Mobile/Notes/13-Jan-2010

Details

• Wednesdays - 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 17:30 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

• RC3 patches are landing
• String frozen

Major Topics for This Week

• Next steps

Application

General Front-end

• Most RC3 patches are landed, except for AutoComplete Cache (bug 536368)
• A few regressions and new bugs appeared (bug 539284, bug 539444, bug 539276)
• A few small bugs and additions (bug 539116, bug 539102, bug 538700)
• Updated pageload and UI display times using xresponse
• Found the aPNG throbber slows down pageloads and uses ~30% cpu while app is idling

UX design

• if we want to replace aPNG with GIF versions (will need three background-color variants), I can get those made
• otherwise, starting in on post-1.0

Platform Support

Windows Mobile

• bug 532929 make experience much nicer on Omnia II, hope to get that landed soon

Release Engineering

• bug 535304 - auto bump release versions - I should probably bite the bullet and do a full build to test
• bug 538699 - nightly repacks broken - this is still a few days away
• bug 538455 - repo updates broken - this is r+'ed; waiting for nightly versions to stabilize before landing
• downtime tomorrow (thurs) morning for talos fixes

QA

• Recap of the Testday
• Broken Website Reporter Plans Update
• Guide for things to do in Fennec 1.0 RC
• lonelybob and jaya ganesan are helping with qa work on mobile firefox, so watch for them in bugs