Mobile/Notes/05-Feb-2014

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Topics for This Week

Google Summer of Code

GSoC sponsors students for 3 months each summer to working on selected open-source projects, and Mozilla needs project ideas by Feb 14 to submit to Google for consideration. Read this blog post for details and add to this brainstorming page if you have project ideas!

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.

• Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian) fixed bug 966810 - Don't prompt to enable search suggestions if search.suggestions is true
• Raymond (:retornam) fixed bug 960725 - Rename Search Settings and reorder Customize list
• Errietta fixed bug 959366 - Remove unused LazyNotificationGetter.shutdown function

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!

GCP

<Read Only>

• Last week:
  • PTO
  • FOSDEM presentation
  • bug 966659 SafeBrowsing updates are broken
• Next week:
  • WebRTC workweek

LucasR

Last week

• bug 949174 - Implement invalidation routine for HomePager configuration
• bug 952311 - Update home config when new panels are added/removed
• bug 964375 - Add auto-install option to Home.panels.add API
• bug 968179 - Fennec crashes when using PanelGridView
• bug 909550 - Lazy load tabs panel
• (Investigation) bug 966580 - [regression] Eideticker fresh and dirty startup time regression
• (In progress) bug 963046 - Implement image loading infrastructure for panel views
• (In progress) bug 964508 - Rename TwoLineRow members to match the latest dataset terminology
• (In progress) bug 966022 - Implement the notion of itemType on existing panel views (list, grid)
• (In progress) bug 967742 - Consolidate API to edit HomeConfig state

Next week

• Land in-progress patches
• bug 966485 - Add back support for FENNEC_STARTUP_TIME_ABOUTHOME
• Home panels stuff (mostly the invalidation follow-ups)

Margaret

• Snippets fallout
• Eideticker regression investigation - bug 966580
• Exploring panel add-on authentication flow with some demo add-ons
• Blog post: http://blog.margaretleibovic.com/post/75553256773/wip-home-page-customization-in-firefox-for-android

Fixed

• 964926 - Update HomeProvider authority manifest declaration
• 965033 - Hook up DynamicPanel to HomeProvider
• 961375 - Label for "Hide title bar when scrolling" pref is cropped in portrait mode
• 745755 - Generate a marketplace bookmark on profile creation?
• 965358 - Intermittent testHomeBanner | banner text - correct text appeared in the home banner

mcomella

Past

• 964454 - ReferenceError: panel does not exist in Home.jsm
• 960135 - local file access via Open Link in new Tab
• 967134 - Add documentation link to UITest javadoc
• 961526 - crash in android.database.sqlite.SQLiteConstraintException: foreign key constraint failed (code 19) at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteConnection.nativeExecuteForLastInsertedRowId(Native Method)

esawin

<Read Only>

Past

(waiting for test device to finish Android 2.0-4.0 bugs)

Feature Focus

Fx28, Ships 03/18

• [ON TRACK] bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
• [ON TRACK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
• [ON TRACK] bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile supports <link rel="search">
• [ON TRACK] bug 943475 - Predictive lookup for awesomebar entries
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed off
• [ON TRACK] Background Thread Hang Reporting bug 932865
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et), bug 946204

Fx29, Ships 04/29

• [ON TRACK] Toolbar Refactor
• [ON TRACK] Ongoing: Startup wins, including removing throbber replacing with progress bar bug 917896, bug 959776
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed on
• [ON TRACK] Telemetry probes for Fennec UI elements
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Hindi(hi), bug 960059
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Indonesian (id), bug 521995
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Latvian (lv) , bug 958021
• [ON TRACK] Shumway Bundled in Browser but disabled, bug 905668
• [ON TRACK] APK Synthesis on by default
• [ON TRACK] Promo snippet for Sync
• [ON TRACK] Promo snippet for Marketplace
• [ON TRACK] Preloaded bookmark for Marketplace
• [AT RISK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons - 2 Quickshare on main menu
• [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts <== need to break into 2 parts
• [AT RISK] Firefox Accounts with Sync 1.5 integration
• [AT RISK] My List: Manage current lists in settings the ability to "hide"only, no re-order is ok? Can we ship without drag and drop?
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync bug 958889 (nice to have, shift to 30 if needed)
• [PROPOSED] WebRTC tab streaming

Fx30, Ships 06/10

• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• [PROPOSED] Third-party service integration MVP
  • [PROPOSED] My List: How My List works (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Save any web-viewable content (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Add new My List from Promotional Panel (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Subscribe to feed or service as a new list (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Add new and improved list management in Settings (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] Service integration: Downloads (MVP reqs only)
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language
• [PROPOSED] PDF.js support (v1 cupcake)
• [PROPOSED] API: Contacts (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Geolocation services (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Vietnamese (vi)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Afrikaans (af)
• [PROPOSED] Use System download manager on GB+ (bug 816318)
• [PROPOSED] Turn on phone number linkify bug 957345