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19-December-2012

Firefox Status: 2012-12-18

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Major Topics for This Week

  • Work week
  • Mailing list
  • Holidays

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!

gavin

This week
Next week
  • Working from New York
  • More planning/HR stuff

mak

Last week:

  • Bugs
    • bug 766799 – Redirects visits are not notified anymore through history observers
    • bug 821628 – xptcstubs_x86_64_darwin is wrongly converting some bool params
    • bug 791562 – crash in PlacesFolderConversion::AppendFolder (Protect bookmarks roots from being deleted through the API)
    • bug 820834 – Abstract about:home storage and make it async-ready
    • + 3 minor
  • Requests
    • bug 675902 – New Downloads view for Places Library
    • bug 822343 – Downloads view takes far too long to render
    • bug 812894 – Shorten time remaining strings and replace download rates per item
    • bug 817006 – “Remove from list” option in the panel is confusing
    • bug 699859 – Refactor nsContentPrefService.js to use async Storage
    • bug 813833 – Promise-based SQLite interface
    • + 5 minor

Next week:

  • Help finalizing the downloads panel feature for Firefox 20
  • Review async form history patches
  • More Places triage and regressions

enn

  • Bug 821283 – Bug with displaying arrow panels in some cases in right-to-left UI, checked in
  • Bug 798226 – rework arrow panel code to be simpler, checked in
  • Bug 566746 – change form fillin to be asynchronous, address comments, found more issues with unit tests, discovered that I also need to port some migration code.
  • Bug 809388 – investigated bug where popups/tooltips were not shrinking when they were sized larger than the screen and then smaller again.

ttaubert

Past week
  • Finding regression causes
  • Improved B2G keyboard performance
  • Introduced a nextpaint event to improve app <-> homescreen transitions
  • A couple of session store and private browsing reviews
This week
  • Finding new blockers to work on
  • Helping with existing blockers (stealing, improving STRs)
  • Think more about keyboard focus issues and touch events

dolske

  • Planning stuff for workweek, 2013 roadmap
  • Interview season appears to be in full swing
  • Discussions on WebRTC UI, XBL
  • Found some social/facebook bugs, bit of debugging for a DLBI regression.
  • Out sick a bit

mconley

Last Week:

  • Australis
    • Wrote a patch for bug 813802 which puts the tabs over the titlebar for restored windows on XP. Waiting for feedback.
    • Gave feedback on MattN’s lw-theme patch
  • Downloads View for Places (required for Downloads Panel)
    • Helped fix tests for Downloads View for Places, which has now landed (preffed off)
    • Profiled some performance issues
  • Downloads Panel
    • Come up with a draft patch to fix focus-ring appearance and behaviours (bug 819428

This Week:

  • Australis
  • Downloads View for Places
    • Theme-ing work (will likely require UX assistance)
    • General bug-fixing as we find them
  • Downloads Panel:
    • Get bug 819428 in a review-able state
    • Ensure we disable this in Aurora before uplift.

Blockers:

MattN

(no audio)

Last week

  • Australis
    • lightweight theme patch uploaded
    • waiting for review on base patch for Windows
    • talked to perf team

This week

  • More tab follow-ups
  • In Canada

jaws

Last week

This week

Blockers

  • None

UX!

lco

madhava

  • planning for next year’s priorities and roadmap
  • some FHR facilitating
  • there’s some First-Run Experience cross-team discussion happening; more in the new year

zhenshuo

boriss

  • Working on design changes to notification UI in WebRT to enable release for Firefox 19
  • Planning for Q1 New Tab Work: working on design document, meeting with stakeholders
  • Working on social API bugs, incl. multi-provider plan for 19 & beyond
  • Technically PTO Thursday & Friday, but will be reachable and may work if needed

yuan

  • Local profile sharing (Bi-modal browser usage) on FX Metro is no longer on the beta road map. Still refining the strategy of handling sync service between classic and metro mode. Customized first-run experience for Metro will be needed.
  • Refining user flows and stories for local bookmarking and desktop sync w Asa.

shorlander

Out last week at a visual design meetup

This week working on:

  • Download Manager:
    • Final icons
    • Looking at Download Library View theme
  • Flash hang UI
  • WebRTC Icons
  • Trying to organize and finish remaining Australis designs (e.g. menu panel, customization visuals, Windows 8 classic stuff, incontent stuff)
  • Other Stuff:
    • Metro
    • DevTools

Round Table

Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Meeting/18-Dec-2012“

Details

  • Tuesdays – 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 91337
    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 91337
    • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 91337
    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 91337
  • irc.mozilla.org #fx-team for backchannel
  • “Firefox” Vidyo Room

