Schedule

• Next merge is 2013-04-01
• Release is 2013-04-02

Major Topics for This Week

Stability

From yesterday’s Platform stability update: “Firefox 20 for Android might be better in stability indicators than any other before, good work!” Let’s keep working to drive down crashes.

ANR Reporter

is turned on in Nightly (and soon Aurora). Right now the data is hidden inside Metrics database dungeon. Next step is getting better access to that data.

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)

• Bug 829747 – Do Async Canvas layers update (finally!)
• Bug 734691 – Support multiple threads [in profiler]

Kats

• Mar 20 – Mar 27
  • snappy work week
  • bug 850318 – don’t block the UI thread on the background thread when calling getClipboardText
  • lots of reviews/needinfo’s
  • got AWSY/mobile hooked up to a new device (galaxy nexus) since the old one was pretty dead
  • bug 853366 – clean up of app lifecycle events
  • bug 847499 – prevent loss of telemetry data due to fennec getting killed
  • bug 814282 – debugged intermittent failure of testVkbOverlap on pandas
  • bug 854971 – make gamepad buttons work better on url entry field
  • bug 839767 – make rows on about:home focusable
  • bug 855016 – make row items on about:home usable using gamepad buttons

• Next
  • more ouya stuff

GBrown

• Done
  • bug 854549 Robocop screenshots
  • see also http://gbrownmozilla.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/screenshots-for-robocop/
  • bug 853502 Report disk partition fullness during automated tests
  • Talos regression investigations
  • bug 781179 Android PGO investigations: got valgrind working; reported results for pandaboard
  • Investigated bug 854863 20MB regression in application ‘Data’ size after first startup
• Working on
  • Helping rel-eng with xpcshell tests
  • Always more intermittent test failures

Chris Peterson

• Done
  • Working on IME tests
  • bug 847839 – Remove obsolete files for Android XUL Fennec: embedding/android/ and mobile/xul/
  • bug 852714 – Amazon search URLs should include Mozilla sourceid and tag

• Next
  • Land some IME test
  • Continue work on Push WebAPI

JChen

• Past week
  • Wrote new wiki page and blog post about JimDB update
  • Fixed bug 839683 – Enable ANR reporter in appropriate channels
  • Fixed bug 853819 – VKB does not appear when tapping on text inputs on flash sites
  • Worked on bug 842013 – keyup, keydown and keypress Event is not fired
  • Worked on bug 847983 – IME in designmode doesn’t seem to work very well
• Next
  • More IME bugs

Brian N

• In progress
  • Eclipse support
    • Eclipse plugin: https://github.com/thebnich/fennec-adt
    • Branch with mach project creation scripts: https://github.com/thebnich/mozilla-central/tree/eclipsify-fennecadt
• Next
  • Session restore bugs
  • about:home fragments
  • More Eclipse

Sriram

• Temporary fix for artifacts on dynamic toolbar – bug 848719
• Back button should be transparent – bug 854493
• Awesomescreen text unreadable – bug 844816
• Screen artifacts on search suggestions – bug 850217
• Debugging styles problem in 2.2 device – bug 823644
• Splitting about:home views to custom views – bug 852312
• Quick patch for throbber – bug 853844
• List and Grid view for new about:home
• Blog post on View Reduction
• First addon (in progress)

LucasR

Last week

• bug 853300 – click on android’s menu button should bring up the toolbar if its hidden in dynamic mode
• bug 853497 – Remove spacer view from gecko_app.xml
• bug 854457 – Accessibility support in TwoWayView
• bug 854458 – Implement keyboard navigation in the new tabs tray (In progress)

Next week

• bug 854458 – Implement keyboard navigation in the new tabs tray
• Prototype refactorings: UI message bus and transition manager
• Tabs tray bug fixing

Margaret

(At community building meetup, so read the wiki)

Done:

• Put “Set as Wallpaper” feature behind confvars variable – bug 851170
• Remove “Idea” section from about:feedback (to match new input.mozilla.org backend) – bug 853022
• Started cleaning up text selection code – bug 853508, bug 853691

Next:

• Continue to work on text selection – bug 854605, bug 667243

MFinkle

Done

• Commenting and Review on Roadmap
• bug 854340 – Firefox for Android cannot break out of a loop + alert attack
• bug 854107 – Lazy load more JS objects in browser.js
  • Needs some verification for click-to-play, find-in-page, offline appcache and clear site settings

Working On

• Better timelines for items on Roadmap
• bug 852828 – Add basic support for subscribing to feeds (RSS/Atom)
  • Might be ready for r?
• bug 852608 – Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile ignores <link rel=”search”>
• bug 853844 – Investigate removing the pageload throbber
  • Lots of good feedback
  • Making something happen ASAP at start of pageload is important
  • Starting to focus on the “end of pageload” part of the spectrum next
  • I want to explore using the page background as the “loading indicator” which goes away as the page loads

PTO Thursday and Friday

Ian Barlow

This week

• Epic UX sync up with Karen
• Refinements to about:home redesign
  • Work in progress: cl.ly/0z1f2d2m3l1V
• Reorganizing Settings
  • Work in progress: etherpad.mozilla.org/settings-reorg
• Refinements to title bar / tab tray interaction
  • Work in progress: cl.ly/image/3x2P3W3K082Q

Round Table

Tracking FX21 Bugs : http://bit.ly/13xpZ6x

Details

• Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
• Dial-in: conference# 99998
  • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 99998
  • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99998
  • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 99998
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 99998
• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

• Next merge is 2013-04-01
• Release is 2013-04-02

Major Topics for This Week

Dynamic Toolbar

Chris Lord has been keeping up with regressions from the new toolbar behavior. Once bug 852565 lands, the toolbar should be pretty solid. Nice work!

