Mobile/Notes/08-Sep-2010

Details

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Schedule

• See timeline
  • Beta 1 code freeze: Sept 13
    • ~ 1 week

Major Topics for This Week

Front-end

• Working on Beta 1 blockers
  • Login Manager patch needs discussion, review and testing
  • Project to remove tile manager is well underway (can we land this on m-c / m-b soon?)
• Features (see Planning page)
  • Sharing backend for Android and Maemo was spec'ed
  • Android updater FE work has started
  • Beta Feedback XPI is in patch
• Working with Madhava on UX designs and loose ends

UX design

• Working with Martell on the Android theme mockups
  • next round of feedback to sean, should start seeing results in the next days
• working through the UX question list link to etherpad

Maemo

Qt

Android

• still need to solidify our minimum requirements for 2.0
  • screen sizes
  • min CPU
  • how to communicate
• big ticket items for beta 1
  • custom dlopen
  • updater

Electrolysis

Layers

Some TODOs for b1.

General Platform

Geolocation

• Geolocation API specification has now been published as a Candidate Recommendation.
• TPAC in Nov. to discuss version 2

Video

Camera

• [[1]] with a list of which patches go in which repo (m-c or m-b).

Plugins

Performance

Networking

Graphics

Startup

Layout

Content

Release Engineering

• downtime restrictions
• maemo4 builds: patch to disable them on m-c and m-c based branches; waiting for downtime
• make upload for fennec desktop; maemo later, complicated by multilocale
• aki working on android updates, android l10n

QA

Manual

• New Bugs over the week: filed
• Beta Tester Tools is going
• Results from nightly Smoketest runs. These are ran against Android, GTK, and QT.
• New 2.0 features testplans popping up (awesomescreen, platform integration, RTL)
• MobiFx Testday on 9/10

Automation

• browser-chrome - need some attention, carryover from last week
  • new test files bug 489163 and bug 570706 are blocked on awesomebar problem
  • bug 593463 - awesomescreen.js problem

• [mochitest: green]
  • 100% blocked on bug 590121 unless we do browser.tabs.remote=false, traction on this, but still broken
  • bug 590248 and bug 587646 account for 60% of known mochitest failures on n900!, no progress on these two bugs?!

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