Mobile/Notes/05-Nov-2014

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2014-11-24

Topics for This Week

Minifying JS

Nick landed code to minify the JavaScript in Firefox. This should only "kick in" for Aurora and higher. It's disabled on Nightly, and is also disabled in DEBUG builds.

Password Improvements

We had a kick-off meeting yesterday with people from UX, Desktop, Security and Cloud Services. Working on an action list for short-term work. Set up a mailing list.

Tracking Review

Beta

• Next Build:

No results.

0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

Aurora

• Next Build:

No results.

0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

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.

• vivek is wrapping up bug 847435 - Style "go back" session history menu
• capella fixed bug 1089655 - crash in java: Unhandled error for GeckoRequest: FindInPage
• Swaroop Rao fixed bug 1002888 - Allow deleting Firefox Account from confirm account screen.

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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GCP

Last week

• 1042795 - Extend WebRTC doorhangers test coverage

• Crosscompiling procps for WebRTC priority bugs (http://sjeng.org/mozilla/)
• Investigated SafeBrowsing on e10s (minor UX bugs) bug 875867
• Minor Standalone WebRTC work

Next week

• Maybe look at the IdleService thing

Brian Nicholson

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• New tiles metrics tracking with tests (bug 1068425)
  • No more AlarmService. Events are sent immediately.

LucasR

Last week

• Tablet hackathon in London
• bug 1055601 - about:home flickers on new tabs in the strip
• bug 1067388 - Scroll newly opened tabs into position
• bug 1071293 - Tab strip tabs overlap when those tabs are scrolled offscreen and back
• bug 1089667 - Sync with upstream TwoWayView
• bug 1089668 - Fix NPE when setting pressed state on TabStripItemView
• bug 1090364 - Add fading edge to tab strip
• bug 1091107 - Visual refinements in the tab strip
• bug 1024717 - Investigate defining device configuration (e.g. isLargeTablet) in resources
• bug 1055606 - Animate tab strip when tabs added added or removed
• bug 1091531 - UI flickering when rotating the device with tabs panel open
• bug 1094160 - Hide tabs panel by default on startup
• bug 1067556 - Adjust new tab button's position and leftmost tab in tab strip
• (In progress) bug 1024816 - Tab overflow on horizontal tab strip

Next week

• bug 1093621 - Enable new tablet UI by default on Nightly/Aurora
• bug 1091519 - Improve framerate of tab strip animations
• bug 1091520 - Improve framerate of tab tray animation

liuche

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Present:

Past:

Margaret

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• Reader mode cache refactoring (including tests!) - bug 1007409
• Default search engine edge cases in search activity - bug 1091728
• Conversations about passwords work

Past:

• 1082110 - Polish appearance of new reading list style
• 1089598 - yahoo search code for the search activity widget

Present:

mcomella

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In London, working on new tablet. Apparently, fireworks!

Past

• New tablet
  • bug 1086981 - Cancel editing mode when pressing menu items
• Investigate bug 1090347 - Crash @ java.lang.NullPointerException at org.mozilla.gecko.BrowserApp$14.onStartEditing(BrowserApp.java:735)
• Investigate bug 1090618 - Intermittent testPictureLinkContextMenu | Checking if the text is correctly copied - The text was correctly copied
• bug 1092254 - Use Solo.waitForCondition under the hood in BaseTest.waitForTest

Present

• New tablet
  • bug 1085487 - Investigate reload misalignment
  • bug 960746 - Back/forward button state can get out of sync on tablets
  • bug 1020534 - Tablet toolbar icons hard to read on dark lightweight themes
  • Other lightweight themes issues
  • Finishing up v1
• bug 1085837 - Intermittent testAppMenuPathways | application crashed [None]

Future

• 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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• Drafted req/spec notes for reading list service.
• Partner meeting preps.
• Trying to kick off discussions with UX re enabled states in 105.
• The usual reviews and uplifts, mailing list support, etc.
• Some PTO.

Martyn Haigh

Past:

Present:

Stefan

Present

• Had a discussion with UX team & Karen about Demo priorities. We have a pretty good idea of what to demo and what needs to be 'fake'. Am filing bugs for all those things.
• bug 1093900 - (iOS) Setup development builds on Xcode Server
• bug 1094199 - (ios) The Open Tabs Screen needs to use the account credentials stored in the KeyChain
• bug 1094202 - (ios) Implement the Share To Extension UI
• bug 1094236 - (ios) Change REST API to support Send To Device
• bug 1094237 - (ios) Change REST API to return a list of client records

Antlam

• Past
• Upcoming

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Garvan

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• meeting conflict, present in spirit only
• Landing a basic robocop test for enable/disable the stumbling service
• Need to get an about:config pref in for logging ASAP for QA to see the stumbler is actual doing something
• From Stumbler play store release, discovered 2 NPEs need porting to Fennec, on some bizarro hardware, when listening to the WifiManager for scans, it reports "have scan" with a null list of scans. Another crash is from asking for the Telephony service and not null checking the result.

Feature Focus

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