Mobile/Notes/03-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

Application

General Front-end

• Started working on broken RefTests with TestDev
  • Found many causes
  • Started landing fixes
• Started looking at the planned work for 1.1
  • Cleanup existing patches
  • Work with Madhava on the smaller design work
  • vingteun has started the hit-testing bounding box project
  • mfinkle has started the add-on auto-update
  • stechz is working on e10s
• Collecting data for scroll indicators (bug 461843)
  • Regression is still too high (6%-15%), so we are taking a slightly different approach

UX design

(see planning page all projects)

focusing on the following to fill pipeline:

• form autocomplete / form assistant cleanup
• add-ons manager additions
• site menu

Platform Support

• Landed support for decoupling XULRunner from distributions (bug 543060)

E10S

• dougt and stechz created a functional Fennec demo (with help from joe and e10s team)!
• See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/e10s

Maemo

• Portrait support is the first platform bug for 1.1
  • mfinkle needs to ping romaxa
• Should we consider using Faststart for Maemo?
  • We get a lot of "slow startup" comments

Windows Mobile

• List of possible devices
  • Created working baseline requirements: ARMv6, 800MHz, 256MB
• Focus for next release is stability and testing
  • Working on getting all unit tests to pass

Qt

• Lots of patches landed
  • Qt support in general
  • Qt support for e10s

Others

• The photos of mwu's Android build running on Droid and Nexus One have made a big splash!