Mobile/Notes/16-Jun-2010

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Schedule

[ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases ]

• 1.1 is eminent
  • RC build sign QA signoff

• Onward to 2.0 alpha 1
  • ~ June 30

Major Topics for This Week

• We respun 1.1 RC build after we found jemalloc is not included bug 571254

Front-end

• Fennec 1.1
  • We respun to pick up jemalloc and got a few CSS fixes too

• Fennec 2.0
  • Primary effort right now is getting e10s functionality into mobile-browser
  • e10s Worklist has some details on the things we are doing
  • electrolysis + mobile-browser is functional, more work going on to stablize, support panning/zooming and support tests
  • We have been finding and getting fixes for numerous crashes on mozilla-central and electrolysis
  • Planning a meeting to discuss the front-end project list with Madhava (an any other concerned parties)
  • Work started on an “Understanding e10s for Add-on Developers” document

UX design

• Sean Martell to start on android theme mockups next week; should have some in quick turnaround to start community discussion, suggestions
• 1.1 field guide draft finished, waiting to post
• QA/Feedback wireframes – feedback to Aakash earlier this week
• started on camera input UI concepts http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/4703979059/
• concept mockups ready (needing documenting in wiki) for systems where we can’t tap into a built in sharing system; draft: http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/4706099787/in/photostream/

Maemo

Qt

Android

• you can build off trunk now (yah!)
  • https doesn’t work though
  • no one should be pushing to mozilla-droid anymore
  • make sure whatever you pushed to mozilla-droid is in a bug and makes it to m-c
• tinderbox builders should switch over to trunk later this week

Electrolysis

• BZ is super-reviewing e10 -> mc patch
• figured out the crash mobile browser is seeing
  • necko rpc bug

General Platform

Geolocation Working Group

Video

Camera

Coming together nicely. Patches should start landing soon.

• Bug 567426 – Asynchronous Image Encoders is on final approach to landing (has sr=bz, waiting on r from joedrew, promised review this week.]
• Bug 508082 – Implement a RAW Decoder is also on final approach to landing (review comments from doublec were mostly nits)
• Bug 567323 – Add a Capture Button to <input type=”file”> should be up for sicking’s review today. The main concern he had (not displaying the Capture button if there is no capability) has been addressed.

Bunch of us met yesterday to discuss the user facing aspects of this. Have plan in hand for Maemo.

Plugins

Performance

Networking

Graphics

Startup

Layout

Content

Release Engineering

• https://intranet.mozilla.org/Build:Mobile:Priorities
• Bear finishing up ndk/sdk testing on staging
• Bear now got formal ok to do mozilla-droid->mozilla-central switchover
• John Ford working on images, integrating mobile infrastructure more closely to desktop infrastructure.
  • what subdirectory do we want for uploads?
    • [latest-]mozilla-central-mobile-browser-maemo5-qt[-l10n]
    • [latest-]mozilla-central-maemo5-qt[-l10n]
• Aki working on getting multi-deb repos for nightlies, splitting out multi-locale repack
• Aki waiting for “go to beta for 1.1rc1”

QA

Manual

• notes:
  • bugs filed on the Fennec product over the past week
  • Waverley WeeklyResults
  • Release tested RC1 B3
  • vetted 87 litmus test reports for Waverley and updated testcases as well as followed up on bugs filed
• goals for upcoming week (in order of priorities) :
  • look through bugzilla UNCONFIRMED/NEW bugs, Litmus Tests and maemo forums post-release
  • Complete Beta Tester Tools mock-ups, talk to Stuart on scheduling

• Automation
  • e10s mochitests bug 567417
    • segfault while using messageManager.loadFrameScript – bug 572149
    • can write to log file from content process – bug 572152
  • Android
    • intial prototype work for reftest
    • need to finalize prototypes and check in code
    • need to get mochitest-chrome & browser-chrome working
  • browser-chrome automation
    •  :adifire has his first test patch landed, working on next patch

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