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Schedule

• Next Merge: 2014-06-09

Friends of the Mobile Team

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• Matthew Ostrowski fixed bug 1006824 – Fennec can leak profile path in non-standard configurations (first patch!)
• Biraj Karmakar filed and fixed bug 1011782 – Update Privacy policy url
• Alexandru Chiriac fixed bug 997049 – “Switch to tab” does not work for Reading List entries and bug 943908 – No tooltip when long-pressing action bar’s icons
• Vivek fixed bug 944144 – Implement NavigationHelper.reload
• J. Ryan Stinnett wrote a robocop test for the remote debugger in bug 1010750, so it will never break again!

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)

• Banging head on XPCOM issue with headless Gecko
• Various other bugs
• Managing stuff

Alan K. (ack)

• working through issues/feedback from cloudsync partner
• baking UI/UX changes into FF isn’t the right thing to do here
  • better approach (and faster) is to use addons page (services tab)
• chromecast arrived, will being working on tab mirroring as soon as cloudsync work winds down
  • starting with websocket server for rtc peer brokering

JChen

Fixed

• 919598 – too-long autocomplete hangs swiftkey & fennec
• 992357 – Add array support to NativeJSObject
• 993261 – Text selection keyboard shortcuts not working
• 994472 – Support URI autocomplete on Swype (and other composition focused) keyboards
• 1000618 – Awesome bar suggestions don’t work with AIType keyboard
• 1007290 – Remove text type code from ToolbarEditText
• 1008271 – JNI.jsm leaks references
• 1010039 – Getter/delete/set technique doesn’t actually work in JNI.jsm
• 1012722 – Switch GeckoApp/BrowserApp listeners to using NativeJSObject
• 1012724 – Make NativeJSObject propagate exceptions correctly

Working on

• 1013326 – Add a way to distinguish chrome hangs from content ones in BHR
• 1011059 – crash in java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid selection notification range: 0 to #, length: # at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoEditable.onSelectionChange(GeckoEditable.java)
• 1012720 – Fix deleting prototype getters in Fennec code
• 1013478 – Use GCC 4.8 by default if available
• 1014136 – Backspacing when autocompleting doesn’t work right with hardware keyboard
• 1014233 – Autocomplete result still shown when backspacing
• 1014244 – Backspacing doesn’t work right when composition is single character

• Also looking at native stack in BHR

GCP

• Last week
  • WebRTC 3.50 code & build fixes for B2G
  • WebRTC 3.50 debugging on Froyo/Gingerbread/ICS to make it actually work
  • Reviews
• Next week
  • Land/refactor/upstream WebRTC 3.50 code
  • Load Adaptation for WebRTC
  • Small tweaks to SafeBrowsing updates delay/frequency on mobile
• Random:
  • Trolling Reddit with surprisingly constructive results: http://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/261azw/mozilla_could_use_a_new_ux_designer/chnbrgr

Randall Barker

• Last Week: Implemented threads and timers for stand alone WebRTC. Attended second screen hack week.
• This Week: Implement DNS and Socket Service for stand alone WebRTC.

Eugen Sawin

Last week

• Gonzales
  • SPDY proxy works with latest Firefox Nightly (https://github.com/eamsen/node-gonzales)
  • Updated documentation (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Gonzales)
• bug 1002426 – Zoom level mangled after restoring session
  • Re-opened, fixed, needs verification before uplifting

Next week

• Gonzales
  • Caching
  • Image compression (Sylvain)
  • More documentation updates
• bug 1000251 – Add robocop tests for zooming and zoom session history
  • Find out why robocop loads pages at different resolutions compared to manual loading

Sylvain Cleymans

Last/This week: Got all set up

Next week: Image compression on Gonzales

Brian Nicholson

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• Finally back to hacking on requestAutocomplete (bug 939351, bug 946022)
• bug 1011666 – GeckoSharedPrefs cleanup

WesJ

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• Out with sick family for a few days
• bug 1006158 – Build against Android v7 support library and Google Play Services and bug 901803 – Integrate chromecast support into Firefox. – In reviews.
• bug 990642 – Regression: ‘Share Image’ shares link and not actual image + some other share image stuff that needs to land.
• bug 1001851 – Can’t attach a downloaded .doc file to bugzilla. – Will uplift

LucasR

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Last week

• bug 1008210 – Pinning a suggested site should keep in the same position
• bug 1009574 – Properly handle redirects on suggested sites
• bug 1009853 – Compile error: TopSitesCursorWrapper does not override abstract method getNotificationUri() in Cursor
• bug 1011533 – Update ShapeCurve’s state in onLayout instead of onMeasure
• bug 1010261 – Add preference to enable/disable suggested sites
• bug 1010764 – Make empty tab thumbnails visually consistent
• bug 1013870 – Settings activity crashes if you build Fennec with targetSdkVersion=19
• (In progress) bug 1011620 – Revisit how suggestedsites.json is generated at build time
• (In progress) bug 1010739 – Toolbar refinement – Change curve shape to be consistent with Australis
• (In progress) bug 1010740 – Toolbar refinement – Change entry asset and tweak padding
• (In progress) bug 1010741 – Toolbar refinement – Show search icon and change text hint in about:home

