Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

Schedule

• 2015-01-12

Tracking Review

Beta

• Next Build:

ID	Summary	Status	Assigned to
987223	No visible H.264 video playback on MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1) (Planar 4:2:0 YUV) on Android 4.0 devices	NEW	Edwin Flores [:eflores] [:edwin] (edwin)
1058160	Specify main activity org.mozilla.fennec.App with a default intent over org.mozilla.search.MainActivity	ASSIGNED	Nick Alexander :nalexander (nalexander)
1064669	GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable takes ~212ms during startup	REOPENED	Wesley Johnston (:wesj) (wjohnston)
1071690	WebGL content disappears	NEW	Robert O’Callahan (:roc) (Mozilla Corporation) (roc)
1073554	Visible seams in webpages while panning	NEW	Matt Woodrow (:mattwoodrow) (matt.woodrow)
1079584	Persist delayed search events on disk	ASSIGNED	swaroop.rao
1083271	Big regression in taskjs benchmark 2014-10-08	NEW	Matt Woodrow (:mattwoodrow) (matt.woodrow)
1090300	crash in mozilla::MediaCodecDataDecoder::DecoderLoop()	REOPENED	James Willcox (:snorp) (jwillcox@mozilla.com) (snorp)
1096090	Android Aurora 35 fails to play videos on Asus Memopad	NEW	James Willcox (:snorp) (jwillcox@mozilla.com) (snorp)
1098390	Graphic buffer garbage shown and persists when entering full-screen (video/regular content) in Android 5.0 (Nexus 5)	NEW	Wesley Johnston (:wesj) (wjohnston)
1098421	Aurora stops unexpectedly when trying to launch Search Activity from the widget	NEW	:Margaret Leibovic (margaret.leibovic)
1100100	Downloaded file can’t be opened from “Downloads” page	NEW	Wesley Johnston (:wesj) (wjohnston)
1100126	Flickering green/pink screen while playback video in different devices	ASSIGNED	James Willcox (:snorp) (jwillcox@mozilla.com) (snorp)
1100439	Tinted status bar not working in Android 5.0	ASSIGNED	Stefan Arentz [:st3fan] (sarentz)
1105316	crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.search.providers.SearchEngineManager.createEngineFromLocale(SearchEngineManager.java)	ASSIGNED	:Margaret Leibovic (margaret.leibovic)

15 Total;
15 Open (100%);
0 Resolved (0%);
0 Verified (0%);

Aurora

• Next Build:

ID	Summary	Status	Assigned to
710802	we need updater tests	NEW	James Willcox (:snorp) (jwillcox@mozilla.com) (snorp)
936849	Tablet tabs tray seems to get stuck in some kind of selection mode	NEW	Martyn Haigh (:mhaigh) (mhaigh)
1010068	Disable OCSP in Firefox for Android	NEW	Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?) (blassey.bugs)
1016555	Disable OCSP checking for certificates covered by OneCRL	ASSIGNED	David Keeler (:keeler) [use needinfo?] (dkeeler)
1061268	Wrong photo gets used in some BBC articles	NEW
1063873	Ship the right libomxplugin files for supported API ranges	NEW
1074635	don’t rerender the page for every frame in a GuM tab video stream	NEW
1076966	Use “immersive” fullscreen mode	REOPENED
1084711	Graphic rendering problems on trunk, black boxes, nothing renderend, eventually crashes	NEW	Milan Sreckovic [:milan] (milan)
1089653	crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.search.SearchActivity.updateSettingsButtonVisibility(SearchActivity.java)	NEW	Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (mark.finkle)
1090884	Back button doesn’t do anything	NEW
1091461	Tapping anywhere under the ‘Private Browsing’ tip in the History panel will open the Custom menu	ASSIGNED	Chenxia Liu [:liuche] (liuche)
1091520	Improve framerate of tab tray animation	NEW	Martyn Haigh (:mhaigh) (mhaigh)
1091677	crash in @0x0 | mozilla::layers::ImageHost::GenEffect(mozilla::gfx::Filter const&)	ASSIGNED	Jonathan Watt [:jwatt] (vacation Dec 22 – Jan 5) (jwatt)
1094214	fuzzy text	NEW

15 Total;
15 Open (100%);
0 Resolved (0%);
0 Verified (0%);

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.

