Mobile/Notes/13-May-2015

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Schedule

• Release calendar

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

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.

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.
  • Blog post at: http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/2015/05/06/build-fennec-frontend-fast/
• 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

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

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

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

• New Android Trello Board

• iOS Roadmap in Aha!
• New iOS Trello Board