Mobile/Notes/04-May-2011

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Schedule

Major Topics for This Week

Application

Front-end

• Work for FF6 -> We have Features, Bugs and Testing
• Some have landed some Front-end tasks:
  • Touch events
  • Session Store Enhancements – save the state sooner
  • Anti-malware/phishing – defaulted off until the back end uses smaller files
• We have enough information (design or otherwise) to start some tasks:
  • Language selection – creating the list is done, started on restarting after installing the add-on
  • Session Store Enhancements – landed speedup, working on history
  • Android text selection handles – started experimenting
  • Mobilize text – viewport the page
  • Better browser feature discoverability – WIP patch is up
  • Visual refresh – backend changes are r+ waiting for sr+
• Some other designs might be almost ready to start prototyping:
  • Tablet UI – Looking to start tomorrow
  • Better integration for form assistant on Android
  • Visual refresh – CSS and images

UX design

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

• designs ready for front-end team on discoverability, language choice, copy/paste (selection handles) – see feature pages
• final decision on form assistant changes today
• ongoing work
  • awesomescreen2 (Ian’s WIPs), focusing on fxhome v1 this week
  • Brian working on spec for honeycomb short-term changes for later this week (breakdown of possible changes)
  • Ian on visual refresh, prioritizing gingerbread
  • Ian coming up with mobile-specific error page layout, text rewrite to follow
  • Madhava tweaking touch-events border size

• find platform owners for zooming (iOS vs android) approach?

Platform Support

Android

• progress continues on plugin support
  • http://hg.mozilla.org/users/dougt_mozilla.com/wip
  • sample plugin draws (animates a bouncing ball)
• Android look and feel (getting system colors) reviewed and ready to land

Maemo

Performance

Testing

QA

• There is a QA peep for each Firefox 6 feature. Test plans should start being populated and some test cases.
• Top crashes last week
• Detailed Waverley Results
  • State of the Browser
    • 10 nominations in the queue
    • Today’s nightly is broken

Test Suites

Test Automation

Release Engineering

Priorities page

• Are we planning on being on the 5.0 train?
• [in staging] (ateam, bear) bug 654116 – tegra xpcshell tests need pidfile
• [in progress] (bear) bug 616057 – rebuild Android NDK with PIC
• [in progress] (jhford) bug 557260 – have MobileBuildFactory inherit MercurialBuildFactory
  • fixes clobberer
  • fixes build-from-revision

Other

Trust no crashes received from builds between 4/28 and 5/4. Turning on PGO screwed all linux/linux64 crash stacks so they don’t actually say anything useful (bug 654595).