Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

Schedule

• Next merge: 2015-02-23

Topics for This Week

Crash Tracking

Soccorro is not correctly tracking Fx38.0a1 and Fx37.0a2 so we are not able to see Top Crashers for Nightly and Aurora. For details, see bug 1122145.

Meetups

There is a meetup on Jan 22nd in SF for Passwords Dev group. There is a meetup (Jan 26th) in SF to discuss progress and planning for Passwords, Task Continuity and iOS Q1 projects. There is a meetup (Feb 16th) in SF to critique and tweak Fx on iOS.

Tracking Review

Beta

• Next Build:

ID	Summary	Status	Assigned to
987223	No visible H.264 video playback on MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1) (Planar 4:2:0 YUV) on Android 4.0 devices	NEW	Edwin Flores [:eflores] [:edwin] (edwin)
1058160	Specify main activity org.mozilla.fennec.App with a default intent over org.mozilla.search.MainActivity	ASSIGNED	Nick Alexander :nalexander (nalexander)
1071690	WebGL content disappears	NEW	Robert O’Callahan (:roc) (offline Jan 17-22) (Mozilla Corporation) (roc)
1083271	Big regression in taskjs benchmark 2014-10-08	NEW	Matt Woodrow (:mattwoodrow) (matt.woodrow)
1089417	fail to restyle for media query feature changes between adding/removing an empty stylesheet and next event that forces style computation (breaks golem.de on mobile)	REOPENED	David Baron [:dbaron] (UTC-8) (needinfo? for questions) (dbaron)
1090300	crash in mozilla::MediaCodecDataDecoder::DecoderLoop()	REOPENED	James Willcox (:snorp) (jwillcox@mozilla.com) (snorp)
1096090	Android Aurora 35 fails to play videos on Asus Memopad	NEW	James Willcox (:snorp) (jwillcox@mozilla.com) (snorp)
1096958	crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.home.TopSitesPanel.access$N(TopSitesPanel.java)	NEW	Michael Comella (:mcomella) (michael.l.comella)
1098390	Graphic buffer garbage shown and persists when entering full-screen (video/regular content) in Android 5.0 (Nexus 5)	NEW
1100126	Flickering green/pink screen while playback video in different devices	ASSIGNED	James Willcox (:snorp) (jwillcox@mozilla.com) (snorp)
1113658	Unable to download while using second Android account	ASSIGNED	Wesley Johnston (:wesj) (wjohnston)

11 Total;
11 Open (100%);
0 Resolved (0%);
0 Verified (0%);

Aurora

• Next Build:

ID	Summary	Status	Assigned to
1010068	Disable OCSP in Firefox for Android	NEW	Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?) (blassey.bugs)
1016555	Disable OCSP checking for certificates covered by OneCRL	ASSIGNED	David Keeler [:keeler] (use needinfo?) (dkeeler)
1059984	Remove CSS hacks from search activity results page	NEW
1074635	don’t rerender the page for every frame in a GuM tab video stream	NEW
1084711	Graphic rendering problems on trunk, black boxes, nothing renderend, eventually crashes	NEW	Milan Sreckovic [:milan] (milan)
1089653	crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.search.SearchActivity.updateSettingsButtonVisibility(SearchActivity.java)	NEW	Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (mark.finkle)
1091461	Tapping anywhere under the ‘Private Browsing’ tip in the History panel will open the Custom menu	NEW	Allison Naaktgeboren please NEEDINFO? :ally (ally)
1091677	crash in @0x0 | mozilla::layers::ImageHost::GenEffect(mozilla::gfx::Filter const&)	ASSIGNED	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt] (jwatt)
1094214	fuzzy text	NEW
1098227	Android crash in @0x0 | mozilla::layers::Layer::CalculateScissorRect	NEW	Nicolas Silva [:nical] (nical.bugzilla)
1107386	New tablet UI – Browser menu is clipped and unusable on the Kindle Fire	ASSIGNED	Michael Comella (:mcomella) (michael.l.comella)
1107930	crash in @0x0 | mozilla::layers::ContentHostIncremental::Composite(mozilla::layers::EffectChain&, float, mozilla::gfx::Matrix4x4 const&, mozilla::gfx::Filter const&, mozilla::gfx::RectTyped<mozilla::gfx::UnknownUnits> const&, nsIntRegion const*)	NEW
1112232	Find in page search: It is not obvious that the case insensitivity button enables insensitivity	NEW	Robin Andersen [:tecgirl] (randersen)
1112939	Roku Tab mirroring falls behind	NEW
1114096	Wrong tab got mirrored	NEW	Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (mark.finkle)
1120895	Interaction between TalkBack and Firefox beta/aurora/nightly broken with latest TalkBack 4.10	NEW	Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay] (eitan)

16 Total;
16 Open (100%);
0 Resolved (0%);
0 Verified (0%);

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.

