Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

Schedule

• Next merge: 2014-07-21

Friends of the Mobile Team

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• Ethan Pransky fixed bug 1016613 – ViewStub RemoteTabsPanel
• vikneshwar fixed bug 1008825 – Synchronous XMLHttpRequest to load options.xul
• Mark Capella fixed bug 1003610 – Remote Tabs shouldn’t lose scroll position
• Matthew fixed bug 1028815 – “7 days ago” label in History panel is confusing
• vivekb has patches in the review cycle for bug 830270 (!) and bug 977164

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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• Continued work trying to get Janus ready for testing (hoping for this week!)
• Filed bugs (and a patch) about startup performance issues. Hoping to do more profiling this week.
• Resurrected LZMA gecko patches and implemented LZMA support in Janus.
• Reviews, management, etc.

JChen

Past week

• Background hang dashboard is now live at telemetry.mozilla.org/hang/bhr
• Native stack support going through review in bug 1016629

Fixed

• 1016441 – Switch to using real-time signal in ThreadStackHelper
• 1033006 – Use-after-free bug in BasicCodeModules::BasicCodeModules
• 1023303 – Regression: Unable to delete first character in address-bar value that has been auto-completed

Working on

• 1016629 – Add native stack support in ThreadStackHelper
• 1034138 – Get the native stack during a permanent thread hang

Randall Barker

• Last Week: Was able to stream camera from fennec add on. Need to be able to select source to stream tab. Started work to get patch(es) ready for review and landing.
• This Week: Continue work on landing standalone WebRTC.

Eugen Sawin

Past

• Proxy (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Janus)
  • Debug metrics and custom listeners for tests (https://github.com/mozilla/node-janus/issues/10)
  • Metrics: Grafana + Graphite work together (but don’t like each other very much)

Present & Future

• Proxy
  • Research alternatives to Grafana and Graphite (e.g., InfluxDB)
  • Cache fixes and improvements (https://github.com/mozilla/node-janus/issues/17)
  • Multi-phase response chain (fast direct response (unprocessed) -> compression/transcoding -> caching) (https://github.com/mozilla/node-janus/issues/8)

Sylvain Cleymans

• Last week: landed tests in Janus
• Next week: replace phantomJS with Marionette and continue improving the test framework

Martin (mmcdonough)

• Last Week: Got video working smoothly, some issues with certain H264 encoders (ffmpeg)
• This Week: Get AAC audio working.

Brian Nicholson

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• Done
  • PTO
  • bug 1030757 – Closed private tabs appears in recent tabs panel
  • WIP bug 1020602 – Send serialized input elements from form to requestAutocomplete UI component
  • WIP bug 1020607 Populate pending elements with values given by requestAutocomplete UI

• Next
  • bug 1025560 – Flush preferences before Gecko process is killed
  • bug 995138 – Switching between normal and guest browsing doesn’t keep the correct number of tabs open
  • rAc reviews

WesJ

• bug 901803 – Integrate chromecast support into Firefox. Landed (disabled)! Still pushing rel-eng to get things we need on build machines.
• Working on Bug 1006158 – Build against Android v7 support library and Google Play Services.
• Still looking into an add-on for desktop to support casting.
• Split off a really simple homescreen widget. bug 1035642 – Provide a simple launcher widget for Firefox and the Search Activity. Waiting on reviews/images. Will build out better widget tricks from there.
• bug 1014712 – use msapplication-TileImage and msapplication-TileColor to create home page tiles. One last review needed
• bug 1004495 – Tapping on a download notification doesn’t do anything (if Firefox is in the background). Talked to brian. I think we’re r+ here.
• bug 989094 – Webrtc permissions prompt should remember your last choice. Still waiting for review.

