Mobile/Notes/25-Jan-2012

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Schedule

• String freeze: 2012-01-17 (Aurora)
  • Missed! We still have several patches that need to land on m-c and/or m-a
  • Need a bug list of what needs string changes
  • add 'late-l10n' keyword to bugs that need strings.
• Next merge: 2012-01-31
  • This will put Native on Beta
  • We will be discussing whether Native is ready for Beta during this week

Major Topics for This Week

• Crashes are still too high
• UI Responsiveness got worse (and is getting better)

Stand ups

Suggested format:

• What did you do last week?
• What are working on this week?
• Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to 120 seconds!

Kats

• Last week
  • fixed bug 703347 (void beneath the web needs background)
  • fixed bug 713780 (performance regression from JSONStringer)
  • fixed bug 717085 (bad viewport on background tabs during session restore)
  • fixed bug 716863 (can end up in overscroll after panning a subdocument)
  • fixed bug 719954 (testBookmark hangs and also doesn't actually test bookmarks)
  • fixed bug 718961 (regression in visited history link coloring)
  • patch pending review for bug 712065 (SVG pages were cropped)
  • worked on bug 720144 (pan/zoom tests) - got a little stuck trying to get a bitmap of what's displayed on-screen but have some possible options i'm trying

• Next week
  • keep working on more bugs

• Blockers
  • none right now

GBrown

Last week:

• Robotium tweaks: Time for everyone to try it again. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android#Robotium
• Bug 696095 - Create Fennec startupCache at build time

Next week:

• Finish bug 696095.
• Bug 705192 - remotexpcshelltests.py cannot execute xpcshell via SUT agent
• Bug 716948 - LinkedIn buttons are blank when viewing invitation

AlexP

Last week

• bug 711648 - Pre-commit underline is not shown for the composing text
  • Finished composition events fixes
  • Pushed the patch
• bug 712972 - Can't type mzl.la into awesome bar
  • Discussed the bug with Madhava, confirmed the workaround and pushed the patch
  • Filed a follow-up bug 719527 - Enable input suggestions for the AwesomeBar when it's in Search mode
• IndexOutOfBoundsException in SpannableStringBuilder.getChars() - bugs 717932, 720085, 720092.
  • Started looking at the crashes - could not reproduce yet, trying to add more checks for range boundaries
• bug 708280 - delay checking for update
  • Investigated possible solutions
  • Implemented a fix

This week

• Work on the assigned bugs

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

• Last week:
  • bug 717283 - On-demand tile usage
  • bug 718388 - Use viewport 'prediction' to reduce checkerboarding
  • Reviews
• This week:
  • Finally landed bug 717283
  • Fixed bug 720663 - devicemanagerADB pushDir fallback doesn't always work
  • Looking at bug 717349 - Telemetry to measure checkerboarding
  • Looking at reducing resolution based on checkerboarding (depends on above)
  • Hopefully help with bug 716581 (Investigate tile-by-tile rendering to reduce checkerboarding)
  • More reviews

Chris Peterson

• Last Week
  • DONE bug 714874 - Fixed Java warnings for Fennec and Sync
  • Investigating non-Java compositor path
  • Continuing Socorro and ProGuard investigation

• This Week
  • DONE bug 701002 - Fixed Fennec crash reporting for Socorro
  • DONE bug 709170 - Don't build Java debug when we don't have to. Shrinks apk by a whole *50KB*! ;)
  • SOLVED bug 715298 - Fennec Java builds succeed on "linux-ix-slave" builders, but fail on "try-linux-slave" builders
    • bug 709230 - Preparing ProGuard optimizer patches for review

• Blockers
  • None.

GCP

• Last week:
  • bug 702217 OOM crash in nsUrlClassifierStore::ReadPrefixes or nsUrlClassifierPrefixSet::SetPrefixes is fixed but begot:
    • bug 719531 FallibleTArray can cause OOM aborts
    • bug 716638 mozalloc_handle_oom should propogate the failed allocation size into crash reports
    • bug 720444 Add more available memory reporting to crash reports
  • bug 713228 SQLiteDatabaseCorruptException: database disk image is malformed: PRAGMA synchronous=1;
  • bug 719125 Profile Migration does not preserve frequency count.
  • bug 713283 Profile migration takes forever
  • bug 710331 UX for bookmarks and history import
  • bug 720461 Crash in profile migration NumberFormatException [@ PlacesTask.migrateHistory]
• This week:
  • bug 673470 Replace the sqlite safeb store with a flat file (m-c landing)
  • bug 715550 Migration of Sync settings from XUL Fennec
• Blockers:
  • Potentially dependencies between bugs for m-c -> m-a (see patch queue)

Brian N

• Done
  • bug 716906 - Add "Firefox Sync" item to settings
  • bug 701092 - Limit session restore attempts
  • bug 719662 - Use nsIPrefLocalizedString for getComplexValue
  • bug 715225 - Clean up menu contents
  • Investigated bug 716681 - Tabs are being duplicated when going back into Fennec