• Surabhi Anand fixed bug 1115542 – Add software usage license to tests/*.java comments (except StringHelper)
• psd fixed bug 852247 – Expose pref to force page zoomability via settings
• capella fixed a ton of text selection bugs, including improving our test coverage and fixing a tricky intermittent orange (bug 851861)
• (iOS) dusek fixed bug 1123055 – Respect “Darken colors” accessibility setting

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)

<Read Only>

• Working On
  • Code reviews (bug 1106958, bug 663803)
  • DMCA exception stuff
  • Fixing inverted video and blocklisted decoder on PVR

JChen

<Read Only> (on leave)

GCP

<Read Only>

• WebRTC sandboxing: everything works…one way only
• SafeBrowsing work
  • Tracking Protection performance on pageload bug 1122691
  • Working with new partners for SafeBrowsing data

Randall Barker

<Read Only>

Last Week

• Doing battle with try to get patches to land. Strong correlation between breakage and platforms I don’t have build environments for: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=51a430ceacb8
  • bug 1093934 Create a XPCOM library that can be used to support standalone WebRTC
  • bug 1097804 Create a library containing nsISocketTransportService and nsIDNS that can be used to support standalone WebRTC
  • bug 1101651 Enable WebRTC unit tests to be built using standalone WebRTC library
• Investigate bug 1121679 Enable receiving audio in standalone WebRTC

Next Week

• Same as last week.

Eugen Sawin

<Read Only>

Working on

• Update service rewrite/refactoring
  • (in review) bug 1122623 – Implement update service as bound service
  • (depends on above) bug 792992 – Can’t override query URL for update service

Next week in Berlin (office).

Brian Nicholson

<Read Only>

• Landed search suggestions, bug 1120730
• Landed search fallback with URI fixup, bug 1120776
• Search keyboard type, bug 1122321

WesJ

• Landed a new run at a sqlite backend
• Storing history now on iOS
• Made the history pane work

Working on:

• Storing individual history visits
• filtering and sorting (frecency)

liuche

<Read Only>

Highlights:

• Onboarding v1.5 in review
• Discussions about Onboarding v2 (additional content, user studies, active customization)
• Passwords (so many meetings…!) + Hack Day: Telemetry

Present:

• 974983 – Reorder Home panels in Settings via dragging
• 1063844 – [onboarding] Start Pane v1.5
• 1118871 – Add telemetry to count the number of sites in the password manager blocklist
• 1124392 – Telemetry: Record the number of domains for which the user has multiple sets of saved credentials

Margaret

<Read Only>

Highlights:

• Landed reader mode toolbar button for desktop (disabled) – bug 795981
• Continuing work on desktop reader mode
• Reading list discussions
• Passwords discussions

Past:

• 795981 – Add a reader mode button to the location bar
• 1101741 – Add filtering on about:passwords
• 1107925 – Performing searches with Google search engine immediately launches Fennec
• 1118835 – Consider adding back pref to show title in toolbar

Present:

• 1074381 – Largest font size in reader mode is still too small
• 1085609 – Intermittent testDoorHanger | Popup blocker is displayed – got false, expected true
• 1093635 – confusing time indication on the Reading list
• 1117258 – Implement updated CSS styling for about:reader content
• 1120735 – Implement desktop reader mode controls
• 1120874 – Telemetry: Record the proportion of saved signons without usernames
• 1123102 – Reconsider low memory restriction on reading list and reader mode
• 1123471 – Create basic browser-chrome test for reader mode toolbar button
• 1124011 – Enable the reader mode toolbar button on Nightly

mcomella

<Read Only>

Past

• New tablet refresh
  • bug 1105472 – Domain highlighting fails when the URL is longer than the Awesomebar
  • bug 1116910 – Share button is larger than other buttons in ActionBar action mode on new tablet
  • bug 1116912 – [Tablet] Toolbar is hidden when opening a new tab with action mode open while scrolled down

Present

• New tablet refresh
  • bug 1106935 – Remove old tablet code and resources
  • bug 1107386 – New tablet UI – Browser menu is clipped and unusable on the Kindle Fire
  • bug 1110555 – Graphical glitches when rotating with LWT enabled

