Mobile/Notes/28-Jul-2010

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Front-end

• Bug fix mode
  • Fixing reported bugs
  • Fixing blockers for alpha 1
  • Fixing broken browser-chrome tests
  • Several e10s related patches are very close to landing, including some e10s crashers
• Feature mode
  • Planning work has begun and some work has already landed
  • mbrubeck starting work on sharing; bugs added to Mobile/Projects/Sharing
• Cleanup mode
  • Updating front-end code to current trunk style
  • Re-organizing some areas
• Updated more status and details for Planning 2.0 tasks

Electrolysis

• bug 550936 (InstallTrigger) ready to land once an xpconnect bug, bug 582100 is done (which they say should be soon)
• bug 573635 has two ways to resolve it, and we have patches for both. Neither is perfect but a perfect solution requires fundamental work on IPC networking. So for now, just need to decide which of the 2 patches to go with.
• place bugs getting closer to land.
• necko e10s reviews going faster. (12 patches in review state, 1 ready to push)
• removing real widgets soon in the child process
• window.crypto
• lots of warnings+errors in startup

General Platform

Camera

• Layout bindings landed Bug 567323
• Raw decoder relanded, looks like it will stick this time. Bug 508082
• Have 95% of a patch to eliminate the temporary file and teach the DOM how to properly deal with a file generated by the camera. Chasing test failures down.

Performance

• Started wiki page on device and application states/notices by OS ('low battery', 'screen dimmed', 'application in background', etc.), need data from Android people please.

Layout

• Where are we with Layers
  • Retained layers code has created some bugs in Fennec bug 579349
  • "Fake widgets" finished wrt drawing, need event/focus/IME love bug 582057
  • "Remote frames" for cross-process layers working with test-ipc, will be up for review today
• Bugs to watch
  • Tracking bug bug 574512
  • e10s shadow tree bug 570620
  • Integrate chrome hierarchy bug 130078 (fake widgets make this bug mostly irrelevant to fennectrolysis+browser)

Release Engineering

• bug 562843 Android release signing: looks like we can't renew certs. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10020
• bug 567827 make buildsymbols breaks on ix boxes: should land this week or early next
• most of n810s/n900s back in production
  • bug 579184 fixed: now unit tests with 0 passed tests are orange
  • bug 579186 Mozilla-central N810 builds do not launch (GLIBCXX_3.4.9 not found)
  • bug 578343 talos needs to be retrofitted for e10s
  • bug 575506 trunk maemo fennec builds not exiting talos profile creation since 6/23
  • bug 582336 (IT) Frequent "no route to host" in RF room -- main cause of reds.

QA

Manual

• bugs filed on the Fennec product over the past week
• Fx Input is mobile ready and will be pushed live tomorrow.
• working on triaging broken/unclear/failed test reports on litmus
• ahoza will be working on Find in page functionality testing
• Dates/Times related to Alpha 1?
• bug notes
  • bug 579349 - is still a blocker for testing
  • bug 581532 - Pages now load again with browser.tabs.remote=true, so testing again with that enabled. I'm getting crashes when closing tabs, in that case, though.
  • (mw22) Found bug 582242 crasher. It seemed to be Windows only, though.

Automation

• • Android
    • Landed everything for mochitest/reftest on m-c
    • Patches in place for mochitest chrome/browser-chrome on android (need to be in a .jar file bug 543800)
    • Working with bear this week to get heartbeat and device management into tinderbox
    • Fixing little bugs along the way

• • Browser-Chrome bug 553474
    • handful of fixes to get tests working in e10s (thanks mfinkle, vingtetun)
    • lots of progress on new tests
    • still have an issue with 'too much recursion' causing all the tests to timeout

• • [Green]
    • mw22 and jmaher started looking into mochitest failures...the ball is rolling