Mobile/Notes/04-Aug-2010

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Schedule

Major Topics for This Week

Front-end

UX design

Maemo

Qt

Android

• jchen has made very good progress on IME related bugs, should land when the tree opens up
• IME interactions with content still need love, this is a cross platform issue
• protocol handlers reviewed by bz, but they're broken for all platforms by e10s, should resolve that before landing

Electrolysis

• bug 568054 has a patch for a scriptable API for freezing/throttling the content process, need feedback

General Platform

Geolocation Working Group

• We are most likely attenting a face to face in Nov.

Video

Camera

• Plugging along, no substantive updates.

Plugins

• 556487 plugin layers - lot of oranges are known and mostly fixed. still need to solve Layer-pluginParent API issue

Performance

• Patch for InstallTrigger (bug 550936) causes a 4% Txul slowdown - investigating

Networking

• waiting for redirect, xhr, suspend/resume.

Graphics

Startup

Layout

Content

Release Engineering

• newly updated priorities page
• Fixed a recurring issue with the nightly deb repos
• n810/n900 status
  • still need fixes for these:
    • bug 579186 Mozilla-central N810 builds do not launch (GLIBCXX_3.4.9 not found)
    • bug 582336 (IT) Frequent "no route to host" in RF room -- main cause of reds.
  • aki tried the patches here but mixed results:
    • bug 578343 talos needs to be retrofitted for e10s
    • bug 575506 trunk maemo fennec builds not exiting talos profile creation since 6/23
    • bug 582997 fennecmark needs to be updated for e10s

QA

Manual

• bugs filed on the Fennec product over the past week
• litmus reports triaged
• E-mails to devs should have been sent out for qa coverage on 2.0 features
  • We have litmus test case coverage on Find In Page and Form Assistant Refresh
• bug notes
  • bug 581532 - Pages now load again with browser.tabs.remote=true, so testing again with that enabled. I'm getting crashes when closing tabs, in that case, though.
  • bug 581168 - blocks testing on multitouch feature
  • TileCaching vs. Layers
    • update: bug 552809 - Intermittent black boxes from asyncDrawXULElement, addresses much of these issues, and should be marked as a blocker to bugs filed

Automation

Other