Mobile/Notes/22-Sep-2010

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Details

• Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel

Schedule

• See timeline
  • Beta 1: We are frozen, except for remaining blockers
  • Design freeze: Sept 16
  • Beta 2 code freeze: TBD

Major Topics for This Week

Front-end

• Working on any Beta 1 blockers that appear
• Also working on Beta 2 blockers
  • We have 11 b2 blockers waiting to land
• Features (see Planning page)
  • Work re-started on sharing backend for Android and Maemo
  • More work on simplifying downloads and saving will land in beta 2 bug 593408
  • Android theme is underway
  • UX feedback on Master Password patch is to drop it for 2.0
  • Clipboard context menu decision was made bug 585875

UX design

• Android theme work is ready for final review; see it here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/sets/72157624962763028/

• Martell is working on the CSS and glyphs needed to start implementation work

Maemo

Qt

Android

• Custom dlopen working and loading both compressed and uncompressed libraries from the apk. Uncompressing the library costs about 1s on the Nexus One.
• Gold tested and saves 1mb on libxul.

Electrolysis

Layers

General Platform

Geolocation Working Group

Video

Camera

Plugins

Performance

• e10s preference perf win pending – bug 589905.

Networking

Graphics

Startup

Layout

Content

Release Engineering

• patches landed: maemo4 off on m-c, fennec desktop using make upload
• l10n linux slaves — there was a backlog of repacks, now fixed
• android updates – nightlies live, release pending review
• android tests proceeding; see qa automation’s list of bugs

QA

Manual

• New Bugs over the week: filed
• QA is gearing up for Beta 1 release testing
  • Triaging in-litmus? bugs and are adding testcases to litmus
    • Note: if you have a bug that you’d like to get manual testing on, please add the “in-litmus?”. QA will assign the work as necessary.
• Need a triage of bugs nominated over the past two weeks
• Results from nightly Smoketest runs.

Automation

• android
  • one patch needs landing for mochitest on android bug 598366
  • SUTAgent has had some fixes in the last week, one remaining known bug bug 598441
  • a couple patches working through the review queue for talos on android bug 596132
  • still need to see tpan/tzoom and page loader tests working on android

• browser-chrome – need some attention, carryover from last week
  • new test files bug 489163 and bug 570706 are blocked on awesomebar problem –
  • bug 593463 – awesomescreen.js problem – WEEK #3!!!
  • need to land patch bug 597056 to remove firefox tests from mobile tests

• [mochitest: green]
  • bug 590248 and bug 587646 account for 60% of known mochitest failures on n900!, no progress on these two bugs?! Still no traction on this – WEEK #5, can we get 6 weeks with nobody looking at these?

Other

• Late breaking b1 candidates. Got any UX issues you think should block?