Mobile/Notes/11-Nov-2009

Details

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• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel

Schedule

• Next code freeze: Dec 1
• String freeze: ?

Major Topics for This Week

Application

General Front-end

• Blockers
• Landed more polish patches
• Focusing on Form Assistant
  • Bug list
  • Started working on a spec
  • Patches starting to appear
• Internal add-on support
  • Landed one patch, a few more coming
• Patch for border-image improvements is ready for review (bug 507817)

UX design

• in nightly, so have a look:
  • refining row highlighting behavior (unhighlight on pan)
  • style adjustment to identity panel / bookmark editing

• working through results from usability testing
  • a number of longer term things to look at
  • a couple of fixes that we could do (just style -- i.e. new tab button icon, disabled style for grey buttons, more prominent selected tab indicator), so identifying that short list and opening bugs

• other UX priorities
  • responsiveness improvments bug 519514, bug 522066
  • in-content widget style bug 516641
  • fix kerning bug 470440
  • finalizing form assistant

Platform Support

Maemo

• Need a plan for AutoDial (bug 495674)
• Look into moz-icon:// on N900 (low priority)
• /opt install location

Windows Mobile

• Code freeze for Alpha 4 is Dec. 1st.
• Focus is on improving start up time and awesome bar performance

Qt

Others

General Back-end

Geolocation support

Video

• Documenting GStreamer integration

Camera

Plugins

Performance

Networking

Graphics

Startup

• Ts shows a strange affect: The first two times are higher than the stable times

Random tinderbox log shows this:37188 12369 8507 8285 8221 8341 9892 8343 8297 8312

Layout

Content

Builds

• bug 469290 -- maemo updates
  • http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/repos/1.9.2_en-US/
  • http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/repos/trunk_en-US/
• bug 525259 -- 40 new n810s
• bug 526657 -- tpan/tzoom
• bug 527627 -- source releases
• power outage

QA

• Signed off on Maemo Beta5
• Talking about getting l10n + QA figured out with multi-locale builds
• Fennec 1.0 Beta Panning/Zooming Testday this Friday
• TPan/TZoom coming back online
• Initial run of Talos TS on WinMo completed with Aki
  • no major issues found
  • minor cleanup required to get results on graph server
• browser-chrome?
  • waiting on patch r+ from Ted
  • are we still running these on local dev boxes before checkin?
  • are we still writing new tests?

Other

• Trunk builds should be OK again. KarlT landed a fix on trunk that should go to 192 too.