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Wednesdays - 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
- Moved to 12:00 Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 19:00 UTC in Warp Core for today only

Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 95346
- People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 95346
- US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 95346
- US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 95346
- US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 95346
- US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 95346
- CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 95346
- CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 95346
- UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 95346
- FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 95346
- Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
- SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
vidyo: PB&J

Schedule

Fennec 8 (nightly)
- This is the active development trunk
Fennec 7 (aurora)
- Need to move only required fixes from trunk (as those fixes are made)
Fennec 6 (beta)
- Fixed on Beta this week (yes we actually landed something):
  - bug 676780 - Fennec is unable to load webpages and close tabs
  - bug 669289 - Fennec UI is unresponsive and browser becomes unusable if a restart is triggered with a single blank tab open

Next merge date is 2011-08-16

Major Topics for This Week

6.0b6 - needed to test session restore fixes
Merge on 8/16

Application

Front-end

Work for Fx8
- Tablet UI
  - Landed base patch with a pref to enable/disable
  - Working on a few followup patches that would be great to get for Aurora. We'll see.
- Selecting text in web content followup bugs
  - Stays on in Fx7
  - Platform API is close in Fx8. Might need to push for early Aurora.
- Basic webapp support
  - The plan is to remove the "Install as App" menu in Aurora
- Landed "Add to Home Screen" for bookmarks
  - Feature page should be added :)

Let's make sure we are working on other bugs and minor features too

UX design

telemetry UI resolved
finalizing "add to home screen" UI -- bookmark panel action and home screen icon
reviewing UX of interim flash solution
a couple of tablet UI structural patches coming; visual design work starting in earnest

madhava working with apps team on mobile apps approach

Platform Support

jdm is still pushing to land remote content process crash reporter annotations (bug 581341) before the next merge, but windows opt try builds keep mysteriously crashing
Master password status
Keyboard and IME interaction status
xpcshell testing status
flash status
- http://people.mozilla.org/~dougt/fennec_plugin_test.apk
- not for the timid

Android

jchen has been working on a better Android gdb ('jimdb'). Prebuilt binaries, source, and build instructions
- has most fixes from NDK gdb
- integrates Android libthread_db (fixed dougt's problem debugging threads)
- has Python scripting support
- couple of existing Python scripts (or if using prebuilt binaries above, just run 'git pull' under the 'utils' directory)
  - feninit is a tool to initialize the GDB environment (support for multiple devices, multiple object directories; launches Fennec, pulls libraries, sets paths, and attaches gdbserver automatically)
  - tracebt is a WIP stack unwinder that traces instructions to find stack frames
  - idea for another tool to parse and integrate logcat into gdb
  - other ideas welcome!
Changes to package name and sharedID
- sharedID dropped from unofficial builds
- package name is now org.mozilla.fennec_<user name>
blassey has nexus s full engineering rom with symbols, contact me if you want it

Maemo

Performance

Startup shrink: nothing to report

Testing

QA

Working on reducing the number of regression windowwanted bugs listed bugzilla.
concern about bug 661518 about:home page is not repainted correctly when it comes back in focus
Beta 6 and RC is on the radar

Crash Report Aug 8, 2011

Test Suites

Mochitest investigations are ready to resume now that a solution for the blocking bug 675669 has been found.

Test Automation

nothing to report

Release Engineering

android_tier_1

bug 677332 - turn off duplicate/broken n900 tests
- please make sure all tegra issues are tracked in bugs so they can be addressed
bug 674830 - m-c multilocale horked, due to bug 664907.
android sdk13 - still testing
tegra new rom -- doesn't work.

Other

SUMO

Documentation

FF6 documentation updates with L10n; site options menu changes
FF7 documentation proposals and drafts in progress; quit button, text selection, language picker
Knowledge base improvements for Q3 goal scoped
Knowledge base optimizations for mobile; animated gif tutorials to replace videos & wide screenshots where appropriate

