Mobile/Notes/28-Jul-2010

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Front-end

• Bug fix mode
  • Fixing reported bugs
  • Fixing blockers for alpha 1
  • Fixing broken browser-chrome tests
  • Several e10s related patches are very close to landing, including some e10s crashers
• Feature mode
  • Planning work has begun and some work has already landed
• Cleanup mode
  • Updating front-end code to current trunk style
  • Re-organizing some areas
• Updated more status and details for Planning 2.0 tasks

Electrolysis

• bug 550936 (InstallTrigger) ready to land once an xpconnect bug, bug 582100 is done (which they say should be soon)
• bug 573635 has two ways to resolve it, and we have patches for both. Neither is perfect but a perfect solution requires fundamental work on IPC networking. So for now, just need to decide which of the 2 patches to go with.

General Platform

Camera

• Layout bindings landed Bug 567323
• Raw decoder relanded, looks like it will stick this time. Bug 508082
• Have 95% of a patch to eliminate the temporary file and teach the DOM how to properly deal with a file generated by the camera. Chasing test failures down.

Performance

• Started wiki page on device and application states/notices by OS ('low battery', 'screen dimmed', 'application in background', etc.), need data from Android people please.

Layout

• Where are we with Layers
  • Retained layers code has created some bugs in Fennec bug 579349
  • "Fake widgets" finished wrt drawing, need event/focus/IME love bug 582057
  • "Remote frames" for cross-process layers working with test-ipc, will be up for review today
• Bugs to watch
  • Tracking bug bug 574512
  • e10s shadow tree bug 570620
  • Integrate chrome hierarchy bug 130078 (fake widgets make this bug mostly irrelevant to fennectrolysis+browser)

Release Engineering

• bug 562843 Android release signing: looks like we can't renew certs. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10020
• bug 567827 make buildsymbols breaks on ix boxes: should land this week or early next
• most of n810s/n900s back in production
  • bug 579184 fixed: now unit tests with 0 passed tests are orange
  • bug 579186 Mozilla-central N810 builds do not launch (GLIBCXX_3.4.9 not found)
  • bug 578343 talos needs to be retrofitted for e10s
  • bug 575506 trunk maemo fennec builds not exiting talos profile creation since 6/23
  • bug 582336 (IT) Frequent "no route to host" in RF room -- main cause of reds.

QA

• Client

• Automation