Mobile/Notes/26-Sep-2012

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Schedule

• Next merge is 2012-10-08
• Fx16 betas continue to ship weekly

Major Topics for This Week

ARMv6

Still collecting data to get confidence in the current minimum requirements (800MHz/512MB) as well as look for ways to test devices outside the minimums. We'd like to be able to drop the minimums to get more ARMv6 devices unblocked.

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!

Kats

Sep 19 - Sep 26:

• bug 713032 - add a MemoryMonitor class
• bug 792496 - remove empty ScreenshotHandler delegation functions
• bug 783230 - add a way to dump about:memory stats to logcat
• bug 792165 - get a benchmark running for measuring memory usage
• bug 791263 - disable screenshotting under low-memory conditions
• bug 793677 - fix regression from bug 727352 (if you saw weird viewport-related things, this may have been it)
• bug 791338 - fix focusing editable elements inside frames
• filed bug 794479 with a WIP to get java code loading in addons - API suggestions welcome

Next week:

• PTO from Friday September 28 to Monday October 8

GBrown

• Last week:
  • bug 770461 Intermittent Robocop | testHistoryTab | Context menu has New Tab option
  • bug 794070 Intermittent TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | testHistoryTab | First row has Today header - Yesterday
  • bug 785577 Intermittent testWebContentContextMenu | Exception caught - junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: The text: Open is not found!
  • bug 792147 [ARMv6] Disable in-memory file cache
  • bug 675049 xpcshell/netwerk/test/unit/test_bug654926.js fails on Android
• Next:
  • bug 792212 - on the tegras we have found that reftests fail a lot...

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

• Done
  • bug 793656 - Progressive tile upload causes flickering when invalidating (on m-c)
  • bug 794200 - When drawing progressively with tiles, draw them in an 'intelligent' order (r+'d)
  • bug 794465 - Progressive tile painting causes seams to appear in updated content (such as animated gifs) (r+'d)

• Now/next
  • bug 794130 - Aborting painting outside the viewport
  • bug 798998 - Planeswalker Points website fails to invalidate correctly
  • Plan out low-res tiles for progressive tile drawing with BenWa

• Low priority/blocked
  • Blog about invalidation work
  • bug 785069 - tcheckerboard2 has regressed substantially since Jul 22nd
  • bug 792415 - Covered areas of fixed position elements are not rendered
  • Invalidation bugs (waiting on DLBI)
  • bug 783914 - WEBGL_depth_texture doesn't work using ANGLE (low priority)
  • bug 786412 - Consolidate ContainerLayer functions (waiting on nrc's shadow layers work)

Chris Peterson

• Done
  • bug 785340 - crash in OmxDecoder::ReadAudio
  • bug 789124 - Makefile assumes the jar command to be used is in the search path
  • bug 780239 - Android's InputMethodManager calls GeckoInputConnection.finishComposingText() on the wrong thread when dismissing "Add Search Engine" dialog
  • bug 769894 and bug 792702 - IllegalThreadStateException: Expected thread "main" but running on thread "GeckoBackgroundThread"
  • bug 790180 - CalledFromWrongThreadException: android.widget.ListView.setSelectionFromTop(ListView.java)
  • bug 786312 - CalledFromWrongThreadException: android.widget.PopupWindow.dismiss(PopupWindow.java)

• Next
  • PTO on September 27, 28
  • bug 794233 - Stagefright video playback is blank in release builds, but not debug builds

GCP

• Last week:
  • bug 727370 Bad(?) files in safebrowsing folder in user profile prevent loading any site after installing update
  • bug 741808 Finish enabling URL classification in SafeBrowsing.js component
• Next week:
  • bug 792339 OUT_OF_MEMORY_KILLED telemetry breakdown
  • bug 785960 "Don't keep activities" developer option gets counted as OOM in telemetry
  • bug 778855 affects mobile because we take >2s to start up
• Blockers:
  • Need Telemetry reports from bug 792339

Margaret

Done:

• Find in page bar
  • Tapping find in page bar switches/closes tabs - bug 790897
  • Dismiss VKB when tapping next/previous - bug 772449
• Top sites performance
  • Setting up search engines creates an extra top sites filter query - bug 789947
  • Multiple unnecessary AboutHomeRunnables - bug 789887
  • Experimenting with changing the query - bug 785945
• Helping out with mentor bugs
  • I'd like to brainstorm ways to organize more interesting/important tasks for contributors

Next:

• Continue working on top sites perf

Scott (jwir3)

Last Week:

• bug 710298: Add option for reflow-on-zoom (prototype, preffed off) [IN REVIEW: mfinkle]
• bug 784375: Add ability to specify a max ratio for font inflation [IN REVIEW: dbaron]
• bug 784887: Add a message passing interface from JS<->Java for pinch-to-zoom [IN REVIEW: mbrubeck]

This Week:

• Hopefully getting the above patches landed.
• Some small outstanding font inflation bugs.

MFinkle

Done:

• Added more custom views to the layout inflater (bug 793083)
• Hide the WebApps promo in Beta and Release (bug 787188)
• Planning, Triage and Reviews

Next:

• Cache the DPI in nsWindow so we can stop making so many AndroidBridge::GetDPI JNI calls
• Will be in SF/MV next week