Mobile/Notes/16-Dec-2009

Details

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• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel

Schedule

• Code frozen, but blockers still remain
• String frozen

Major Topics for This Week

• Next steps

Application

General Front-end

• Profiling...
  • DOMWindow check has improved pageload (220ms on cnn)
• Bugs and patches being created related to page load, panning, tab switching & closing.
• Bookmark manager patches landed to support viewing & browsing desktop bookmarks.

UX design

• weave UX revisions, including revised first-run page ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/4186306038/ )
• now a SUMO article on shortcut keys; drafts for articles on installing/configuring weave and adding/removing search engines

Platform Support

Maemo

• Working on subpixel text rendering on Linux to fix text rendering spacing problems.

Windows Mobile

• tracking bug status here Mobile/Fennec/WinMoPain
• bugzilla query for alpha blockers [[1]]
• hang on HD2 looks like its caused by an OS bug. work arounds will most likely be ugly

Qt

• Still blocking on 451129. DougT is running a local tbox.
• Local change (bug 532328) is being used to keep the tree green. It should land shortly.

Builds

• Progressing toward r+ on bug 525257 (mobile release builds)
  • are the all-locales and maemo-locales files the real lists?
• bug 534961 needs landing (repacks broken)
• Working on bug 533341 (trunk deb repos borked) + bug 533997 (release repos)
• WinMo update channel status update?

QA

• QAE
  • Adding testcases to litmus
  • Issues seen cropping up since b5:
    • flash performance is terrible (with chrome and content)
    • more checkerboarding than usual
  • QA is building a list of blockers for major release

• TestDev
  • Talos Ts is running in staging (need to polish out install and cleanup scripts) - first patch is up for review
  • xpcshell and Mochitest are running with new remote framework (patches in review)
  • currently working on reftest with remote framework