Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

Schedule

• Merge is upon us! (2014-03-17)

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.

• Christopher Su fixed bug 943629 – Remove unnecessary comment in Tabs (first patch)
• Mark Capella fixed bug 978731 – Cursor position jumps around, dragging handles moves text
• Chris Kitching fixed bug 969417 – crash in java.util.ConcurrentModificationException: at java.util.LinkedList$LinkIterator.remove(LinkedList.java)

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)

• Finally landed single GLContext Skia patch and associated patches (bug 939276)
• Working on a headless Gecko service, needed for Simple Push notifications

JChen

<Read Only>

Past week

• Blogged about the ANR dashboad
• Spent a lot of time looking at bug 977259 – HTMLInputElement doesn’t receive keypress, keydown, or input events after type is dynamically set to “number”
• Started looking at B2G telemetry

Fixed

• 932370 – Problems when entering a linebreak in the default Rich Text Editor of forums running XenForo software
• 975436 – crash in java.lang.ClassCastException: java.io.IOException cannot be cast to java.lang.Process at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Native Method)
• 978262 – Ignore duplicate frames when getting stack for background hang

Working on

• 971355 – HTC t-mobile G2 – software keyboard does not function in the address bar
• 979069 – ah_crap_handler, which does “Sleeping for 300 seconds.” to attach a debugger (gdb) doesn’t sleep reliably anymore
• 982328 – Fix background hang monitor for non-XPCOM processes

GCP

<Read Only>

• Last week
  • Load Adaption review comments addressed, on try now
  • VP8 Acceleration reviews

• 971240 – Update Firefox With Links To www.itisatrap.org
• 978827 – webrtc::OpenSlesInput::InitRecording(): assertion “!rec_initialized_” failed
• 978851 – LoadInfo::UpdateSystemLoad warns about format string in sscanf

• Next week
  • Simplify Load Adaption logic
  • ARM/NEON/Opus optimization test

Randall Barker

• Last Week: Got mozilla-central compiling and linking with Roku NDK.
• This Week: Work with Roku to get something running on device.

WesJ

<Read Only>

• Out with a sick kid most of the last week
• Finishing up quickshare in context menus. One patch left and some test failures to fixup.
• bug 981682 – crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.prompts.Prompt.closeDialog(Prompt.java
• bug 976531 – Keyboard lowering causes a re-draw that breaks page layout. Proposed patch up. Still working through issues.
• bug 980152 – Panning on grid panes can be painful with large images. Need to update patch.
• bug 980074 – Started on some basic unittests for text selection
• bug 982022 – Page helper application icon is no longer displayed in the URL bar (Aurora 29.0)

LucasR

<Read Only>

Last week

• bug 969060 – Disabling dynamic panel set as default will put default panel in ambiguous state
• bug 967742 – Consolidate API to edit HomeConfig state
• bug 981614 – crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.home.HomePager.onToolbarFocusChange(HomePager.java)
• bug 969055 – Validate items beings saved with HomeProvider API
• bug 963817 – Wrap HomeStorage data insertion loop in a transaction
• (In progress) bug 940575 – Implement per-profile SharedPreferences, eliminating uses of PreferenceManager
• (In progress) bug 976155 – Implement ‘schema upgrades’ for HomeConfig
• Working on a thorough blog post explaining how the Android Transitions framework works internally.
• Tons of reviews

Next week

• More hub stuff
• More reviews

sola

<Read Only>

This week

• bug 968308 – UI telemetry for home panels
• bug 909618 – Remember about:home tab selection
• bug 959297 – Get description and approx. reading time for reading list items

liuche

<Read Only>

• Wrapping up home panels settings, strings for 30
• Reviews

Fixed

• 970743 – Add android:summary text to Customize > Home
• 973039 – Display message in HomePanelPicker when no Home panels are available for install
• 977980 – Add “Remove” as an option for dynamic Home panels
• 978825 – Add android:summary text to Customize > Search
• 965606 – Give users the choice to only sync home panel data when on wifi
• 976925 – UI after adding a Home Panel from Settings

Current

• 903535 – Need to update text for user visible opt in UI for cell tower and wifi data collection and reporting
• 959917 – Make Home Panel settings reorderable

Margaret

Highlights

• Pre-merge bug fixing (mostly home banner bugs)
• Hub add-on for subscribing to arbitrary RSS feeds – bug 977200
  • Try it out: http://people.mozilla.org/~mleibovic/rss.xpi
• Hub add-on for user testing
• Auth/empty views for panels (will hopefully land one day)
• Attended JSFest, reminded that developers all use chrome 🙁

