Mobile/Notes/02-Jan-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge is 2013-01-06
• With the extra week in this cycle, we have Fx18b7 prepping for release

Major Topics for This Week

Customizing Home Page

Wes landed to initial capabilities for allowing users to "pin" and "unpin" custom URLs in thumbnails on about:home. Long tapping on the thumbnail allows users to edit or clear the custom URL for a thumbnail position. We planned on shipping this in Fx20, so we need lots of testing and UI tweaks before the merge.

Tab Selector (normal, private and sync)

The last major UI feature (I think) of private browsing landed. The Tab Selector is displayed in the Tabs Tray and allows you to show normal tabs, private tabs or synced tabs. The feature also adds a menu to the tabs tray. Again, we need some testing and UI tweaks before merge day.

NDK r8c Support

We are in the process of moving ARMv6 and ARMv7 builds to use the r8c NDK. Android x86 builds will likely follow too.

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

• Dec 19 - Jan 2:
  • bug 785597 - fix crash in AndroidGLController::SetGLVersion
  • bug 807447 - respect initialScale in meta-viewport tag
  • bug 666600 - add an option to set the default zoom level
  • bug 820302 - fix fullscreening glitch on N7 fullscreen animation
  • bug 771746 - make scrollbars visible on a black background
  • bug 772974 - fix alignment of LOAD segments with armv6 and gold
  • bug 803601 - fix SIGILL when building ARMv6 builds with r8c
  • bug 825151 - switch ARMv7 builds over to NDK r8c
  • bug 825453 - switch ARMv6 builds over to NDK r8c
• Next:
  • figure out intermittent failure in bug 825426 as it blocks bug 785597 which blocks some perf measurement patch
  • work on a heuristic for grouping similarly-styled elements for font inflation (bug 757257)
  • bug 793755 - fix a talos regression from september
  • ouya stuff?

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

• Done
  • Back from holiday

• Now/next
  • Catching up on bug-mail I put off
  • Looking at screen size change transitions

Margaret

Done:

• Interviews
• Gaia blockers

Next:

• B2G work week in Berlin
• Vacation Jan 16-23

MFinkle

Done:

• bug 823550 - Ensure saving favicons to DB happens on the GeckoBackgroundThread
• Interviews
• Reviews

Working on:

• bug 824023 - while testing robocop, I see mention of unknown host exceptions in the logfile
• bug 823550 - Ensure all DB access happens on the GeckoBackgroundThread (more to audit)
• Wrangling a Metro work week

Contributors

New section to recognize work from our awesome contributors!

• Sriram R finished bug 715736 - Add 'Save as Wallpaper' Android functionality in context menu when viewing images
• Mavericks picked up some new bugs - bug 810342, bug 801739
• Capella wrote an add-on to restore the "Quit" menuitem for users who want it - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/quitnow/