Mobile/Notes/20-Nov-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge is 2013-12-09
• Release calendar has been tweaked for the following merge

Topics for This Week

Meeting Free Week

Next week is Meeting Free Week, which although it might only be observed by a handful of people, has the benefit of canceling this meeting next week. Plan accordingly.

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 contributor: Swaroop Rao, bug 936727 - Garble account name that is logged by UpgradeReceiver.
• capella fixed bug 934470 - Cursor pin disappears on drag in textarea input
• ckitching is working on landing bug 913985 - Automagically generate C++ classes wrapping Java classes

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

<Read Only>

• Continuing to work on metro and keeping an eye on fennec bugs.
• Going on PTO until Dec 1. Will probably not be reading bugmail.

Randall Barker

<Read Only>

• Last Week: bug 895358 in review, bug 932295 patch posted for feedback
• Next Week: Continue pushing bug 895358 forward, work on more WebRTC related issues.

Sriram

<Read Only>

• Quick share improvements: http://cl.ly/image/2V3N3c3X3C2q
  • Main menu quick share improvements landed
• Cleaning up prompt service.

LucasR

Last week

• PTO on Monday, and Wednesday (Morning)
• bug 929982 - ClassCastException: org.mozilla.gecko.home.TwoLinePageRow cannot be cast to org.mozilla.gecko.home.BookmarkFolderView
• bug 883500 - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: the bind value at index <n> is null at
• bug 938141 - Thumbnail flickering when Home is loaded
• bug 939060 - Incorrect thumbnail is sometimes displayed on the last empty grid position
• Patch reviews

Next week

• Land pending patches
• Finish refactoring toolbar
• Fx26 bug fixing

Margaret

• Done
  • TRIBE "I Am Typing"

• (Still) In Progress
  • Dynamic snippets - bug 937820
  • API for adding custom panels to about:home - bug 862805

• Next
  • PTO next week (Tokyo/Kyoto)

MFinkle

• Landed support for network link type so JS can know what type of network it is using.(bug 939680)
• Wes found a recently landed feature that allows SSPD discovery in JS too. I migrated the patches for supporting "Casting video to a TV" (bug 938571) to use this approach. It also works on desktop and metro.
• Participating in planning:
  • MyList integration
  • PDF.js in Fennec
  • UI Telemetry
  • Casting video to TV

Ian Barlow

This week

• Project Chameleon work week (visual design unification project)
• Wrapping up some designs for the next Home sprint, would like to join the FE meeting on Friday to walk through them, if that's ok with y'all

WebRT

• no patches for feedback yet; still working out some issues with install/run code flows
• mgoodwin digging into security review
• myk researching client-side APK generation as fallback in case of issues w/server-side generation
• "apks" branch and comparison with head remain the source of truth until patches posted