Mobile/Notes/16-Feb-2011

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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

  • Beta 5
    • Code Freeze Today
    • No blockers!

Major Topics for This Week

Front-end

  • Watching for any Beta 5 regressions
  • Working on performance, rendering and memory usages bugs
  • Working on final blockers
  • Not quite final string frozen yet
    • Waiting to land a patch after we branch for Beta 5

UX design

  • design fix proposed for this blocker: bug 611580
  • form assistant fixes look promising; to land after b5
  • working on post-4.0 awesomescreen concepts, including tablet designs

Maemo

Qt

Android

Electrolysis

General Platform

Video

Camera

Plugins

Performance

  • More improvements this week:
    • Tp dropped 3.8% from last week
    • Ts dropped 1.5% from last week
    • Rendering speed while panning is improved (reduces checkerboards)

Networking

Graphics

Startup

Layout

Content

  • Checkerboard renders faster
  • We fixed several "checkerboard won't go away after I do X" situations
  • Flash of checkerboard at the end of a pan was fixed

Memory Usage

  • Reduced amount of memory used by Sync if user is not using Sync
    • Might be more we can do too
  • Reduced amount of memory used to decode video that were not playing

Release Engineering

  • tegras
    • clientproxy script refactored to be simpler, more robust
    • updated imaging scripts for new screen resolution
    • handed off imaging to IT intern. all remaining tegras asset tagged; all but 28 tegras imaged with new screen resolution.
    • currently looking for more power before bringing up the final batch of tegras.
    • ip-controlled power switches to arrive late next week; IT will build out new server room for tegras after those arrive.
    • handed off tegra unit test work to bhearsum for more parallelization
  • lsblakk signed up for 4.0b5

QA

Other

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