Mobile/Notes/16-Feb-2011

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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

• Beta 5
  • Code Freeze Today
  • No blockers!

Major Topics for This Week

Front-end

• Watching for any Beta 5 regressions
• Working on performance, rendering and memory usages bugs
• Working on final blockers
• Not quite final string frozen yet
  • Waiting to land a patch after we branch for Beta 5

UX design

• design fix proposed for this blocker: bug 611580
• form assistant fixes look promising; to land after b5
• working on post-4.0 awesomescreen concepts, including tablet designs

Maemo

Qt

Android

Electrolysis

General Platform

Video

Camera

Plugins

Performance

• More improvements this week:
  • Tp dropped 3.8% from last week
  • Ts dropped 1.5% from last week
  • Rendering speed while panning is improved (reduces checkerboards)

Networking

Graphics

Startup

Layout

Content

• Checkerboard renders faster
• We fixed several “checkerboard won’t go away after I do X” situations
• Flash of checkerboard at the end of a pan was fixed

Memory Usage

• Reduced amount of memory used by Sync if user is not using Sync
  • Might be more we can do too
• Reduced amount of memory used to decode video that were not playing

Release Engineering

• tegras
  • clientproxy script refactored to be simpler, more robust
  • updated imaging scripts for new screen resolution
  • handed off imaging to IT intern. all remaining tegras asset tagged; all but 28 tegras imaged with new screen resolution.
  • currently looking for more power before bringing up the final batch of tegras.
  • ip-controlled power switches to arrive late next week; IT will build out new server room for tegras after those arrive.
  • handed off tegra unit test work to bhearsum for more parallelization
• lsblakk signed up for 4.0b5

QA

• Top crashes last week
• Waverley Results
• Release Test Wiki is up
• Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet – Work in progress, please add any missing criteria you would like to see that deem a device compatible or not

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