Mobile/Notes/22-May-2013

Details

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• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

• Next merge: 2013-06-24
• Next release: 2013-06-25

Friends of the Mobile Team

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

• Jamie Hewland fixed bug 849072 - Improve tab flushing and syncing behavior (first patch!)

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!

Kats

• Previously:
  • bug 866184 - use gfx::Point instead of individual floats in some functions
  • bug 867685 - Make GeckoLayerClient.setIsRTL hold the GLC lock when updating viewport
  • bug 867582 - Fix some jittery behaviour at page edges in APZC
  • PTO
  • bug 860898 - add a verbose option to mach build options
• Now:
  • Catching up on bugmail, reviews, etc.
  • start looking at async subframe scrolling (bug alias multi-apzc + dependencies)

GBrown

• Last week:
  • Mostly PTO
• Now:
  • bug 869030 Robocop testDoorHanger and testSystemPages cause future reboots on pandas
  • bug 867360 Watcher dies sometimes on Pandas
  • bug 870553 A blocklist/whitelist for Shumway

GCP

• Last week:
  • bug 862808 Local Video is upside down on Android when in portrait mode
  • bug 873812 Trying to establish a call from an Android device to a Windows machine fails to render the remote video streams
  • bug 859430 Add Bluetooth headset functionality to WebRTC calls
• Next week:
  • bug 874572 getUserMedia - Browser holding lock on device camera despite browser activity in the background and paused
  • bug 874546 getUserMedia - Video playback does not resume when browser returns to being the foreground activity

LucasR

• Last week
  • Google I/O + PTO on Monday
  • Launched The Layout: http://thelayout.cc
  • Catching up with patch reviews
  • Prep work for the Summit Planning Assembly
• Next week
  • bug 867608 - Gap between forward button and favicon after backing out of reader mode
  • bug 844502 - In landscape orientation, tab menu overlays content, page stuck resizing and shifting around
  • New about:home stuff

Margaret

• Done
  • bug 872737 - Support distribution bookmarks from a /system location
  • bug 873429 - Form assistant suggestions is not dismissed while entering different letters
  • bug 872005 - Reader Mode: Able to add pages to reading list on devices incapable of accessing Reader Mode
  • bug 872965 - Exit Reader Mode icon takes user back, but not necessarily to original article
  • bug 872962 - Reader Mode text formatting pop-up is incorrectly positioned on device rotation
  • bug 873146 - about: page favicons are not displayed in the "Your tabs from last time" section of about:home screen
  • (fig) bug 871639 - Incorrect title when leaving editing mode while on about:home
  • (fig) bug 872834 - Finish adding editing mode to browser toolbar
  • Interviews

• In Progress
  • (fig) bug 871645 - Consolidate names of browser toolbar's element

• Next
  • Investigate some reader mode regressions caused by dynamic toolbar - bug 872961, bug 872956
  • More new about:home stuff

MFinkle

• Recruiting
• Planning around WebRT and Marketplace
• Pitching in ideas for the PR Tour happening over the next two weeks
• Misc manager stuff

Ian Barlow

• In SF this week

• Work in progress
  • Mixed Content blocking
  • FHR - about:healthreport (Arun)
  • OUYA design refinement / future TV concepts (Zhenshuo)
  • Future tablet browsing concepts (Yuan)
  • Updated Settings UI

Round Table

Firefox 22

Features

• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovak
• State of good repair:
  • [ON TRACK] ANR Reporter - Not user facing
  • [ON TRACK] Refining Tab UI
  • [ON TRACK] Performance improvements - Including WebGL, texture streaming, async canvas updates

Firefox 23

Features

• [AT RISK] Dynamic URL bar
• [AT RISK] Firefox Health Report
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Turkish
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Hungarian
• [ON TRACK] NFC bump for tab sharing
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, confirmed: preffed OFF
• [ON TRACK] L10N foundation improvements
• [ON TRACK] UI for changing search engine default
• [ON TRACK] RSS/Atom feed handling
• [ON TRACK] API: Payments

Firefox 24

Features

• [PLANNED] Packaged apps support
• [PLANNED] Web Audio API
• [PLANNED] API: Push notifications
• [PLANNED] SkiaGL improvement
• [PLANNED] Set Top Box optimization
• [PLANNED] Directional game console navigation
• [PLANNED] Quickshare
• [PROPOSED] Shumway: generic video player
  • Will create new project page with Mobile-specific work to be done when known
• [PROPOSED] Change default search engine for zh-CN

Firefox 25

Features

• [PROPOSED] Privileged apps support
• [PROPOSED] Shumway - v2 branded players
  • Will create a project page for Mobile-specific work when known
• [PROPOSED] API: Cloud
• [PROPOSED] Solid developer environment
• [PROPOSED] API: Alarm
• [PLANNED] API: Web activities
• [PLANNED] API: Contacts
• [PLANNED] Dynamic Snippets
• [PROPOSED] About:home redesign