Mobile/Notes/31-Mar-2010

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Schedule

[ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases ]

• Onward to 1.1

Major Topics for This Week

• Start sprinting on tasks
• Began investigating and building e10s
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/e10s

Front-end

• Status of remaining 1.1 tasks:
  • Link tapping
  • Portrait support
  • Page Interactions
  • Volume keys
  • Scrollbar indicators
• We are also fixing followup bugs and blocking bugs
  • 9 blockers left
  • Make sure your pet bug is marked blocking for us to consider it
• Firstrun page has animation work to finish
• Looking for feedback on items landed this week

UX design

• lots of UI items now in nightlies
  • web-form theme revisions example 1, example 2
  • form autocomplete (with weave sync) - no styling yet example
  • start page example 1, example 2
  • site menu example 1, example 2
  • context menu example

• bunch of polish items
• please try these things out
  • when they land, link tapping and page interactions patches will need a lot of trying out

• WIP animation revision: http://mozilla.seanmartell.com/fennec/animation/

Maemo

Qt

• found regression on n900 devices related to 16bpp.

Electrolysis

• Able to build Fennectrolysis directly off of the e10s repo (no more patch queue required on top of e10s)
• Kicking off e10s+fennec meeting today at 1pm pst see (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/e10s#Weekly_Meetings)
• stechz got form assistant working this week. woot!

General Platform

Geolocation support

• Firefox geolocation project page. (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Geolocation)
  • Update it with your pet ideas.

Plugins

• Stuart working on a fast-oop prototype

Release Engineering

• bug 552072 1.0.1 -- 3 repacks
  • bug 552073 partner repack -- deb looks good, repo doesn't? (not hidden)
• maemo 5 builds -- scratchbox deployment at hand
  • qt will land with this
• n900s -- unit tests fixed
  • xpcshell appears to be busted on both n810s and n900s
• n810s -- "new" image, imaging up
• browser chrome tests -- one objdir
• android builds -- bear still working on 10.6 and rolling out android toolchain

QA

• Manual
  • notes:
    • bugs filed on the Fennec product over the past week
  • requests:
    • lots of changes over the past week in 1.1, I'd like some help dogfooding the nightlies
  • goals for upcoming week:
    • run smoketests for 1.9.2 and trunk maemo
    • smoketest the dev e10s build
    • add/update litmus testcases around the landed 1.1 features
• Automation
  • reftest chunking landed
  • xpcshell chunking (bug 553700 moving through the review cycle
  • tpan/tzoom talos pageset landed, waiting on fennecmark review bug 553041
  • packaging up mobile browser-chrome tests? bug 535922. Pending question in the bug around single vs dual objdir
  • [reftest green] initiative- couple bugs landed or in the process. Almost all things on the list have a bug in the works