Mobile/Notes/30-Jun-2010

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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

• 1.1 rc 1 is out!
• 2.0 Alpha Discussion
  • Code freeze really didn’t stick

Major Topics for This Week

Front-end

• Primary effort right now is fixing e10s related breakage in mobile-browser
  • e10s Worklist is mostly well finished
  • electrolysis + mobile-browser is very functional, more work going on to stablize, support rendering and support tests
  • We are still finding and getting fixes for numerous crashes on mozilla-central and electrolysis
  • Planning 2.0 has been updated again – work will continue on planning tasks
• Work continued on an “Understanding e10s for Add-on Developers” document
• Blog posts about Mobile + Electrolysis started and more are forthcoming
• Firefox Sync landed in mobile-browser as a built-in tool

UX design

• filling in details pages on the Planning 2.0 page
  • of particular interest, early android theme mockups

Maemo

Qt

Android

• blockers [[1]]
  • please nominate bugs as you file them and set the OS to Android
• top priorities
  • keyboard interactions (mwu/jchen) – good progress
  • startup/shutdown/resume (blassey) – fixed
  • e10s (mwu)
  • layers/gles (vlad)
  • protocol handlers (brad) – waiting for bsmedberg’s review
  • multitouch
    • animated zoom (mfinkle) – landed
    • android widget (mwu) – waiting for dougt’s review

Electrolysis

• Test failures are the only known issue preventing landing (on, and some pesky firefox beta1 stuff)

General Platform

Device API

• Desktop notification API making progress.
• Permissions API proposed to webapp mailing list.

Video

Camera

Working through reviews. Patch in progress on refactoring our <input type=”file” /> implementation to deal with files that aren’t on a disk.

Plugins

Performance

Networking

Graphics

Startup

Layout

Content

Release Engineering

• https://intranet.mozilla.org/Build:Mobile:Priorities
• maemo5-gtk, maemo-qt release automation. android release build only (no l10n, no updates, no release signing cert atm)
• android, all project branches moved to buildbot-0.8.0
  • non-android m-c, m-1.9.2, maemo4 try still on buildbot-0.7.10
    • m-c/m-1.9.2 blocked on splitting multi-locale, l10n testing
• aki working on release signing cert, splitting multi-locale build, browser-chrome
• bear working on sys/queue.h for android ndk, android sut integration
• jhford on buildduty, working on porting maemo/android to buildbot-0.8.0 try (try as a branch)

QA

Manual

• bugs filed on the Fennec product over the past week
• Waverley Results over the past week
• Looking into breaking out the 2x increase in features since the last time the Mobile Projects page was updated
• Been testing e10s builds. Martijn has a list of issues on his scratchpad and bugs have been filed.
• goals for upcoming week (in order of priorities):
  • Add assignments to the new features added
  • Continue testing e10s builds and trunk

Automation

Android Test Framework status:

• bug 573281 – updates for device manager
• bug 573282 – Agent crashes when installing fennec (Bmoss can’t seem to reproduce, checking to see if I had a bad build of fennec)

e10s:

• bug 567417 – e10s + mochitest – landed

browser-chrome tests:

• bug 571865 – preferences on/off, in progress

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