Mobile/Notes/28-Apr-2010

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Schedule

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

• We released Fennec 1.1 Android pre-alpha
• Onward to 1.1
• 1.1 Beta 1 worklist
  • We respun beta 1 build2 to fix a blocker
  • See blockers and nominations
• 1.1 RC worklist

Front-end

• Focus on 1.1
  • Any blockers that come up
  • Profiling code
  • Small style work is possible
    • [madhouse] talking to sean about minimal style adjustments
  • Viewport code changes
• Ramping up on e10s
  • Team meetings on code refactor and patching
  • Looking to branch mobile-browser
  • Starting to work on front-end patches

UX design

• working on minor style adjustments (seeing if there's anything worth doing and containable)
• otherwise working on 2.0
  • platform integration (helper app UI)
  • looking at RTL issues
  • sharing

Maemo

Qt

• Multiple keyboard (key event, softkey) problems we are looking at.
• Going to restructure some device code to support both gtk and qt better.

Android

• Vlad blogged about pre-alpha release yesterday
  • generally positive pick up, front page of slashdot
  • more importantly, people see to understand "pre-alpha"
• ETA to landing on trunk: mid-late next week
• ETA for nightly builds: next week
• need to figure out what to do for e10s (i.e. stl etc.)

Electrolysis

• More people helping on fennec changes
• Multiple build bustages over weekend
• Detailed status meeting today at 1pm

General Platform

Geolocation support

• W3C privacy workshop

Camera

• updated patch to render through layers
• need to decide on container format

Plugins

• Oleg proposed a new drawing NPAPI to the plugin futures list.

Release Engineering

• back from Toronto
• 1.1b1 ready from our perspective
  • new "beta channel" on moff
  • desktop release builders
• non-xr for desktop, maemo4 builds
  • 500ms faster Ts
  • other goodness like consolidating code, make upload, buildsymbols?
• android builds in staging
• new n810 image in the works
• mobile-1.1 branch
  • new tinderbox page: Mobile1.1
  • patch r+'ed to get this built & results sent to new page
  • depends on non-xr patch
• getting n900s/n810s green
  • n900s now pointing to Maemo5 GTK builds
  • now switched over to zip files like the desktop
• new mobile-build-failures email list
  • will limit this to the main branches shortly

QA

• Manual
  • notes:
    • bugs filed on the Fennec product over the past week
    • feedback from reporter
    • Reporter for Fennec post-1.1 is on AMO
    • qa is going to hold triage sessions on Mondays at 9am. wiki coming soon.
    • 2.0 qa tracking page is up
  • goals for upcoming week:
    • Finish OS Integration test suite for Maemo, start on Android
    • verify and triage resolved bugs in fennec product
    • Triage through blocking-fennec- bugs in our monday triage session
    • continue to ramp-up martijn and tony on some other responsibilities (adding litmus testcases!)
    • run smoketests for 1.9.2 and trunk maemo
• Automation (Android)