Mobile/Notes/16-Feb-2011
From MozillaWiki
Contents
Details
- Wednesdays - 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
- 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
- irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
Schedule
- Beta 5
- Code Freeze Today
- No blockers!
Major Topics for This Week
Front-end
- Watching for any Beta 5 regressions
- Working on performance, rendering and memory usages bugs
- Working on final blockers
- Not quite final string frozen yet
- Waiting to land a patch after we branch for Beta 5
UX design
- design fix proposed for this blocker: bug 611580
- form assistant fixes look promising; to land after b5
- working on post-4.0 awesomescreen concepts, including tablet designs
Maemo
Qt
Android
Electrolysis
General Platform
Video
Camera
Plugins
Performance
- More improvements this week:
- Tp dropped 3.8% from last week
- Ts dropped 1.5% from last week
- Rendering speed while panning is improved (reduces checkerboards)
Networking
Graphics
Startup
Layout
Content
- Checkerboard renders faster
- We fixed several "checkerboard won't go away after I do X" situations
- Flash of checkerboard at the end of a pan was fixed
Memory Usage
- Reduced amount of memory used by Sync if user is not using Sync
- Might be more we can do too
- Reduced amount of memory used to decode video that were not playing
Release Engineering
- tegras
- clientproxy script refactored to be simpler, more robust
- updated imaging scripts for new screen resolution
- handed off imaging to IT intern. all remaining tegras asset tagged; all but 28 tegras imaged with new screen resolution.
- currently looking for more power before bringing up the final batch of tegras.
- ip-controlled power switches to arrive late next week; IT will build out new server room for tegras after those arrive.
- handed off tegra unit test work to bhearsum for more parallelization
- lsblakk signed up for 4.0b5
QA
- Top crashes last week
- Waverley Results
- Release Test Wiki is up
- Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet - Work in progress, please add any missing criteria you would like to see that deem a device compatible or not
