Firefox/Meeting/21-May-2013

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General Topics

• Status updates tool: switch to bsmedberg

Friends of the Firefox team

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

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 1 minute!

paolo

• Reviews on features added to the JavaScript API for downloads
• Prepared the promises patch that included code documentation
• Continuing towards landing the updated implementation of promises

mak

• Been at the jsday in Verona last week.
• Went to visit couple of italian red pandas :)
• Lots of pending bugmails and requests, still syncing up with those.

felipe

• bug 853389 AddonRepository - Patches posted for review \o/ -- following up with tests and seeing where I can help Irving in his part
• GSoC - in-depth review of the proposals submitted to the project i'll be mentoring (About:memory enhancements), student chosen.
• bug 812573 Hotfix pushed to prod today!
• Some prep work for the Summit Assembly

ttaubert

• JSDay in Verona last week, Scotland.JS before that.
• Landed a couple of sessionstore code cleanups.
• Met with Nick Hurley to talk about speculative connect for sessionstore.
• Catching up with (bug) mail.
• Reviews.

adw

• bug 518606 Troubleshooting Information page should have better support for copy-and-paste to plaintext.
  • landed after more discussion on SUMO forum
• bug 868793 Loading about:support can trip "ASSERTION: FormatStringFromName() without format parameters"
  • landed
• bug 856270 Update nsEditorSpellCheck to use nsIContentPrefService2
  • first review pass with Ehsan, trying to figure out why test_bug366682.html is intermittent
• bug 599804 Highlight all doesn't work with non HTML documents (e.g. CSS styled XML files)
  • reviewed
• bug 856595 Intermittent test_wheel_default_action.html
  • may know what's wrong, trying patch on tryserver
• bug 555120 Intermittent failure in browser_bug441778.js
  • not sure what's wrong, but patch to bug 856595 may fix this too
• bug 873046 Intermittent browser_thumbnails_background.js
  • need to investigate
• follow-ups to bug 841495 background thumbnail service
  • need to work on these
• triage

markh

Mainly experimenting with e10s - got things (mainly) working on Windows, got html5 form validation "ported" to the new world order and currently working on form autocomplete.

dolske

• Meetings on PICL and First-run
• Australis UR stuff starting
• pwmgr patches / review (modular/mainthread IO)
• Bit of recent activity for modal http auth prompts (bug 613785)

dao

Reviews... Let me know if a patch needs priority. Monday was a holiday in Germany, catching up on bugmail. I may miss today's meeting.

mikedeboer

Last week:

• worked on search-related bugs that are tracked for Fx 23
• worked on Australis bugs that my team mates kindly assigned to me
• Async Responsive workgroup meeting: I will add `add_task(Task)` API for Mochi tests bug 872229
• Wrote a common JS Assert lib: bug 873126

This week:

• work on search-related bugs
• work on Australis bugs
• work on add_task API
• work on Add-ons Manager auto-complete
• work on find bar improvements

gijs

• Australis
  • Make the navbar always visible (bug 870545, bug 752434, bug 872162, filed bug 872446)
  • More work on tests (almost there now!) (bug 855683, bug 872578, bug 873449, bug 873534, bug 874028, bug 874051, bug 874070, bug 874371 ).
    • Some of these were repetitive issues where people listen for load events on the <tab> elements rather than their linked <browser>s. Don't Do That. (I need to blog about this)
  • Filed/fixed some polish issues (bug 874448, bug 872463)
  • Followup about tab label fadeout (bug 658467)
  • Helped divvy up most of the remaining bugs into milestones (may need to do another session?).
  • Important discussions regarding the future of the add-on bar (still undecided at this point).
  • Reviews

• Other
  • Tried to help mentor someone for bug 291534, dao said we want a different approach. Probably shouldn't be a mentored bug in that case, any ideas how to followup here?
  • Other bug fixes (bug 874040, bug 874391, bug 872455,

MattN

(travelling during meeting)

• Australis
  • Landed tab stroke polish
  • Landed tab drag indicator positioning
  • HiDPI background tabs up for review
  • HiDPI foreground tabs in progress
  • Tabs in Titlebar positioning for Windows
  • tab close buttons
• Intern phone screen

mixedpuppy

• back from talkilla work week
• have patches for selenium webdriver to work with social, a couple minor items left to do
• have outline for fx24/25 updates needed to support webrtc providers