Mobile/Notes/11-May-2011

Details

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• 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

• Fennec 5 Beta (May 17)
  • Rapid Release Status
  • Branch Mechanics
  • Branding for beta has landed on mozilla-aurora
  • Android package ID is org.mozilla.firefox_beta so the beta can be installed side-by-side with other channels
• Fennec 6 (May 24)
  • Merging mozilla-central to mozilla-aurora
  • Branding for Aurora has landed
  • Android package ID is org.mozilla.fennec_aurora so aurora can be installed side-by-side with other channels

Major Topics for This Week

Application

Front-end

• Work for FF6 -> We have Features, Bugs and Testing
• Landed:
  • Touch events
  • Session Store Enhancements – save the state sooner
  • Anti-malware/phishing – defaulted off until the back end uses smaller files
  • Better browser feature discoverability
  • Visual refresh – backend code landed
  • CSS themes for different Android versions – core landed
  • Tablet UI – core changes for browser tool panels landed
• In-Progress:
  • Language selection – handed add-on off to Wes for upstreaming
  • Session Store Enhancements – patch started for history and scroll position
  • Android text selection handles – stalled
  • Mobilize text – viewport designs in-progress
  • Visual refresh – css and image changes are in progress
  • Tablet UI – actionbar/sidebar design and coding have started
• Ready to Start
  • Better integration for form assistant on Android
• At Risk
  • Disk cache
  • Anti-malware/phishing – backend
  • Others?

• Bug triage has been ongoing – check your assignments!

UX design

Platform Support

Android

• work progressing on plugin support
  • now proxying the java environment to the plugin process
  • http://hg.mozilla.org/users/dougt_mozilla.com/wip/
• Geoff has a patch for cache compression which reduces cache size
  • need to get Tp numbers to see if it improves Tp

Maemo

Performance

Testing

QA

• Firefox 5: Bugs re-verified on Aurora and Smoketests/BFTs run.
  • bug 656036 and bug 652948 should block
• Top crashes last week
• Detailed Waverley Results
• 25 nominations in the tracking-fennec queue that need some approver love

Test Suites

Test Automation

Release Engineering

Priorities page

• Fennec 5.0 train
  • bug 653717 – aurora branding – landed, with mozconfigs + testing
  • bug 654838 beta branding – tested, with release mozconfigs — issues with android strings?
  • bug 655107 – 5.0b1 test build – ran a staging user repo 5.0b1; ready for a real-life “test”/”fake” 5.0b1 once repos are created and beta branding is fixed
  • bug 656133 – create mozilla-mobile-5.0 and mobile-5.0 repos — pending IT
  • Need to create nightly/depend builds off mozilla-mobile-5.0 and mobile-5.0 repos
  • Mobile5.0 tinderbox page
• Fennec 6.0 train
  • bug 557260 – MobileBuildFactory should inherit MercurialBuildFactory — in the end game, will need to land this week or next.
    • This will fix clobberer, build-from-revision, make hg operations more robust, and get mobile buildbot infra much closer to desktop buildbot infra.
    • Certain amount of risk when landing, but this is blocking 0.8 release work which we want in time for the 6.0 train.
  • bug 574764 – mobile release builds on buildbot 0.8 — this task will be a lot easier once bug 557260 lands, especially since other RelEng team members will be able to modify existing desktop release infra to do mobile releases.

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