Mobile/Notes/31-Aug-2011

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Schedule

Next merge date is 2011-09-27

Major Topics for This Week

Application

Front-end

  • Work for Fx9
    • Tablet UI
      • Several patches have landed and more are on the way

UX design

Platform Support

Android

  • Flash support in progress
    • try build here: people.mozilla.org/~dougt/fennec-flash.apk
    • put comments here: etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/FennecFlash
  • Bug 680190 landed on inbound last night. Fixes another huge problem in bionic that causes lots of fail in testing. (Awesome Jim Chen!)
  • Working on getting better crash stats.
  • Bug that was halting progress on crash reporter annotations has been analyzed, now waiting on acquiring a win7 vm before a fix can be developed.

Maemo

Performance

Testing

QA

  • Watch release-drivers may be re-spinning Firefox 7 beta 3 and a possible Firefox 6.0.2 due to not white listing a Dutch Government cert from the affected CA
  • Test Plan for 6.0.1 (Chemspill)
    • Signed off
  • Test Plan for 7.0b3
    • In-progress
  • Crash Report Aug 29, 2011
  • had a meeting with Dev + Crashkill team; feedback received in how to improve the reporting
    • include how often, when, STRs if possible, etc.
    • utilize SkipList in order to get the last libxul module (Bug 683385 - skiplist symbols in libdvm.so module)
    • separation of platform; currently: fennec-linux = android + maemo + desktop of fennec on linux

Test Suites

Test Automation

Release Engineering

android_tier_1

  • releng busy with chemspill release(s?).
  • (fixed) bug 680138 - debug tegra reftests, crashtests: now on try & m-c
  • (fixed) bug 680561 - tegra proxy.flg set in wrong directory -- may have caused some reds/purples
  • (fixed) bug 676275 - android sdk 13

Other

SUMO

  • Drafts for 'Why is Firefox for Mobile Slow?' and 'How do I use gestures on my mobile device?' out for review
  • New community member Nicholae to help answer forum questions (32 new threads last week, 6 unanswered)
  • 7 new members of the SF FF for Android meetup group, do join us!

Android market FF6 comments (78); all languages:

Dissatisfiers FF6; 1 star & 2 star ratings (35), week of August 22-28:

  • slow and unstable=25
  • no flash=7
  • UI=6 (zoom, copy/paste)
  • hogs resources=6
  • update broke it=2 (DroidX)

Android market FF7 comments (58); all languages:

Dissatisfiers FF7; 1 star & 2 star ratings (23), week of August 16-22:

  • slow=12
  • UI=9 (text entry issues)
  • no flash=11
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