Mobile/Notes/28-May-2014

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Schedule

• Next Merge: 2014-06-09

Topics for This Week

Firefox Search

Moving ahead with experiments (more to add)

Contextual hints

Landing more stuff (more to add)

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.

• Jakub Miara fixed bug 1002537, a concurrency-related favicon bug, as his first contribution. Nice work!
• Zhanpeng Zeng (:marcus) fixed bug 923368 - Home panel items should allow for copying URL (first patch!)
• Gokul Caushik fixed bug 972723 - Reading list icon persists when aborting page load and going back to about:home (first patch!)
• Zack Liu fixed bug 990066 - Update generator function declarations in HomeProvider.jsm
• Vikneshwar (vik123) fixed bug 1010096 - Display add-ons in alphabetical order in about:addons
• Alexandru Chiriac fixed bug 997049 - "Switch to tab" does not work for Reading List entries
• Capella fixed bug 852595 - Increase vertical space to show more remote tabs in tabs tray

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)

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• Finally have headless gecko passing all tests. Waiting on Finkle to reject patch.
• Got a webapp startup perf test going, bc integrating into autophone
• bug 1014794 - console.log messages no longer appear in logcat output
• Playing with Gonzales

Alan K. (ack)

Last week:

• Bug fixes + feedback changes for CloudSync

This week:

• Cleanup/refactoring CloudSync for landing based on review feedback (thanks rnewman!)

JChen

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GCP

• Last week
  • WebRTC 3.50, refactoreded & all r+ed
  • SafeBrowsing reviews
  • Some fatfennec stuff
• Next week
  • WebRTC 3.50 make it upliftable
  • Mostly holidays

Randall Barker

• Last Week: Implemented standalone DNS service, began working on standalone Socket Transport Service.
• This Week: Finish standalone STS. Get code building in standalone repository outside of gecko-dev.

Eugen Sawin

Last week

• Gonzales (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Gonzales)
  • Basic in-memory caching
• bug 1014589 - Fennec crashes on page load when connected with SPDY proxy
  • Reported and assisting in testing

Next week

• Gonzales
  • Standard-conformant caching
  • Performance logging
• Investigating issue with high CPU usage/hangs on desktop with SPDY proxy enabled

Sylvain Cleymans

Last Week:

• Benchmarks on the different images compression tools
• Basic image compression in Gonzales

Next week:

• Continue working on (image) compression

Brian Nicholson

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• bug 993705 - Number-only search queries don't work
• requestAutocomplete updates
  • Etherpad updated with bug breakdown: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/requestautocomplete
  • Miscellaneous fixes for spec conformance (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dom-form-requestautocomplete)

LucasR

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Last week

• bug 1010764 - Make empty tab thumbnails visually consistent
• bug 1011620 - Revisit how suggestedsites.json is generated at build time
• bug 1013870 - Settings activity crashes if you build Fennec with targetSdkVersion=19
• bug 1010261 - Add preference to enable/disable suggested sites
• bug 1016949 - Fix TestSuggestedSites to account for enable/disable pref
• (In progress) bug 1004517 - Allow including local images for Home.panels imageUrl fields
• (In progress) bug 1009587 - Implement image precedence behaviour around suggested thumbnails
• (In progress) bug 1012462 - Support suggested sites in distribution files
• (In progress) bug 974434 - Add support for items with variable height in PanelGridView
• Working with Square team to add the APIs we need to consolidate all our image loading code around Picasso:
  • See: https://github.com/square/picasso/pull/512
• Lots of reviews

Next week

• Wrap-up pending bugs/features for Suggested Sites in Fx32
• Toolbar improvements

liuche

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• More misc telemetry bugs
• Contextual hint details with ibarlow/antlam
  • bug 1014293 - Trying out some private browsing contextual hints
  • Swipeable home screen banner hint
• bug 1010266 - Handle blacklisting "Removed" Top Sites suggestions
• Mentoring bug 1011714, bug 1013672

Margaret

Highlights

• Allowing users to clear history from the history panel - bug 998009
• Still working on "Recent Tabs" panel - bug 1004850
• Hub bug organization
• Working with pascalc to localize Home Feeds and goal.com add-ons

Fixed

• bug 701725 - Enable the ability to undo a closed tab
• bug 1014708 - Disable zoom for find in page

eedens

Past

• bug 881091: showing twice in reader mode (Done)
• bug 918309: Import and use public domain JNI.jsm implementation (Change caused regressions; take break for now.)
• First prototype for search intent (http://people.mozilla.org/~eedens/search/bin/FennecSearch-Daily-20140527.apk)

Current

• bug 1009376: Add android:summary for "Scroll title bar" (Need to add UX's feedback)

• Continue working on search intent
  • Get architecture feedback
  • Get UX feedback
  • Make code review plan

Future

• Search activity
• Reading Mode (bug 917884)

• • bug 760554: Multi-page articles
  • bug 788114: Android intent to add URLs to reading mode
  • bug 889351: Show excerpts in reading list panel

mcomella

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Past

• bug 958889 - Make Fennec "Synced Tabs" tray display entry point to Firefox Account + Sync when user has no existing accounts

Present

• bug 1006294 - Address bar would not unhide, content over scrolled instead of glow when panning
• bug 997477 - Add a way to close edit mode in one tap on tablet
• bug 998000 - Create BrowserApp.cancelEditingMode for consistency with BrowserApp.enter/commitEditingMode
• bug 932208 - BrowserToolbar and HomeFragment context menu 'Share' option should be disabled for these protocols: about:// chrome:// file://
• bug 1009315 - Replace TelemetryContract interfaces with enums

Future

• Too busy with other things:
  • Herding bug 941155 (fix talos on mobile to have pageloader tests working in regular mode and nochrome mode) along
  • bug 939350 - Create Python linter wrapper
• bug 983437 - Delay FHR pruning until the screen is off
• bug 989441 - Centralized documentation for writing tests

RNewman

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nalexander

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Last week: Remote Tabs panel improvements! New|private tab switching!

