Mobile/Notes/29-Feb-2012

Contents 1 Details 2 Schedule 3 Major Topics for This Week 4 Stand ups 4.1 James W. (snorp) 4.2 Kats 4.3 GBrown 4.4 Chris Lord (cwiiis) 4.5 Chris Peterson 4.6 GCP 4.7 Brian N 4.8 Sriram 4.9 WesJ 4.10 LucasR 4.11 MBrubeck 4.12 Margaret 4.13 Scott (jwir3) 4.14 BLassey 4.15 DougT 4.16 MFinkle 4.17 Madhava 4.18 Ian Barlow 4.19 Patryk Adamczyk 4.20 GFX 5 Round Table

Details

• Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
• Dial-in: conference# 95312
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• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
• Warp Core Vidyo Room

Schedule

• Next merge is 2012-03-13

Major Topics for This Week

• MWC Update
• Release Focus
  • With less than 2 weeks until the next merge, we need to make sure we are on track to meet our release goals. These include: Fast rendering & panning with minimal checkerboarding; Sync support on par with current releases; Responsive UI; and high stability.
  • Only work on Beta blockers – blocking-fennec1.0=beta+

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)

• This week
  • GLES 2.0ifying the SurfaceTextureLayer so Flash works again on Maple
  • Adding support for fullscreen to Flash

• Next week
  • Support power modes (wake lock) with Flash
  • Any other Flash bugs I get to

Kats

• Last week
  • Workin’ on maple:
    • ripped out a bunch of stuff – 717778, 730681, 730966, lots of other patches
    • worked on displayport fixing – 730681, 730710, 729169, 730687
    • worked on predictive viewport – 729528
  • Other stuff
    • landed GeckoProfile refactoring from a while back – 726382
    • fixed startup crash when SD card is not present – 723295
    • got TextLayer.renderText off the startup path – 730949

• Next week
  • More maple work:
    • bug 731619 – draw stops completely after rotation
    • look at the critical draw path on maple and optimize it as much as possible to get it under 15ms

GBrown

Last week:

• Bug 705192 remotexpcshelltests.py cannot execute xpcshell via SUT agent
• Bug 725094 Add a try/except around Robocop tests to catch test errors vs Fennec errors
• Bug 728298 DeviceManager needs a good, standard way of starting an Android application
• Bug 730153 SUT agent KILL command fails to kill xpcshell
• Bug 731403 Robocop: NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘readline
• oprofile – found I am missing the oprofilefs device

Next week:

• build a new kernel for oprofile

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

• Last week
  • bug 709813 – DOM Fullscreen mode doesn’t work (in m-c and maple)
  • bug 729537 – Maple: Buffers are larger than we expect
  • bug 729534 – Buffer rotation appears to be broken on engadget
  • Reviews

• This week
  • bug 729534 – Buffer rotation appears to be broken on engadget (fixed)
  • bug 731570 – ScrollbarLayer uploads a new texture whenever opacity changes
  • Possibly help with bug 728983 – Maple invalidation problems with scrollable layer and multiple <div>s
  • Possibly help with bug 730718 – Use EGLImageKHR as a platform-specific layer buffer to avoid texture upload
  • Reviews

Chris Peterson

• Last Week
  • bug 715251 – Reduce overscroll distance
  • bug 730349 – Remove some unused code from browser.js

• This Week
  • bug 725170 – crash java [@ java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException at android.text.SpannableStringBuilder.checkRange(SpannableStringBuilder.java) ]
  • Busy being sick 🙂

• Blockers
  • Waiting for bug 723251 to fix placeholder screenshots before I can commit bug 708167.

GCP

• Last week:
  • bug 729640 Protocol parsing is broken in UrlClassifier
  • bug 729928 Cleanup unused cache preferences
  • bug 730247 Improve SafeBrowsing store SubPrefix compression
  • bug 726821 SQLiteBridge should return a cursor
  • bug 729609 Special folders get duplicated during profile migration
  • bug 704548 “More” button is in foreign language after going from a foreign language XUL build to latest Birch
  • bug 721352 experiments on Add support for batch operations in LocalDB
• This week:
  • bug 731525 Investigate bandwidth overhead of SafeBrowsing protection.
  • bug 725150 Need logic to prevent sync and profile migration happening at the same time
  • bug 721898 Truncate history to a manageable number of items in BrowserProvider
  • bug 721352 Add support for batch operations in LocalDB
• Blockers:
  • I think wesj landed all his stuff for password manager now? If so, can proceed on bug 715550.

