Mobile/Notes/28-Sep-2011

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Schedule

• Released Firefox 7
• Spinning up Firefox 8 Beta 1
  • bug 688783 - Back out bug 641836 to fix keyboard issues until bug 669995 is fixed
  • bug 689404 - Revert change to inline settings that broke some existing Mobile addons
• Next merge date is 2011-11-08

Application

Front-end

• Some priorities:
  • Stabilize Fx9 on tablet and phone ASAP
  • Work on backlog of non-theme bugs we have been accumulating (need to triage)
• Get some QA and User testing on:
  • Webapps
  • Locale Picker
  • Camera
• Make some decisions on:
  • Flash on demand (front-end patch getting better)
  • UA
  • Featurettes, like the Clear Private Data changes (need to triage)

UX design

• tablet UI for fx9 pretty much where we want it; two things:
  • prefs/add-ons/downloads styling still to latnd (today?) - get accepted for aurora
  • making a lower FPS throbber for gingerbread/froyo (single core) so that hopefully we can take a higher FPS one on dualcore devices (honeycomb)

Platform Support

Android

Native Front-End

• http://dougt.org/wordpress/2011/09/fennec-and-native-android-uis/
• no e10s, but high responsiveness
• 6mbs smaller (RSS) than parent process
• alot less features
• madhava doesn't like the name of this project/experiment.
  • [madhava here] "front-end" is fine.

Flash

• platform support for pre-honeycomb is in
• front end patch did not make 9
• blassey and mfinkle to push to get front end in very soon so we get as much testing as possible for 10
• honeycomb work started, ETA unknown

IME

• Masayuki working on API redesign to make our work easier bug 685395
• alexp working on patching IME events to solve a certain set of issues bug
• alexp working on keeping IME events in sync bug 653895

Performance

Startup

A small selection of bugs we are (or could be) looking at:

• bug 674651 - nsContentPolicy should skip resource and chrome schemes
• bug 689713 - Warm up the DNS cache in Java when launching with a URL intent
• bug 673253 - Delay sqlite usage until first paint
• bug 651890 - Avoid relocations when initializing plugin-container
• bug 684878 - Fetch URL while Fennec loads

Testing

QA

• List of bugs reproducible on 7.0 RC1 caught during testing; no majors.
• Concerns
  • NEW: bug 689948 - Fennec won't reopen if minimized.
  • bug 689029 - Site is entirely zoomed in on load
  • bug 670694 - virtual keyboard is not displayed when editing input boxes
  • bug 686901 - ESPN causing flickering/bad checkerboarding
    • needs further bi-secting
  • bug 687717 - Mobile Twitter (140 count doesn't decrease).
    • dev evang? Needs someone to look at their code
  • bug 689778 - Some content crashes are not getting reported at all
  • bug 689781 - Some content crashes will show in about:crashes but does not get sent to soccoro

• Status
  • 8.0b1 testplan
  • Awaiting for response for action on a 7.0.1 if needed (add-on issue)

• Crash Report

Test Automation

production unittests

* bug 688762, bug 689519 - cleaned up return codes
* bug 689518 - fixed pageloader
* bug 686143 - need to figure out the jsreftests which timeout frequently
* would really like releng to pull cleanup and device sanity check out of the official job (less purple/red)
* new tests and changes should be on hold until we have <5% failure rate on average
* bug 689596 - fixing missing network proxy in android talos config, should be landing later this week

easier for developers to work with tools

* bug 688604 - make talos-remote - coming soon
* bug 687974 - adb for talos
* bug 688749 - fixed issue with reftest where --ignore-window-size would fail 
* need to consider >1 adb device attached at once.
* need to figure out what we support for devices; rooted? cp? run-as? os? tablets?

future

* bug 686807 - pull minidumps from tegras 
* bug 685632 - tp4m rss collection
* xpcshell for tegra
* webserver for mochitest/reftest so we don't need host utils
* pandaboard work
* add more mochitests
* figure out more details why we are skipping so many reftests

Release Engineering

android_tier_1

• (fixed) bug 684253 - 6 new foopies
• bug 665891 - add 200 new tegras to pool. On their way; we've already bumped our tegra count to ~120.
  • (fixed) bug 689209 - Frequent Android "Graph server unreachable" with "No machine_name called 'tegra-X' can be found"
• (fixed) bug 689350 - No Android/Tegra Tp4m data since Monday 2011-09-19

Mountain View power/network outages this week affected tegra/n900 stability; currently fixed.

• (open) bug 689728 - make bm-remote-talos-webhost-* more robust

• maemo tier 3?

SUMO

SUMO (37 new threads)

Regular requests:

• Flash Player (103)
• Firefox for Nokia/Symbian (40)
• Firefox for iPad (25)

Mobile SUMO article page views are the same as last week (11941).

FirefoxforAndroid: (35 total threads):

• Themes: Flash player and trouble downloading from market

Firefox 7 Release:

• Andriod Market reviews: TBD
• Input

Praise 63%, Issues 23%, Ideas 13%

42 issues total posted in last 24 hours, 10 are Flash player

Other theme is user agent setting/confusion

Other

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