HTML5 Support

Over the last week two HTML5 features landed: HTML5 <input type=”range”> and Web Notifications. We got a bump on html5test.com for the range control, but the notifications are blocked on bad testing code. David Baron has a pull request to fix html5test.

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!

Kats

• Mar 13 – Mar 19
  • bug 827347 – allow downloading/installing update from about:firefox
  • bug 847002 – fix crash in nsPresShell::Paint
  • bug 851180, bug 827347 – follow-ups for previous bugs
  • bug 850875 – fix regression with environment variables not getting set
  • bug 851060 – move util files into the util/folder
  • bug 802130, bug 852070 – threading cleanup
  • bug 815862 – allow more acceleration on high-res devices
  • bug 852163 – fix leak of activity introduced by toolbar hiding
  • investigated and tracked down at least one source of bug 797615
  • snappy work week

• Next:
  • more snappy work week (working on bug 847499)
  • hook up a new device to AWSY/mobile once i get back to toronto
  • get back to PZC unification

GBrown

• Done:
  • Investigated bug 851861 Intermittent testOverscroll… | Pixel at 100, 0 – Color rgba(0,0,0,255) not close enough to expected rgb(32,100,0)
• Working on:
  • bug 781179 Android PGO investigations: stalled by a valgrind bug (expect a patch from sewardj today)
  • Investigating effect of skiagl on shumway performance (looks good!)
  • bug 814282 Intermittent testVkbOverlap | testVkbOverlap – Found 0 green pixels after tapping
  • bug 819419 Intermittent testAllPagesTab | Awesomebar URL stayed the same
  • bug 847835 Intermittent test failures caused by app installation failures

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

• Done
  • bug 850690 – Fix gap between toolbar and page
  • bug 850724 – Fix toolbar disappearing after tabs tray is expanded
  • bug 850154 – Fix find-in-page UI appearing over the toolbar
  • bug 850789 – Pin the dynamic toolbar on the screen when the tabs tray is open
  • bug 824745 – Fuzz some reftests on Android
  • bug 850889 – Fix jank while animating dynamic toolbar
  • bug 852158 – Fix content scrolling to the top while the dynamic toolbar is visible

• Now
  • bug 852565 – Don’t expand the viewport on pages smaller than the screen (i.e. ‘fix’ Google Maps)
  • bug 852526 – Fix exposed compositor creation bug
  • Perf work week

• Next
  • PTO next week 😀
  • More dynamic toolbar fallout?
  • Back to Ouya bug 831778

Chris Peterson

• Done
  • Working on IME test automation
  • bug 822686 – java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.Favicons$LoadFaviconTask.downloadFavicon(Favicons.java)
  • bug 848761 – Android should treat input element’s type attribute values as case-insensitive
  • bug 845080 – Extract BackgroundService superclass
  • bug 848409 – Only enable Strict Mode logging for developers’ local builds (to avoid flooding Socorro crash logs)

• Next
  • Continuing IME test automation

JChen

• Past week
  • JimDB
    • JDB integration
    • Using TEST_PATH when debugging mochitests
    • Detecting mismatched objdir and installed apk
    • Basic automatic update feature
    • Ported some Google patches from NDK’s GDB to JimDB
    • Fixed bug where some breakpoints with conditions cause Fennec to crash
    • Fixed bug where sometimes calling function in Fennec from JimDB will cause crash
  • Fixed bug 847823 – Update Java IME to reflect updated Gecko interface
  • Fixed bug 706336 – Home and End buttons in Swype don’t work
• Next
  • JimDB
    • Rewrite wiki page
    • Blog about changes
  • IME bug backlog

GCP

• Last week:
  • WebRTC audio bug 832551 backends
  • Investigate Chrome for Android backend
  • Rebase & rework the alder patches for mozilla-central
  • bug 840244, bug 835973, bug 839907, bug 839836, bug 839831, bug 830935, bug 830942, bug 839841
  • Debug it!
• Next week:
  • Moar debugging.
  • Land patches.

Brian N

• Done
  • bug 850693 – java.lang.ClassCastException: android.os.BinderProxy cannot be cast to org.mozilla.gecko.NotificationService$NotificationBinder at org.mozilla.gecko.NotificationServiceClient$NotificationServiceConnection.onServiceConnected(NotificationServiceClient.java)
  • bug 851056 – Downloads can’t be canceled if the user closes Firefox while the download is in progress
  • bug 828990 – Thumb position does not advance; and or, unnecessary thumb position in input fields on tap
• Next
  • bug 838793 – Don’t keep a reference to AboutHomeContent
  • Eclipse integration?

