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Round Table

• work week update

Friends of the Firefox team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

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!

gavin

past week

• met with greg/bwinton/dolske about plans for test pilot
• met with jedp and dolske to sort out some details of his native identity integration patch
• interviewed a new candidate and did some other hiring stuff
• work week planning
• patched bug 493051 (search service addEngine API changes)
• wrote a patch for bug 853071 (adding build-time defines for various stages in the release cycle)
• reviewed an e10s patch (bug 697319)
• filed bug 866238 for a new prefs-like storage system

next week

• meeting about Gecko storage
• interviewing two devtools candidates
• more work week planning, hiring stuff

paolo

Past weeks:

• Networking Work Week
  • Download networking improvements
  • Investigated getting automated tests for the TCP RST case
  • Interesting topics like auto-restart connections on page loads when appropriate
• Downloads
  • Meeting about Downloads Panel feedback and future improvements
• Promises
  • Investigated modifying some consumers to account for delayed resolution

• Downloads
  • Prepare basic external documentation
  • Review bug 858234 – Merge ExecuteDesiredAction paths into nsDownloadManager
• Promises
  • Add code documentation to the current patch
  • Work on more cases where delayed resolution breaks existing consumers

felipe

• bug 853389 – Convert AddonRepository from SQLit to JSON – Posted patches, cleaning up reading part with some possible changes depending on feedback
• bug 812573, bug 865873 – Hotfix to decrease update interval – Helped QA with the testing of the xpi and staged hotfix. Waiting for sign-off now
• Some e10s work with Bill
• Providing feedback for gsoc applicants
• Another meeting with the community for planning our activies at FISL 14

mano

• Still working on the new login service. I’m expecting a reviewable patch in the next couple of weeks.
• Reviewing TreeView.jsm from Alex Vincent
• GetPlacesInfo API hasn’t landed yet due to some technical issues.

ttaubert

• Cleaned up tab priority queue for sessionstore.
• Cleaning up custom SS properties tacked onto DOM elements (use WeakMaps).
• Intermittent orange SSWindowStateReady/Busy, bigger fix needed.
• Reviewed and reviewing patches for collecting data in chunks.
• Reviewed patch for optimizing sessionstore backup.
• Reviewed Drew’s patch for background thumbnailing.
• Lots of reviews and more to do.

adw

• bug 841495 – implement background tab thumbnailing service
  • posted new patch for review, and Josh provided feedback, to which I responded, so I’m now awaiting his response again, but he’s on vacation
• bug 856270 – Update nsEditorSpellCheck to use nsIContentPrefService2
  • two steps forward, one step back
• bug 518606 – Troubleshooting Information page should have better support for copy-and-paste to plaintext
  • posted to the SUMO contributor forum to gather feedback, and several people have responded so far
• bug 436801 – XHTML not properly supported in Feed titles
  • fixed test and landed
• bug 806046 – Intermittent browser_bug719271.js
  • fix landed
• bug 862620 – Add browser.newtab.url to Troubleshoot.jsm whitelist
  • reviewed
• bug 555120 – Intermittent failure in browser_bug441778.js
  • investigating
• bug 856595 – Intermittent test_wheel_default_action.html
  • investigating
• triage

markh

Last week:

• Landed a couple of panel changes and put additional patches up for review.
• Landed a doorhanger change and nearly completed another.
• Reviewed a couple of Shane’s social patches
• Started looking into e10s
• One public holiday off.

This week:

• Dive into some e10s work.
• Finish doorhanger patch.

dolske

• Triaged most (~2/3?) of Plugin Finder Service bugs
• Starting some Australis perf measurements on OS X
• Weekend project: bad memory detection?
• Meetings and such.

mconley

Last week

• Customization
  • Final specification for customization work published
    • Big things on the chopping block are small icons mode and the add-on toolbar
  • Jamun branch has been updated to allow (almost) the entire nav-bar to be customized, as well as the toolbar-menubar, TabsToolbar and PersonalToolbar.
  • Started farming out additional widget work to new folks! \o/
• Tabs
  • Empty favicon’s are gone from tabs, and tab labels are centered again on OSX
  • Put up a patch to make lw-theme’s work in the new curvy-tab world we’re in – r?MattN.
  • Worked with smichaud to get the tabs into the titlebar properly on OSX. Patch is r?dao and BenWa.
    • We can get the tabs up there, but there will still be some invalidation bugs which we’ll address in follow-ups.
• Other
  • Patch in the works to retire the Firefox button – bug 863753

• Customization
  • Get overflow panel working and done
  • Finish up API that allows widgets to know if they’re located in toolbars, the menu panel, or the overflow panel
  • Finish up the bookmarks widget
  • Start figuring out remaining work for landing (remaining widgets, fix the busted tests, migration, polish)
• Tabs
  • Tomorrow is M3 for Australis tabs – I want to have lw-theme support for Linux and tabs back in the titlebar for OSX done.

gijs

Last week

• Firefox Reset:
  • Landed bug 763890 (back profiles up to a single location)
    • This needs a test. There is a test, I need to move it to a followup bug. Doing this properly depends on XPCOM startup stuff for GTest. I have an open invitation from bsmedberg to pick that up; probably not getting into that while Australis is going on)
  • Wrote patches for bug 833943 (migrate session when doing reset).
    • Got ui-review from limi, need to follow up and include tab groups in migration

• Australis:
  • Fixed bug 857626 (fixed height on tabs)
    • Filed & Fixed followup bug 865487
  • Fixed bug 852420 (ignore core warning for display: inline inside display: -moz-box for generated content)
  • Fixed bug 865776 (pinned tabs outlining on OS X)
  • Iterated on bug 823237, waiting for ux-review about the hit testing they want on tabs / new tab button.
  • Patched bug 850918 (double DPI on Windows and the tab bar)
  • Patched bug 865698, got review, waiting for bug 850918 (previous line).

• Misc:
  • Fixed a profile manager bug bug 865136 found when doing Firefox Reset stuff
  • Fixed a random crasher found by a user bug 865147, landed on aurora and beta, too!
  • Fixed a random regression in OS X filepicker found by robcee bug 865803)
  • Fixed devtools inspector to have a working CSS pane for chrome bug 866381
  • Had a Dutch community meeting. Good discussions. Was bored and near enough emptied the Dutch Tech evang component (closed 9 out of the total 10 bugs as WFM/INVALID)
  • Set up my windows hardware and messed with my linux VM so I have build envs (woo!)

This week:

• Get (ui-)r+ for bug 865698, bug 850918, bug 823237, all interrelated, all M3 so would like to get this done ASAP
• Get started on some of the customization widgets for Australis
• update patch for bug 833943 based on limi’s comments
• off on Friday, will be in Paris from Thursday night onwards, back for next week

MattN

Last week:

• Australis tab follow-ups
  • Patches and reviews
• Helping with getpersonas.com migration fallout
  • Investigated broken LWTs – filed 2 additional bugs
    • patch and r+ on one
• Doorhanger conversion reviews
• Intern interview
• PopupNotification/Security delay follow-up

• Australis tabs M3
  • LWT
  • Tab stroke polish
  • Reviews
• Interview

jaws

This past week:

• Interviewing candidates for fx-team
• Researching sec-high bug
• Put up patches for:
  • bug 861088, bug 864811, bug 838784
• Wrote a patch to animate/transition the bookmarks bar, just need to file the bug
• Landed the patches for bug 862886 and bug 573329
• Spent a good bit of time working on my mentored bugs
  • Working with a contributor to remove the missingFavicon from the bookmarks toolbar
  • Working with a couple contributors to fix some video-controls bugs
• Went to the Design Day showcase that the MSU students presented at. They won the Most Technically Challenging award!
• Lots of time spent in code reviews

This week:

• More work on customization code
• Presenting on Saturday at MobiDevDayDetroit about FirefoxOS (600 attendees), http://mobidevdaydetroit.com/
• Communicating with GSoC students

cers

Was on vacation last week but:

• Worked on bug 862998, added WIP patch, and will be working with UX during this week for specifics
• Awaiting review on bug 839206

Will try to finish up bug 754344 during the week, and fix bug 767313

mixedpuppy

last week:

• joined webrtc apps planning sessions in SF, targeting Fx25
• small ux bugs worked on

this week:

• figure out winxp dbg test failure for social marks
• chat regression bug 864505 (affects all versions through beta)
• work on ux mockups for share

next week:

• identity work week in vancouver
• security reviews

waiting on:

• reviews (order of priority)

 * share bug 818675
 * telemetry bug 860549
 * relative urls bug 851336

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