Mobile/Notes/01-May-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2013-05-13
• Next release: 2013-05-14

Major Topics for This Week

UI Hackathon

Looks like we fixed 19 ui-hackathon bugs during the sprint. Lucas has a wrap-up post that goes into more detail. The general consensus seems to be that the Hackathon was a success, and we are looking forward to doing more of them.

Friends of the Mobile Team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

• Federico Paolinelli landed bug 731491 - Extract shared ContentProvider superclass
• Tetsuharu OHZEKI filed and fixed bug 863242 - Implement three-state UI for DNT
• Tetsuharu OHZEKI filed and fixed bug 864097 - Use String.startsWith/contains instead of regexp in browser.js
• Mark Capella fixed bug 828325 - The state of the -/+ buttons from text size in reader mode should be greyed when the action is not possible
• Amod and Capella worked together to land bug 789980 - Remove empty title tag from aboutReader.html

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

• April 24 - May 1:
  • interviews and debriefs
  • landed bug 839641 (wire up APZC to fennec). broken by bug 861727, landed bug 867269 to fix it
  • bug 865337 - assertion failure in b2g
  • continued working on bug 833795 (content jitter in B2G browser)
  • looked into bug 834243 and bug 797615 now that the cache blockage on gecko thread is fixed (bug 852467)
  • tried to reproduce bug 850659 (but failed). :mw22 reproduced it and reduced it
  • continued to help nrc debug bug 861919
  • discussed async subframe panning (meeting on friday + followups with BenWa)
  • bug 852417 - add a pref to allow reader mode on low-mem devices

• Next:
  • PTO

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

• Done
  • bug 865298 - Fix-ups after dynamic toolbar refactor
  • bug 850783 - Scrollbar gets clipped when toolbar is visible
  • Got build env of b2g setup and building Keon images
  • Interview

• Doing
  • bug 803299 - Enable 32-bit colour on Android
  • Looking into more dynamic toolbar regressions
  • Merge dynamic toolbar work to Aurora
  • Enable OMTA on Android?

GCP

• Last week:
  • WebRTC debugging:
  • Bug 862883 - Enable mochitests (https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=286bad8d4740)
  • Bug 866093 - Error in Android 2.2 path, some video crashes
  • Bug 863290 - Crashes when Camera is stuck
• Next week:
  • Bug 863290 - Crashes when Camera is stuck
  • Bug 867185 - Camera names in UI backend
  • Bug 862808 - Video upside down

Margaret

• Done
  • Text handles for text-selection in the AwesomeBar should be orange - bug 777975
  • Remove ellipsis from "Site Settings..." menu item string - bug 786999
  • Add character encoding menuitem icon - bug 863857
  • New favicon styling - bug 839855
  • Crash regression in TopSitesView - bug 866150

• In Progress
  • Improve BitmapUtils.getDominantColor to avoid returning gray-ish colors - bug 867249

• Next
  • about:home redesign

Round Table

Feature Focus

Fx21

• [ON TRACK] bug 834681 - Add support for basic distribution modifications
• [ON TRACK] bug 831354 - Ship fonts for content in Firefox for Android <== need help tracking these down
• [ON TRACK] Amazon Search URL
• [PLANNED]bug 867604 - [Meta] HTML5 Compat <== need help tracking these down

Fx22

• [AT RISK] Reflow on zoom (double tap) by default
• [AT RISK] bug 716403 - (dynamic-toolbar) Request to hide the navigation bar when scrolling down content
• [PROPOSED] New tab UI
• [PROPOSED] ANR