Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

30-April-2014

Mobile: 2014-04-30

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Schedule

  • Shipped Fx 29!
  • Next Merge: 2014-06-09

Topics for This Week

Firefox Hub

Feed add-ons on track for Fx30. Hub add-on hackathon next week! Stay tuned for a blog post with details.

Etherpad for potential Hub add-ons

Firefox 29

Quick Share on Mainmenu, FxA/Sync, Webapp Runtime, Pageload Progressbar, Hide Default Search Engine & Banner/Snippet System.

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.

  • Nathan Toone fixed bug 1001611 – Cannot build with custom set MOZ_APP_NAME
  • Marcos A. Di Pietro fixed bug 999069 – Use clear sans for about: pages and bug 999488 – Move reader mode listener registration from GeckoApp to BrowserApp
  • Alex Deaconu fixed bug 1000287 – Remove unnecessary log lines from GLController and bug 999680 – Check API level >= 16 in HardwareUtils.isTelevision
  • Vivek fixed bug 977167 – Open tabs should be filtered to exclude about:, chrome: etc. URLs prior to flushing to DB
  • Capella fixed a lot of bugs!
    • bug 997332 – Changing prefs in about:config often doesn’t get saved
    • bug 994664 – Improve SelectionHandler UI performance
    • bug 895463 – Orange caret indicator detaches from associated input field
    • bug 864582 – Clean up _sendMouseEvents
    • bug 980074 – Base Tests for text selection \o/

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)

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  • Burnt a bunch of time investigating crashes (bugs 952721 and 1000538)
  • Refactoring headless gecko to be generic
  • Investigating webapp startup performance
  • Investigating ASAN testing

JChen

<Read Only>

Fixed

Working on

GCP

  • Last week
    • SafeBrowsing testing affordances, small bugs.
    • WebRTC 3.50 Android uplift
  • Next week
    • WebRTC 3.50 Android uplift

Randall Barker

  • Last Week: More WebRTC standalone refactoring.
  • This Week: Even more WebRTC standalone refactoring.

Brian Nicholson

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  • bug 999203 – Tabs always restore from last time, even if preference is disabled
  • Fixing up animating EditText, bug 997447
    • Blog post incoming
  • Ongoing bug 946022 – Implement requestAutocomplete for Firefox for Android

WesJ

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  • Working on Chromecast support using the Android SDK. Working patch in bug 901803.
  • Lots of reviewing
  • bug 1000552 – about:downloads content no longer persists across restarts
  • bug 998063 – Feed parser should support media:thumbnail

jdover

Past

Present

  • Search and reading list home screen widgets
  • Web Activities finally landed for webapps in nightly! Docs here
  • Web Activities / Web Intents standardization with Google and :sicking

LucasR

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Last week

  • Lots of in-progress patches for suggested sites:

Next week

  • Wrapped initial batch of patches for suggested sites

liuche

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  • Wrapping up “Remove Top Sites”/bookmarks-history handling (bug 921136, bug 913457)
  • Ideas/brainstorming around Contextual Hints
  • Oranges
  • Telemetry reviews

Margaret

<Read Only>

Highlights

  • Hub bugs and uplifts

Fixed

Working on

mcomella

<Read Only>

Past

  • bug 996313 – JavascriptMessageParser does not immediately end the test when a js assertion fails
  • bug 999750 – Recycle MotionEvents
  • bug 998426 – Use same constructor across API levels in shrunken BrowserToolbar’s LayoutParams
  • investigate bug 998001 – Intermittent testFindInPage | Exception caught – java.lang.NullPointerException

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 997487 – Add UI telemetry to editing mode cancel button
  • bug 998000 – Create BrowserApp.cancelEditingMode for consistency with BrowserApp.enter/commitEditingMode
  • bug 1000149 – Simplify edit mode
  • bug 958889 – Make Fennec “Synced Tabs” tray display entry point to Firefox Account + Sync when user has no existing accounts

Future

  • bug 983437 – Delay FHR pruning until the screen is off
  • bug 989441 – Centralized documentation for writing tests
  • bug 997477 – Add a way to close edit mode in one tap on tablet

esawin

Summary

Fixed

Working on

RNewman

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  • Locale switching mostly finished and mostly through review. Build steps to go. Thanks to nalexander for being thorough!
  • Folks are adding stuff to FHR, and I’m reviewing it.
  • Fallout from send tab/third-party Sync services/etc.
  • Discussing contacts sync with those folks.
  • Random fixes, random reviews.

nalexander

Highlights

  • Build chickens coming home to roost: bug 997772, bug 917480, Android Support v13 library for ChromeCast.
  • Mentoring! Awesome folks: toonetown, vivek, deaconu. Very contributor, much satisfaction.

Fixed

Working on

BLassey

I alternate between banging my head against e10s printing and second screen

MFinkle

  • Telemetry
  • Second screen

Ian Barlow

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  • Firefox UX team meet-up this week, so expect longer than usual response times, sorry!

WebRT

  • shipped in 29!
  • Proposed Priorities for Next Development Cycle:
    • significant bugs
    • valuable minor enhancements
    • comprehensive unit/integration tests
  • Notable Issues:
    • bug 991397 – launching app installed outside Firefox Beta hangs firstrun – not uplifted; wontfix
    • bug 989294 – Synthetic APK never launches if downloaded outside Fx Marketplace – uplifted to Fx29+
    • bug 990125 – Duplicate reminders to update apps – uplifted to Fx29+
    • bug 993164 – APK Factory stage release/review has 502 – fixed on server
    • bug 889744 – Cannot install packaged apps from reviewer details page on Android – fixed by blocking bug 989806
    • bug 986085 – User-hand-holding to check the Unknown Sources checkbox – patch in review
    • bug 991394 – previously-installed apps stop running – under investigation
    • bug 995803 – crash in java.lang.IllegalStateException – under investigation

Feature Focus

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Here’s the roadmap: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap

Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 99998
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 99998
    • CA/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 99998
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 99998
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 99998
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 99998
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • Mobile Vidyo Room
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