Fixed

• 941645 – Set Image As crashes the Activity Manager
• 965822 – crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.home.HomeListView$1.onItemClick(HomeListView.java)
• 974925 – JS Error: Couldn’t show snippets because cache does not exist yet
• 975239 – Home banner will only show one message per app lifetime (the one that was added first)
• 975469 – Sync promo banner does not hide on Sync sign-in
• 976185 – No banner shown after re-introducing a default panel
• 976232 – Banner shown in Guest Browsing
• 976308 – Remove search engine name from initial search suggestions prompt
• 976670 – Sync promo banner does not show at all on the Nexus 7 (2013) by default; a swipe is required
• 979101 – Enable remote debugging by default for local builds
• 982461 – Support launching an intent to the current application package
• 966047 – Hide home banner when there are no panels enabled

Working on

• 943262 – Don’t use charsetTitles.properties on Android, only allow Character Encoding menu items that desktop allows
• 976680 – Promo banner on tablets in squished occasionally on rotation
• 977200 – Create Firefox Hub add-on for subscribing to arbitrary RSS feeds
• 982181 – Tapping on History panel buttons interact with banner (Android 2.3)
• 942281 – Provide a way for a service add-on to authenticate a user
• 942879 – Adding panel from promo banner
• 965622 – Handle the case where there are no items for a given dataset id

mcomella

<Read Only>

Past

• bug 976775 – Rename AssertionHelper assertions to fAssert*
  • bug 976833 – Override JUnit API methods in UITest
• bug 915312 – Ship minimal PBKDF2-SHA256 native library for Android
  • bug 979078 – SHA-256 license distribution with binary
• bug 959652 – BrowserHealthRecorder.ensureEnvironment can be expensive during startup
  • Though scary (unrelated?) backout stuff…

Present

• 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 965548 – Add a way to close edit mode in one tap
• bug 957894 – Update account pickling code for Firefox Account

Future

• bug 898613 – [fig] Editing mode tests (followup to bug 895828)

esawin

Fixed

• 784638 – Downloaded files have the same names in Download Manager
• 981345 – When viewing mp4 file in Firefox Nightly on Android, the “external app” button in URL bar triggers “Unable to play video” in external Video Player

Working on

• 940087 – Shutdown crash in _cairo_hash_table_remove during Android 4.0 Debug mochitest-2
• 959804 – Intermittent tcheck2,tp4m | application crashed [@ libc.so + 0x11e78]
• 981483 – Helper app does not update or clear previous page actions
• 950417 – “Unable to find application to perform this action” when tapping on downloaded XPI file in Android “My Files” view
• 974771 – Currently downloading file can be attempted to open

Summary

• Fixing helper app bugs
• Allowing “safe” XPI installs from untrusted sources

RNewman

<Read Only>

All FxA, all the time. Apart from reviews and randomness. Desktop Sync work week.

nalexander

<Read Only>

• Sick Thursday -> Sunday last week 🙁
• Completely snowed under trying to understand new Android resource failures: see bug 974627 and bug 959652 for patches backed out due to this issue (?). Current hypothesis: bug 978587 added or exposed bad Android resource dependencies 🙁
• Trying to handle P1s for FxAccount 🙁

BLassey

• call selected phone numbes bug 979470
• select the whole phone number on long press bug 980197
• working on a UI for tab streaming bug 928096

MFinkle

• Back from PTO
• Hacking through bugmail
• Looking for unstable features before merge:
  • Progressbar
  • HelperApps
  • Banner

Ian Barlow

• Hub
  • Detail work on RSS feeds in 30
• Tablets
  • Reviewing user testing feedback for some new ‘tab browsing’ concepts
  • Writing a summary with Yuan and Anthony, hope to share next week
• Search
  • Working with Anthony Lam on some cool visual search ideas
• First run
  • Starting to define the shape of this feature
  • Sketches, notes here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769683#c6
  • More detailed work to come
• Upcoming travel
  • Vancouver in 2 weeks for UX hacking
  • Denver in 3 weeks for a UX conference

Arun

<Read Only>

• Back from almost 3 weeks (?!) of PTO
• Focusing on getting form autofill out the door – polishing MVP & soon to have bugs ready
• PDF.js, tabbed browsing explorations, and misc bugs (basically all pending work) is next.

