Mobile/Notes/13-Oct-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

• Beta 1 has shipped
• Beta 2
  • String freeze: Oct 9
  • Code freeze: Oct 19

Major Topics for This Week

• Windows and Mac builds crash on startup
• Mac build fails to paint until you zoom, or interact with content.

Front-end

• Primarily working on Beta 2 blockers
  • Triaging the blocker list to move out non-critical bugs
• Also working on other blockers and some performance/optimization bugs
• Features (see Planning page)
  • Work re-started on scroll indicators
  • Need to re-evaluate the page interactions feature
• New Core (nee Android) theme is underway
  • Martell is supplying styles and glyphs
  • Vivien landed first patch and we regressed Twinopen by ~180ms
  • We are re-working the theme with less “slow” CSS parts
  • We are breaking up the theme into smaller parts

UX design

• theme work ongoing in bug 575403
  • WIP screenshots here http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/sets/72157625031737595/detail/
  • link to mocks as well: http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/collections/72157625031739669/
• reviewing ux b2-intended ux bugs

Maemo

Qt

Android

• Standard packaging bug 567873 landed
• Custom dlopen bug 588607 waiting for review by ted
• Black flash fix landed bug 599397
• Places no longer takes 10mb on profile creation

Electrolysis

General Platform

Video

Camera

Plugins

Performance

• Investigated Sync perf
  • Encrypt/decrypt off-main-thread patch is done (by philiKON) just needs approval..  this helps enormously with responsiveness during esp. first sync (bug 570619)
  • Patch to remove “tmp” sqlite tables helps with errors/warnings that are perf-related during first sync (bug 552053), but might cause other issues (bug 585704)
  • Dug into JS perf tools for profiling issues like this (not quite ready for prime-time, but soon — maybe a week?)
• Trying to get talos set up locally to validate some perf patches
  • Lots of fail. Looking into today.

Networking

Graphics

Startup

Layout

Content

Release Engineering

• 4.0b1 – another build, successful update test with beta-cck-test
• android standard packaging – landed+green; nightly signing busted bug 603822
  • nightly updates are assuming fennec is named fennec.apk; need to figure out how to get around this.
• tegras running in staging on m-c nightlies. todo:
  • fix nightly signing (above)
  • merge code (deal with conflicts), get review, land
  • point at production tinderbox/graphs
  • still waiting for tegras
• queued up after android tests: android multilocale, android release packaging/upload fixes
• MV downtime this Sunday, 1-4

QA

Manual

• New Bugs over the week: filed
  • Triaged through in-litmus? bugs and are beginning to pare off that list
  • Verifying bugs on Build 2 and will sign off once that’s done
• Need a triage of bugs nominated over the past week
• Seeing some good feedback coming in from Android nightly and Maemo beta users
• Results from nightly Smoketest runs

Automation

• android – results in releng staging!
  • talos ts, tgfx should be running live today
  • bug 601634 – update to talos for tp4, tsvg and tdhtml (waiting for landing)

• browser-chrome –
  • bug 600877 – browser chrome fails to get proper focus on maemo, blocking full run (waiting on review: gavin?)

Other