Mobile/Notes/01-Sep-2010

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Schedule

• See timeline
  • Alpha 1 released
  • Beta 1 code freeze: Sept 7
    • ~ 1 week

Front-end

• Working on Beta 1 blockers
• Features (see Planning page)
  • Project to remove tile manager is well underway
  • Working on tweaks to the new Awesomebarscreen search provider layout
  • Looking for feedback on the "two-taps" behavior for virtual keyboards
• Working with Madhava on UX designs and loose ends

UX design

• Working with Martell on the Android theme mockups

Android

• please provide feedback on Android theme mockups [1]
• need to solidify our minimum requirements for 2.0
  • screen sizes
  • min CPU
  • how to communicate

Electrolysis

• jchen is working on cross-platform IME support under PuppetWidget (bug 591047)
  • hopefully this will fix some of the maemo bugs as well

• Waiting on bug 592017 (jsvals in messagemanager IDL), which will allow finishing touches on bug 584401, bug 584842, bug 575556 (through them messagemanager wakeup service, bug 591052). May need workaround (wrappedJSObject) if not ready in time.

Layers

Some TODOs for b1.

General Platform

Performance

• bug 359608 is almost done (suspend animations when in the bfcache). Can we force the browser to put everything in the bfcache (go to about:blank) when idle, to save power?

Networking

Core download manager work is done, a couple of bugs still in progress bug 589025, bug 567267, bug 591081

Release Engineering

• looking at talos red
• 2.0a1 install status
• pageloader oom should land during downtime

QA

Manual

• New Bugs over the week: http://tinyurl.com/385jqyo filed]
• Results from nightly Smoketest runs. These are ran against Android, GTK, and QT
• New 2.0 features testplans popping up (awesomescreen, platform integration, RTL)
• MobiFx Testday on 9/10
• Welcome new QA member, Naoki Hirata! (irc: nhirata)

Other

• build tiers
  • need testing