Mobile/Notes/24-Aug-2011

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Schedule

Next merge date is 2011-09-27

Major Topics for This Week

• Move testing meeting into this meeting starting next week.

Application

Front-end

• Work for Fx9
  • Tablet UI
    • http://dl.dropbox.com/u/72157/fennec-honeycomb1.apk
  • Selecting text in web content
  • Basic webapp support
  • "Send to Mobile" ?

• Welcome Sriram Ramasubramanian (sriram on IRC)

UX design

• full steam ahead on tablet UI theming (ian)
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/61892693@N03/sets/72157627325688069/detail/
  • assets landing in bugs
    • bug 679472 - actionbar
    • bug 680077 - tab menu
    • bug 680212 - awesomebar and more!
    • bug 680441 - more menu
    • bug 681643 - dialogs
    • bug 681650 - site identity menu
• also ongoing work on
  • looking into html5 form validity check ui (brian)
  • long tap for history on back button (brian)
  • apps dashboard or equivalent (madhava)
  • sync setup (madhava)
  • push tab to device (madhava)
  • reviewing about:home refresh to see if it's ready for development (madhava/ian)
• writeup of readability design here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/Features/readability; now being worked on
• feedback please: what do you think of the Home Screen icons?

Platform Support

• Read .platform newsgroup - [1]

Android

• stover landed bug 680126 which improved tXUL by 12%

Maemo

• Maemo's last release with be FF7.

Testing

QA

• Crash Rep Aug 22, 2011
• Tracking bug 667927 and bug 668921 for beta 2
• Testing for beta 1 completed and no issues to raise
• uTest crowd source testing; will give more heads up and screening process in the works.
  • purpose was web site compatibility.

Test Automation

* xpcshell for android landed, ADB only
* landed changes to remove /etc/hosts from tegra devices, no more crashes
* churn on patches and tests related to specialPowers, i.e. stuff works in e10s better.

Release Engineering

android_tier_1

• (fixed) bug 680561 - tegra proxy.flg set in wrong directory
  • could have caused various purples
• bug 680138 - debug tegra reftests, crashtests
  • is it useful to run these without logcat for now?
  • all branches?
• bug 679827 - mobile/* -> firefox/ ?
  • do we want this?
  • getting more space for mobile/tinderbox-builds may be the fastest solution. merging may be useful or confusing.
• bug 680138 - android/maemo -> Firefox branch in graphs ?
  • can do at anytime if wanted
  • old data will stay on mobile branch, new data will go to firefox branch

Other

SUMO

• Drafts for FF7 features out for review: change language, text selection, quit button and new device support
• New community member annaxica to help answer forum questions (42 new threads last week, 13 unanswered)
• New meetup group for Firefox for Android superheroes in SF

Android market FF6 comments (200); English-only:

Dissatisfiers FF6; 1 star ratings (44), week of August 16-22:

• slow and unstable=13
• no flash=12
• freezes phone=2

Android market FF7 comments (200); English-only:

Dissatisfiers FF7; 1 star ratings (48), week of August 16-22:

• slow=20
• freezes phone=5
• no flash=5
• hogs resources=4

Notes from mw22 during Test Automation meeting

jmaher: hang in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680190 jemalloc jimm chen josh matthews

• going through mochitests. Patches for Content/ done, now going through dom/. A lot of stuff needs to be converted to

specialpowers

• if the tests are hanging, not going quick enough, they are

disabled for now

• last day 2 september
• who is going to take over? someone from A-team?

jmaher

• xpcshell landed
• SpecialPowers want to land, related to Josh stuff. set Prefs synchrounously
• Refactoring specialpowers to get it working in Chrome. Getting leaks fixed
• talos crash, workaround it? getinfo failure?
• WaitForFocus patch works great, bug 670897
• devicemanager adb, xpcshell, integrated into talos. Easier to

run talos on device without sutagent. Need to turn all the releng tools, devicemanager

• create remote talos option. To look into after talos has adb

device manager into it. Might want to get the sut tools deployed first

Triage list, 12 bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=android_tier_1&sharer_id=279345&list_id=1164316

• 676137 Something fixed it on trunk, mbrubeck
• 678381 Intermittent OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:

'browser_output.txt' in Android remote-ts

Doug:

• Building out 200 tegras, only support 2.2.
• Ordering boards, that support 2.3, panda boards.
• Tegra 2.2 is a dead end, I think