12-December-2012

Firefox Status: 2012-12-11

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Major Topics for This Week

  • Work week update

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!

gavin

  • this week
    • social multi-provider review and iteration
  • next week
    • more work week planning
  • blockers: N/A

mak

Last week:

  • Bugs
    • bug 766799 – Redirects visits are not notified anymore through history observers
    • bug 791447 – Nightly 2012-09-14 resets all changes made to the new tab page
    • bug 817999 – remove DownloadMonitorPanel remnants
  • Requests
    • bug 550175 – Error: uncaught exception: [Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIAutoCompleteController.handleDelete]
    • bug 699806 – Enable Telemetry by default on Nightly and Aurora channels (Desktop)
    • bug 699859 – (asyncContentPrefs) Refactor nsContentPrefService.js to use async Storage
    • bug 737600 – When telemetry is disabled in the pref pane, we should update toolkit.telemetry.rejected
    • bug 785487 – “Search service falling back to synchronous initialization” when about:home is loaded before the search bar initialization
    • bug 801232 – Support per-window private browsing in the Downloads Panel
    • bug 801450 – Can’t import bookmarks from Safari-created HTML files
    • bug 812894 – Shorten time remaining strings and replace download rates per item
    • bug 813833 – Promise-based SQLite interface
    • bug 814961 – The height of “+X other downloads” should be same as the “Show all downloads” item
    • bug 816254 – Add logging to Downloads Panel
    • bug 817584 – Replace descendent selectors with child selectors
    • bug 818724 – Replace gStartupRan with a private gBrowserInit property

This week:

  • Away 10-11 (Yes, I’m not here right now)
  • More reviews/feedback
  • bug 767939 – Editing a bookmark and changing URL drops tags (dataloss)
  • bug 748894 – Move the bookmark star button outside of the location bar (australis)

Blockers:

enn

  • Bugs 566746 and 697377, convert form and search history to be asynchronous, awaiting review.
  • Bug 798226, make arrow panel positioning code simpler, address comments and write test
  • Bug 815691, mousedown event not firing when a context menu is closed and another is reopened

mconley

Last week:

  • Downloads Panel:
    • Fixed (bug 814961)
    • Helped out with reviews and feedback on per-window private browsing (bug 801232).
    • Gave feedback on bug 675902 – really hoping this will land soon.
    • Started looking at focus ring behaviours, since we seem to have some platform inconsistencies here.
  • Australis Tabs

This week:

  • Australis Tabs
    • Finish up a patch for bug 813802, and un-block bug 813808
    • If I get those done, see what else MattN needs from me.
  • Downloads Panel
    • Resolve focus ring issues
    • Possibly help out with any polish required when bug 675902 lands

Blockers:

  • Nothing is blocking me.

MattN

Last week

  • New Australis tabs for Windows base patch
  • Investigated approaches for menubar in titlebar for australis
  • Review notification API
  • B2G dogfooding

Next week

  • Australis
    • LWT
    • Titlebar stuff
  • Reviews

jaws

  • Last week:
    • Patches reviewed:
      • bug 811247 – Create only one instance of each social ambient panel instead of one per window
      • bug 807997 – In content pages: No action performed when attempting to open a contact in Facebook sidebar
      • bug 763001 – Typo in layout/style/nsCSSPseudoClassList.h
      • bug 817790 – Stretched Facebook icon briefly shows over entire toolbar during window startup
      • bug 788368 – Port messages may be dropped if port is closed before other side connects
      • bug 558882 – Ship Readability in the browser
      • bug 809694 – multiprovider: toolkit patch
      • bug 818118 – click-to-play: pluginHost.getPermissionStringForType calls need to check if the mime type is a known plugin first
      • bug 818009 – “Unknown” plugin in CTP plugins list
      • bug 810082 – click-to-play: improve handling of invisible or hidden plugins (e.g. on music sites like Pandora)
    • Patches uploaded:
      • bug 814404 – [Mac OS] Missing Social menu item from Tools menu when focus is set to another Firefox window
      • bug 819992 – Click-to-Play doorhanger appearing on every page with Flash
    • Bugs filed:
      • bug 817726 – Combine “View Page Info” and “View Page Source” context menuitems
  • This week:

Round Table

Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Meeting/11-Dec-2012“

Details

  • Tuesdays – 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 91337
    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 91337
    • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 91337
    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 91337
  • irc.mozilla.org #fx-team for backchannel
  • “Firefox” Vidyo Room
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