Mobile/Notes/11-Jan-2012

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Schedule

• String freeze: 2012-01-17 (Aurora)
• Next merge: 2012-01-31

Major Topics for This Week

• String Freeze: What's that exactly? (Pike)

String freeze is a bad name for the day when we start to work towards shipping the localized versions. It's got less to do with not changing the ascii chars in locales/en-US. Basically, starting at the day of string freeze, we'll allow localizers to say "we're good to ship this", independently of what lands in the code. So any new landing after that needs to make all our versions better, localized or not. Remember, almos 50% of our users are on non-en-US builds.

Common pitfalls and myths:

prelanding strings

in particular on mobile, strings are badly space constrained. Practically, if you're using an Italian build and there's half an Italian string in a button, that's about as good a UI as an English string, as in, not good at all. Strings are landed when the nightly builds on ftp that are ready for QA of that string.

re-using existing strings

Just had a too-good-to-miss example in bug 710433: Changing the verbs "bookmark" and "remove" to a noun "bookmark" with a checkbox. Different words, even though they're the same 8 characters.

polish

A warning on visual polish, too: If there's less space for the text after a refresh, that may very well crop localized strings. Likely much more of a problem on mobile than desktop.

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!

AlexP

Last week

• Reviewed open IME-related bugs.
• bug 714950 - Unable to see characters typed in landscape fullscreen VKB
  • Implemented and submitted the fix
• bug 712972 - Can't type mzl.la into awesome bar
  • Fix is being reviewed
• bug 595008 - Make Android IME more efficient by reducing communication between Java and Gecko
  • Tried to use the same approach for XUL-version.
  • Didn't fix the issue right away - IPC still causes the IME state to be out-of-sync, the fix needs more work

This week

• Look into better handling of composition events

GCP

• Last week:
  • bug 702217 OOM crash in nsUrlClassifierStore::ReadPrefixes or nsUrlClassifierPrefixSet::SetPrefixes
  • bug 713228 SQLiteDatabaseCorruptException: database disk image is malformed: PRAGMA synchronous=1;

• This week:
  • bug 713228 SQLiteDatabaseCorruptException: database disk image is malformed: PRAGMA synchronous=1;
  • Above bug is really getting the "Mozilla SQLite"<->Java bridge working. Crosschecking with wesj.
  • bug 713283 Profile migration takes forever

• Blockers:
  • None

LucasR

This week (in progress):

• bug 710325 - about:home - show icon and version for each addon entry
• bug 704922 - Racy bookmark handling in Tab.java
• bug 710323 - about:home - clicking on addons should go to their page in AMO

Next week:

• bug 707150 - Add mechanism to enable/disable Fennec's local bookmarks/history DB
• Finalize and land pending patches
• More P1/P2 bug fixing

Blockers:

• None

Scott (jwir3)

Last week:

• Assisting with bug 714289 : Only blank white pages are displayed
• Bug 706198 : Font inflation not working correctly on mobile sites

This week:

• Finishing Bug 706198
• Bug 701808  : some text appears way too large
• Bug 716575 : Move <meta name="viewport"> resizing into platform

Blocking Issues:

• Since I have an HTC evo 4g, bug 714289 is causing me to not be able to view web pages, which blocks testing of my patch for bug 706198. (Hence the reason I'm trying to get it fixed).