Brian N

• Done
  • bug 726679 – Aurora builds point to wrong location
  • bug 718240 – Fennec carries out a full session restore when killed
  • Crashes (bug 731483, bug 731372, bug 729252)
• Next
  • More release blockers
• Blockers
  • bug 716681 – Tabs are being duplicated when going back into Fennec
    • Please contact me if you have STR

Sriram

• Last Week:
  • Using handler messages – bug 727307
    • Got feedback on the approach to use – will be working on it this week
  • Tweak Share prompt title – bug 725730
  • Do not show Downloads option on pre-honeycomb bug 726623
  • Started work for ContentProvider for remote tabs
• This Week:
  • ContentProvider for Sync to sync tabs from other computers – bug 715644
    • Review granted – pushing the patch today
  • Storing Fennec’s open tabs with the database – bug 730039
    • Got feedback – working on it
• Blockers:
  • Reviewing pending on bug to show tabs opening in background – bug 727930
  • UI for tabs from other computers

WesJ

Done:

• Bug 730952 – LayerController mayHaveTouchListeners isn’t updated correctly
• Bug 725458 – After window with touchmove event preventDefault(), can’t long tap to open context menu anymore (edit) (waiting on one more review)
• Bug 725881 – Content provider for form history
• Bug 729705 – Seeking with video controls jumps to end of video
• Bug 718760 – Implement Java version of LoginManagerCrypto – needs significant unbitrotting to land, but all r+

Next:

• Bug 731341 – Crash when accessing form history early in startup

LucasR

Last week

• bug 713056 – IllegalStateException because AwesomeBarCursorAdapter modified in background thread
• bug 710323 – about:home – clicking on addons should go to their page in AMO
• bug 729945 – AccountManager call causes StrictMode exception in about:home
• bug 727146 – deleteHistory should clear private data from the database
• bug 723623 – Remove legacy Android Browser code, BrowserDB, etc.
• Writing test infra for BrowserProvider
• Tons of patch reviews

Next week

• Finish initial set of BrowserProvider tests
• More P1/P2 bugs
• More patch reviews

Blockers

• Writing tests for our Content Provider is tricky due to Robocop’s blackbox nature

MBrubeck

Done:

• bug 724292 – Error when trying to launch activity from the Android Market app
• bug 725972 – list_id added to bugzilla quick search field
• bug 662891 – Require Android 2.2 “Froyo” (API level 8) or higher
• bug 726623 – follow-up to fix case of directory name in Makefile.
• bug 728861 – Don’t make the add-on list visible when refreshing it in the background
• bug 722249 – Make long extension names wrap in the fennec add-on manager
• bug 722252 – Extensions without icon get displayed with the icon of the previous extension
• bug 729681 – Remove the separate launcher icon for Firefox Sync
• bug 717904 – Add-ons Manager is broken after installing an extension with browser restart
• Created http://limpet.net/ua – add-on to work around BrowserID regression (bug 730015)
• https://github.com/toolness/collusion/issues/66 – Don’t log anything in Private Browsing mode

Next:

• Finish add-on manager work
• Other bugs

Margaret

Done:

• Landed testBookmark fixes – bug 725483
• Started working on site security UI – bug 695204
• Started working on HTML5 form validation UI – bug 704879
• Fixed some crashes related to bookmark work – bug 730358, bug 731019, bug 730874
• Helping Jared (jaws) to come up with better click-to-play solution for mobile/desktop – bug 730318

Next:

• Finish bug 704879

Blocked:

• I need some UX help with bug 731654

Scott (jwir3)

• Font inflation P2 bugs including bug 708187 and bug 705446, should be finished with the latter bug this afternoon.
• dbaron is reviewing architecture still, trying to determine if the current font inflation system will work overall.

BLassey

• OUT – MWC

DougT

• Bug Triaging
• Looking into startup perf w/ SessionStore.js is not cleaned up
• Prepping for W3C Geo meeting

MFinkle

• OUT – Dancing

Madhava

Ian Barlow

Last week

• Catchup from work weeks
• Remote tabs UI – bug 708266

This week

• Tablet UI: Tabs, Menu, Awesomebar

Patryk Adamczyk

Working on:

+ Polishing the reader mode feature for future Firefox
+ Tablet designs

GFX

• List of Maple bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=[maple;list_id=2495502
• Working on correctness: Issues with rotation, incomplete invalidation.
• Performance: Looking into high frame overhead for drawing a frame: > 10ms spent outside painting and uploading. JSON parsing is part of the problem we need to get rid off.
  • New tool: Rendertrace https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android#Using_Rendertrace_.28Maple.29
    • Screenshot:
• Moving uploads off the compositor using EGLImage.

Round Table

• QA
  • Doing daily triage and bug noms against this list (from Mobile/Triage page)
    • M: 9am PST, W,F: 7am PST, T,Th: 1pm PST
  • discussion on breaking out automated fennec smoketests in robocop
    • Tests will be organized here
  • Daily testing on Maple and Nightly builds
• MTD
  • Still on m-a