Mobile/Notes/08-Feb-2012

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Schedule

TDB - See Major Topics

Major Topics for This Week

Beta Status

We are not releasing a beta this week. We made the decision that rendering performance (panning and checkerboarding) was not good enough for a beta release. Patrick and BenWa started work on using GL-layers in Gecko/Android to improve rendering performance. Work has also started on off-main thread compositing (OMTC) to make panning more responsive. Erin and Alex are working on schedule impact and planning.

• We don't know if this means Fx11 is not the release for Native. We are working to answer that today or tomorrow.
• Work continues to drive down crashes, improve stability and improve UI responsiveness.

GL-Layers and OMTC

Work to convert mobile to use GL backed layers is happening at breakneck speed. We should have a demo of the GL-layers work at today's Mobile Demo meeting.

• We will use the Maple branch to continue the GL work
• Builds are available and Fennec is demoable.
• Working to get estimates on timelines and collateral breakage

ARMv6 Status

Ted and Mike have got armv6 starting up. See Ted's tweet.

• We need to stamp out any other ARMv6-related crashes
• We need to look at performance characteristics

Chrome for Android

ICS-only and no Flash, but a pretty solid release otherwise. How do we match up?

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
  • bug 715251 - Reduce overscroll distance and janky scrolling -- IMPLEMENTING REVIEW FEEDBACK
  • bug 708167 - Testing about:home without Placeholder initialization. -- ON HOLD, WAITING FOR bug 723251

• This Week
  • bug 681192 - Investigating romaxa's patches to avoid layer invalidation when scrolling -- IN PROGRESS
  • bug 706891 - Making axis scroll lock unbreakble (regression from XUL Fennec) -- WAITING FOR REVIEW

• Blockers
  • Waiting for bug 723251 to fix placeholder screenshots before I can commit bug 708167 to sidestep displaying screenshot. :)

GCP

• Re-landed safebrowsing changes
• Blogged about the safebrowsing changes
• Added WIP patch to Sync perfernce migration (bug 715550)
• In process of moving the profile migration to use the ContentProvider instead of BrowserDB

Margaret

Done:

• Landed bug 719875 - Re-work tap-to-play plugins so that they work with back/forward navigation
• Spent most of the week working with bookmarks
  • Talked a lot with rnewman to figure out/file problems caused by sync
  • Landed bug 724045 - createMobileBookmarksFolder doesn't set title or parent
  • Landed bug 716918 - Basic bookmarks UI to display mobile and desktop bookmarks separately
  • Wrote a patch for bug 725171 - Context menu is broken on bookmarks on the awesome screen
  • Investigated (then passed off to lucasr) bug 723841 - Bookmarks database consistency constraints

Next:

• bug 722020 - Fennec Native doesn't show bookmarks in folders, or in desktop sequence
• bug 724756 - removeBookmark can remove an arbitrary number of bookmarks
• UC Berkeley Career Fair next Wednesday afternoon (Feb. 15)