Mobile/Notes/20-Jul-2011

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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)
  • Fixed on Aurora this week:
    • bug 668633 - Elements with scrollable overflow are cut off
    • bug 672543 - Don't set accessibility.browsewithcaret when selecting text
    • bug 659468 - Feedback add-on compatibility manually bumped
• Fennec 6 (beta)
  • Live in the Android Market
  • Fixed on Beta this week:
    • bug 659412 - Remove warning dialog for Android devices with low MemTotal
    • bug 668950 - Disable websockets on mobile

Next merge date is 2011-08-16

Major Topics for This Week

• Several startup crashes reported today
  • Nightly (bug 672809)
  • Aurora (bug 672787)

Application

Front-end

• Work for Fx8
  • Tablet UI
    • Need to check with UX on design status
  • Selecting text in web content followup bugs
    • Landed some fixes
    • What are the priority fixes needed for Fx7?
  • Language picker support for locales on AMO
    • Process of getting XPIs to AMO
    • Deal with nightly breakage
  • Basic webapp support - landed
    • Need to "appify" the tab?
    • Need to support manifest approach bug 609043
  • Master Password
    • Address review comments
    • File some follow up bugs
  • Mobile friendly error pages
    • Landed

• Let's make sure we are working on other bugs and minor features too
• MFinkle needs to spin through the buglist and make sure bugs have owners

Platform Support

Android

• NDKr5
  • hit some bumps in the road
  • http://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=3f097065d42c is testing the last install and is looking good
  • we don't have talos on try, so after a green run we're going to update the production mozconfigs
• testing
  • there are make file targets for reftests and mochitests
  • if you have any issues running tests, file a bug
  • should be as simple as:

 MOZ_HOST_BIN="../objdir-x86/dist/bin/" make reftest-remote

and

 MOZ_HOST_BIN="../objdir-x86/dist/bin/" make mochitest-remote

Maemo

• Moving from Tier 1 -> Tier 3 post FF7. Discuss.

Testing

QA

Remote today wiki only

• Timeframe for go to build for beta 3?
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Triage lists 12 bug fixed for Firefox 7. This is post Aurora merge fixes correct?
• Crash Report July 20th, 2011
  • Crashes per build id Report 2011-07-19
  • Explosiveness 2011-07-19
  • bug 667033 - "Crashes Per User" doesn't count content crashes
  • Top Crashers:
    • Fennec 8: bug 672984 - Crash Report [@ JSParseNode::getConstantValue ]
    • Fennec 7: bug 672787 - Aurora build crashes [@ _moz_pixman_image_composite32] at start-up (07/20)
    • Fennec 6: bug 613954 - OOM crash [@ libc.so@0x11c80 ][@ libc.so@0x11da0 ]
    • Fennec 5:
      • N900: bug 609166 - Crash [@ libc-2.5.so@0x2a548 ] on Linux 2.6.28
      • Android bug 613954 - OOM crash [@ libc.so@0x11c80 ]...

Test Automation

• make reftest-remote and make mochitest-remote are landed and working
  • please take a moment to try this out so we can ensure it works for more than a couple folks.
• removed dependency on sharedID for sutagent in mozilla-central.

Release Engineering

Priorities page

• dual desktop/mobile release: shipped.
• bug 669189 - Still waiting for word from Google re: Android Market
• ndk5 package rolled out to build slaves, testing on try

Other

• Lucas Rocha joins Front-end

• Safe Browsing Update (Gian Carlo)
  • dcamp working to remove sqlite db
  • moving torward prefix tree
  • 2mb in memory
  • Concern about startup speed

• OpenGL Update (chris lord)

• MemShrink Update (Alon Zakai)