• Next
  • bug 719900 - Remove blank favicon images from awesomebar lists
  • bug 710845 - Search engine disabled in Add-ons Manager still appears in Awesome Screen search results
  • bug 717428 - Reuse favicons in DB

Sriram

• Last Week
  • Vacation - slurping coffee - 4 times a day :-D
• This Week
  • Completed restricting height of tabs menu
  • Working on autocomplete popup list related bugs
  • WIP on URL bar with a tail - waiting for newer resources from Ian
    • This fixes a lot of polish bugs on URL bar
• Blockers
  • Newer set of resources from Ian to complete URL bar

WesJ

Last week:

• Landed touch events! Disabled touch events! A few issues left to sort out
  • bug 721079 - preventDefault on touchmove isn't handled quickly enough
  • bug 721076 - ACTION_UP (Android event) issues
  • bug 721080 - Make pages release panning
• Password Sync
  • bug 704682 - Password provider - has r+
  • bug 718817 - Deleted passwords database - waiting for r
• A slew of other bugs, mostly dealing with select elements

This week:

• bug 718760 - Java crypto. Had some meetings about a range of options. Hope to have a patch up soon.

LucasR

Last week

• Invite users to setup sync on about:home
• Frequent crash on local DB
• Version and icons on addons in about:home
• Organizing focused effort to fix UX for tabs and startup

Next week

• More P1/P2 bugs
• Startup-related bugs
• Start preparing FOSDEM talk about Firefox Mobile

Blockers

• None

MBrubeck

Done:

• bug 718296 - Can't navigate to host without a .tld
• bug 719795 - Crash when GeckoSmsManager.init is called more than once
• bug 717283 - Fix Android build bustage
• bug 719271 - Site-specific zoom level shouldn't apply to media documents
• Ported Full Screen add-on to native Fennec, found some problems (bug 719557).
• Interviewed an Android developer for BrowserID position.

Next:

• bug 715179 - Custom UI for font inflation prefs. (Not for Aurora?)
• Bug fixing and UI polish.

Margaret

Done:

• Tab slowness (bug 719493, bug 719494, bug 720048, bug 720494)
• Location bar jumpiness on about:home (bug 718846, bug 711206)
• Save as PDF bugs (bug 718499, bug 720427)
• Full page (including iframe) plugins (bug 719860)
• Login manager fix (null host for data: URIs) (bug 718708)
• Clean up some java warnings (bug 720581, bug 720574)

Next:

• Continue looking into UI responsiveness pain points
• More random bugs

BLassey

• triage, reviews, meetings
• built an AOSP image for panda boards and got tests running on it
• broke up screenshots to make them not block the message loop
• made screenshots cancelable

DougT

• Triaging, patch review, mentoring...
• Investigating topcrash crashes.

MFinkle

Done:

• Gave a "Firefox Mobile: After the Reboot" preso at Mozilla Vision (Tokyo)
• Made a "Firefox Mobile: After the Reboot" blog post as well
• Did some digging into TouchBadMemory crash to help split out issues
• Reviews

Next:

• Reviews
• More work on add-ons options (bug 696533)
• Work on planning for Beta

Madhava

Things it would be great to have done for beta:

• Experience of startup / page load
  • Cut down the amount of checkerboarding - bug 716581
  • Handful of startup weirdness bugs: tracked in bug 721008
• Fix the p1/p2 font inflation bugs -- we want this to be as right as possible for beta; bug 706193, bug 706198
• Get frecency / top sites as right as we can: bug 704977
• Get the in-browser Sync UI pieces in, so people can find and set up sync
  • bug 708414, bug 716906 - looks like they're in!
• Get the tab menu not covering the whole screen -- may seem minor, but I want people to get the right idea of how it works as of beta - bug 712526
• Some thumbnail tweaks around differences in tab menu / start page, scaling where we shouldn't be (bug #)
• UI responsiveness (opening a tab; aweseomescreen top sites list coming in; settings screen entries becoming enabled)

Ian Barlow

Last Week

• Kicked off designs for tablet UI refresh

This Week

• Startup UX
• Visual consistency throughout the app
  • Thumbnail size / style: Bug 721032
• Continuing tablet visual design exploration, with a focus on
  • Start Page
  • Awesomebar interaction
  • Sign in to browser

Patryk Adamczyk

Last Week
+ Working on Bug Fixing

This Week
+ Working with Sriram on UI Polish bugs.
+ Compiling Firefox 12 design spec.

Round Table

• End game! Go review your bugs. If you don't think you can fix in the next month (don't under estimate), talk to someone. P1/P2 only. If you aren't working on one, please talk to someone. We need to load balance.

Android 2.1 crashers

• bug 705874 - xperia x10 (QA has one in MV)
• bug 720712 - Samsung SCH-i400 (Continuum) (deviceanywhere)
• bug 699301 - Huawei Ideos S7 (QA has one in MV) blassy had mentioned filesystem issue?

SUMO

• Documentation sprint to update all mobile articles for FF11--need to complete article updates in three weeks to support NativeUI release in six weeks, (localizers ideally need three weeks to translate).
• Firefox mobile meetup in SF next Wednesday evening