Mobile/Notes/15-Jun-2011
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- Wednesdays - 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 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
- Fennec 7 (nightly)
- This is the active development trunk
- Fennec 6 (aurora)
- The door is closing for new patches
- Fennec 5 Betas (beta)
- Beta 4 - Shipped
- Beta 5 - Tested but did not ship
- Beta 6 - Tested but did not ship (Had a desktop backout that affected mobile)
- Beta 7 - Built and we plan to ship it (Has a desktop security fix and a minor ride-along for mobile)
Major Topics for This Week
- BETA 7
- Yes, we have a beta 7 and we plan to ship it (android market and ftp) when desktop release beta 7
- Security fix for desktop
- Minor UI issue for mobile
- bug 664114 - Context Menu doesn't resize properly when switching the window orientation
- Found Tuesday morning by QA in Beta testing
- We would not have shipped this if desktop wasn't spnning a beta 7
Application
Front-end
- Work for Fx7 -> We have Features, Bugs and Testing
- Landing bug fixes
- Cranking on new code:
- Tablet UI
- Selecting text in web content
- Language picker on startup
- Basic webapp support
- You can switch the themes at runtime, using about:config or using Wes' add-on bug 663861
- Even run Gingerbread theme on desktop :)
- Look into using doorhangers in Fennec bug 661148
- Talked with Madhava about where to move next. Moving forward at the same time mockups/ux discussion happen.
- Know your ABCs (Always Be Coding)
- If you get stuck on something, have a backup project to fallback.
- Keep patches and reviews moving forward.
UX design
- Ian out of office
- working on discoverability prototypes, fxhome, honeycomb UI, Android widgets
- detailed updates here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/User_Experience/Meeting_Notes#Monday.2C_June_13
Platform Support
Android
Maemo
Performance
Testing
QA
Firefox 5 beta sign offs 5, 6 and 7
- only shipping beta 7
- 5b7 test plan details
DeviceAnywhere device validation
- Crash report
- There's a good chance that crash bugs: bug 662934 and bug 662943 are related
- bug 662944 honeycomb crashes doesn't have appropriate signatures
- See bug 662941 for example
- chat.mibbit.com crash bugs - [special thanks to Nicolae Cristian [xti] for comment in bug 635292]
- bug 663468 - crash [@ GetElement]
- bug 663465 - crash [@ nsWebSocketEstablishedConnection::ConsoleError]
Test Suites
Test Automation
Release Engineering
- releases
- (aki) bug 664002 - Fennec 5.0b6 - done, not shipped
- (aki) bug 664307 - Fennec 5.0b7 - done, ready to push live
- (aki) bug 663986 - Fennec 5.0 - waiting for 'go'
- bug 574764 - port mobile releases to 0.8 automation - revised ETA ~6.0b2 or b3.
- tegras
- Tegra unit tests are now unhidden on the Firefox tbpl page.
- [FIXED] bug 643607 - browser-chrome T-FAIL
- [FIXED] bug 663582 - increase output for logcat and also add a logcat dump just before reboot
- [FIXED] bug 663197 - remove a couple of directories from mochitest-1 for android tests