Mobile/Notes/17-Nov-2010

Details

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Schedule

• Beta 3
  • String freeze: Nov 12
  • Code freeze: Nov 23

Major Topics for This Week

Front-end

• Working on b3 blockers and final blockers
  • Front-end has few critical bugs for b3 (Sync UI), but many paper-cut bugs that could be cleaned up.
• Sync UI redesign and implementation is underway
  • Landed enough of the UI to get strings landed
  • UI design is being tweaked, but we should have something reasonable for b3
  • JPAKE platform support is in review

UX design

• Working on Sync UI
  • General flow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/5183219976/in/photostream/
  • Enable/Disable flow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/5184268555/

Maemo

Qt

Android

• lots of good stuff
  • remote audio landed bug 599089
  • save as PDF bug 595919
  • download updates to SD card bug 597579
  • support for system context menus in landscape bug 601204
  • locale auto-detection bug 610151
  • input method switching bug 590602
  • context specific keyboards are close bug 581596

Electrolysis

General Platform

Video

• Audio should be working on Android builds.

Camera

Plugins

Performance

Networking

Graphics

Startup

Layout

Content

Release Engineering

• tegras
  • Down; have never given reliable results.
  • We're scrambling to get these running before aki goes on vacation
  • bug 610600 - Tegra remote installApp steps are broken
  • bug 611348 - devicemanager.py needs an uninstall function that does not reboot
  • bug 612789 - devicemanager can't function after dm.removeDir(devRoot)
  • This is why aki is strongly against changing the n900s until the remote tests are a mature and known piece of infrastructure
  • Tegra imaging doc
  • how to set up the tegra imaging machine
• N900s
  • Lots of small changes & improvements; see Joel's update

QA

Manual

• New Bugs over the week: filed. Still at 66 blockers
• Waverley is going to work on performance testing across browsers and top site testing across locales. Test plan here. Results will be posted to a handy spreadsheet
• Working on defining a Device Compatibility testplan for beta 3+. Work in progress.
• Results from nightly Smoketest runs

Automation

• Android
  • working on updating SUTAgent and tools to install updates robustly

• Maemo
  • Added mochitests to tinderbox
  • crashtests are green (there is a random orange)

Other