Mobile/Notes/27-Apr-2011

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

Major Topics for This Week

Application

Front-end

• Work for FF6 -> We have Features, Bugs and Testing
• We have enough information (design or otherwise) to start some tasks:
  • Touch events – FE and platform work is ongoing
  • Language selection – started add-on
  • Anti-malware/phishing – landed FE part but defaulted feature off for now
  • Session Store Enhancements – landed speedup, working on history
  • Android text selection handles – started experimenting
• Some other designs might be almost ready to start prototyping:
  • Tablet UI – Keyboards & Other
  • Better browser feature discoverability
  • Better integration for form assistant on Android
  • Visual refresh
• [Fennec-6] FE bugs have been assigned
• browser-chrome test fixes have been landing. We need more focus on getting the tests green!
  • bug 650686 [tracking] Android browser-chrome permaoranges

UX design

• UX-specific view of feature work: Mobile/User_Experience

• opened bugs on most of the ongoing design/front-end features
• designs ready for front-end team on discoverability, language choice, copy/paste (selection handles) – see feature pages
• designs ready to post soon on form assistant, safebrowsing
• ongoing work on awesomescreen2 (Ian’s WIPs), and interim tablet changes (breakdown of possible changes)
• Ian starting up on visual refresh, prioritizing gingerbread
• Brian working on accessibility improvments

Platform Support

Android

• Brad and Doug working on NPAPI.
  • http://hg.mozilla.org/users/dougt_mozilla.com/wip

Maemo

• can we kill off `image expose` npapi?

Performance

Testing

QA

• Top crashes last week
• 4.0.1 qa work is done, signoff will be after this meeting
• Detailed Waverley Results
  • State of the Browser
    • 6 nominations in the queue
    • Today’s nightly is broken

Test Suites

• reftests
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/e10s/Testing

Test Automation

Release Engineering

Priorities page

• tegras
  • FIXED bug 652032 – fixed reboot race condition that caused intermittent reds
  • FIXED bug 652604 – enabled the rest of the mobile tests on try
  • FIXED bug 649994 – tegra monitoring dashboard
• FIXED bug 611092 – linux browser-chrome
• android update issues
  • bug 652785, bug 651925, bug 652667
  • root cause: bug 592244 – schedulerdb race condition. catlee is working on it.

Other