This week: Remote Tabs panel improvements! New|private tab switching!

Fixed

• 998700 - Animate sync icon to show activity
• 1009327 - Add "manual connect" to Android about:devices page
• 1015974 - Regression: Animated Sync spinning during no Sync activity and with no account
• 1014150 - Pull-to-Refresh for Sync'd Tabs doesn't fetch sent tabs

BLassey

• bug 1016747 - android protocol
• bug 1010068 - disable OCSP on Firefox for Android, Ian approves, but wants EV sites to continue to turn green with OCSP disabled
• bug 1013588 - gecko-based android launcher

Ian Barlow

• Doing some housecleaning on old bugmail (sorry for the spam!)
• Search -- initial outline http://cl.ly/352L3R1U0T0g
• Trying to help get some new suggested sites onto our homepage
• Thinking about Top Sites
• Interviewing some design candidates

Anthony

• Search UX work with Ibarlow
• Tablets work with Ibarlow, Yuan
• Filed/Working on UX bugs for some basic tab interactions, tabs tray, etc
• bug 899643 - Synced Tabs divider improvements]
• bug 997288 - "Open in New|Private Tab" should have a quick switch-to-tab feature]
• bug 1007436 - Add help FAQ link to negative feedback form]
• (in progress) bug 1014631 - Add badge counts to normal and private tab buttons in TabsTray]
• (in progress) bug 1014335 - Make "Pull to Refresh" in Synced Tabs and Home Panels feel excellent.]
• Looking at contextual hints bugs

Yuan

• Started filing tablet redesign bugs: [Meta] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1014156
• Worked on tab status design on tablet
• Started learning Sass and Quartz Composer for prototyping
• Tablet design walkthrough with Deb.
• Haida brain dump with Josh Carpenter (FxOS)

WebRT

• continuing focus on bug fixes, minor enhancements, and tests
• smarting from regressions like bug 1013684 and bug 903291
• bumping priority of test work (relative to enhancements)

Notable Bugs

• bug 991394 - previously-installed apps stop running - fixed and uplifted to Aurora & Beta
• bug 1007770 - WebApp update prompt looks scary - update icon - fixed; requested uplift to Aurora & Beta
• bug 995803 - crash in java.lang.IllegalStateException - needs branch patch for Aurora uplift
• bug 1011093 - WebApp update prompt looks scary - wordsmith notification text - discussed; needs decision by blassey & ibarlow
• bug 1009954 - implement unit tests for WebappManager - work-in-progress patch wants feedback
• bug 957067 - Pass back error when incorrect data passed through in install APK - patch needs updating; blocks other fixes
• bug 1011832 - Loading my app on Android displays a blank white screen - investigated but unable to reproduce
• bug 1003962 - Line Runner hangs on launch with white screen - under investigation
• bug 1013428 - mozilla-apk-cli App Updates side-loaded don't appear - under investigation
• bug 1013433 - uninstalling, resideloading, and relaunching app causes it to stall at white screen - under investigation

A-Team

• "Complete logcat" links on tbpl are working much better now.
  • http://gbrownmozilla.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/complete-logcats-for-android-tests/

QA

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• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

Firefox 30 (Beta)- Release: Jun 10, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Quickshare on the context menu, Epic/Meta bug 1014021
• [ON TRACK] Evaluate pngquant for PNG size reduction bug 959833
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v1 (RSS feed support + 2 add-ons), Epic/Meta bug 1014025
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Argentine Spanish (es-AR), bug 979250
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Mexican Spanish (es-MX), 979251 bug 979251
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Malay (ms), bug 979257
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Latvian (lv), bug 958021
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Indonesian (id), bug 960060
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Belarusian (be), bug 521981

Firefox 31 (Aurora) - Release: Jul 22, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Ability to re-order existing panels in about:home, not via drag and drop (see My List: Manage current lists in settings), bug 959917
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v2 (currently planned feature complete), Epic/Meta bug 1014030
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare Contexts, Epic/Meta bug 1014035
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons, Epic/Meta bug 1014037
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data, Epic/Meta bug 1014038
• [ON TRACK] UX Telemetry, Epic/Meta bug 1014044
• [ON TRACK] Added locale(s): Hindi(hi), Gujarati (gu), Bengali (bn), Punjabi (pn), Maithili (mai), Marathi (mr), Malayalam (ml), Assamese (as), Oriya (or), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Kannada (kn)

Firefox 32 (Nightly) - Release: Sep 2, 2014

• [PROPOSED] Screencasting (Roku), Epic/Meta bug 921924
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub v3 (bugfixes & polish + more add-ons), Epic/Meta bug 1014032
• [PROPOSED] Suggested sites v1, Epic/Meta bug 988366
• [PROPOSED] Create "Add-ons" page in settings (bug 892125)
• [PROPOSED] Contextual tips for users
• [PROPOSED] Form auto-fill improvements
• [PROPOSED] Tab mirroring (Roku)
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language, UI lang switching
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync (bug 958889)
• [PROPOSED] API: Push notifications
• [PROPOSED] Add a Clear History control to the history panel bug 998009
• [ON TRACK] Android Gamepad backend bug 852935
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub: Add new My Panel from Promotional Banner