Mobile/Notes/06-Oct-2009

Details

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

Schedule

• Beta 5 code freeze Nov 2.

Major Topics for This Week

Application

General Front-end

UX design

Query for polish bugs: http://bit.ly/fennec-polish (put [polish] in whiteboard to add to the list)

• Summary:
  • 30 bugs marked as polish (-3 from last week)
    • 10 blocking 1.0 (-1 from last week)
    • 19 nominated (-2 from last week)
    • 1 marked wanted (same)

• working on about 8 visual (icons, colors, glyphs, etc.) changes with sean -- all to do with polish bugs; should be through those this week
• working with weave team on fennec weave UI for 0.8 release

Platform Support

Maemo

Windows Mobile

• DougT has experimental code from ARM to improve perf of xptcall on windows ce / windows mobile

General Back-end

Geolocation support

• Fixed wifi scanning on n900 last week. Need test cases to ensure that it doesn't regress on mobile.

Video

Camera

Plugins

Performance

Networking

Graphics

• DougT investigating flash performance.

Startup

Layout

Content

Builds

• fennec1.0b4 shipped
• aki out this week; questions to joduinn/jhford or anyone with "buildduty" in their irc nick.
• linux-arm coverage
  • are we ok still running unittests-on-fennec-desktop per checkin?
  • working out how to get coverage on other branches/tryserver
• open question about WinMO signing bug 493797
• generic ARM boxes?

QA

• successful [testday] last Friday
• working on windows mobile/ce automation
  • test-agent via ip that blassey wrote
  • initial runs of mochitest and xpcshell
• dougt - found 4 causes of chrome mochitest failures. Most due to preferences/css changes fennec has (or assumption on tests of how firefox does things).
• dougt - will look at content failures endofweek / next week.

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