Mobile/Notes/10-Nov-2010

Details

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Schedule

• Beta 3
  • String freeze: Nov 12
  • Code freeze: Nov 23

Front-end

• Working on b3 blockers and final blockers
• Projects we are working on for 4.0:
  • Scroll indicators
  • Sync UI change
• Projects that won't make 4.0:
  • WebApp support
  • RSS UI
• Ts / Tshutdown / Txul were all negatively affected by chrome methodjit
  • Added profiles to bug 608956
  • Backed out for now
• Android-style menus landed (bug 606565).
  • Icons are placeholders; filed bug 610781 for proper icons.
  • Reduced scope, filed followups for features cut from this release: bug 610783, bug 610784

UX design

• jpake flow with fennec/firefox home/desktop finished
  • fennec connection flow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/5164101813/sizes/l/
  • which is the counterpart to this (slightly stale now - wording harmonized) http://people.mozilla.com/~faaborg/files/firefox4Mockups/jpakeFlow-i1/jpakeFlow-i1.htm
  • post-connection prefs - mockup to post in about 30 minutes

• reviewing n900 theme work for some polish

Android

• DougT working on remoting audio
• "android style" zoom add-on is available for testing

Electrolysis

• DougT working on remoting Audio. Mostly works on desktop, however seeing video sync problems. Will investigate today.

General Platform

Performance

• nice child process test impact

Release Engineering

• tegras
  • still debugging issues in staging -- perma orange
    • not sure if this is due to us or due to bug 610573
  • tegra imaging netbook -- successfully imaged, but not successfully running yet
  • first part of the order arriving friday
• n900s
  • n900s on try
  • txul regression due to nicing the child process
  • turning off n810s
• buildsymbols upload logic fixed
• objdir/dist/bin now clobbered in maemo depend builds

QA

Manual

• New Bugs over the week: filed
• Waverley
• Going to work with Waverley on performance testing across browsers and top site testing across locales
• Results from nightly Smoketest runs

Automation

* blocked on bug 610573 for talos tpan, twinopen, jsreftest/crashtest/reftest.
* bug 611009 - patch for remote talos twinopen
* still have browser-chrome failures on n900

Other

• Desktop notifications are going to be disabled on desktop (the feature will not be exposed to web content)
  • Do we want to wait to enable this feature?
• WebSocket work may not be completed in 4.0 timeframe
  • Should we remove it from content?