Mobile/Notes/04-Dec-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

Nightly got borked

Multi-locale builds ended up with zero locales packaged, not even en-US. Needless to say, this is bad. Fix landed on mozilla-central last night (thanks glandium) but AaronMT noticed the updates didn't get completely fixed. Those are being fixed now (thanks bhearsum).

Locale Switching

Richard landed the core of the locale switching code. He has an add-on you can play with to test it out. We plan on making a full Settings UI for switching in the future.

Quick Share

The parts of the new multi-service Quick Share feature that landed in Fx28 will be disabled for the Aurora merge. We don't have enough of the feature ready to justify shipping what is ready.

Cleanup Work

With merge happening in a few days, MFinkle got on a soapbox to push for cleaning up know regressions and tweaks to existing features. Let's try to minimize Aurora uplifts by fixing stuff now.

Page Load Competitiveness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxYMKXqNUPU to see how bad things can look. MFinkle has some experimental patches for preloading/prefetching. BLassey noted that we have regressed pageload on Eideticker significantly over the last year, and that we're not updating Chrome on those tests.

UITest Framework

Should be landing today (bug 910859), barring a quick review. Was fixing an intermittent (bug 938969) which has passed on try. Documentation for the framework is mostly completed and available at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/UITest

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 contributors are highlighted in bold.

• CJ Barker fixed bug 870049 - Added SharedPreferences to persistent Crash Report client settings
• Jacob Liebert [:intrepid] fixed bug 871884 - Change text input default in Android browser to capitalize first character in a sentence
• Taylor Skidmore [:SirSkidmore] fixed bug 916483 - Replace usage of fastFind with finder (and bug 938818, which was backed out, but that was our fault not his!, and bug 941795)
• Michael Boon fixed bug 923237 - Updater should immediately apply update when downloaded manually
• ckitching landed his ProGuard work! - bug 913985 and bug 709230
• capella fixed a bunch of bugs
  • bug 943742 - Swiping closed non-selected tabs from tray leaves TabCounter incorrect in current screen
  • bug 938563 - Select all + copy on textarea doesn't copy linebreaks
  • bug 934470 - Cursor pin disappears on drag in textarea input

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!

James W. (snorp)

<Read Only>

• Working on Skia rebase and build system update to make future rebases easier
• Investigating awful performance on Nexus 10

Kats

<Read Only>

• PTO last week
• Working on various APZC things for Metro and B2G
• Building up a backlog of Fennec panning bugs that I will probably tackle after the merge.

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

• Done
  • bug 931238 - Fix tile coherency checks and convert to using typed units
  • bug 945277 - Make sure display-ports are tile-aligned for sub-frames
  • bug 944047 - Scrolling with APZC enabled often causes parts of the view to be erased in Gaia
  • Blog post about efficient animation for web games

• Doing
  • bug 943846 / bug 936500 - Scrolling very fast with APZC enabled can cause the screen to go blank
  • Further APZC fix-up efforts for b2g

JChen

• Past weeks
  • Landing bug 940737 - Monitor Compositor thread hangs using BackgroundHangMonitor
  • Finally landed background hang monitor
    • bug 909974 - Background thread hang monitoring
    • bug 932865 - Background thread hang reporting
    • bug 935092 - Make a way to get another thread's pseudo-stack
  • Investigated bug 935831 - segfault on Android 2.3 [@ memcpy | libfreebl3.so (deleted)@0x7549]
  • Worked on bug 942470 - test_user_agent_updates.html intermittently fails to unset its override of the UA string
  • Worked on ANR telemetry backend ([1] and [2])
• Next
  • Work on improved ANR dashboard
  • Work on background hang backend

GCP

<Read Only>

• Last week:
  • Holidays
  • Video Framerate/Size adaption investigation
• Next week:
  • Adapt the adaption for CPU load

Randall Barker

<Read Only>

• Last Week: Still trying to land bug 895358. Need a review of the Cross Process Mutex. Working on bug 942069.
• This Week: Continue getting up to speed on WebRTC in Android and work on related bugs.

Brian Nicholson

• In progress:
  • bug 946022 - Implement requestAutocomplete for Firefox for Android
    • Full description with sample video here: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/forms/requestautocomplete/
  • bug 881378 - Calls to GeckoProfile.get() can result in initialization races

WesJ

• Fallout from action mode stuff:
  • Bug 943513 - Visual refinements to action bar mode
  • Bug 942680 - Regression: Google Search engine and search suggestions opt-in hidden behind urlbar
• Bug 834358 - Make pdf.js usable on Android
• Digging into moz-pay marketplace stuff

LucasR

Last week

• bug 944537 - Only use gecko to decide whether to show Tab progress or not
• bug 941825 - Make BookmarksListAdapter's swapCursor() idempotent
• bug 945375 - When choosing share from the three-dot-menu, Firefox crashes
• bug 944533 - Re-implement toolbar's display UI state management
• bug 946233 - Revert FF28 to single quickshare behaviour
• bug 943915 - Move SiteIdentityPopup to the toolbar package
• bug 945212 - Encapsulate identity data/security mode behind a type-safe API
• bug 942862 - Factor out display UI into a separate View
• (In progress) Make HomePager configurable (bug 942231, bug 940565, bug 942875)
• (In progress) Working on a 'Firefox for Android in 2013' blog post
• Tons of patch reviews

Next week

• Land major toolbar refactoring after the merge, file more follow-ups
• Submit initial set of HomePager patches for feedback
• Celebrate FF26!

