Fennec/NativeUI/Showcase2-1

• To refresh on the list of Features and their priority, click here.
• To refresh on the plan of record per Toronto's offsite, click here.
  
• To see baseline vs. current reality, click here: here
  

ADU update

• Aurora - 1,229 (+12%)
• Nightly - 1,196 (+4%)
• Beta - 27,042 (+3%)

Schedule

To see who is attending the showcase

Q4

• Dec 2011: Feature Complete

Q1

• Jan 16 2012: String Freeze ==> Jan 30th (lock-step with cutover)
• Jan 16 2012: First Run Walk-Through ==> needs to be reset; pending profile migration which is getting closer
• Jan 30 2012: Beta Cutover & Beta Declare ==> merge happened but we are day-for day slip until we ship to the store
• Feb 27 2012: Public Announcement at Mobile World Congress
• March 30 2012: Final Release

Beta Readiness

• Status:
• We are string frozen: the focus is now to focus in page rendering (panning and zooming perf, quick/smooth tab switching and closing, awesome bar/screen responsiveness (esp. after syncing bookmarks and history)

We are in day-for-day slip for shipping Native Fennec Fx11 to the android market here's why

• Tab: display tabs tray menu
• Awesome Bar Perf after sync
• Panning and zooming perf: we need to make a go/no go? We should probably ship tile-by-tile
• Remaining sync blockers related to data integrity

Full list of blockers, there are some fixed ones in here because we want to be sure to qualify those fixes before beta:

• http://bit.ly/yrhZ2a

Release Management

• Should we go ahead and release XUL for both phones and tablets since we are not ready with Java?
• What's the testing strategy for Beta? Testing the weekly build out of RelEng is likely too late given the amount of code change we expect to still take.

• Split-APK
  • Status: Waiting for the fix for bug 719560- this was fixed on m-c but backed out
  • Requires: QA testing on tablets/phones once posted
  • Fallback options: Push XUL to all for the time being, only push to tablets, hold off on pushing altogether
• Profile migration
  • Status: QA should be able to provide testing status
• Single-locale APKs
  • Won't be ready in time for 1/31 - focused on getting this onto m-c and aurora prior to uplifting to beta
  • Are multi-locale APKs still our our fallback?
  • Requires: QA test plan and verification in conjunction with split-APK work
  • Remaining multi-locale bug: bug 713464 (needs to be uplifted to aurora/beta)
• L10N
  • Required for String Freeze for Fx11 (Jan 30th): query

Demos

• • Flash is working on ICS
  • First Run for current XUL users (profile migration)

Other Top Issues and Their Status

Sync

• They are uplifted to Aurora: plan of record is to go to beta with history and bookmarks; no passwords, no tabs
• We need to get to the bottom of awesome bar performance after sync
• Password content provider bug 704682

UX & UI

Of our UX list for beta:

• Done
  • Get the in-browser Sync UI pieces in, so people can find and set up sync bug 708414, bug 716906
  • Get the tab menu not covering the whole screen -- may seem minor, but I want people to get the right idea of how it works as of beta - bug 712526
• Improved
  • aweseomescreen - slow top sites list coming in
  • tab menu - opening a tab, switching tabs, deleting tabs
  • Fix the p1/p2 font inflation bugs -- we want this to be as right as possible for beta; bug 706193, bug 706198
    • mobile sites exception is done - is it in nightlies/aurora?
  • Some thumbnail tweaks around differences in tab menu / start page, scaling where we shouldn't be (bug 721032)
• Still to be fixed
  • Cut down the amount of checkerboarding - bug 716581
  • Get frecency / top sites as right as we can: bug 704977
  • Handful of startup weirdness bugs: tracked in bug 721008
  • [new] Overwhelming flat list of desktop bookmarks bug 716918

Website Compatibility

(Two-pronged approach)

• UA string decision has been made
• John Jensen is POC: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708406
• Evangelism Bugs
• Screenshot comparisons of top-30-Alexa against Native Fennec/Android AOSP Browser/Opera (QA contact: AaronMT)
  • ICS, Gingerbread, Froyo

MTD Update

MTD feedback in order of frequency:

• "Feeling zippier"
• Sync <--- people still want sync
• Remaining checkerboarding
• Localizations
• Unzooming during page load
• Frame rate when scrolling
• Top sites still don't work
• Flash on ICS