Mobile/Notes/18-Dec-2013

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Schedule

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. New contributors are highlighted in bold.

  • Sofia Larsson fixed bug 945251 - Reader mode toolbar tap highlight colour is orange instead of grey
  • retornam fixed bug 950785 - Remove unused selectWord and selectWordContext

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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  • Still working on SkiaGL single context patch (fixing B2G problems)
  • bug 939962 - Gallery app will get OOM process killed upon saving an edited photo after flashing or resetting the device
  • bug 884226 - Consider enabling authors to force usage of a software canvas to enable fast read backs
  • bug 869368 - Flash elements are not correctly displayed and positioned in page on Gingerbread devices

Kats

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  • Fennec
    • fixed bug 940889 which is tracking 27+ but letting it bake on m-c until next year
  • B2G
    • bunch of APZC work

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

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All b2g related.

  • Done
    • bug 950696 - Cache the 'enable tiles' layers pref
    • bug 943846 - (Don't) constrain generated display-ports to composition bounds
    • bug 936500 - Always build layers for nsDisplayScrollLayer and fix FlingAnimation
    • bug 944047 - Fix APZC/BrowserElementPanning scrolling conflict + APZC subframe scrolling
  • Doing
    • bug 950488 - Application is not repainted correctly when going to fullscreen
  • Next
    • bug 950301 - Crash while panning in UI tests -> scrollbars

JChen

GCP

Randall Barker

<Read Only> Attending pre-school winter pageant so missing meeting (don't be jealous).

  • Last week
    • Still trying to land bug 895358 - Enable progressive tile rendering in B2G.
    • Investigating MediaEncoder for second screen
  • This Week
    • Continue investigating MediaEncoder

Brian Nicholson

Sriram

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WesJ

LucasR

liuche

Margaret

  • Done
    • Text selection reviews/debugging/bug filing
    • Clean-up related to lists work
      • bug 949181 - Get rid of the hardcoded Page enum in HomePager
      • bug 950919 - Get rid of "aboutHomePage" flag
      • bug 949208 - ContentProviderTest crashes during tearDown()
  • Working on
    • A variety of bugs related to lists work
      • bug 951054 - PageEntry strings should be recomputed when locale changes
      • bug 941318 - Create content provider to store "My List" data
      • bug 949039 - Create an endpoint for list content provider that returns static test data
      • bug 862805 - Allow add-ons to register custom lists on about:home
      • bug 942875 - Create "Home page lists" settings page

mcomella

Fixed
Working on


RNewman

nalexander

BLassey

MFinkle

  • Management overhead on the "Race to Fx29" for FxAccounts
  • Clearing the seer DB and minor cleanup in Sanitizer.jsm (bug 951157)
  • Core second screen discovery patch has been cleaned up and is up for review (bug 938571)
  • Roku app design and assests are being finalized (bug 946471)
  • Some cleanup in GlobalHistory/AndroidHistory
    • Move CanAddURI into AndroidHistory (bug 949639)
    • Don't store page refreshes as visits (bug 949913)
    • Don't store page redirects as visits (bug 949104) [WIP]

Ian Barlow

  • Firefox Accounts + Sync
    • Working with UX (Services, Firefox IxD, Firefox Visual Design) to make sure have what we need on Android.
      • Sign in / Create account flows
      • Account Settings
      • Promo Snippet
      • Where synced stuff lives in the UI (this shouldn't really change for now)
      • Migration UX for current Sync users
    • UX is targeting end of week for sharing interaction designs, locking down visual design first thing in the new year.
  • Also the usual ongoing work on
    • Third Party Service Integration on Home
    • Tablet refresh (Yuan and Anthony)
    • Autofill improvements (Arun)
    • Roku (Zhenshuo and Anthony)

Arun

Security/MGoodwin

WebRT

A-Team

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  • "Cpp" tests are running on Android 4.0 Opt now, thanks to :dminor
  • Top bug on last week's Orange Factor was bug 663657 Intermittent Android "command timed out: 2400 seconds without output, attempting to kill" (see also bug 948600)
  • More test crashes/hangs than usual, but test failure rates still fairly low. bug 948931, bug 807230, bug 781107, bug 689856, bug 722166

Feature Focus

Fx27, Ships 02/04
Fx28, Ships 03/18
Fx29, Ships 04/29
Fx30, Ships 06/10

Round Table