Mobile/Notes/04-Dec-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge is 2013-12-09
• Release calendar has been tweaked for the following merge

Topics for This Week

Nightly got borked

Multi-locale builds ended up with zero locales packaged, not even en-US. Needless to say, this is bad. Fix landed on mozilla-central last night (thanks glandium) but AaronMT noticed the updates didn't get completely fixed. Those are being fixed now (thanks bhearsum).

Locale Switching

Richard landed the core of the locale switching code. He has an add-on you can play with to test it out. We plan on making a full Settings UI for switching in the future.

Quick Share

The parts of the new multi-service Quick Share feature that landed in Fx28 will be disabled for the Aurora merge. We don't have enough of the feature ready to justify shipping what is ready.

Cleanup Work

With merge happening in a few days, MFinkle got on a soapbox to push for cleaning up know regressions and tweaks to existing features. Let's try to minimize Aurora uplifts by fixing stuff now.

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.

• CJ Barker fixed bug 870049 - Added SharedPreferences to persistent Crash Report client settings
• Jacob Liebert [:intrepid] fixed bug 871884 - Change text input default in Android browser to capitalize first character in a sentence
• Taylor Skidmore [:SirSkidmore] fixed bug 916483 - Replace usage of fastFind with finder (and bug 938818, which was backed out, but that was our fault not his!)
• Michael Boon fixed bug 923237 - Updater should immediately apply update when downloaded manually
• ckitching landed his ProGuard work! - bug 913985 and bug 709230
• capella fixed a bunch of bugs
  • bug 943742 - Swiping closed non-selected tabs from tray leaves TabCounter incorrect in current screen
  • bug 938563 - Select all + copy on textarea doesn't copy linebreaks
  • bug 934470 - Cursor pin disappears on drag in textarea input

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

<Read Only>

Randall Barker

<Read Only>

Brian Nicholson

<Read Only>

LucasR

Last week

• bug 944537 - Only use gecko to decide whether to show Tab progress or not
• bug 941825 - Make BookmarksListAdapter's swapCursor() idempotent
• bug 945375 - When choosing share from the three-dot-menu, Firefox crashes
• bug 944533 - Re-implement toolbar's display UI state management
• bug 946233 - Revert FF28 to single quickshare behaviour
• bug 943915 - Move SiteIdentityPopup to the toolbar package
• bug 945212 - Encapsulate identity data/security mode behind a type-safe API
• bug 942862 - Factor out display UI into a separate View
• (In progress) Make HomePager configurable (bug 942231, bug 940565, bug 942875)
• (In progress) Working on a 'Firefox for Android in 2013' blog post
• Tons of patch reviews

Next week

• Land major toolbar refactoring after the merge, file more follow-ups
• Submit initial set of HomePager patches for feedback
• Celebrate FF26!

Margaret

• Done
  • Landed main pieces of snippets work (pref'ed off) - bug 937820 and bug 941685
  • Some regression fixing on 27/28 - bug 933420 and bug 943466

• In Progress/Next
  • Organizing bugs for third party service integration MVP ("Lists") - tracked in bug 941312
  • API to allow add-ons to register lists on about:home - bug 862805
  • Content provider to back lists data - bug 941318 (also bug 941357 for cleaning up current content provider code)
  • Talk at Mozilla "Geek Girl Dinner"

Ian Barlow

• Coordinating with Margaret and team on all the awesomeness in https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/Third-party_service_integration_MVP
  • Starting next week there will be check-ins 30 minutes before this meeting!
• Autofill improvements -- launching into designs with Arun this week
• Writing some blog posts
• Freaking out a little that it's only two weeks til the holidays

WebRT

• install/launch patch posted to bug 934756 yesterday for feedback
• uninstall implementation ready for feedback as of this morning and will be included in next version of install/launch patch
• automatic updates are in progress
• pre-submission development experience needs product input, meeting tomorrow