WebRT

<Read Only>

(<Read Only> due to conflict with Marketplace organization’s quarterly “Apps Day” event)

• team remains focused on release blockers, bug fixes, and minor enhancements
• Fx29 go/no-go discussions leaning toward “go”; final call tomorrow (Thursday, March 13) in Product Delivery meeting
• Notable Bugs:
  • bug 982182 breaks app updates (patch in hand; awaiting review)
  • bug 978836 switches to production APK Factory servers; will require reinstallation of apps on Fx29/30 Aurora/Nightly builds (patch with review; awaiting info and push)

A-Team

• Make sure your tests clean up after themselves! bug 968200

Feature Focus

Fx28 Ships on 03/18

• [AT RISK] bug 875750 – Implement <input type=”color”>: Android widget/color picker <==backed out
• [ON TRACK] bug 768667 – Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
• [ON TRACK] bug 852608 – Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile supports <link rel=”search”>
• [ON TRACK] bug 943475 – Predictive lookup for awesomebar entries
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed off
• [ON TRACK] Background Thread Hang Reporting bug 932865
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et), bug 946204

Fx29, Ships on 04/29

• [ON TRACK] Toolbar Refactor
• [ON TRACK] Shumway Bundled in Browser but disabled, bug 905668
• [ON TRACK] Promo snippet for Sync
• [ON TRACK] Preloaded bookmark for Marketplace
• [ON TRACK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons – 2 Quickshare on main menu
• [ON TRACK] Ability to “Hide” existing panels in about:home (see the full project page for more details)
• [AT RISK] Dynamic snippets support preffed on, bug 862801. UX Signoff: 03/04
• [AT RISK] bug 875750 – Implement <input type=”color”>: Android widget/color picker
• [AT RISK] Replace throbber with progress bar bug 917896, bug 959776. UX Signoff: 03/04
• [AT RISK] APK Synthesis on by default
• [AT RISK] Promo snippet for Marketplace UX Signoff: 03/04
• [AT RISK] Firefox Accounts with Sync 1.5 integration UX Signoff: 03/04
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync bug 958889 (nice to have, shift to 30 if needed)

Fx30, Ships on 06/10

• [AT RISK] Ability to re-order existing panels in about:home (see My List: Manage current lists in settings), bug 942231
• [ON TRACK] Evaluate pngquant for PNG size reduction bug 959833
• [AT RISK] Third-party service integration MVP
  • [AT RISK] My List: How My List works (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] My List: Save any web-viewable content (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] My List: Add new My List from Promotional Panel (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] My List: Subscribe to feed or service as a new list (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] My List: Add new and improved list management in Settings (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] Service integration: Downloads (MVP reqs only) <== Need to reduce scope
• [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts
• [AT RISK] Quickshare on the context menu
• [PROPOSED] Progress Bar Improvements for Fx30 bug 981059
• [PROPOSED] Placeholder for FxA/Sync Backlog
• [PROPOSED] WebRTC tab streaming
• [PROPOSED] API: Contacts (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Geolocation services (incl permissions bump)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Argentine Spanish (es-AR), bug 979250
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Mexican Spanish (es-MX), 979251 bug 979251
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Malay (ms), bug 979257
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Latvian (lv) , bug 958021

Fx31, Ships 07/22

• [AT RISK] Ability to re-order existing panels in about:home (see My List: Manage current lists in settings), bug 942231
• [ON TRACK] Evaluate pngquant for PNG size reduction bug 959833
• [AT RISK] Third-party service integration MVP
  • [AT RISK] My List: How My List works (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] My List: Save any web-viewable content (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] My List: Add new My List from Promotional Panel (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] My List: Subscribe to feed or service as a new list (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] My List: Add new and improved list management in Settings (MVP reqs only)
  • [AT RISK] Service integration: Downloads (MVP reqs only) <== Need to reduce scope
• [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts
• [AT RISK] Quickshare on the context menu
• [PROPOSED] Progress Bar Improvements for Fx30 bug 981059
• [PROPOSED] Placeholder for FxA/Sync Backlog
• [PROPOSED] WebRTC tab streaming
• [PROPOSED] API: Contacts (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Geolocation services (incl permissions bump)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Argentine Spanish (es-AR), bug 979250
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Mexican Spanish (es-MX), 979251 bug 979251
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Malay (ms), bug 979257
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Latvian (lv) , bug 958021

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