigating FxA sign-in over the web: bug androidwebfxa
- iOS: nada.
Martyn Haigh
Past:
- Working with antlam to spec up settings & private mode revamps
Present:
Stefan
iOS: Still working through the tracking+ bugs. Current focus: Bringing the Send To extension up to date. Reading View fixes. Also started to connect to the WebKit team. New iOS build coming today.
Steph
Last week
- bug 1135814 - Content should not be under the bottom toolbar
- bug 1147157 - position:fixed elements break layout on orientation change
- bug 1161071 - Improve location bar and toolbar scrolling
- bug 1162936 - Settings and "+" buttons in tab view are not relocated vertically when switching between landscape and portrait mode
Working On
- bug 1135814 - Content should not be under the bottom toolbar
- bug 1133564 - Google Maps interaction problem
- bug 1162736 - Bottom toolbar briefly disappears after navigating away from about:home
- bug 1163695 Improve tab tray animations to match UX mocks
James Hugman
Ally
- may be late, previous meeting running over
- getting new FHR probes unstuck (see previous meeting)
- passwords research offsites
- holy doorhanger review batman!
- other bugs
- 1139232 Door hanger shows up in the tab over view (landed safely on aurora)
- 1065004 (Q2) Provide an option to always open tabs in Private Browsing
- 1145858 Rename FirstrunPane to be less confusing
- 1139553 Black overlay for doorhanger background
- 1162930 The welcome page doesn't scroll and isn't fully readable in the portrait orientation
BLassey
Fixed
Working on
MFinkle
Fixed
Working on
Antlam
- Past
- Partners stuff
- bug 1112185: Tabs queue V1 wrap up
- Read all about it! https://medium.com/@antlam/open-multiple-links-1ce475c47de3
- bug 1158277: Mobile tabs tray "V2" UX
- bug 1128664: about:passwords design work
- bug 1069035: Reorganize Settings menu
- Android UX backlog
- Quick post about "Share to Firefox" https://medium.com/@antlam/share-to-firefox-245984b2da33
- Upcoming
- Other partners stuff
- Search next-steps
- First Run next-steps
- Continue with everything above
- bug 1153389: Private browsing UI clean up
Robin
iOS
- Rework device icons to match new icon style
- Update CSS for Reader View to match spec
- V2 mocks
Android
- Revisiting kidfox ideas
More bug filing!
Etc. bugs contributing to (likely won't get through all this week):
- bug 1163219 Default search engine not visible if suggestions are enabled
- bug 1094262 (ios) Implement the Send To Extension UI
- bug 1162629 Sync Tabs Panel needs a 'no tabs' state
- bug 1147453 need an indication saying an article has been added to my list when I long-press the Reader View icon in the URL bar
- bug 1160756 Reader View maximum text size insufficient
- bug 1162539 Unable to scroll to top in landscape orientation
- bug 1097620 (ios) formalize 'send to device' terminology
- bug 1164067 Find in Page (android)
- bug 1160604 Advertise privacy coach add-on in privacy settings page
- bug 1143156 Advertise Firefox Account sign up/state in Synced Tabs panel