Firefox/Meeting/9-Apr-2013

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Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

Xin has fixed all wrong RemoveObserver calls in the codebase - bug 849764

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!

gavin

past week

• gave some feedback on Social FHR and "install from web" features
• commented on and reviewed some "remove pref" bugs
• landed bug 856144 (add nsIBlocklistService to Services.jsm)
• landed really old bug to clean up the nsISidebar API

paolo

Last week:

• Downloads
  • Reviewed bug 858234 - Merge ExecuteDesiredAction paths into nsDownloadManager
  • Identified more cases where files that are "delete pending" on NTFS cause test failures
  • Feedback about "pause" not being a primary interaction for downloads in bug 857001
• Promises
  • Participated to the "Promises Proposal" discussion on firefox-dev
• Other
  • bug 859065 - Avoid "command timed out: 1200 seconds without output, attempting to kill" by providing an inner xpcshell timeout of 5 minutes

Next week:

• Promises
  • Continue on bug 810490 - Add a second promise implementation
• Downloads
  • Land bug 847191 - Integration with legacy interfaces to start new downloads
  • Land bug 851461 - Make the JavaScript API for downloads available in parallel to nsIDownloadManager
  • Probably, more reviews on bug 858234 - Merge ExecuteDesiredAction paths into nsDownloadManager
• Meetings for the Snappy project "Async & Responsive"

mak

Last week:

• Reduced requests queue:
  • Async form history (bug 566746)
  • Storage (bug 702559, bug 856469, bug 857376)
  • Sqlite.jsm (bug 833965, bug 854973)
  • Downloads (bug 237623, bug 851461)
  • Places (bug 834539, bug 852032, bug 854288, bug 855190, bug 855638, bug 855842)
  • Code cleanup bug 849764
• Bugfixes
  • bug 851519 - Keyboard commands may apply to the wrong downloads panel entry
  • bug 858127 - Some downloads.sqlite databases cause the downloads dialog to be untolerably slow - have db to reproduce, may find improvements.
  • Fixed my bugs time tracking script broken by the Bugzilla update, since some devs/managers are using it

This week:

• Help Mano finalizing GetPlacesInfo API (bug 834539) - async!
• Try to finalize patch for indexedDB in about:home (bug 789348) - Found a regression in indexedDB!
• Try to finalize patch for bug 748894 - Move the bookmark star button outside of the location bar - Needed by mconley for Australis work!
• Collect feedback on Downloads panel and issue meeting to discuss a phase 2

ttaubert

• Out sick half of last week.
• Organizational stuff for de:hacking meetup in Berlin.
• Arranged travel and hotels for Scotland.JS and JSDay in Italy.
• We finally landed a compromise for the regression in TabOpen animation times.
• Investigated and fixed a couple of session store regressions.
• Did a couple of reviews, more to come.

adw

• bug 841495 - implement background tab thumbnailing service
  • posted new patches for review
• bug 856270 - Update nsEditorSpellCheck to use nsIContentPrefService2
  • WIP patch posted, need to work on this
• bug 723163 - about:crashes should allow easy cut & paste
  • landed, also fixed bug 726605 and bug 703514
• bug 858192 - Correct error in nsIContentPrefService2 documentation about callbacks and observers
  • landed
• bug 856366 - Intermittent browser_privatebrowsing_zoomrestore.js | Zoom level for about:blank should be changed - Didn't expect 1, but got it
  • landed fix
• bug 851520 - Default zoom too large on hi-dpi display with 200% font size
  • reviewed
• triaged zoom-related bugs

mconley

• Customization
  • Fixed some bugs that were causing widgets to not appear in the right place after session restore
  • Have a working version of the bookmarks widget, based on mak's work in bug 748894
  • Milestone 2 is due tomorrow
    • We're going to slip our goal of "getting all of the widgets finished", which was far too aggressive. Still, this was a useful pair of weeks, since we forced ourselves to answer a lot of questions about how widgets will work, and which ones we'll build.
  • Milestone 3 begins
    • The goal is to lay out a plan for how old customizations will be migrated (multiple custom toolbars, tons of add-on buttons, everything moved all over the place)
  • We're meeting with the Jetpack team to discuss the API for add-ons to register / build widgets.
• Tabs
  • For the current milestone, we're looking at getting the lightweight theme patch de-bitrotted and performance-tested
    • MattN can give more details on this
• Downloads panel
  • shorlander gave me a super detailed alignment spec for the downloads panel, so now the ball is in my court to find time to clean up the panel alignment (or, more likely, see if I can solicit some outside contributors to knock this one out).

Blocking

• Bookmarks widget is blocked by mak's patch in bug 748894

mikedeboer

Last week:

• bug 712514 Support autocomplete in Add-ons Manager search
  • implementation 'done'
  • opened AMO bug 859516 to add autosuggest to SAMO - collaboration FTW!
• bug 819493 Know your rights notification box should be default snippet instead
  • patch r+, should I add [checkin-needed] keyword?
• bug 738818 consolidate Firefox search preferences
  • Part 1 patch needs another round over review after I finished it. All else done.
• bug 492557 Create a keyboard shortcut HUD
  • shorlander added kewl mockup, will work on that soonish

This week:

• Papercuts and finalizing bug 738818 with Gavin

gijs

• Onboarding! Feeling new! Introductions! Woo!
• Fixed bug 854583 (pointer vs. cursor in mouse lock strings). Still waiting on feedback from Axel Hecht about which path to take for Aurora.
• Fixed bug 834034 (migrate personal dictionary for fx reset)
• Took a stab at bug 726240 (HTML5 for video control progress bars). Harder than it looked, need to discuss with dolske.
• Patched bug 851701 (kill "load images" checkbox), waiting for review.
• Patched bug 851702 (kill "load js" checkbox), got review, waiting for review for pref migration + the images review in order to land (conflicting patches).
• Patched bug 763890 (use subfolders for fx reset profile backups), waiting for review from :bsmedberg
• Took my name off some old bugs (bug 750638 (enablePrivilege use in test; bholley's baby), bug 515109 (old DTD parser bug with a flawed patch)) and canceled some ancient requests to clean up my dashboard
• Will be working on bug 676795 (Australis error pages) once shorlander tells me if the mockups are up to date.
• Will be working on bug 833943 (fx reset should keep minimal session store info) and bug 750979 (offer a firefox reset if people reinstall the same firefox version)

MattN

Last week:

• Decision was made on Australis LWT
  • Unbitrotted old patch
• r+ on bug 856749 and bug 855230
• Made an Australis tabs/customization dashboard
• Reviewed Firefox Reset patch to include userdict

This week:

• Australis follow-ups
  • Measure perf of LWT patch
• Discussing next steps for Firefox Reset with Gijs

jaws

Last week:

• On vacation
• Worked more on the History subview (bug 855803), it is now showing the most recent 15 history items using a richlistbox.
• Need to get feedback from the UX team as to final interactions here. May still be possible to get it finished by Wednesday.

This week:

• Finish up subview work for customization panel
• Start focusing on migration path as part of milestone 3.

mixedpuppy

last week:

• new providers landed and uplifted through beta
• uninstall of providers, not showing builtin providers without activation
• pretty new service icons from shorlander

this week:

• refocus on telemetry and fhr
• any clean up from the past week of patches

waiting on:

• mockup of share ui