Next week

• More suggested sites
• Some toolbar stuff

liuche

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• Finished up top sites removing + associated bugs (bug 913457 and bug 921136)
• More UI Telemetry
• mentoring + reviews
• Contextual hints

Margaret

Highlights

• Working on “Recent Tabs” panel – bug 1004850
• Hub bugs
• Gave a tech talk about browser extensions: https://github.com/leibovic/browser-dreams

Fixed

• 1007408 – Throttle onrefresh calls in home panels
• 1009586 – Get rid of “Add panel” menu item in home settings
• 1010237 – Remove unused data sent with Link:Favicon message
• 1010268 – Default home panel indicator is broken in settings in Fx30
• 1012739 – Actually restore tabs in “recent tabs” lists
• 989430 – Don’t offer to add panels when none are available
• 897247 – [fig] Closing a background tab does not update “Switch to tab” UI in new about:home
• 1005107 – charsetMenu.properties not included in localized files

Working on

• 817716 – Add ability to close all tabs
• 998009 – Add a Clear History control to the history panel
• 1004850 – List recently closed tabs in the UI
• 1010986 – Dynamic panel list view drawn only after scrolling
• 942877 – Promo panel to advertise customization in about:home
• 987869 – Show promoted panels in the panel picker
• 701725 – Enable the ability to undo a closed tab

eedens

Past

• Robocop: Documentation cleanup
• Robocop: Update to Jim’s gdbutils (https://github.com/darchons/android-gdbutils/pull/13)

Current

• bug 1009376: Add android:summary for “Scroll title bar” (Waiting on UX)
• bug 881091: showing twice in reader mode (Code done; running tests)
• bug 918309: Import and use public domain JNI.jsm implementation (Code done; running tests)

Future

• Search activity
• Reading Mode (bug 917884)
  • bug 1011714: Clean up removal of Reading List items
  • bug 760554: Multi-page articles
  • bug 788114: Android intent to add URLs to reading mode
  • bug 889351: Show excerpts in reading list panel

mcomella

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Past

• bug 1012795 – Replace editing mode cancel button telemetry extra with button id name

Present

• bug 1006294 – Address bar would not unhide, content over scrolled instead of glow when panning
• bug 997477 – Add a way to close edit mode in one tap on tablet
• bug 998000 – Create BrowserApp.cancelEditingMode for consistency with BrowserApp.enter/commitEditingMode
• bug 958889 – Make Fennec “Synced Tabs” tray display entry point to Firefox Account + Sync when user has no existing accounts
• bug 932208 – BrowserToolbar and HomeFragment context menu ‘Share’ option should be disabled for these protocols: about:// chrome:// file://
• bug 1009315 – Replace TelemetryContract interfaces with enums

Future

• Too busy with other things:
  • 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 983437 – Delay FHR pruning until the screen is off
• bug 989441 – Centralized documentation for writing tests

RNewman

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• Locale switching landed. Only one thing I didn’t address in the initial landing; patch up for review.
• Working on intent-driven distribution selection and download for partners. Requires a little bit of rejigging when work happens (e.g., bug 1013684!).
• Review backlog.

Fixed

• 917480 – Create language selection UI for unsupported Android locales
• 1004529 – Don’t fetch current display metrics when updating resource configuration
• 1008461 – Tablet: title incorrect when launching a specific Settings section

Working on

• 1011008 – System locale changes not correctly reflected in running Fennec activities
• 1013024 – Handle install referrer intent
• 1013684 – Distribution handling is accidentally triggered by top sites, not when it’s supposed to be
• 1014242 – Distribution handling is triggered by ActivityChooserModel during initial startup
• 1014283 – Finish BrowserHealthRecorder initialization after distribution processing
• 1014338 – Rework distribution processing to allow for delayed initialization

nalexander

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At some kind of building fire training thing. Three Mozilla people multiplied by three scheduled hours == a huge waste of time and money. On the bright side, in future, you must refer to me as “Fire Marshall Nick”.

Last week: in SFO for second screen workweek, did some hacking on about:devices. This week: reviewing everything and working on some Remote Tabs panel bugs.

