Mobile/Notes/10-Mar-2010

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Schedule

[ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases ]

• Onward to 1.1

Major Topics for This Week

• Start sprinting on tasks
• Began investigating and building e10s
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/e10s

Application

General Front-end

• Form autocomplete landed (tests ready to land too) bug 466770
• Add-on auto update patch is being tested. Should be ready for review today.
• Coding a patch and researching the link-click problem. Other bugs want to do similar things:
  • ElementFromPointWithArea bug 489127
  • Perform hit target detection/correction on tap clicks bug 547997
• Enough foundation design work has been completed to allow work to begin on:
  • Open in New Tab (via context panels)
  • Page interactions (direct use and/or cursor mode - TBD)
  • Manage site preferences
  • Clean up site panel (larry)
  • Start page redesign

UX design

• working designs (wireframe-level) done for site panel, clear prefs, autofill, open in new tab; working on communicating these more widely
• going to try "more tappable if visited" experiment for link and field tapping
• working on add-ons findability improvements and start page / homepage designs
• will be blogging some longer term UX theme ideas
• have a general concept for page-interactivity (i.e. pannable regions, hover) - need to document

Platform Support

E10S

• Ben and DougT tracking down and killing known issues (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/e10s)
• Targeting next Wed. to have another demo/build available for wider consumption.

Windows Mobile

• Two big regressions in the last week, both should be fixed now
  • layers - null region being returned from GetRegionToPaint led to nothing being painted
  • xmalloc - nasty circular dependency between the shunt and mozalloc.lib led to mismatched allocators
• native testing
  • invalid default entry point fixed, allows tests to run
  • xpcom file io fixes
  • new remote test harness allows running make check over telnet connection
    • all tests pass now (with xpcom io fixes)
  • working through nspr issues
    • default stack size may be too large, we're limited to 31 threads
    • PR_CreateProcess fails, alexp is working on a patch
    • tests assume unix paths, alexp is working on a patch
• breakpad

Qt

• Lots of widget changes incoming from Nokia
• Very soon new minimum Qt requirement will be 4.6

General Back-end

Geolocation support

• Reviewed and commented on Orientation draft specification

Performance

• Need someone to look at bug 548664 which will help with startup on ARM.

Networking

• Need someone to look at bug 545869 which will help with network perf.

Release Engineering

• DougT and John Ford working on getting Maemo/Qt builds going.
  • found some issues with QEMU
• n900s -- jhford rocking the house
  • http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=MobileTest
  • unit tests not working properly yet
  • talos running w/ some errors -- checkout, crashes etc
  • switch live? when?
• bug 535922 browser chrome tests -> aki
• n810s
  • haven't looked at these this week; still need new image
  • emails should now go to moz.dev.tree-management
• l10n repacks
  • armenzg got these working again, nightly only. per-checkin was exacerbating pm02's unhealthy state.
  • l10n repo updates should be working again
• bug 550023 1.0.1 blockers, down to 3
• bug 532925 winmo symbols
  • aki has patch, but trunk was broken & not enabled on 1.9.2
• bug 507024 winmo updates
  • coop was sick 1 1/2 days, working on fixing up review nits
  • aki will see if he can help
• acers arrived, aki will work on them later this week
• mobile-releng-devtools meeting
  • helpful?
  • next monday? weekly til we get some traction
    • try to make it short & every other week <-- eventual goal
  • https://intranet.mozilla.org/Build:Mobile:2010-03-08
  • new agenda: https://intranet.mozilla.org/Build:Mobile:2010-03-15
    • mobile-releng-testdev meeting

QA

• Manual
• updates
  • [Bug%20creation;chfieldfrom=2010-03-07;bug_status=UNCONFIRMED;bug_status=NEW;bug_status=ASSIGNED;bug_status=REOPENED;email2=adesai%40mozilla.com;product=Fennec bugs filed] to look at
• goals for the upcoming week
  • going to run smoketests for 1.9.2 winmo and maemo, trunk for maemo until trunk for winmo is up
  • going to add testcases to litmus for autocomplete
• notes
  • blassey: please cc me to trunk crasher bug
  • acer s200's high brickrate (watch out releng)
  • when are we having a triage meeting?
• requests
  • need help in coverage of single-locale build downloads
• Automation