Mobile/Notes/23-Oct-2013

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Schedule

  • Next merge is 2013-10-28 (Brace for impact!)

Topics for This Week

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.

  • fedepaol fixed bug 921776 - Notification completed not showing when download was started from a private tab
  • capella has been fixing a lot of things, as usual
    • bug 906323 - It should be possible to update a menuitem's label
    • bug 920507 - Uncaught exception / crash when Clear private data -> Browsing & download history
    • bug 928163 - Allow or disallow proper text selection caret display based on HTML <input> type
    • bug 912983 - Text selection "cursor" persists on blur

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)

Kats

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

JChen

GCP

Botond

Mina

Brian N

Sriram

  • Uplifting patches to Aurora
  • bug 926139 - Experimenting with integrating smoothie
  • bug 927006 - Use a split action bar - http://cl.ly/image/351t0e3h2o09
    • Added basic support for split action bar
    • Moved the share icon + default app to the action bar
    • Added conditional forward to split action bar

WesJ

LucasR

Last week

Next week

  • Finish slides for Droidcon talk
  • More bug fixing on Fx26 (bug 918007 and bug 925722)
  • More patch reviews

liuche

Margaret

mcomella

RNewman

nalexander

Scott (jwir3)

BLassey

MFinkle

  • Did a tech talk on GeckoView @ Mozilla London office
    • Lucas started a "Why not use WebApps" discussion that got me thinking about different HTML commands for main menus and toolbars. Think HTML5 context menu commands but for the main menu.
  • Getting GeckoView patches cleaned up for initial review
    • These will still be experimental
    • Basic javadocs
  • Started looking into UI Telemetry
    • Talked to Gregg Lind re: TestPilot
    • Found that Blake Winton was thinking about the same sort of thing for Desktop
  • DroidconUK on Friday

Ian Barlow

  • Helping out with product plan grooming
  • Defining a first version of Kinderfox (parental controls / kid-friendly browsing)
  • TV browsing / Living room UX
    • Looping in UX designers
  • Tablet refresh
    • Gathering user feedback
    • Looping in UX designers
  • Homepage enhancements
  • UX strategy for 2013/14
    • Working with Madhava on a desktop/mobile plan

Arun

Continuing with PDF.js – Focusing on developing 3 ideas.

Security/MGoodwin

WebRT

Performance

A-Team

  • rc4 added to Android 4.0 Opt (Panda)
  • Reftests coming soon to Android 4.0 Opt (Panda) -- bug 929447
  • Android tests in this week's Orange Factor Top 10:
    • bug 914377 Intermittent testShareLink | View is null and can therefore not be clicked!
    • bug 720452 Intermittent Android jsreftest.html?test=<ANY> | load failed: null

Feature Focus

Round Table