LucasR

Last week

• 1010986 – Dynamic panel list view drawn only after scrolling
• 1025062 – Verify that a site is not yet pinned before adding a dupe
• 1025069 – Both Versions of SUMO (http & https – suggested) can be pinned
• 1025812 – Last added pin to Top Sites Grid has the name grayed out
• 1028710 – Flickering of views during transition on opening a New Private Tab when tab drawer open and on tab drawer open/close animation
• 1035131 – Fix issues around user entered pinned sites and suggested sites
• 1029046 – Disable recent tabs panel in migration if all panels are disabled
• 1030141 – crash in java.lang.IllegalStateException: Default panel in HomeConfig state is undefined at org.mozilla.gecko.home.HomeConfig$Editor.initFromState(HomeConfig.java)
• 1031363 – crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.home.TabMenuStripLayout.onPageSelected(TabMenuStripLayout.java)

Next week

• 1010740 – Toolbar refinement – Change entry asset and tweak padding
• 1034167 – TwoWayView crashes in Android L
• 1012462 – Support suggested sites in distribution files

liuche

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• Contextual hints: bug 1021751 – Home page contextual hint, bug 1014293 – Private browsing contextual hint
• Finishing up various “Recent tabs” bugs for margaret (bug 1028795, bug 1014293, bug 1023270)
• Settings regression
• More misc telemetry

Margaret

Fixed

• 905262 – [fig] Create a JS add-on API for adding content to the promotional banner
• 1017912 – Restore tab in correct position when undoing close tab
• 1018432 – Add telemetry for “+” button in tabs tray
• 1030736 – Don’t include ignored about:home tabs in count to determine whether or not to show “Open all” button

Working on

• 732752 – Load session history when ‘loading tabs from last time’

eedens

Search activity:

• WIP toward the minimum mockup (http://cl.ly/image/3r0d2e1i3W2W)
  • Search history: (1030277) → rnewman is timing the landing of this
  • Fragment lifecycles (1033686) → in review with nalexander
  • Replace wordlist dict with Yahoo OpenSearch (1035341) → ready to start review
• TODO for the minimum mockup:
  • Create a search history card (1022100)
  • Revert to GeckoView to WebView? (1029292)

mcomella

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Past

• bug 1024778 – Do not use onFinishInflate in RemoteTabs*Panel

Present

• [meta] bug 979921 – Misc Android 2.3 test failures
• bug 1021356 – Refine visuals in empty private tabs screen
• bug 1025546 – Support various image views in Hub panels
• bug 1020534 – Tablet toolbar icons hard to read on dark lightweight themes
• bug 1030363 – Create Sound.jsm for Android
• bug 1030715 – The orange animation bar gets stuck when the pull to refresh action is performed slowly

Future

• Too busy with other things:
  • Herding bug 941155 (fix talos on mobile to have pageloader tests working in regular mode and nochrome mode) along
  • bug 939350 – Create Python linter wrapper
• bug 983437 – Delay FHR pruning until the screen is off
• bug 989441 – Centralized documentation for writing tests

RNewman

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• SF visit. (See notes from last week — same again.)
• Misc Kindle bugs, both fixing and triaging.
  • One interesting one: all activity/fragment transitions flicker through black; investigation yields no leads. bug 1031872
• Finishing up and landing distrodistros. It lives!
• Landed ckitching’s DB improvements. Ready for Eric and Wes to race to landing.
• Reviews and jaw-flapping.

Chris Kitching

• Rescued from the database bug I started before my arrival: bug 1024289 by RNewman.
• Continuing prototyping work for RNewman’s flow-preserving link-opening bubble-overlay thing.
• Some initial work on IDEA support, now looking much more doable after nalexander’s recent blog/mailing list post (thanks!)

nalexander

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• Landing Search Activity
  • Unlikely to be on in 33
  • Reviews and integration
• Herding MozStumbler to landing
  • Lots of open questions with integration
• Blogging! Documenting!
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Firefox_for_Android/API/Accounts.jsm
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/Eclipse
  • http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/2014/07/02/adding-assets-to-the-fennec-apk-file/
  • http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/2014/07/05/how-to-connect-firefox-for-android-to-self-hosted-services/
  • http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/2014/07/08/how-the-android-eclipse-integration-works/
• One critical bug on my plate: bug 1032217
• Will be PTO July 23 through August 11

BLassey

• chromecast tab casting
  • can cast camera to the chromecast
  • next step is to add annotations to the constraints pasted to gUM to select a camera stream

Ian Barlow

• In SF next week for:
  • Search awesomeness
  • General in-person hacking
• Launcher / Lock screen synthesis
• Manager stuff

Anthony Lam

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• Last week
  • Sync panels design
  • Mobile Toolbar refinements with Lucas
  • General bugs
  • Tablet UI design research
• Next up
  • IN SF for Search Activity
  • Tablets UX/UI design
  • Starting on some forms, and type scale sheets to go with our icons
    • bug 763671 – New designs for fennec form elements
  • Bugs follow up

Yuan Wang

• Generate insights from lock screen and launcher study
• Turn onboarding strategy into design ideas. Mini workshop in SF next week.

