Mobile/Notes/13-Apr-2016

Details

• Wednesdays - 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 99998
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 99998
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 99998
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 99998
  • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 99998
  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 99998
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 99998
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 99998
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 99998
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 99998
  • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
  • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

• Easy-to-read wiki
• Hard-to-read release calendar
• iOS Schedule at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_for_iOS_Train_Schedule

Topics for This Week

• Nightly crash rate

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. Want to update this section?

Team Updates

Android platform

snorp, jchen, rbarker, esawin, droeh

Android front-end

margaret, liuche, mcomella, sebastian, ahunt, grisha (nalexander/rnewman)

• Reading list migration landed! \o/
• Making progress on long tail of combined history panel bugs
• Landed patch to promote "Add to homescreen" (controlled by Switchboard, disabled right now)
• Continued work on core ping, including last-minute fix to track distributions
• Patch to distinguish local/remote visits still in review cycles

iOS

bkmunar, bnicholson, fluffyemily, fpatel, jhugman, sleroux, st3fan

Contributions

• Derin Ozerman (:dozerman) - Tapping "Mark as Read" button from Reading List panel won't disappear on Ipad Air (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1222424)

Builds & Releases

• First 4.0 TestFlight buid is out. Please join the FIrefox Beta at http://bit.ly/1MxpjiC
• Strings for 4.0 have been exported
• First L10N builds and screenshots should appear today or tomorrow
• Considering a 3.1 bugfix release

Development Updates / Work in Progress

Work for 5.0 has started, which includes Menu and Toolbar redesign, Better Low Memory Handling, History Panels changes, Telemetry Core Ping, Enabling bookmark sync, ability to set a home page, Search engine management. (All tentative)

• [fluffyemily/sleroux] Toolbar & Menu Redesign (5.0)
• [jhugman] Today Widget finishing touches (4.0)
• [bkmunar] Redesign of home panels (5.0)
• [st3fan] Bug 1261457 - Rich text editor fails because requests to about:blank are blocked (4.0)
• [st3fan] Bug 1261854 - Crash in Client: specialized ReaderMode.userContentController() (4.0)
• [st3fan] Bug 1250153 - Crash in Storage: DiskImageStore.clearExcluding() (4.0)
• [bnicholson] - Bug 1177078 - custom certificate handling (4.0)
• [fpatel] - Misc UI regressions and inconsistencies (4.0)

UX

tecgirl, antlam, gemma, (sevaan)

Click here for individual status updates

• Hiring! (notes ^above)

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

• Android Roadmap in Aha!
• Android Roadmap in Aha! (public)
• Suggest new features for the Android Roadmap Here

• iOS Roadmap in Aha!
• iOS Roadmap in Aha! (public)
• Suggest new features for the iOS Roadmap Here