Future

• JSLint
• Browser toolbar cleanup
• Edit screen changes

rnewman

<Read Only>

Fixed

• 1113296 – Disable match case mode for find-in-page on non-Nightly builds
• 1122840 – Split out storage from the rest of the client

Working on

• 1123377 – Create build flag for reading list service
• 1123388 – Enable reading list service on Nightly

nalexander

<Read Only>

Projects for this cycle:

• Push migrate legacy Sync 1.1 devices across the finish line
  • Migration bits all landed, tracked by bug migratesyncandroid
  • Landed Telemetry and query parameter tracking; need to request uplift
• Make FxA provide OAuth implicit grants for Fennec consumers, tracked by bug 1117829
  • Rebased, tests still work \o/
• Implement Firefox Accounts for iOS
  • Tracked by bug iosfxa
  • Pushing on jelly doughnut approach
    • Got screwed because accounts.firefox.com sets X-Frame-Options=DENY (and I was trying to iframe). WKWebView is not a full-fledged browser; we can’t ignore aspects of the web that we don’t like when using it. Work-around is easy.
• Make sure |mach bootstrap| for mobile/android works
  • Looks like we’re on OS X now
  • Possible errors on Linux

Past

• 1093358 – Preprocess less JavaScript in mobile/android
• 1119061 – Add telemetry for Android Sync migration process
• 1119070 – Add query parameter saying we’re migrating to Android Sync to after-migration /account/login HTTP request
• 1120032 – Gradle/IntelliJ configuration broken due to mismatched Android-Gradle plugin versions
• 1121622 – Only insert omni.ja and *.so libraries into Gradle debug APKs

Present

• 1112725 – [android] “Next” button on Sync setup has blue line
• 1122829 – Tighten vertical spacing of Android Firefox Accounts sign up/sign flow
• 1123980 – Write geo-specific search engine metadata from region.properties to res/raw at build time
• 1124052 – Preprocess less in Android Background Services

Martyn Haigh

Past:

• 1091520 – Improve framerate of tab tray animation
• 1110149 – [Tablet] Insert vertical divider between back button and normal browsing button in Tabs Panel
• 1111598 – [Tablet] Make action bar background color consistent with the new tablet tab strip background
• 1117108 – crash in android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource ID #0x7f03008c type #0x1 is not valid at android.content.res.Resources.loadXmlResourceParser(Resources.java)
• 1117130 – URL bar border slightly covered by fading edge of title

Present:

• Open in background work
• Mentoring

• 1112855 – [tabs tray] Closing last tab behavior doesn’t match phone behavior
• 1122074 – “Normal Tabs” tray has an empty state

Stefan

<Read Only>

TL;DR Reader Mode landed. Currently finishing some more Reader Mode bugs. Then probably moving on to things important for our first round of dogfooding?

Ally

<Read Only>

• landed first bug
• finding bugs in gradle plugins… :/
• telemetry probes for passwords project

BLassey

Fixed

• 1096718 – display time measured spent in each compartment
• 1116856 – dynamically resize tab mirror video stream based on window size
• 1116860 – Get size of second screen from the chromecast

Working on

• 1071880 – Notify user of addons that are slowing their browser down significantly

MFinkle

Fixed

• 1121318 – HelperApps.getAppsForUri should ignore well-known internal schemes

Working on

• 671993 – Failure to save forms data in session results in data loss
• 1078432 – Use Android print service to enable cloud printing
• 1117186 – fix geo-specific search defaults interaction with the defaultEngine getter

Antlam

<Read Only>

• Past
  • bug 1063844: Improvements to current Onboarding
  • bug 1122302: Expose devices in share menu
  • Doorhangers UI
  • Passwords meetings
  • First run sync up
  • Reading list/mode sync up
  • iOS mocks
  • General Android bugs
• Upcoming
  • Passwords UX sync up with Desktop
  • SFO!
  • NI-mail

Robin

iOS

• Compiling designs, navigation variations.
• Laying out landscape and iPad views.
• Menu views.
• Tab view variations.

Darrin

<Read Only>

• iOS work (tab switch concept: http://cl.ly/image/3j0n3F3w0z3k, tab ideas: http://cl.ly/image/2K1k0u3o3k20)
• working towards committing to some of the high level architecture/UX → next comes breaking down teh rest of the UI and starting to wireframe that
• reading list work week in toronto (desktop + mobile)
• password manager meetings

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

• Mobile Roadmap in Trello

• 38 list for Nightly – updated on Tuesday. Any problems with status? Please call out.
• Short funnel review this morning. No changes impacting nightly work.

• iOS Trello board can be found here

• Also in SFO next week

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