• Nivvedan fixed bug 1109233 – Replaced Assert.isTrue(false, …) with Assert.fail(…) for easier readability
• Jalpreet fixed bug 1107253} – Move mBaseUrl and mRawBaseUrl from BaseTest into BaseRobocopTest
  • Also working on cleaning up the home banner visuals – bug 1064461, bug 966654
  • Also helping with gradle integration, thanks!
• vivek fixed bug 1096669
• (iOS) TBonnin fixed bug 1110219 – Toolbar textfield reflects the actual page URL
• (iOS) Chuongv is working on bug 1109647 – Progress bar version2

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)

<Read Only>

• Fix crash reporter on Android L
• Add openh264 support
• Fix bug 1049138

JChen

<Read Only>

Fixed

• 1109291 – Use relative paths for more addons in BHR

Working on

• 1036764 – Add telemetry probes for mobile Flash content
• 1046307 – Intermittent test_ThreadHangStats.js | test failed (with xpcshell return code: 0) | false == true
• 1103036 – Allow ContentChild to perform tasks on shutdown
• 1103101 – Start the telemetry module in content processes
• 1104817 – Backspace Key Events aren’t fired using the Google keyboard
• 1109931 – Save child telemetry payload on shutdown
• 1112212 – Switch to key event mode when input has key listeners

GCP

<Read Only>

Last week

• MozFlu
• WebRTC e10s sandboxing: building scaffolding, trying to move stuff around
• Some reviews

Next week

• WebRTC e10s sandboxing: move more stuff around

Randall Barker

<Read Only>

Last Week:

• Rebased standalone patches onto WebRTC sdp refactor
• Enabled two pass build of WebRTC unit tests
• Started investigating standalone nsPrefService

Next Week:

• Continue nsPrefService work
• Get patches ready for review and landing

Eugen Sawin

Fixed

• bug 991923 – Server not found when switching networks on Android 3-5
  • (dup) bug 947801 – DNS resolution sporadically fails in Android 4.4/5.0 when connected to a VPN
  • (dup) bug 1051637 – Unable to establish web connections through a VPN in Firefox for Android (KitKat+)
• bug 1109940 – Add symbol wrapping for Android DNS resolver
• bug 1110529 – Recursive chaining in wrapped Android DNS resolver

Working on

• bug 1110212

Brian Nicholson

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• bug 1112411 – Home pager/awesomescreen
• bug 1109676, bug 1112228 – Basic tabbed browsing implementation
• Next: Search engine support

WesJ

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• Working through “favicons” on iOS.
• Building some data abstractions around storing favicons
• Looked at some sqlite data layers
• Implemented a CoreData saving layer

LucasR

Last week

• 1097318 – Fix talos regression when new tablet UI is enabled
• 1097986 – Update curve shape to account for vertical break
• 1098245 – Avoid cropping tab curve when selected tab is partially visible
• 1106118 – getVerticalSpacing() is only available on SDK >= 16
• 1109001 – [Tablet] Unfocused tab in the tab strip is black

Next week

liuche

<Read Only>

Highlights:

• Defining passwords UI with Anthony
• Onboarding WIP for v1.5

Past:

• 1093201 – Passwords management UI

Margaret

Highlights:

• Moved reader mode code to toolkit – bug 793920
• Landed Downloads.jsm patches – bug 901360
• Landed tracking protection settings UI (Nightly only) – bug 1107133
• Disabled estimated reading time in reading list – bug 1110461
• Working on defaulting to show URL in urlbar instead of title (and updating All The Robocop Tests) – bug 1111729
• Trying to finish a search activity crash fix – bug 1105316

Past:

• 681432 – Fennec does not display addons with 3rd party addon types in addon manager
• 793920 – Move android reader mode to a shared place in toolkit
• 901360 – Convert to Downloads.jsm in Firefox for Android
• 1063193 – Performing searches with Wikipedia search engine immediately launches Fennec
• 1063518 – “Learn More” link for the Mozilla Location Service is visible on Beta/Release despite MLS setting not available
• 1106415 – Allow the add-on SDK to dynamically insert add-on options
• 1107133 – expose privacy.trackingprotection.enabled in fennec privacy preferences
• 1110461 – Disable estimated reading time in reading list

Present:

• 795968 – Create the about:reader page
• 1025866 – Address bar does not display correct page title or URL of the page currently loading
• 1085609 – Intermittent testDoorHanger | Popup blocker is displayed – got false, expected true
• 1093172 – Reading List should fetch and process new items in the background
• 1093635 – confusing time indication on the Reading list
• 1098421 – Aurora stops unexpectedly when trying to launch Search Activity from the widget
• 1105316 – crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.search.providers.SearchEngineManager.createEngineFromLocale(SearchEngineManager.java)
• 1107588 – Support adding content from URLs that redirect to the reader mode cache
• 1110502 – aboutAddons.js needs to clear add-on options dynamically inserted by add-on SDK
• 1111142 – Move Android-specific logic out of aboutReader.js
• 1111729 – Default to show URL in toolbar instead of page title
• 1112189 – Telemetry for tracking protection shield
• 1112960 – Empty extra ReaderMode.jsm file

mcomella

<Read Only>

Past

• New tablet
  • bug 1105541 – Fine-tune Lightweight theme colors on new tablet
  • bug 1109739 – Use dev tools to ensure new tablet LWT is performant
  • bug 1112397 – Go back in testSettingsMenuItems on 7″ tablet

