Mobile/Notes/17-Aug-2011
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- Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
- SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
- irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
- vidyo: PB&J
Schedule
Major Topics for This Week
Application
Front-end
- Firefox 6 release
- Took two session-store patches in the RC, managed to fix one bug but failed to fix the other. Decided not to block release; shipped anyway. (bug 669289, bug 676780).
- Firefox 7 beta
- Some fixes landed on Aurora before the migration to beta:
- bug 676780 - handle corrupt sessionstore files
- (bug 671555) - Fix the "force add-on compatibility" option in the Feedback extension
- (bug 674791) - Fix for a text selection bug
- Some fixes landed on Aurora before the migration to beta:
- Tablet UI
- Working on follow-up bugs listed on Fennec/Features/TabletUI
- Will be working on visual design changes as UX provides them
- Text selection
- Several fixes landed in Aurora for Fx7
- More fixes landing in Fx8/9.
- Web Apps
- Open Web App API support (bug 609043) landed but was backed out because it made an existing Android browser-chrome timeout become permaorange.
- Working on the test failure; this may affect other upcoming patches too.
- Open Web App API support (bug 609043) landed but was backed out because it made an existing Android browser-chrome timeout become permaorange.
- Master Password
- Front-end patch reviewed and landed for Firefox 8 (bug 592772).
UX design
- full steam ahead on tablet UI theming (ian)
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/61892693@N03/sets/72157627325688069/detail/
- assets landing in bugs; one so far for actionbar bug 679472, more to come
- looking into html5 form validity check ui (brian)
- reviewing about:home refresh to see if it's ready for development
- writeup of readability design here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/Features/readability
- feedback please: what do you think of the Home Screen icons?
Platform Support
Android
- jchen fixed talos on the tegras
- Master password UI finally landed, auto-password part is on hold until another security review of the whole profile-on-SD-card feature
- New Wiki page for keyboard/IME. If you have any useful information about that, please add here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Keyboard
Maemo
Performance
Testing
QA
- currently testing the 7.0b1-candidate
- Crash Rep Aug 15, 2011
- Crashes per build id Report 2011-08-15
- Fennec 5.0 Explosiveness 2011-08-15
- Fennec 6.0 Explosiveness 2011-08-15
- bug 664510 - Get valid crashreporter reports again
- 25 % ~ 50 % of reports for each version are missing valid stack signatures.
- Soccoro/Bug Reports
- Soccoro 2.2 released
- bug 679065 - Some Fennec 6.0b6 topcrash signatures return an empty report list
Test Suites
Test Automation
Release Engineering
- bug 674830 - multilocale fixed
- bug 676822, bug 677348 - trying to fix or work around tinderbox/colo slowness
- bug 672564 - dougt and vlad now have tegra image source
- bug 678992 - /etc/hosts should be removed from tegras shortly
- bug 678722 - should mobile desktop builds be using gcc 4.5?
