Mobile/Notes/31-Jul-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2013-08-05

Topics for This Week

String Freeze for Fx25

We have a few settings bugs (bug 892113, bug 877791 and bug 896515) that need to be finalized. What is the status of the Guest Mode strings? What else?

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.

• Ming (first patch): bug 898044
• Capella:
  • bug 886587 - Remove profile migrator
  • bug 896764 - Initially populate Find in Page string with current text selection
• Federico has been investigating bug 896350 - Unable to open files by tapping the download complete notification

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!

Shane Tully

• Tracking down cause of two intermittent test failures with the contacts API on Android 2.2
• Target SDK bumped to 16 (bug 897561)

• bug 880118 - Package GeckoView into an Android library project
  • Running Java and native libraries from a separate Android library project
  • Currently working on separating content providers

Botond

• Done
  • Finished working on bug 895905 - "Content needs to inform APZC about scroll events on B2G" for single-APZC. Need to revise it for multi-APZC, which just landed.
  • Started looking into bug 898580 - "Contents needs to inform APZC about scroll events on Metro"
• Next
  • Revise bug 895905 patch for multi-APZC.
  • bug 898580 - "Contents needs to inform APZC about scroll events on Metro"
  • bug 860812 - "[Browser] Make hiding address bar work more like Fennec Nightly"

LucasR

Last week

• about:home hackathon
  • 22 bugs fixed
  • 2 bugs r+
  • 3 bugs r?
  • Pending areas: tablets and tests (and all the bugs in between)
• Tons of patch reviews

Next week

• about:home tests

Liuche

• Rework of remote debugging bug 888533 (Prompt handling)
  • digging through devtools, and reading all the Prompt* everywhere (modules/, components/, .jsm, .java, .js, etc)
• Regression from "Launch from notifications - bug 873072" (bug 896992)
  • Don't keep activities developer option
• about:home hackathon:
  • Empty screens (bug 895866, bug 895867, bug 891953) - under review/rework w/ sriram
  • filing so many bugs
• Reviewing ckitching's many Search patches
• Finalizing Settings strings for Aurora merge (bug 877791)
• TelemetryRecorder/ANRReporter review (bug 891644)

Margaret

• Done
  • bug 896048 - Don't show site identity info when a page has loaded mixed content
  • bug 897235 - Remove unused AlertsService.js
  • bug 897252 - [fig] Don't create additional history sections every time a new cursor is loaded.
  • bug 897250 - [fig] Fix the "Remove" context menu item to correctly remove either a bookmark or history entry
  • bug 885356 - [fig] Update tab thumbnails for about:home

• In Progress
  • bug 899393 - [fig] Switch-to-tab is broken

• Next
  • More new about:home bugs
  • TRIBE next Wed/Thur

mcomella

• Past
  • bug 893910: Reset FHR submission failure count after timeout
  • about:home hackathon
    • bug 895828: [fig] URL bar should not always be in focused state in editing mode
  • Level 3 commit access (and first patch self-landed on inbound)! Woo!
• Present
  • bug 899840: (r?) Use sort to ensure consistent makefile updates on fennec-copy-code.sh for services
  • bug 870925: (f+) Add submissions info to FHR documents
  • bug 870171: (f+) Expire old FHR data
• Future
  • More FHR via roadmap
  • bug 898613: Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)

MFinkle

• Helping out with PiCL discussions
  • Asking dumb questions about protocol plans
  • Looking at milestone deliverables
  • Lining up resources to start implementation
• Digging into Tab Mirroring and Chromecast
  • Chrome for Desktop uses a Chrome App API called tabCapture to create a WebRTC media stream
  • Chromecast treats it like any other video stream
  • bug 742832 could allow something like that for Firefox
• Blogged about effective teams
• Manager stuff