Mobile/Notes/08-Jun-2011

Details

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• 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

• Fennec 7 (nightly)
  • This is the active development trunk
• Fennec 6 (aurora)
  • The door is closing for new patches
• Fennec 5 Beta 4 (beta)
  • Shipped
• Fennec 5 Beta 5 (beta)
  • We will go to build with desktop, but we don't know if we will actually ship it

Performance

• Cache improvements
  • Cache compression under review: compress uncompressed text/html/js files using zlib
  • Implementing improved eviction algorithm for disk cache
  • Found a bug in the memory cache implementation of LRU-SP

Release Engineering

Priorities page

• releases
  • (lsblakk) bug 661764 - Fennec 5.0b5 - waiting for 'go'. Lukas is in Paris, and will be building in UTC+1 time.
  • bug 660943 - Fennec 5.0b4 - pushed live yesterday
  • bug 574764 - port mobile releases to 0.8 automation. Go/no-go for 6.0b1 will be this Friday. Fallback option is to continue using split repo releases until it is ready.
• tegras
  • Now on Firefox tinderbox page. Unit tests are hidden -- bug 661896 tracks the blocking bugs needed to unhide.
  • [FIXED] bug 660365 - org.mozilla.fennec_unofficial
    • [FIXED] bug 661994 - fennec won't install on tracemonkey
  • [FIXED] bug 662470 - tegra jsreftests on tracemonkey
  • [almost there?] bug 643607 - browser-chrome T-FAIL

• How do we reduce the number of meetings?
  • How many people find these updates useful ? Is the wiki enough, or does it help to have a voice?