Mobile/Notes/04-Jan-2012

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Schedule

• String freeze: 2012-01-17 (Aurora)
• Next merge: 2012-01-31

Major Topics for This Week

• Stability: With Firefox Mobile in Aurora, we need to be working toward a "release-quality" software. We landed a lot of functionality, but that code has more than a few bugs. We need to drive down the current bug list (486 bugs found).
• Regressions: We need to take a more critical eye to our patches, reviews and testing. Regressions have recently made Firefox hard to dogfood for many people. We need to work quickly, but carefully, to get some of the recent regressions cleared.
• Performance: The native re-write is about improved performance. We have seen some solid improvements over the XUL version in some areas, but not in others. We need to make sure we don't regression performance in areas like pageload and post-load rendering. See tbpl to compare native to XUL.

Stand ups

Suggested format:

• What did you do last week?
• What are working on this week?
• Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 2 minutes!

Chris Peterson

• Last week:
  • Vacation (and reporting Fennec bugs found during real world browsing :)

• This week:
  • bug 712791 - Investigating CNN topcrash. I can't repro on my devices, but I will borrow QA's device in MV.
  • bug 714874 - Posted patches to fix java warnings. Waiting for some reviews.
  • bug 709230 - Investigating ProGuard build problems on some try servers.

• Blockers:
  • bug 709230 blocked by try server errors. Working with joduinn to isolate differences between "try-linux-slave"and "linux-ix-slave" builders.

LucasR

Last week:

• On vacation

Next week:

• P1/P2 bug fixing (mostly on about:home and awesomebar)

Blockers:

• None

MFinkle

Done:

• Started looking into why XUL is faster than Native in our Talos tests (bug 713775)
• Started looking into static analysis tools for Java (and Android). Tested both FindBugs and PMD. They worked OK and actually found some real bugs, along with a lot of cleanup work.
• Landed bug 714708 - NullPointerException at GeckoInputConnection.notifyIME
• Landed bug 714710 - LayerRenderer.checkFrameRateMonitorEnabled should use start() instead of run()
• Landed bug 714715 - Variable is used before a null check in GeckoApp.launch
• Landed bug 714713 - Comparison of strings using ==
• Landed bug 714711 - A few unused local variables in PanZoomController.onScaleEnd
• Landed bug 714829 - Unused StringBuffer is created in GeckoApp.addEnvToIntent
• Landed bug 714762 - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException at Tabs.getTabAt
• Landed bug 714829 - Unused StringBuffer is created in GeckoApp.addEnvToIntent
• Landed bug 714602 - Use defaultPrevented instead of the deprecated getPreventDefault()
• Landed bug 714062 - Add-ons Manager page should be opened once
• Landed bug 711515 - Opening links from external apps doesn't work if session restore is active

Next:

• Fix up a merge problem we had in openURI
• Change external links to always open in new tabs
• Update the Add-on Manager theme
• Add options for add-ons in Add-on Manager