Mobile/Notes/28-Nov-2012
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- Mobile Vidyo Room
Schedule
- Next merge is Week of 2013-01-06
- Fx18 Beta 1 shipped
Major Topics for This Week
- Private Browsing
- First set of patches have been reviewed. Likely to land this week. This will allow for initial PB testing in Nightly.
- Fx17 & ARMv6
- Quick napkin calculations show a slow uptake of ARMv6 devices over the first week of Fx17. As of Nov 26th, we have 0.1 % of active device installs on ARMv6. For comparison, we had ~1% when Fx17 was on Beta.
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)
- Last week
- Hiding header
- Bug 808595 - Firefox mobile (Nightly) doesn't obey 'only over Wifi' setting for downloading updates on Sunday/early Monday (MEZ)
- Bug 813675 - Updater doesn't work with proxy
- This week
- Off Monday/Tuesday
- More work on hiding header
- Profiling work for B2G
Kats
- Nov 21-28
- bug 813204 - remove redundant touch listener notifications from js -> java
- bug 792603 - disable reader mode on devices with less than 512 MiB of MemTotal
- bug 807998 - free dirty heap pages on memory pressure
- bug 814418 - make fennec build with NDK r8c (pending review)
- went through all the open bugs blocking 800673 and WFM'd a bunch; fixed a couple:
- bug 775511 - disable panning and scrollbars when in full-screen mode
- bug 768887 - hide url bar when rotating in full-screen mode
- bug 783521 - hide tabs sidebar in full-screen mode
- bug 815684 - send some logcat info with crash reports (pending review)
- Next
- triage font-inflation bugs with scott to get some good examples of constrained-height problems that we can work on
- continue working on armv6 + thumb and other memory-reduction things
GBrown
- Last week:
- bug 813858 Intermittent robocop shutdown failure with no summary...
- bug 814481 Intermittent robocop "DMError: Invalid process line: Test results for FennecInstrumentationTestRunner=."
- bug 814496 SUT: long-running exec'd process corrupts response to future commands
- bug 814805 Android xpcshell tests: chmod permission problems on rooted device
- bug 815699 xpcshell test_NetUtil.js fails with SIGSEGV on Android
- bug 814767 devicemanager: mkDirs optimization
- bug 813724 Determine if it is possible to run Android tests in emulator-x86 - on-going
- bug 816131 Determine if it is possible to run Android tests in virtualbox - on-going
- Next:
- bug 815786 Disable testCheck3 (rck3) in Talos
- bug 742804 Dialog dictates user to attempt to save downloads elsewhere
- bug 815726 fennec consumes 55% cpu and 350MB+ RSS, then reboots frequently on panda boards ?
- bug 761987 Intermittent Android shutdown, crashtests/468771-2.xhtml, basn2c16.html crash [@ nssCertificate_Destroy] ?
- Small backlog of unresolved robocop issues: bugs 770483, 769524, etc.
- Stalled/blocked:
- bug 810471 Crash on startup during various tests
- bug 768491 xpcshell on android hangs or crashes on exit, on tegra only
Chris Lord (cwiiis)
- Done
- bug 783368 - Low-res tile cache for tiled layers (mostly r+, green try, will push soon)
- This bug fixes several other progressive-tile related regressions, such as bug 810278
- bug 783368 - Low-res tile cache for tiled layers (mostly r+, green try, will push soon)
- Now/next
- Fallout from bug 783368:
- bug 814437 - Major talos regression in checkerboard tests
- bug 814864 - Low precision tile rendering takes too much time from high precision
- Progressive-tiles related invalidation issues (probably)
- Mentoring morrison to help snorp with bug 716403 (Request to hide the navigation bar when scrolling down content)
- Going on PTO from December 8th - January 1st (inclusive)
- Fallout from bug 783368:
- Low priority/blocked
- bug 798539 - Jerkiness at the end of panning
- bug 788522 - Enable asynchronous opacity and transform animations
- Blog about invalidation work
- Blog about low-res tiles work
- bug 785069 - tcheckerboard2 has regressed substantially since Jul 22nd
- bug 792415 - Covered areas of fixed position elements are not rendered
- bug 783914 - WEBGL_depth_texture doesn't work using ANGLE (low priority)
- bug 800475 - Fade in new content tiles
Chris Peterson
JChen
- Past week
- Thanksgiving
- Landed bug 814886 - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid selection offsets
- Been working on bug 811755 - Holding backspace in a designMode editor repositions cursor
- Next week
- Continue on bug 811755 - Holding backspace in a designMode editor repositions cursor
- bug 810249 - Some VKB are not triggered in landscape mode
- Low priority/Blocked
- bug 809329 - Duplicate letters when Xperia pro keyboard has suggestions
- Waiting for feedback from bug reporter
- bug 810821 - Tapping on url bar with Samsung Galaxy Note's II stylus doesn't have url text selected
- Just requested a Galaxy Note
- bug 809329 - Duplicate letters when Xperia pro keyboard has suggestions
GCP
- Last week:
- bug 815883 - fix WebRTC builds for ARM chips with neon FPUs
- WebRTC on Android linking issues
- Next week:
- Further WebRTC work, clean up patches
- https://webrtc-apps.etherpad.mozilla.org/4
- Notes:
- FOSDEM: I signed us up and I see cwiis volunteerd to hold the talk.
