Mobile/Notes/31-Aug-2011
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Schedule
Next merge date is 2011-09-27
Major Topics for This Week
Application
Front-end
- Work for Fx9
- Tablet UI
- Several patches have landed and more are on the way
- Tablet UI
UX design
Platform Support
Android
- Flash support in progress
- try build here: people.mozilla.org/~dougt/fennec-flash.apk
- put comments here: etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/FennecFlash
- Bug 680190 landed on inbound last night. Fixes another huge problem in bionic that causes lots of fail in testing. (Awesome Jim Chen!)
- Working on getting better crash stats.
- Bug that was halting progress on crash reporter annotations has been analyzed, now waiting on acquiring a win7 vm before a fix can be developed.
Maemo
Performance
- All mobile perf bugs
- All startupshrink bugs
Testing
QA
- Watch release-drivers may be re-spinning Firefox 7 beta 3 and a possible Firefox 6.0.2 due to not white listing a Dutch Government cert from the affected CA
- Test Plan for 6.0.1 (Chemspill)
- Signed off
- Test Plan for 7.0b3
- In-progress
- Crash Report Aug 29, 2011
- had a meeting with Dev + Crashkill team; feedback received in how to improve the reporting
- include how often, when, STRs if possible, etc.
- utilize SkipList in order to get the last libxul module (Bug 683385 – skiplist symbols in libdvm.so module)
- separation of platform; currently: fennec-linux = android + maemo + desktop of fennec on linux
Test Suites
- Every mochitest has been run on desktop, jdm is now categorizing failures and filing bugs and patches (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=mochi10s)
Test Automation
Release Engineering
- releng busy with chemspill release(s?).
- (fixed) bug 680138 – debug tegra reftests, crashtests: now on try & m-c
- (fixed) bug 680561 – tegra proxy.flg set in wrong directory — may have caused some reds/purples
- (fixed) bug 676275 – android sdk 13
Other
SUMO
- Drafts for ‘Why is Firefox for Mobile Slow?’ and ‘How do I use gestures on my mobile device?’ out for review
- New community member Nicholae to help answer forum questions (32 new threads last week, 6 unanswered)
- 7 new members of the SF FF for Android meetup group, do join us!
Android market FF6 comments (78); all languages:
Dissatisfiers FF6; 1 star & 2 star ratings (35), week of August 22-28:
- slow and unstable=25
- no flash=7
- UI=6 (zoom, copy/paste)
- hogs resources=6
- update broke it=2 (DroidX)
Android market FF7 comments (58); all languages:
Dissatisfiers FF7; 1 star & 2 star ratings (23), week of August 16-22:
- slow=12
- UI=9 (text entry issues)
- no flash=11
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