Mobile/Notes/03-Mar-2010

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Details

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  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel

Schedule

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

  • Onward to 1.1

Major Topics for This Week

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 for all projects)

focusing on the following to fill pipeline:

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

Also working on

  • getting up to speed on android UI conventions
  • start page thinking

Platform Support

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

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

  • making good progress on tests
    • bug allows us to run make check in the obj dir and run test remotely
    • with a few patches (all waiting on review) we pass make check
    • 3 of the nspr native test failures have patches waiting for review
    • can also run nspr native test remotely (similarly to make check) with a patch
  • breakpad
    • crowder has hit some roadblocks and needs help

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!

General Back-end

Geolocation support

Video

Camera

Plugins

Performance

Networking

Graphics

Startup

Layout

Content

Release Engineering

  • n900 status
  • n810 status
  • maemo5 builds - VM handed over to DougT yesterday
  • refactor of update system
    • needed for winmo updates and also firefox project branches.
    • bug 511967 pending review -nthomas swamped by releases.
  • mobile try fix -- not verified yet
    • bug 549943 freetype2.lib breakage on winmo? tied to not building xulrunner?
  • deb fixes
    • updates
    • l10n
    • todo: l10n updates, test release, release factory fixes
  • new ix hardware bustage
    • bug 549722 fixing sbox on linux ix
    • winmo ix broken?
  • mobile-releng mtg
  • metrics / blocklist info

QA

  • Testdev
    • Go green on tinderbox! effort underway
  • QAE
    • going to post a blog entry about nightly build issues today
    • going through in-litmus? bugs to bring it down as much as possible

Other