Mobile/Notes/29-Sep-2010

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 1: We are frozen, except for remaining blockers
• Design freeze: TBD
• Beta 2 code freeze: TBD

Front-end

• Working on any Beta 1 blockers that appear
• Also working on Beta 2 blockers
  • We have 18 b2 blockers waiting to land
  • We have 36 patches waiting to land overall
• Features (see Planning page)
  • Work re-started on scroll indicators
  • Need to re-evaluate the page interactions feature
  • Master Password has been dropped for 2.0
  • Google search suggestions in awesomebar has been dropped for 2.0
• New Core (nee Android) theme is underway
  • Martell is supplying styles and glyphs
  • WIP patch is underway

Maemo

Qt

• Fixed bug that caused Qt builds to crash after 20s of idle.
• Build still is missing lots of integration points (like hildon input, upload file dialog)

General Platform

Geolocation Working Group

• TPAC first week of Nov.
• Disabled wifi scanning on < XP sp3 (not mobile, but interesting)
• Fixed a PM bug - thanks mwu!

Camera

• unless it isn't clearly, camera is NOT blocking fennec 2.0

Performance

• alon identified hot spots in the IPC communication using a new tool. Has pretty pictures too.
  • Based on this, and input from dwitte, reduced Txul significantly.
  • More to come, possiblity
    • content preference
    • network cookies

Networking

• We have reviews needing love from a necko peer.

Other

• Tests with patches.
  • Do it