Mobile/Notes/09-Feb-2011

Details

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• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel

Schedule

• Beta 5
  • Code Freeze: Feb 15

Front-end

• Working on Beta 5 blockers (17 this morning)
• Working on some 2.0 blockers as well (91 this morning)
• Focusing on the big 3 issues: Performance, Rendering and Memory Usage

Maemo

Android

• android specific b5 blockers
  • bug 632649 - warn of incompatibility for 256Mb devices, eta: today
  • bug 630364 - launch youtube player without external app warning, ready to land
  • bug 632170 - downloaded files should be saved in public place, ready to land
  • bug 632037 - change opt flags, ready to land
  • bug 632526 - report startup time correctly ready to land
• already landed
  • bug 615519 - move profile data to sd card when app is moved to sd card
    • size on disk 152k according to android when moved to sdcard
  • bug 614356 - default to next button when return has no action

General Platform

Performance

• A few nice landings
  • Tp reduced by 14.5% in general (bug 632005)
  • Ts reduced by 3.5% in general (bug 626457)
  • Ts reduced by 9% on Android (bug 632490 and bug 632497)
  • More coming in bug 632417, bug 623136
• vfp flags patch helped improve performance in general on Android (bug 632162)
  • We need to test on Maemo

• Font cache patch is in review and should help Ts more on Android (bug 623136)
• Opt flags patch ready to land should improve performance in general at the cost of a size increase (bug 632037)

• Keep looking for ways to make Fennec faster!
  • Just got the e10s profiling tool to work on Android devices; will have data soon, hopefully will help here.

Networking

• MFinkle is working on a new mobile Tp pageset
  • List of pages seems ok
  • Doing the cleanup to make the resources completely static
  • Will work with ateam and releng to get the new pageset on tindebox

Layout

• Reftests now support <browser remote="true"/> but the way it was implemented still has some blockers for running on devices. See bug 593874

Release Engineering

• tegras
  • 5 talos suites in production
  • potential refactor of the helper daemon to help prevent runaway reds/purples. stability fixes tracked in bug 610600
• n900s
  • fixed tp4 orange -- my bug
  • disable mochitest 2,3?
• android updates - patches for disabling release updates, fixing early nightly snippet upload ready to roll out
• bug 630475 - single locale debs broken. tarball works; deb doesn't. ideas?

QA

• Top crashes last week
• Waverley Results
• Nightlies do not load thanks to a regression from Windowless Plugins
• VKB bugs
  • Blocking bugs including bug 617298 which caused people to wonder if other SKBs were being tested.
• Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet - Work in progress, please add any missing criteria you would like to see that deem a device compatible or not
• fennec related jscript crashers research