Mobile/Notes/12-Oct-2011

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Schedule

Next merge date is 2011-11-08

Major Topics for This Week

• Native Android UI is our primary focus
  • Mozilla has decided to start working 100% on the native Android UI version of Firefox Mobile
  • See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI
  • Firefox Mobile 9 (Aurora) will likely be the last XUL-based UI
  • Many details will be fleshed out at the mobile summit next week.

Application

Front-end

• Firefox Mobile 9 (Aurora) cleanup and wind-down
  • Camera patches for stability
  • Back out locale picker?
  • A few performance and regression fixes will likely land
• Firefox Mobile 10 (NativeUI) is starting up
  • Reviewing architecture
  • Planning tasks

UX design

• working on our phone UI revamp for the native UI project
• some WIP:
  • http://cl.ly/3h331s0o311G3v0P3r00
  • http://cl.ly/0H1m3a0B3W1w2z1Q0i0g/o
• also adapting the widget designs (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Mobile/Android_Firefox_Widget) for a native UI world
• Also ongoing work on
  • improving telemetry opt-in
  • review of sync setup flow

Platform Support

Android

• waiting on reviews for Flash patches

Performance

Testing

QA

• Native UI Questions
  • What actions should QA take on present UI/XUL related bugs filed on Nightly (10.0a1)?
    • For 10.0, QA continues to focus on david baron's readability, low level crash fixes, flash patches. (plans may change post summit)
  • Parallel transition for tablet UI?
  • Minimum viable feature set
• Beta Status

Test Suites

Test Automation

Release Engineering

android_tier_1

• triaging through the android_tier_1 list at the 10:30PDT testing meeting
• (fixed) bug 692346 - explicitly require a /mnt/sdcard-based tegra devRoot
• (fixed) bug 690860 - android debug nightlies -- now keeping tinderbox builds 30 days; is that enough?
• (fixed) bug 664857 - try syntax not working for android unittests

• bug 665891 - add 200 new tegras to pool: 120 tegras arrived. Working with ops to get those imaged + live
  • this required switching to the 2011 image rather than 2010
• bug 689937 - 7 new foopies needed to run those tegras

SUMO

• For v6, we had 5715 reviews on the android market and if we calculate only those reviews, version 6 gets an average of 3.8 stars.

• For v7, we have 2391 reviews so far on the android market and if we calculate only those reviews, version 7 gets an average of 3.9 stars.

• Trends in 5-star reviews: performance improvements; 14% still request flash support

As a simple validation, we also see on Input that v5 praise was 73%, for v6.02 praise was 74%, and for v7.01 praise is 76%. So we see similar incremental improvement in the numbers.

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