Mobile/Notes/17-Mar-2010

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Schedule

[ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases ]

• Onward to 1.1

Major Topics for This Week

• Start sprinting on tasks
• Began investigating and building e10s
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/e10s
• Can we drop chinook

Front-end

• P1 status:
  • Auto-updating add-ons landed
  • View all add-ons is ready to start
  • Start page design is underway
  • Tapping links is waiting for more input
• P2 status:
  • Many patches in second review
  • Web theme has some performance issues
• Collecting patches that will require string changes
• Starting some platform work this week and next

UX design

• discovered dependency for form awesomecomplete feature on some weave changes
  • bug 552532 - turns on syncing of form data to mobile; now resolved, will be in Weave Sync 1.2 (in time for Fennec 1.1)
  • bug 552531 - opened, to sync the awesomeness rankings for form data; not likely in 1.1 timeframe - fennec feature should still work without

• going through features that require strings
• top priority right now: start page
• Sean starting to work on front-end theming
  • http://bit.ly/cSsu63
• web theme perf refinement process ongoing

Android

• bug 552567 for merge to m-c
• Event loop fixed
• Event dropping fixed

Electrolysis

• Tasks https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/e10s#Tasks
• Got E10S / Qt 4.6 working on device

General Platform

Networking

• need owner for 545869

Release Engineering

• bug 550023 1.0.1 blockers
  • bug 544605 partner repack
  • release updates/test run
  • bug 538699 needs to land on relbranch for l10n repacks
• winmo updates
  • tools/update-packaging ?
• winmo tests
• winmo symbols/mozconfig change
• maemo 5 builds
• n900s
• n810s
• browser chrome tests
• android builds
• monday meeting
  • previous: https://intranet.mozilla.org/Build:Mobile:2010-03-15
  • next: https://intranet.mozilla.org/Build:Mobile:2010-03-22

QA

Manual

• notes
  • bugs filed to look at
  • litmus testcases added
  • the extra status updates on 1.1 features have been really helpful
• requests
  • when are we having a triage meeting?
• goals for the upcoming week
  • run smoketests for 1.9.2 winmo and maemo, trunk for winmo and maemo
  • add testcases for new feature lands: bug 551709
  • play around with the dev build for e10s

Automation

• Initial winmo unittests are checked into mozilla-central, and handoff to releng is in process
  • small fixes around timeouts and reftest chunking need to land later this week
  • Other projects include the mochitest-chrome style tests, moving functionality from buildbot scripts to harnesses for easier running by developers and building a list of failed test cases
  • I would expect by the end of the month to have a few end to end runs under our belt with some bugs filed for specific test cases.
• Still working (slowly) on [greening the maemo tests]

Other

• Happy St. Patrick's day