WebRT

• white screen of sorrow bug 1003962 landing; may fix other bugs
• getting bitten by DOM Apps regressions like bug 1035867 and bug 1036143
• Marketplace team finishing up fixes for Marketplace website on Android

Cogito ergo sum…

• bug 1003962 Line Runner hangs on launch with white screen – landing
• bug 1029691 Manifest not being checked on APK installation – blocked on bug 960584
• bug 1021395 Web app machinery dumps lots of semi-sensitive data to logcat – blocked on bug 1032936
• bug 960584 notify user of download progress indication when fetching APK – patch reviewed, needs updating
• bug 986085 User-hand-holding to check the Unknown Sources checkbox – patch needs updating
• bug 878830 Unable to install any form of web application on the Samsung Galaxy SIV – needs info from jhugman and wesj
• bug 997717 Errors during package download aren’t handled correctly – patch needs updating
• bug 1017235 Turn on Contacts API for Android – no progress
• bug 960703 Manifest icon not used for synthesized APK in Android 2.3 – needs info from jhugman
• bug 957065 uninstall synthetic APK when web page with privileges calls mozApps.mgmt.uninstall() – needs info from jhugman
• bug 1026263 Error writing default prefs during packaged web app installation – no progress
• bug 1009954 implement unit tests for WebappManager – patch needs updating

A-Team

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• New info on running Android 2.3 emulator tests locally: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android#Running_the_Android_2.3_ARM_emulator

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans
• Yesterday I was predicting a regression in crash rate for 31 we have new info
  • bug 1028491 has eliminated our #1 top crash

Garvan

Last week: on B2G Dolphin release

This week:

• Land this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024708
• Properly document remaining items in meta-bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1032506
• Finish up fennec stumbler version 1, I am stumbling with what I have now, and it works.

Feature Focus

Firefox 31 (Beta) – Release: Jul 22, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Ability to re-order existing panels in about:home, not via drag and drop (see My List: Manage current lists in settings), bug 959917
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v2 (currently planned feature complete), Epic/Meta bug 1014030
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare Contexts, Epic/Meta bug 1014035
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons, Epic/Meta bug 1014037
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data, Epic/Meta bug 1014038
• [ON TRACK] UX Telemetry, Epic/Meta bug 1014044
• [ON TRACK] Added locale(s): Hindi(hi), Gujarati (gu), Bengali (bn), Punjabi (pn), Maithili (mai), Marathi (mr), Malayalam (ml), Assamese (as), Oriya (or), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Kannada (kn)
• [ON TRACK] EOL official Android 2.2 Support bug 1017242

Firefox 32 (Aurora) – Release: Sep 2, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v3 (bugfixes & polish + more add-ons), Epic/Meta bug 1014032
• [ON TRACK] Suggested sites v1, Epic/Meta bug 988366 Note – Linked wiki page doesn’t exist. Is there another?
• [ON TRACK] Contextual tips for users
• [ON TRACK] UI lang switching
• [ON TRACK] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync (bug 958889)
• [ON TRACK] Add a Clear History control to the history panel bug 998009
• [ON TRACK] Android Gamepad backend bug 852935
• [ON TRACK] Support weighed snippets bug 1002567

Firefox 33 (Nightly) – Release: Oct 14, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Videocasting (Roku, Firefly, Chromecast), Epic/Meta bug 921924
• [ON TRACK] Search activity v1
• [ON TRACK] Tab mirroring (Roku)
• [ON TRACK] Form auto-fill improvements – Backend
• [ON TRACK] OEM distro service
• [ON TRACK] Suggested sites v2(Distribution support & non-Mozilla suggested sites)
• [ON TRACK] Tabs updates and improvements
• [ON TRACK] Moz Stumbler

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