Mobile/Notes/22-Jun-2011

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Schedule

• Fennec 7 (nightly)
  • This is the active development trunk
• Fennec 6 (aurora)
  • The door is closing for new patches
• We have less than 2 weeks before the crank is turned
  • 2011-07-05: Firefox 8 -> mozilla-central; Firefox 7 -> mozilla-aurora; Firefox 6 -> mozilla-beta

Major Topics for This Week

Application

Front-end

• Work for Fx7 -> We have Features, Bugs and Testing
• Cranking on new code:
  • Tablet UI [At risk for Fx6]
  • Selecting text in web content [Needs more eyes to find a scaling issue]
  • Language picker on startup [Landed and needs some feedback]
  • Basic webapp support [Patches close to landing] bug 583750
  • Yes, we added ‘Quit’ to the Android menu

• Look into using doorhangers in Fennec bug 661148
  • Talked with Madhava about where to move next. Moving forward at the same time mockups/ux discussion happen. [Stalled; Need to un-stall]

• Know your ABCs (Always Be Coding)
  • If you get stuck on something, have a backup project to fallback.
  • Keep patches and reviews moving forward.

UX design

Platform Support

Android

• Minor painting regressions (when putting Fennec in the background, you may see a black screen) is known. Patch to fix this is pending review.
• “official” builds are no longer have debugable set to true in the android manifest
  • That means you can no longer read anything in the profile
• run-as bug: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16391
  • If you have a device, and it comes preloaded with a lot of software, you will may not be able to debug fennec

Maemo

Performance

Testing

QA

• Mobile Testday (Fri, June 24th)
• Firefox mobile test plans
  • mobile 6
  • mobile 7
    • Need clarity on what is in mobile 6
    • Working on test plans for mobile 6 beta releases
• Crash Report
  • Crash Reports for Tablets/Honeycomb increasing
  • Reopened bug 615993 – Fennec crash [@ js::mjit::JaegerShot ]
  • Top Crashers:
    • N900: bug 609166 – Crash [@ libc-2.5.so@0x2a548 ] on Linux 2.6.28
    • Android bug 613954 – OOM crash [@ libc.so@0x11c80 ]…

Test Suites

Test Automation

Release Engineering

Priorities page

• PTO: Aki June 23-July 1; Lukas June 27-July 1.
  • Contact buildduty for respins/infrastructure issues
  • Armenzg is on the hook for a mobile chemspill release
• releases
  • (aki) bug 664307 – Fennec 5.0b7 – done
  • (aki) bug 663986 – Fennec 5.0 – done
  • bug 574764 – port mobile releases to 0.8 automation – may be ready for 6.0b1 now that it’s slated for july 5; may hold off til 6.0b2 to be safe.
• tegras
  • bug 662400 – tegras moved to new foopies, should allow us more headroom
  • (azakai) bug 662936 – fennec silently fails while running talos — this should help fix a lot of our oranges
  • any other help with orange tests would be appreciated (see priorities page)

Other

• devicemotion and deviceorientation support is in the nightly. Please review the spec. http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source-orientation.html. Let DougT or Alon if you have question, issues, concerns, comments.