Mobile/Notes/28-May-2014

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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.

• Jakub Miara fixed bug 1002537, a concurrency-related favicon bug, as his first contribution. Nice work!
• Zhanpeng Zeng (:marcus) fixed bug 923368 - Home panel items should allow for copying URL (first patch!)
• Gokul Caushik fixed bug 972723 - Reading list icon persists when aborting page load and going back to about:home (first patch!)
• Zack Liu fixed bug 990066 - Update generator function declarations in HomeProvider.jsm
• Vikneshwar (vik123) fixed bug 1010096 - Display add-ons in alphabetical order in about:addons
• Alexandru Chiriac fixed bug 997049 - "Switch to tab" does not work for Reading List entries
• Capella fixed bug 852595 - Increase vertical space to show more remote tabs in tabs tray

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!

Alan K. (ack)

Last week:

• Bug fixes + feedback changes for CloudSync

This week:

• Cleanup/refactoring CloudSync for landing

Randall Barker

• Last Week: Implemented standalone DNS service, began working on standalone Socket Transport Service.
• This Week: Finish standalone STS. Get code building in standalone repository outside of gecko-dev.

Eugen Sawin

Last week

• Gonzales
  • Basic in-memory caching
• bug 1014589 - Fennec crashes on page load when connected with SPDY proxy
  • Reported and assisting in testing

Next week

• Gonzales
  • Standard-conformant caching
  • Performance logging
• Investigating issue with high CPU usage/hangs on desktop with SPDY proxy enabled

Brian Nicholson

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LucasR

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Last week

• bug 1010764 - Make empty tab thumbnails visually consistent
• bug 1011620 - Revisit how suggestedsites.json is generated at build time
• bug 1013870 - Settings activity crashes if you build Fennec with targetSdkVersion=19
• bug 1010261 - Add preference to enable/disable suggested sites
• bug 1016949 - Fix TestSuggestedSites to account for enable/disable pref
• (In progress) bug 1004517 - Allow including local images for Home.panels imageUrl fields
• (In progress) bug 1009587 - Implement image precedence behaviour around suggested thumbnails
• (In progress) bug 1012462 - Support suggested sites in distribution files
• (In progress) bug 974434 - Add support for items with variable height in PanelGridView
• Working with Square team to add the APIs we need to consolidate all our image loading code around Picasso:
  • See: https://github.com/square/picasso/pull/512
• Lots of reviews

Next week

• Wrap-up pending bugs/features for Suggested Sites in Fx32
• Toolbar improvements

Margaret

Highlights

• Allowing users to clear history from the history panel - bug 998009
• Still working on "Recent Tabs" panel - bug 1004850
• Hub bug organization
• Working with pascalc to localize Home Feeds and goal.com add-ons

Fixed

• bug 701725 - Enable the ability to undo a closed tab
• bug 1014708 - Disable zoom for find in page

eedens

Past

• bug 881091: showing twice in reader mode (Done)
• bug 918309: Import and use public domain JNI.jsm implementation (Change caused regressions; take break for now.)
• First prototype for search intent (http://people.mozilla.org/~eedens/search/bin/FennecSearch-Daily-20140527.apk)

Current

• bug 1009376: Add android:summary for "Scroll title bar" (Need to add UX's feedback)

• Continue working on search intent
  • Get architecture feedback
  • Get UX feedback
  • Make code review plan

Future

• Search activity
• Reading Mode (bug 917884)

• • bug 760554: Multi-page articles
  • bug 788114: Android intent to add URLs to reading mode
  • bug 889351: Show excerpts in reading list panel

mcomella

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Past

• 1012795 - Replace editing mode cancel button telemetry extra with button id name
• 958889 - Make Fennec "Synced Tabs" tray display entry point to Firefox Account + Sync when user has no existing accounts

nalexander

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Last week: Remote Tabs panel improvements! New|private tab switching!

This week: Remote Tabs panel improvements! New|private tab switching!

Fixed

• 998700 - Animate sync icon to show activity
• 1009327 - Add "manual connect" to Android about:devices page
• 1015974 - Regression: Animated Sync spinning during no Sync activity and with no account
• 1014150 - Pull-to-Refresh for Sync'd Tabs doesn't fetch sent tabs

A-Team

• "Complete logcat" links on tbpl are working much better now.
  • http://gbrownmozilla.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/complete-logcats-for-android-tests/

QA

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