Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Lukas/Sylvestre/Lawrence)
- FF30.0 RC builds ready but we are looking at a potential build #2 for bug 1020219
- FF30.0 mobile final build kicks off today, looking at issue in bug 1019697 which is affecting one of the new locales for this release
Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)
Blogs
- Finkle posted on feedback related work
Work In Progress
- Improve tab management (1004850,817716, 997288)
- Sync
- bug 899643 remote tabs list visual refresh
- bug 1003877 Custom server support
- Intent-driven distribution selection and download for partners (1013024, 1013684, 1014242, 1014283)
- bug 1013326 Add a way to distinguish chrome hangs from content ones in BHR
- bug 1011059 crash in java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid selection notification range: 0 to #, length: # at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoEditable.onSelectionChange(GeckoEditable.java)
- bug 1012720 Fix deleting prototype getters in Fennec code
You can find more on upcoming feature plans in the[roadmap]
Uplifts
Beta (30)
- Regression: Tapping in the add-ons page opens the same page in a new tab, unable to search for add-ons (Bug 985867)
- Can’t attach a downloaded .doc file to bugzilla (Bug 1001851)
- WebApp update prompt looks scary – update icon (Bug 1007770)
- In Firefox for Android 30+, nsIPromptService.promptUsernameAndPassword() aCheckState.value is always returned as false, even if the user checks the checkbox (Bug 1016348)
Aurora (31)
- Telemetry for home banner (Bug 979443)
- Zoom level mangled after restoring session (Bug 1002426)
- console.log messages no longer appear in logcat output (Bug 1014794)
Landings
Nightly (32)
- Enable the ability to undo a closed tab (Bug 701725)
- Add a Clear History control to the history panel (Bug 998009)
- Graphic buffer garbage shown (Bug 1006797)
- HomeProvider: org.mozilla.gecko.sqlite.SQLiteBridgeException: Can’t step statement: (5) database is locked (Bug 1006947)
- Make empty tab thumbnails visually consistent (Bug 1010764)
- WebApp update prompt looks scary – wordsmith notification text (Bug 1011093)
- [Fennec] [mr] Improper UI text rendering for leading character ॲ (U+0972) on Samsung Galaxy S4 device (Bug 1012365)
- input type=file is broken? (Bug 1014161)
- Use Context.MODE_ENABLE_WRITE_AHEAD_LOGGING when opening databases (Bug 1014988)
- Add ability to force update ButtonToast (Bug 1015421)
- Regression: Animated Sync spinning during no Sync activity and with no account (Bug 1015974)
- Undo’ing a private tab restores it as a regular tab (Bug 1017047)
- Polish undo close tab button toast appearance (Bug 1017129)
- Setup sync message given to users of sync 1.1 in the synced tabs tray (Bug 1017142)
- Regression: Empty lists view, no data is shown or fetched (Bug 1017554)
- Refine ‘clear history’ feature in History panel (Bug 1017633)
- crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.Telemetry.sendUIEvent(Telemetry.java) (Bug 1019158)
UX (Ian)
- Tablet refresh (yuan)
- Tabbed browsing
- (Bug 1014156)
- Toolbar visual refinements (antlam)
- Search activity (antlam, ibarlow)
- Defining scope for a landable proof of concept
- Bugs and designs coming soon!
Developer Tools (Jeff/Rob/Dave)
- Outbound
- JSCONF/CSSConf rocked
- everyone is a little tired
- Landings
- Nightly’s toolbox top bar got re-arranged last week to be more in line with other tools, and it looks spiffy screenshot bug
- Lot of work to improve appearance on HiDPI screens bug
- Framerate widget bug
- 44 bugs fixed since last I was here
Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)
Desktop
- Prepping 29 User Sentiment Reports
- Gearing up for 30, we will be experimenting with some new ways to survey user happiness on Desktop
Questions, Comments, FYI
- Any objections to doing recordings of this meeting?
Planning Meeting Details
- Wednesdays – 11:00am PT, 18:00 UTC
- Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
- Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
- irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
- (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)
Video/Teleconference Details – NEW
- 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99696 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
- Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
- Vidyo Guest URL