Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Lukas/Sylvestre/Lawrence)

• FF30.0 RC builds ready but we are looking at a potential build #2 for bug 1020219
• FF30.0 mobile final build kicks off today, looking at issue in bug 1019697 which is affecting one of the new locales for this release

Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)

Blogs

• Finkle posted on feedback related work

Work In Progress

• Improve tab management (1004850,817716, 997288)
• Sync
  • bug 899643 remote tabs list visual refresh
  • bug 1003877 Custom server support
• Intent-driven distribution selection and download for partners (1013024, 1013684, 1014242, 1014283)
• bug 1013326 Add a way to distinguish chrome hangs from content ones in BHR
• bug 1011059 crash in java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid selection notification range: 0 to #, length: # at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoEditable.onSelectionChange(GeckoEditable.java)
• bug 1012720 Fix deleting prototype getters in Fennec code

You can find more on upcoming feature plans in the[roadmap]

Uplifts

Beta (30)

• Regression: Tapping in the add-ons page opens the same page in a new tab, unable to search for add-ons (Bug 985867)
• Can’t attach a downloaded .doc file to bugzilla (Bug 1001851)
• WebApp update prompt looks scary – update icon (Bug 1007770)
• In Firefox for Android 30+, nsIPromptService.promptUsernameAndPassword() aCheckState.value is always returned as false, even if the user checks the checkbox (Bug 1016348)

Aurora (31)

• Telemetry for home banner (Bug 979443)
• Zoom level mangled after restoring session (Bug 1002426)
• console.log messages no longer appear in logcat output (Bug 1014794)

Landings

Nightly (32)

• Enable the ability to undo a closed tab (Bug 701725)
• Add a Clear History control to the history panel (Bug 998009)
• Graphic buffer garbage shown (Bug 1006797)
• HomeProvider: org.mozilla.gecko.sqlite.SQLiteBridgeException: Can’t step statement: (5) database is locked (Bug 1006947)
• Make empty tab thumbnails visually consistent (Bug 1010764)
• WebApp update prompt looks scary – wordsmith notification text (Bug 1011093)
• [Fennec] [mr] Improper UI text rendering for leading character ॲ (U+0972) on Samsung Galaxy S4 device (Bug 1012365)
• input type=file is broken? (Bug 1014161)
• Use Context.MODE_ENABLE_WRITE_AHEAD_LOGGING when opening databases (Bug 1014988)
• Add ability to force update ButtonToast (Bug 1015421)
• Regression: Animated Sync spinning during no Sync activity and with no account (Bug 1015974)
• Undo’ing a private tab restores it as a regular tab (Bug 1017047)
• Polish undo close tab button toast appearance (Bug 1017129)
• Setup sync message given to users of sync 1.1 in the synced tabs tray (Bug 1017142)
• Regression: Empty lists view, no data is shown or fetched (Bug 1017554)
• Refine ‘clear history’ feature in History panel (Bug 1017633)
• crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.Telemetry.sendUIEvent(Telemetry.java) (Bug 1019158)

UX (Ian)

• Tablet refresh (yuan)
  • Tabbed browsing
  • (Bug 1014156)
• Toolbar visual refinements (antlam)
  • Bug 1014848, Bug 1010741, Bug 1010739
• Search activity (antlam, ibarlow)
  • Defining scope for a landable proof of concept
  • Bugs and designs coming soon!

Developer Tools (Jeff/Rob/Dave)

• Outbound
  • JSCONF/CSSConf rocked
  • everyone is a little tired

• Landings
  • Nightly’s toolbox top bar got re-arranged last week to be more in line with other tools, and it looks spiffy screenshot bug
  • Lot of work to improve appearance on HiDPI screens bug
  • Framerate widget bug
  • 44 bugs fixed since last I was here

Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

• Prepping 29 User Sentiment Reports
• Gearing up for 30, we will be experimenting with some new ways to survey user happiness on Desktop

Questions, Comments, FYI

• Any objections to doing recordings of this meeting?

Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays – 11:00am PT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details – NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99696 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
• Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL