Friends of the Firefox team
Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.
- [mconley] ibarlow hasn’t been able to make us an icon yet. 🙁 Periodically reminding him.
Project Updates
Australis
- The Australis team is still battling performance bugs.
- Gijs and mstange landed a patch that should give us a bit of a win on Windows – but we’re still regressing tpaint by about ~10ms. (bug 898126)
- We’ve gotten a hold on some XP machines to do testing on, so we’re hoping for faster turnaround on ideas and bisection.
- Bookmarks widget styling part landed, still missing final icons bug 897268
- Linux toolbars and panel icons look decent now
- Good progress on many P1 bugs
Downloads API
See bi-weekly update on firefox-dev.
Places API asyncification
- Mano keeps working on async transaction manager
- Removing support for binary annotations in Places bug 895839
- Use promises in livemarks bug 896193
- Mak made an experimental patch for automatic batches in Places views bug 890203
- Working on testing and fixing automated tests for it
Social API
- lots of patches being worked on, tracked via bug 889427
- share and ability for any provider to install are the big fx23 items
- continuing to line up new providers
- w3c workshop on social standards in SF next week
e10s
- More progress made towards the dogfooding bugs
- Goal is to have m-c in a state that can be tried by Nightly users by mid-August
- Tracking bugs: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/e10s
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 1 minute!
gavin
(gavin’s Status Board)
paolo
(paolo’s Status Board)
mak
(marco’s Status Board)
enn
(Neil’s Status Board)
felipe
(felipe’s Status Board)
mano
(Mano’s Status Board)
ttaubert
(Tim’s Status Board)
adw
(Drew’s Status Board)
markh
(Mark’s Status Board)
smacleod
(Steven’s Status Board)
dolske
(dolske’s Status Board)
mconley
(Mike’s Status Board)
mikedeboer
(Mike’s Status Board)
gijs
(gijs’ Status Board)
Unfocused
(Blair’s Status Board)
MattN
jaws
(jaws’s Status Board)
mixedpuppy
(mixedpuppy’s Status Board)
Details
- Tuesdays – 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC
- Dial-in: conference# 91337
- US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 91337
- US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 91337
- Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 91337
- FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 91337
- irc.mozilla.org #fx-team for backchannel
- “Firefox” Vidyo Room