Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

1-November-2012

Mobile: 2012-10-31

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Schedule

  • Next merge is 2012-11-19

Major Topics for This Week

Remote Web Console

DevTools did a massive amount of work and now you can use Web Console with Firefox for Android. Finkle blogged.

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!

Kats

  • Oct 24 – Oct 30:
    • bug 801818 – add runtime API for low-memory devices (pending review)
    • bug 803575 – turn on tab expiration (waiting)
    • worked on readability prototype
    • bug 805808 – fix JS warning
    • bug 806473 – expose the MemoryInfoDumper class as a service (to unbreak bug 799476)
    • bug 806486 – use chmod instead of umask to make about:memory dumps readable
    • secreview of java addons (they will take it to product to see if this is something we want to do, and decide on jni-ctypes bridge as well)
    • did a comparison of aurora to inbound of memory usage: http://pastebin.mozilla.org/1895105
  • Next:
    • try to repro crasher bug 750198
    • bug 807110 (extract libraries to disk instead of ashmem)
    • see if memshrink bugs 807104 and/or 805855 are applicable to fennec

GBrown

  • Last week:
    • bug 790102 Frequent trobocheck, trobopan “talosError: ‘GeckoEventExpecter: blockForEvent timeout: Gecko:Ready
    • bug 781745 Intermittent testBookmarksTab | Context menu has New Tab option – Open in New Tab
    • bug 799863 Cannot run xpcshell-tests-remote (no module named devicemanager)
  • Next:
    • bug 796914 Intermittent “talosError: ‘stack found after process termination …
    • bug 768491 xpcshell on android hangs or crashes on exit

Chris Peterson

  • Done
    • More B2G bugs:
    • bug 804328 – Fix setScreenBrightness assertion failure because ScreenManager._savedBrightness is undefined
    • bug 804851 – [Desktop Build] Contacts app never dismisses “Import from SIM” screen when trying to import from (non-existent) SIM card
  • Next
    • Even more B2G bugs:
    • bug 785663 – [keyboard]When IME appears, focused input element should not be hidden by keyboard
    • bug 799029 – [keyboard] Cursor cannot be positioned by the user
    • bug 806009 – Exit virtual keyboard’s symbol layout mode after space or return key is pressed

JChen

  • Done
    • bug 806349 – Input auto-correction is not enabled
    • bug 806957 – JimDB fails to set pending breakpoint on startup
  • In-progress
    • bug 805162 (getting reviewed) – Rework IME code to properly handle events and notifications across threads
    • bug 807124 – Backport IME rewrite to XUL Fennec
  • Next
    • bug 805376 – Cursor is moving to the left during entering numbers in web page form fields
    • bug 803982 – Text input on noodle app drops words

GCP

  • Last week:
    • bug 787318 – Tabs thumbnails are not updated
    • bug 806422 – SafeBrowsing update requested by Google
  • This week:
    • Running some Opus tests & writing some test infra
    • bug 715376 – implement per-page event queue, to allow timeout grouping/prioritization/etc

Brian N

  • Done
    • Bug 804926 – java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApp.requestRender(GeckoApp.java)
    • Bug 781259 – java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.DoorHangerPopup$3.run(DoorHangerPopup.java)
    • Bug 799877 – java.lang.IllegalStateException: at android.widget.ListView.layoutChildren(ListView.java) with Adapter(class org.mozilla.gecko.AllPagesTab$AwesomeBarCursorAdapter)
    • Working on bug 784086 – Change DB schema to more closely resemble places
  • Next
    • Bug 784086 – Change DB schema to more closely resemble places

Sriram

  • Done
    • Personas – v1.0
      • Got all review+ and about to be landed!
  • Doing
    • Personas – v1.2.3
      • Change text-color
      • Fix back/forward buttons
      • Add some transparency to url-bar
    • Complete 3-button menu

WesJ

‘Last week’

  • On vacation for a few days
  • Security bugs
  • Expiring thumbnails
  • Compatibility library stuff

‘This week’

  • Security bugs
  • Expiring thumbnails
  • Compatibility library stuff

LucasR

Last week

  • bug 770492 – Allow multiple overlapping swipes in tabs tray
  • bug 785945 – Awesomescreen entries are very slow to appear
  • MozCamp Asia, Desktop+Mobile track bits

Next week

  • Blog about Start Page and Awesome Screen performance improvements
  • Reader Mode bug fixing
  • New about:home, waiting for new design from UX team

Margaret

Done:

Next:

  • Settings UI for B2G crash reporter – bug 801931

Scott (jwir3)

Finished:

  • bug 792420 : Toolbar menu entries should not allow their text to be selected
  • bug 803211 : Max line box width API should not depend on position but rather the width of text boxes
  • bug 799333 : Reflow on zoom not refreshing after zooming in, then double-tapping to zoom out
  • bug 797705 : Crash in reflow-on-zoom due to null pointer

This Week:

  • bug 804640 : Max line box width API is broken for RTL text
  • bug 800805 : Reflow on zoom moves the position sideways on the screen incorrectly
  • bug 806430 : Panning not working on some sites if reflow on zoom is enabled.

Other:

  • HAPPY HALLOWEEN! (Also, last day for SC2 2012 Season 4)

BLassey

Last week

  • bug 790102 – Frequent trobocheck, trobopan “talosError: ‘GeckoEventExpecter: blockForEvent timeout: Gecko:Ready
  • bug 739542 – Disable screen timeout when playing HTML5 (webm, H.264)
  • lots of reviews

Next week

  • bug 805017 – disable screen timeout for dom fullscreen

MFinkle

Done:

  • Reviews
  • Coordination
  • Blogging

Next:

  • Will be in MV next week

Ian Barlow

Last week

  • Firefox UX Concept week. A good time was had by all. And ideas. So many ideas.

This week

  • Font Licensing
    • Almost there, finalizing EULA with legal
  • Private Browsing
  • Error page / Safe browsing UI refresh
  • Personas
    • UI is looking good!
    • Meeting with the Marketplace team this Friday on next steps for doing a mobile friendly web experience.
  • Coming soon:
    • Sound effects
    • Large widget design
    • New transition designs: Title bar > Awesomescreen, New Tab
    • New stuff from our Concept Week — stay tuned!

UX Bonus Bugs

bug 716403 Scroll header off screen: Double bonus bug – 2 boxes of cookies to whoever fixes this!

General

  • bug 792407 Colour difference between title bar and in content UI background
  • bug 715258 Favicons are low quality for internal / local pages
  • bug 716051 Favicons are low quality for Mozilla-owned web properties

Title bar

  • bug 784362 Fix forward button bg alignment (tablets)

About:home

  • bug 787765 Update about:home thumbnails (Done – thanks Wes!)

Menu

Tabs

Reader

  • bug 792420 Toolbar menu shouldn’t allow its text to be selected

Benoit Girard

Security/MGoodwin

  • Have looked at:
    • Java in addons
  • Will look at:
    • JNI to JS through js-ctypes
    • Wider questions around security and fennec addons

Round Table

QA

  • Testday this Friday focusing on H264 playback on Beta and ARMv6

Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
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    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 99998
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    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 99998
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room

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