Mobile/Notes/19-Oct-2011

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Schedule

Next merge date is 2011-11-08

Major Topics for This Week

• Mobile Summit in Toronto
  • Roadmap and planning for the NativeUI
  • Bug component ready and bugs being filed
  • Plan for testing and performance data collection

Application

Front-end

• Firefox Mobile 9 (Aurora) cleanup and wind-down
  • Back out locale picker. Landed on m-c, needs to be approved for Aurora.
  • A few performance and regression fixes will likely land
• Firefox Mobile 10 (NativeUI) is underway
  • Tasks and bugs filed
  • Bugs assigned
  • Patches landing
  • Trying to keep architecture docs up to date.

Performance

• Currently creating a benchmark performance based on an early version of TS noted in vlad's blog
  • static twitter page from : http://people.mozilla.com/~mfinkle/testing/mobile-tp4.tar.bz2
  • rough draft of instructions are listed here: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fennec_perf_ts

• Data Posting
  • numbers are currently posted on a google doc : http://goo.gl/jyVos
  • initial plans for automation are under way.
  • will be planning to work with Dev/IT to get this posted to a web page : "are we fast yet?"

Testing

QA

• Concerns
• Status
  • Update testing strategy (kbrosnan)
  • Firefox 8 beta 4 test plan
  • Crash Report 10/17/2011
  • Perf testing Ts against major browsers
• Questions
  • Aurora (9.0a2) tracking firefox 9, not fixed, any of these still targeted for 9? (mfinkle updated the list)
  • Testing strategy
    • discuss at Mobile testing meeting
  • Priority of XUL Fennec testing
    • Trying to ship native on 10
    • Priority XUL testing on tablets

Release Engineering

android_tier_1

• triaging through the android_tier_1 list at the 10:30PDT testing meeting
• bug 693352 - add minidump_stackwalk and symbols to the android automation
• bug 665891 - add 200 new tegras to pool: 120 tegras arrived and are installed. Working to bring them into production pool
• bug 689937 - 3 new foopies needed to run those tegras