Present

• New tablet
  • bug 1107386 – Browser menu is clipped and unusable on the Kindle Fire
  • bug 1095278 – Android builds are going to burn when Gecko 36 merges to Beta
  • bug 1105472 – Domain highlighting fails when the URL is longer than the Awesomebar
  • bug 1106935 – Remove old tablet code and resources
  • bug 1110555 – Graphical glitches when rotating with LWT enabled
• bug 1085837 – Intermittent testAppMenuPathways | application crashed [None]

Future

• bug 939350 – Create Python linter wrapper
• bug 983437 – Delay FHR pruning until the screen is off

rnewman

<Read Only>

Fixed

• 1100361 – Firefox 35 and higher unable to install on devices with 5MB LinearAlloc limit (particularly Gingerbread)
• 1108252 – Remove Firefox Search activity launcher icon
• 1109000 – Refactor statics out of BrowserLocaleManager
• 1109772 – Initial refactor of data abstraction layer to support syncing and offline use
• 1110680 – Import Sync tests
• 1110688 – Resolve open question about random initialization

Working on

• 1081768 – Crash with java.lang.NullPointerException @ org.mozilla.gecko.gfx.LayerView.registerCxxCompositor(LayerView.java:525) when BrowserApp is immediately displaced as foreground activity
• 1109361 – (FHR) java.util.NoSuchElementException at java.util.Scanner.next(Scanner.java:961) … ProfileInformationCache.readFromFile(ProfileInformationCache.java:134)

nalexander

<Read Only>

Projects for this cycle:

• (Android) Migrate legacy Sync 1.1 devices
  • in progress — UI surface landed (bug 1098667), working on the migration flow
• (iOS) Implement Firefox Account client
  • bug 1109778 and friends
• Build system stuff
  • Proguarding libraries (bug 1106593) uplifted to Aurora and Beta
  • Another about building with external build systems (Gradle? Buck?) ready to be posted
  • Working on |mach bootstrap| for mobile/android (bug bootstrapfennec)

Past

• 1064162 – The URL displayed under tab titles in the Synced Tabs panel disappears for a while after choosing “Open in New Tab”/”Open in Private Tab”
• 1106593 – Ensure that Google Play Services dependency is Proguarded during build

Present

• 956444 – Handle Sync storage deprecation indicators for Firefox Accounts migration

Martyn Haigh

Past:

• Said goodbye to lucasr :'(

• 1087219 – UI navigation in full screen tabs panel
• 1100464 – Add back button to top left of the tabs panel header for new tablet

Present:

• 936849 – Tablet tabs tray seems to get stuck in some kind of selection mode
• 1107636- Replace top level RelativeLayout with something less expensive

• 936849 – Tablet tabs tray seems to get stuck in some kind of selection mode
• 1091520 – Improve framerate of tab tray animation
• 1109155 – [7′ Tablet] Gridview doesn’t show the last row completely on portrait
• 1110149 – [Tablet] Insert vertical divider between back button and normal browsing button in Tabs Panel
• 1112185 – Open URL in background

Stefan

<Read Only> – But can do quick demo

Been working on smaller UI improvements. Now working on location text field improvements like auto-complete / site suggestions.

BLassey

Fixed

• 1088758 – Add the ability to mirror tabs from desktop to a second screen
• 1096666 – measure time spent in each compartment
• 1112337 – desktop mirroring code passes null viewport
• 1112338 – increase max output stream to 720p
• 1112345 – Tab streaming should scroll stream with layers and not offsets

Working on

• 1011340 – Support Multicast DNS (mDNS)
• 1096718 – display time measured spent in each compartment

Antlam

<Read Only>

• Past
  • PTO
  • Search results page mocks and meetings
• Upcoming
  • Hack week in SFO for Reader Mode with Desktop
  • Passwords UX work and bugs with Chenxia
  • Onboarding clean up with Chenxia
  • Loading URL in background work with Martyn
  • Doorhangers/ site ID UI clean up
  • Following up with some contributor bugs

Robin

105
Still working on navigation variations. Would like to keep Australis-like feel to UI. Currently playing with using lower tab bar for FxA access.

Search
Researched mobile browser comparisons with different search terms. Had meeting yesterday with team and provider to go over possible UX changes.

Provided feedback on bugs:
bug 1112232

Darrin

<Read Only>

Last Week

• PTO

This Week

• Mobile search results proposal
• iOS browser research and sketching
• Some initial UX planning for 2015: projects, priorities and goals

QA

• QA Release Test-Plans

Garvan

<Read Only>

• Fennec Stumbler: Starting to see significant contributions, which revealed we are missing the needed metrics on the MLS server end to make conclusive statements about the value of these contributions. Working on it.
• Did have 1 crash so far, is fixed, landed in in beta.

Feature Focus

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• Mobile Roadmap in Trello
• Funnel review coming up on Monday, December 22nd.
• 37 in Roadmap is updated per yesterdays Product Planning meeting, but please let me know if you have additional updates or items that should be tracked here.

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