Sriram

• Layouts and Styles – bug 823644
  • First set of patches reviewed and ready to be landed
  • Crashes in 2.2 device and was backed out
• New about:home – bug 852312
  • Refactoring of views in about:home is complete
  • Waiting for UX on final designs
• Modify tab button style – bug 848719
• Tabs button showing wrong color in pressed state – bug 852237
• Neutralize highlight color – bug 848707
• Cleanup address-bar animation – bug 817288

WesJ

‘Last week’

• Bug 809558 – Web app audio does not stop playing when backgrounded (or taking a phone call) – waiting for review
• Bug 850898 – nsNativeTheme for Android – paused for now
• Bug 419588 – Add support for multiple ICO and ICNS sizes
• Bug 851693 – Allow loading URI Intents – needs a sec review before we land

‘This week’

• Finish up Bug 419588 – Add support for multiple ICO and ICNS sizes
• Bug 850645 – Unable to launch WebApps – Crash @ java.lang.IllegalStateException: attempt to re-open an already-closed object
• Bug 840593 – In content UI cut off on small screens – test failures (need a small screen device to test on)
• Bug 842911 – mini-app mode button on Samsung tablet can block content (need to get hold of a device that supports this)

LucasR

Last week

• bug 838652 – Use res-auto namespace alias instead of autotools substitutions for package name
• bug 848070 – Crash org.mozilla.gecko.TabsPanel.<init>(TabsPanel.java:84)
• bug 844959 – Tabs are hidden after a tap on privacy tab button and a rotation
• bug 848551 – about:home thumbnail aspect ratio wrong on tablets
• bug 852227 – Don’t highlight tab background on pressed when showing cell
• bug 843641 – Tablet tab carat changes direction in portrait mode
• bug 850936 – [Tablet] – Unable to change tab sections after rotation with sidebar open

Next week

• More tabs tray bug fixing
• a11y support in TwoWayView
• Architectural changes (transition manager, UI bus, etc)

Margaret

• Done
  • Distribution support for additional default search engines – bug 848420
  • Add support of pre-pinned bookmark on about:home for distributions – bug 848254
  • Tab from last time saved as wyciwyg:// – bug 841151
  • Some more cleanup – bug 852360, bug 852334

• In Progress
  • Add UI to specify a default search engine – bug 730445

• Next
  • Get rid of text selection mouse events hack – bug 667243
  • Community building meetup in Toronto

Scott (jwir3)

Last Week:

• Profiling performance issues with reflow-on-zoom to determine what might be causing lag when zooming in, then zooming back out. I think I’ve found a partial solution to the problem, and it makes reflow on zoom significantly more performant, but there is still some lag.
• Found solution for bug 836568.
• Found solution for bug 800805.

This Week:

• Continue pushing forward with bug 836565, hopefully finding a more significant change that will speed up reflow in the case of reflow-on-zoom.
• Land bug 803719, bug 800805, and bug 836568.
• bug 520992: getComputedStyle / height ignoring -moz-box-sizing:border-box (analysis to see if we can get a simple patch for this)
• bug 824965: GetCaretPositionFromPoint returns incorrect offset in text editor (if I have time)

Blocked On:

• Review for layout changes in bug 803719 (dbaron currently assigned to review these, but perhaps there’s someone else?)

Other:

• PTO tomorrow and Friday for WCHA hockey tournament (Go Fighting Sioux)

BLassey

last week

• Q2 goals
• APKs in APKs

next week

• PTO

MFinkle

Working On

• Q2 Goals (Draft)
• bug 852962 – Bad optionsURL will show ‘options’ header but no options
• bug 852608 – Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile ignores <link rel=”search”>
• bug 852828 – Add basic support for subscribing to feeds (RSS/Atom)

Ian Barlow

• New blog post about fonts in Firefox: https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2013/03/improved-type-on-firefox-for-android/
• Working on title bar interactions with Lucas, Chris and Sriram. Tentative mockup: http://cl.ly/image/3R390o1q0F1X
• Trying to finalize new about:home designs this week
• Up next after that: reorganizing Settings

Round Table

• (kats) Try doing status updates in http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/weekly-updates.fcgi/ or http://teamstat.us to be more in sync with other teams

• (jchen) During ANR reporter’s privacy review, we were asked to append the telemetry opt-out notice to convey the type of information sent in ANR reports (stacks and logs when ANR happens)
  • Current notice: “Nightly sends information about performance, hardware, usage and customizations back to Mozilla to help improve Nightly.”
  • Some ideas:
    • “… information about performance, stability, hardware, usage and customizations …”
    • “… information about performance, program state, hardware, usage and customizations …”
    • “… information about performance, status, hardware, usage and customizations …”
    • “… information about performance, condition, hardware, usage and customizations …”
    • “… information about performance, execution, hardware, usage and customizations …”

QA

Critical

• Web-apps have been untestable for over a week now; unable to launch web-apps: bug 844895

Details

• Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
• Dial-in: conference# 99998
  • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 99998
  • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99998
  • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 99998
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 99998
• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
• Mobile Vidyo Room