Mobile/Notes/23-Feb-2011

Details

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

Schedule

• Beta 5
  • Prepare for launch
• RC 1
  • Code freeze: TDB (Mar 8 seems likely)
  • Nightlies are "4.0b6pre" but we don't anticipate a Beta 6

Major Topics for This Week

Front-end

• Working on final blockers
• Working on performance, rendering and memory usages bugs
• We are string frozen
  • Any string related patches need explicit approval!

UX design

• patches in on these UX bugs
  • bug 634173 - Style toaster alerts on Android
  • bug 611580 - Character Encoding Menu for Fennec
  • bug 607657 - single swipe shouldn't take you from one sidebar to the other
    • trying out one refinement
• working on firefox home / awesomescreen mockups for future
  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/sets/72157625999541262/
  • widget ideas: http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/sets/72157625893411005/
• new mobile UX person starting on Monday!

Maemo

Qt

Android

Electrolysis

General Platform

Video

Camera

Plugins

Performance

Networking

Graphics

Startup

Layout

Content

Release Engineering

• tegras
  • new clientproxy, new screen resolution live as of ~9pm PST Tues Feb 22.
    • may see shifted numbers.
    • comparative numbers: 18? running over 3 day weekend, left with 1 running on tuesday. yesterday: 16 switched over, 4 fell over but 2 were rescuable. we're working on that but now that they're more maintainable we're going to focus on more talos suites.
  • ETA for IP controlled power is today; ETA for moving the tegras to the new room is EOW.
  • unit tests + new talos suites in progress -- mochitests running in staging.
• Should we port maemo single locale repacks to buildbot 0.8?
• Putting fewer mobile releases on mirrors
• Stuart and Ioana are unable to update Android nightlies; anyone else?

QA

• Completed release testing beta 5
  • Stability checks were a wash. AaronMT needs some help with promotions.
• Top crashes last week
• Waverley Results
• Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet
• Mobile Firefox testday Friday the 25th

Other

• Zippity is live. Zippity is a crowdsource system to collect and present data (mainly performance data) from tests run on Firefox Mobile.
  • The Test Harness add-on will post to Zippity
  • MFinkle is posting automated Tp runs to Zippity
• QA testday this Friday, 2/23, on beta 5