Mobile/Notes/10-Aug-2011

Details

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Schedule

• Fennec 8 (nightly)
  • This is the active development trunk
• Fennec 7 (aurora)
  • Need to move only required fixes from trunk (as those fixes are made)
• Fennec 6 (beta)
  • Fixed on Beta this week (yes we actually landed something):
    • bug 676780 – Fennec is unable to load webpages and close tabs
    • bug 669289 – Fennec UI is unresponsive and browser becomes unusable if a restart is triggered with a single blank tab open

Next merge date is 2011-08-16

Major Topics for This Week

• 6.0b6 – needed to test session restore fixes
• Merge on 8/16

Application

Front-end

• Work for Fx8
  • Tablet UI
    • Landed base patch with a pref to enable/disable
    • Working on a few followup patches that would be great to get for Aurora. We’ll see.
  • Selecting text in web content followup bugs
    • Stays on in Fx7
    • Platform API is close in Fx8. Might need to push for early Aurora.
  • Basic webapp support
    • The plan is to remove the “Install as App” menu in Aurora
  • Landed “Add to Home Screen” for bookmarks
    • Feature page should be added 🙂

• Let’s make sure we are working on other bugs and minor features too

UX design

• telemetry UI resolved
• finalizing “add to home screen” UI — bookmark panel action and home screen icon
• reviewing UX of interim flash solution
• a couple of tablet UI structural patches coming; visual design work starting in earnest

• madhava working with apps team on mobile apps approach

Platform Support

• jdm is still pushing to land remote content process crash reporter annotations (bug 581341) before the next merge, but windows opt try builds keep mysteriously crashing
• Master password status
• Keyboard and IME interaction status
• xpcshell testing status
• flash status
  • http://people.mozilla.org/~dougt/fennec_plugin_test.apk
  • not for the timid

Android

• jchen has been working on a better Android gdb (‘jimdb’). Prebuilt binaries, source, and build instructions
  • has most fixes from NDK gdb
  • integrates Android libthread_db (fixed dougt’s problem debugging threads)
  • has Python scripting support
  • couple of existing Python scripts (or if using prebuilt binaries above, just run ‘git pull’ under the ‘utils’ directory)
    • feninit is a tool to initialize the GDB environment (support for multiple devices, multiple object directories; launches Fennec, pulls libraries, sets paths, and attaches gdbserver automatically)
    • tracebt is a WIP stack unwinder that traces instructions to find stack frames
    • idea for another tool to parse and integrate logcat into gdb
    • other ideas welcome!
• Changes to package name and sharedID
  • sharedID dropped from unofficial builds
  • package name is now org.mozilla.fennec_<user name>
• blassey has nexus s full engineering rom with symbols, contact me if you want it

Maemo

Performance

• Startup shrink: nothing to report

Testing

QA

• Working on reducing the number of regression windowwanted bugs listed bugzilla.
• concern about bug 661518 about:home page is not repainted correctly when it comes back in focus
• Beta 6 and RC is on the radar

• Crash Report Aug 8, 2011

Test Suites

• Mochitest investigations are ready to resume now that a solution for the blocking bug 675669 has been found.

Test Automation

• nothing to report

Release Engineering

android_tier_1

• bug 677332 – turn off duplicate/broken n900 tests
  • please make sure all tegra issues are tracked in bugs so they can be addressed
• bug 674830 – m-c multilocale horked, due to bug 664907.
• android sdk13 – still testing
• tegra new rom — doesn’t work.

Other

SUMO

Documentation

• FF6 documentation updates with L10n; site options menu changes
• FF7 documentation proposals and drafts in progress; quit button, text selection, language picker
• Knowledge base improvements for Q3 goal scoped
• Knowledge base optimizations for mobile; animated gif tutorials to replace videos & wide screenshots where appropriate

Feedback Reports

• User Feedback Report
• Feedback Summary highlights