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 * Wednesdays - 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
+** '''Moved to 12:00 Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 19:00 UTC in Warp Core for today only'''
 {{conf|95346}}
 * irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
@@ Line 7: / Line 9: @@
 == Schedule  ==
+* Fennec 8 (nightly)
+** This is the active development trunk
+* Fennec 7 (aurora)
+** Need to move only required fixes from trunk (as those fixes are made)
+* Fennec 6 (beta)
+** Fixed on Beta this week (yes we actually landed something):
+*** {{bug|676780}} - Fennec is unable to load webpages and close tabs
+*** {{bug|669289}} - Fennec UI is unresponsive and browser becomes unusable if a restart is triggered with a single blank tab open
+Next merge date is 2011-08-16
 == Major Topics for This Week ==
+* 6.0b6 - needed to test session restore fixes
+* Merge on 8/16
 == Application ==
 === Front-end ===
+* Work for Fx8
+** Tablet UI
+*** Landed base patch with a pref to enable/disable
+*** Working on a few followup patches that would be great to get for Aurora. We'll see.
+** Selecting text in web content followup bugs
+*** Stays on in Fx7
+*** Platform API is close in Fx8. Might need to push for early Aurora.
+** Basic webapp support
+*** The plan is to remove the "Install as App" menu in Aurora
+** Landed "Add to Home Screen" for bookmarks
+*** Feature page should be added :)
+* Let's make sure we are working on other bugs and minor features too
 === UX design ===
+* telemetry UI resolved
+* finalizing "add to home screen" UI -- bookmark panel action and home screen icon
+* reviewing UX of interim flash solution
+* a couple of tablet UI structural patches coming; visual design work starting in earnest
+* madhava working with apps team on mobile apps approach
 == Platform Support ==
+* jdm is still pushing to land remote content process crash reporter annotations (bug 581341) before the next merge, but windows opt try builds keep mysteriously crashing
+* Master password status
+* Keyboard and IME interaction status
+* xpcshell testing status
+* flash status
+** http://people.mozilla.org/~dougt/fennec_plugin_test.apk
+** not for the timid
 === Android ===
+* jchen has been working on a better Android gdb ('jimdb'). [http://people.mozilla.org/~nchen/moz-gdb.tar.bz2 Prebuilt binaries], [https://github.com/darchons/android-gdb source], and [[Mobile/Fennec/Android/GDB|build instructions]]
+** has most fixes from NDK gdb
+** integrates Android libthread_db (fixed dougt's problem debugging threads)
+** has Python scripting support
+** [https://github.com/darchons/android-gdbutils couple of existing Python scripts] (or if using prebuilt binaries above, just run 'git pull' under the 'utils' directory)
+*** feninit is a tool to initialize the GDB environment (support for multiple devices, multiple object directories; launches Fennec, pulls libraries, sets paths, and attaches gdbserver automatically)
+*** tracebt is a WIP stack unwinder that traces instructions to find stack frames
+*** idea for another tool to parse and integrate logcat into gdb
+*** other ideas welcome!
+* Changes to package name and sharedID
+** sharedID dropped from unofficial builds
+** package name is now org.mozilla.fennec_<user name>
+* blassey has nexus s full engineering rom with symbols, contact me if you want it
 === Maemo ===
 == Performance ==
+* Startup shrink: nothing to report
 == Testing ==
 === QA ===
+* Working on reducing the number of regression windowwanted bugs listed bugzilla.
+* concern about {{bug|661518}} about:home page is not repainted correctly when it comes back in focus
+* Beta 6 and RC is on the radar
+* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=QA/Fennec/crash_rep_08Aug2011 Crash Report Aug 8, 2011]
 === Test Suites ===
+* Mochitest investigations are ready to resume now that a solution for the blocking bug 675669 has been found.
 === Test Automation ===
+* nothing to report
 == Release Engineering ==
+[http://is.gd/ZEOCi7 android_tier_1]
+* {{bug|677332}} - turn off duplicate/broken n900 tests
+** please make sure all tegra issues are tracked in bugs so they can be addressed
+* {{bug|674830}} - m-c multilocale horked, due to {{bug|664907}}.
+* android sdk13 - still testing
+* tegra new rom -- doesn't work.
 == Other ==
+'''SUMO'''
+===Documentation===
+*FF6 documentation updates with L10n; site options menu changes
+*FF7 documentation proposals and drafts in progress; quit button, text selection, language picker
+*Knowledge base improvements for Q3 goal [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile_Support_Project_Page#Expand_Self-Service_Support_Content scoped]
+*Knowledge base optimizations for mobile; [https://support.allizom.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-use-awesome-screen animated gif tutorials] to replace videos & wide screenshots where appropriate
+===Feedback Reports===
+*[https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B7fWUH4P6OXzMWNjNTIyMWYtMzdhNi00N2QyLWI4M2EtNjM5YzNiMWQ5MTAy&hl=en_US User Feedback Report]
+*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Planning/2011-08-10#Mobile Feedback Summary highlights]