Margaret

• Done
  • Landed main pieces of snippets work (pref'ed off) - bug 937820 and bug 941685
  • Some regression fixing on 27/28 - bug 933420 and bug 943466

• In Progress/Next
  • Organizing bugs for third party service integration MVP ("Lists") - tracked in bug 941312
  • API to allow add-ons to register lists on about:home - bug 862805
  • Content provider to back lists data - bug 941318 (also bug 941357 for cleaning up current content provider code)
  • Talk at Mozilla "Geek Girl Dinner"

mcomella

<Read Only>

• Past
  • Mentoring/researching/causing problems on bug 938818 and bug 941795 - refactor mLayerView.setVisibility
  • Reviews
  • Filing bug 945521 - Regression: go button disappears from toolbar when typing on HTC or SwiftKey keyboard
• Present
  • bug 910859 - Bootstrap new UI testing framework
    • Should be landing today (barring quick review)
    • bug 938969 - Intermittent in testAboutHomeVisibility: got http://mochi.test:8888/tests/robocop/robocop_blank_01.html, expected Browser Blank Page 01
    • Writing docs: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/UITest
  • FHR architecture docs
  • bug 939329: [meta] Enable JavaScript linting in mobile/android/
  • bug 935807: D-pad arrow keys move focus outside textarea instead of navigating within
• Future
  • FHR: create bugs/roadmap for potential next steps
  • bug 898613: [fig] Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)
  • MyList, RSS provider?

RNewman

• Landing l10n work. bug 936756
  • Including chasing down a backout that wasn't actually me. *sigh*
• Blogging about l10n work: http://160.twinql.com/new-locale-related-work-in-firefox-for-android/
• Reviews, feedback, and meetings for:
  • Prefetching
  • Lists
  • ProGuard
• UI telemetry native. bug 932092
• Miscellaneous fixes and discussions (e.g., awesomebar completion).

MFinkle

• Started playing around with some speculative connections (bug 943475) and hacky pre-rendering (bug 945408)
• Working to land the core second screen code (bug 938571) next week

<Read Only>

• Feeling more cranky than normal

Ian Barlow

• Coordinating with Margaret and team on all the awesomeness in https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/Third-party_service_integration_MVP
  • Starting next week there will be check-ins 30 minutes before this meeting!
• Autofill improvements -- launching into designs with Arun this week
• Writing some blog posts
• Freaking out a little that it's only two weeks til the holidays

Arun

• Autofill improvements
  • Currently slide deck'ing to wrap research
  • Starting design phase this week (w/ Ian)

Security/MGoodwin

<Read Only>

• Last week - not much
• Next week:
  • Secreview work on QuickShare
  • Secreview work on WebRT / Android

WebRT

• install/launch patch posted to bug 934756 yesterday for feedback
• uninstall implementation ready for feedback as of this morning and will be included in next version of install/launch patch
• automatic updates are in progress
• pre-submission development experience needs product input, meeting tomorrow

Feature Focus

New Train Schedule: http://mzl.la/1bIq9LO

Fx26, Ships 12/10

• [ON TRACK] AMO discoverability
• [ON TRACK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for en-US, FR, DE, es-ES and en-GB
• [ON TRACK] About:home redesign
• [ON TRACK] search provider management in settings menu
• [ON TRACK] Add-ons can add content to the "promotional banner" tile
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued

Fx27, Ships 02/04

• [ON TRACK] Overhaul of the favicon system bug 914296
• [ON TRACK] Marketplace discoverability - simple UI polish
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Remove overscroll and show highlight instead bug 705246 and bug 791475
• [ON TRACK] Developer improvements: IDE support bug 924961
• [ON TRACK] Memory usage improvements: bug 931843
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Thai (th)
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Lithuanian (lt)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovenian (sl)

Fx28, Ships 03/18

• [AT RISK] bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
• [ON TRACK] bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile supports <link rel="search">
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed off
• [ON TRACK] bug 932865 - Hang detection
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Belarusian (be)

Fx29, Ships 04/29

• [AT RISK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed on
• [PROPOSED] PDF.js support (v1 cupcake)
• [PROPOSED] WebApp experience - APK Synthesis
• [ON TRACK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons - 2 Quickshare on main menu
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare Contexts
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• [PROPOSED] My List: Manage current lists in settings
• [PROPOSED] API: Contacts (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Geolocation services (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Telemetry probes for Fennec UI elements
• [PROPOSED] Project video to second screen (preffed off)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Indonesian (id)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Hindi(hi)

Fx30, Ships 06/10

• [PROPOSED] Third-party service integration MVP
  • [PROPOSED] My List: How My List works (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Save any web-viewable content (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Add new My List from Promotional Panel (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Subscribe to feed or service as a new list (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Add new and improved list management in Settings (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] Service integration: Downloads (MVP reqs only)
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language

Round Table

• KitKat Crashes
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=945825%2C945340%2C945332%2C945327