Mobile/Notes/06-Jul-2011

Details

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• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel

Schedule

• Fennec 8 (nightly)
  • This is the active development trunk
• Fennec 7 (aurora)
  • Need to make sure it’s stable
  • Need to move only required fixes from trunk (as those fixes are made)
  • Should we add to Android Market?
• Fennec 6 (beta)
  • Getting QA and will be pushed to Android Market soon

Major Topics for This Week

• Welcome: Michelle Luna, Mobile Support Coordinator, SUMO
• Tooling next steps
  • sharedID sutagent fun
  • makefile targets for running unittests on a device
  • what we want developers to do to their device in order to run tests (run-as, root, sutagent, other)
  • content mochitest update (jdm – bug 668283)

Application

Front-end

• Work for Fx8
  • Tablet UI
  • Selecting text in web content followup bugs (which need to be on Aurora?)
  • Language picker support for locales on AMO
  • Basic webapp support [Patches close to landing] bug 583750

• 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]

UX design

• design work ongoing on apps/desktop shortcuts/android widget
  • hoping to clarify how these pieces split apart this week
• Fennec on honeycomb spec to be ready for review late this week
• design polish on NewFxHome v1 and new concepts for next versions
• finalizing spec on first-run language selection
• designs spec’ed on text field carat-placement/movement
• prototyping a refined side-area discoverability approach for testing

• mbrubeck has a draft spec of the readability approaches in the design section here https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/Features/readability
  • [action] can get help breaking down the specific platform pieces we need?

Platform Support

Android

• Jim Chen has a fix for NDKr5 regressions
  • once that lands we should switch over to NDKr5 for Firefox 8

Maemo

Performance

Testing

QA

• Beta 1 work has not started yet
  • builds are just starting
  • Beta 1 test plan
• Crash Report, July 6th
  • Socorro crash reports currently does not contain content crashes
  • Reopened : bug 626994 – Crashes [@ _de_casteljau ] due to infinite recursion of [@ _cairo_spline_decompose_into] without using Cisco VPN
  • 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

• update on bug 664510 – get valid crashreports again
• update on bug 668594 – reftest tests consume all memory on tegra in plugin-container

Release Engineering

Priorities page

• 6.0b1
  • bug 669419 – Armenzg is running 6.0b1 with 0.7 automation, split repos.
  • bug 574764 – Rail is going to run 6.0b1 with new 0.8 automation. Hoping to completely switch over by 6.0b2.
• bug 669189 – does anyone know how to file an Android Market bug?
• bear has ndk5 testing in staging puppet

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