Mobile/Notes/14-Jul-2010

Details

• Wednesdays - 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel

Schedule

• 2.0 Alpha 1 (tbd)

Major Topics for This Week

• 2.0 Alpha Discussion
  • Blockers?
  • Sync Maemo and Android?

Front-end

• Bug fix mode
  • Fixing reported bugs
  • Fixing breakage from move to e10s
• Research mode
  • Tested some patches that remove tile canvas system
  • Exploring concepts related to planning tasks
• Cleanup mode
  • Updating front-end code to current trunk style
  • Re-organizing some areas
• Need to continue work on Planning 2.0 tasks
• Summit session on "Understanding e10s for Add-on Developers" document

UX design

• updates to a number of 2.0 details pages Mobile/Planning2.0
  • urlbarless designs presented at summit added to Mobile/Projects/AwesomeScreen2.0 - more coming this week
  • sketching out options for the VKB/search-engine-placement problem, adding to wiki today and tomorrow
  • continuing work on android theme Mobile/Projects/Android_Theme android theme mockups; next steps - awesomescreen and tools areas; glyph revisions to add more color (no, seriously)

Electrolysis

• Landed on m-c
• Still finding and filing crash bugs
• Toolkit components need to land
  • Permission Manager bug 564535 (needs to land)
  • Form history bug 552828 (needs review)
  • Login Manager bug 552827
  • InstallTrigger bug 550936 (active with reviews)
  • PromptService bug 573635 (active)
• Places API changes need to land
  • stechz and mak should land today? (active)
• Networking fixes need to land
  • SecurityInfo bug 536301 (need review and testing)
  • Redirects
  • Http Auth
  • App Cache
  • Suspend/resume (waiting on review)
  • Download Manager (active)

Layers

• Where are we with Layers
  • Some code has landed
  • Need panning & shadow trees working before we can switch Fennec to true <browser>
• Bugs to watch
  • Tracking bug bug 574512
  • e10s shadow tree bug 570620
  • Integrate chrome hierarchy bug 130078

General Platform

• New manifest loading is breaking parts of Fennec
  • Prompts
  • Download dialog
  • Any other conflicting component overrides

QA

Automation

• Android
  • getting :bear setup for first runs on his system and tinderbox
  • investigating talos for android

• browser-chrome
  • :adifire has preferences tests patch ready for review
  • need to enable browser-chrome, trouble with e10s ATM