Mobile/Notes/20-Apr-2011

Details

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• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel

Schedule

Major Topics for This Week

Application

Front-end

• Work for FF6 -> We have Features, Bugs and Testing
• We have enough information (design or otherwise) to start some tasks:
  • Language selection
  • Anti-malware/phishing
  • Session Store Enhancements
• Some other designs might be almost ready to start prototyping:
  • Tablet UI – Keyboards & Other
  • Better browser feature discoverability
  • Better integration for form assistant on Android
• [Fennec-6] bugs need to be assigned
• browser-chrome test fixes have been landing. We need more focus on getting the tests green!
  • bug 650686 [tracking] Android browser-chrome permaoranges

UX design

• Welcome Ian Barlow!
• Feature design work:
  • Initial breakdown of interim tablet/honeycomb design work here: Fennec/Features/TabletUI/UI_Improvements_ForHoneycomb
  • Brainstorming about home/awesomescreen2 (whiteboard photos): http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/5635261141/in/photostream
  • Designs for First-run language selection: Mobile/Projects/Firstrun_language_choice
  • Brainstorming on gestures for tablet actions: Fennec/Features/touch#Designs
• WIP mobile UX wiki index page: Mobile/User_Experience

Platform Support

Android

• Investigating plugin support

Maemo

Performance

• Did some disk cache experiments. We have some improvements, but not enough.

Testing

QA

• Top crashes last week
• 4.0.1 qa work is done, signoff will be after this meeting
  • waverely found a couple bugs releated to having a large number of search plugins but nothing that would stop release of 4.0.1

Test Suites

Test Automation

Release Engineering

Priorities page

• more releng team members will be working on mobile bugs
• 4.0.1
  • FIXED bug 650449 Lukas added a mozilla-2.1 deb repo builder and renamed the 4.x release deb repo builder as part of the release
• tegras
  • FIXED bug 648306 – tegras getting wedged on long build runs
  • (ateam) FIXED bug 650828 – generate pid file for unit test daemons
  • PENDING REVIEW bug 650865 – add pid check to unit test runs
  • (ateam+releng) FIXED bug 648307 – tp4m
• a lot of other bug fixes — some were cleanup from the merge/aurora branching and should be one-time hits.
  • FIXED bug 649681 – mobile-2.0 maemo5 gtk nightlies were broken. didn’t affect release builds.
  • FIXED bug 650502 – aurora android nightlies should now update via the aurora channel
  • FIXED bug 650312 – trunk android nightlies not updating
  • FIXED bug 649407 – broken m-c single locale repacks
  • FIXED bug 650128 – aurora multi- and single-locale broken
  • PENDING RECONFIG bug 581290 – android debug builds

Other

• Added telemetry support to Zippity
• Started work on a restartless Add-on Builder targeted at Fennec