Brian N
- Done
- Bug 813057 - Google search engine field stops resizing if suggestions change during animation
- Bug 813346 - getBitmapFromDataURI() assumes fixed-length data URI header
- Bug 810732 - Fennec tests are not running on Nightly
- Next
- More Fx19+ bugs
Sriram
- Almost ready to land first set of Private Browsing patches. bug 806927 and bug 806937
- Working on optimizing ShapedButton. bug 814224
- Adding states instead of levels for Tabs and Menu button.
- Re-created back/forward button in code
- Supports persona and private-browsing.
- Next:
- Cleanup custom menu code (patch ready), to support it in GB phones for private browsing.
- Change the tabs-tray for the new private-browsing mode.
- Daydreaming (http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.2.html#Daydream)
WesJ
Last week:
- Continued working on Bug 783312 - Make top sites customizable on about:home
- Another round on Bug 681805 - [TABLETUI] Hide forward button when there is not forward shistory... (edit)
- Blogged about webapps. Hoping to keep this out calling out webapps that are doing things well.
This week:
- Finish working on Bug 783312 - Make top sites customizable on about:home
LucasR
Last week
- bug 709433 - animate awesome bar transition from tab bar to keyboard input
- Brainstorming ideas with Margaret to track and attract new coding contributors to Fennec
Next week
- Submit patches for bug 709433
- More bug fixing
Margaret
(Can't make the meeting today, but not much has changed)
- Helping kill Gaia blockers
- Training people to help kill Gaia blockers
- Met with lucasr to brainstorm ways to improve contributor acquisition/retention/quality (he'll give an update on that)
Scott (jwir3)
Last Week:
- Family over for Thanksgiving (so it seems like just yesterday that we had a meeting...)
- bug 803719 : Reflow-on-zoom should zoom in and snap into a piece of text.
This Week:
- bug 803719 : Reflow-on-zoom should zoom in and snap into a piece of text.
- bug 800805 : Reflow on zoom moves the position sideways on the screen incorrectly.
- bug 806430 : Panning not working on some sites if reflow on zoom is enabled.
- bug 808031 : Double tapping to focus on a text column does not work (B2G).
BLassey
Done
- ate turkey
Next
- Working on RelEng patch for x86 builds
MFinkle
Done:
- Reviews
- Fixed some search engine bugs (bug 815076 and bug 762046)
- Fixed support for multiple-profiles (bug 809942)
- Added actions to context menu for HTML video (bug 701785)
- Blogged about Android x86 test build
Next:
- Traveling to MV/SF next week
Ian Barlow
In progress
- Customizing about:home - I owe Wes some feedback :)
- Tab menu refinements in progress http://cl.ly/1U1O2p3f262K
- Private browsing polish
- Guest mode
- Multi-search
- Starting to run low on bonus bugs, need to re-up
- Really have to start blogging again :P
UX Bonus Bugs
bug 716403 Scroll header off screen: Double bonus bug - 2 boxes of cookies to whoever fixes this! Snorp working on it!
General
- bug 792407 Colour difference between title bar and in content UI background
- bug 715258 Favicons are low quality for internal / local pages
- bug 716051 Favicons are low quality for Mozilla-owned web properties
Title bar
- bug 784362 Fix forward button bg alignment (tablets)
Menu
- bug 784366 Menu opens in the wrong direction
Tabs
- bug 792410 Update tab thumbnails
- bug 792414 Add bottom shadow to tabs tray
Security/MGoodwin
Round Table
QA
- IME
- Thoughts on bug 805162 for 18?
Community
- Ideas to track and attract new coding contributors to Fennec (Lucas & Margaret)
SUMO
Google Play Reviews are jumping up significantly. We are now at a visible 4.1 stars on the Google Play store. There aren't any major issues SUMO has seen, yet. I'm still recovering from thanksgiving weekend feedback piling up. A full report is coming.
ARMv6 This Etherpad has all the information we've seen come in so far, no major problem devices we didn't point out already (Samsung Admire)