Fixed

• 991826 – Not all tabs from other devices can be selected
• 1009732 – Reduce number of Proguard passes for developer builds
• 1010445 – JavaScript Error: “TypeError: aElement.getAttribute is not a function” {file: “chrome://browser/content/CastingApps.js” line: 184}]

Working on

• 775104 – Export bookmarks and history
• 985504 – Solicit user credentials once on receiving invalid-client-state response from server
• 997288 – “Open in [New|Private] Tab” should have a quick switch-to-tab feature
• 891600 – Provider: Sync usage
• 966105 – Automatically transition from verification email screen to the verified screen
• 1003877 – Custom server support for Firefox Accounts on Android
• 1014150 – Pull-to-Refresh for Sync’d Tabs doesn’t fetch sent tabs

BLassey

• bug 1008436 – support DIAL multiscreen service, got review, need to update the patch
• bug 1011340 – Support Multicast DNS (mDNS), mfinke r-‘d
• bug 1010068 – disable OCSP on Firefox for Android, got r+’s, do we want to land?
• bug 1013588 – gecko-based android launcher
• bug 1006186 – casting apps should be able to specify the mime types they support, waiting for review from mfinkle

MFinkle

• More Mozilla on Android planning
• More UI Telemetry
  • Landing a few more probes
  • Creating some scripts (github) and doing runs
• Second screen
  • Reviewing Chromecast patches
  • We added the Roku app to github
  • Prepping some Firefox patches to turn on video casting by default for Nightly

Ian Barlow

• Welcome, Yuan and Anthony! \o/
• Back from London
• Assembling a UX polish backlog
• Helping to get Search moving
• Thinking about future projects
• Still hiring! https://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/oA4RYfwd

Yuan Wang

• Presented tablet IxD proposal [part one] to mobile engineers
  • Presentation: http://cl.ly/0x293e1j460J
  • GIF micro-interactions: http://delivery.yuuuan.com/vc8avwda

Anthony Lam

• Was in London for a work week with Lucas, Ian and Margaret
• UX touch-up/refinements on the Toolbar with Lucasr
• bug 958889 – Make Fennec “Synced Tabs” tray display entry point to Firefox Account + Sync when user has no existing accounts
• (in progress) bug 899643 – Synced Tabs divider improvements
• (in progress) bug 997288 – “Open in New|Private Tab” should have a quick switch-to-tab feature
• Continue Tablet work
• Continue Search work

WebRT

• focus remains on bug fixes, minor enhancements, and tests
• made android:debuggable=”true” for debug Nightly builds from tinderbox/tryserver (bug 1010587)
• looking into debugging webapp processes with JimDB

Notable Bugs

• bug 1010549 – DOMApplicationRegistry initialization dies on NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_IID for nsISystemMessagesInternal – fixed
• bug 995803 – crash in java.lang.IllegalStateException – fixed; uplift?
• bug 991394 – previously-installed apps stop running – inbound; tracking 30?
• bug 1007770 – WebApp update prompt looks scary – update icon – needs info ibarlow
• bug 1011093 – WebApp update prompt looks scary – wordsmith notification text – needs info ibarlow
• bug 957067 – Pass back error when incorrect data passed through in install APK – reviewed; needs updating
• bug 978143 – Cancelling APK installation does not trigger error callback – reviewed; depends on 957067
• bug 986085 – User-hand-holding to check the Unknown Sources checkbox – needs updated patch; depends on 957067
• bug 1009954 – implement unit tests for WebappManager – work-in-progress patch wants feedback
• bug 1003962 – Line Runner hangs on launch with white screen – under investigation
• bug 1011832 – Loading my app on Android displays a blank white screen – unconfirmed
• bug 1013428 – mozilla-apk-cli App Updates side-loaded don’t appear – new
• bug 1013433 – uninstalling, resideloading, and relaunching app causes it to stall at white screen – under investigation; possible dupe of 991394

QA

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• QA Release Test-Plans

Feature Focus

Firefox 30 (Beta)- Release: Jun 10, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Quickshare on the context menu
• [ON TRACK] Evaluate pngquant for PNG size reduction bug 959833
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v1 (RSS feed support + 2 add-ons)
• [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
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Indonesian (id), bug 960060
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Belarusian (be), bug 521981

Firefox 31 (Aurora) – Release: Jul 22, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Ability to re-order existing panels in about:home, not via drag and drop (see My List: Manage current lists in settings), bug 959917
• [ON TRACK] Firefox Hub v2 (currently planned feature complete)
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare Contexts
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data
• [ON TRACK] UX Telemetry
• [ON TRACK] Added locale(s): Hindi(hi), Gujarati (gu), Bengali (bn), Punjabi (pn), Maithili (mai), Marathi (mr), Malayalam (ml), Assamese (as), Oriya (or), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Kannada (kn)

Firefox 32 (Nightly) – Release: Sep 2, 2014

• [PROPOSED] Screencasting (Roku)
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub v3 (promo panel, bugfixes & polish + 4-5 add-ons)
• [PROPOSED] Suggested sites v1
• [PROPOSED] Create “Add-ons” page in settings (bug 892125)
• [PROPOSED] Contextual tips for users
• [PROPOSED] Form auto-fill improvements
• [PROPOSED] Tab mirroring (Roku)
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language, UI lang switching
• [PROPOSED] Synced tabs page as entry point into Firefox Accounts & Sync (bug 958889)
• [PROPOSED] API: Push notifications
• [PROPOSED] Add a Clear History control to the history panel bug 998009
• [ON TRACK] Android Gamepad backend bug 852935
• [PROPOSED] Firefox Hub: Add new My Panel from Promotional Banner

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