Mobile/Notes/08-Jun-2011

Details

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Schedule

• Fennec 7 (nightly)
  • This is the active development trunk
• Fennec 6 (aurora)
  • The door is closing for new patches
• Fennec 5 Beta 4 (beta)
  • Shipped
• Fennec 5 Beta 5 (beta)
  • We will go to build with desktop, but we don't know if we will actually ship it

Application

Front-end

• Work for Fx7 -> We have Features, Bugs and Testing
  • Look at larger list of Features to add a few to the release.
• Know your ABCs (Always Be Coding)
  • If you get stuck on something, have a backup project to fallback.
  • Keep patches and reviews moving forward.

UX design

• V7
  • language selection is in nightlies, but needs pref-ing on
  • text selection handles over to dev
  • error page revisions ready to go
  • hope to see ben's awesome elastic sidebars land
• ongoing work on
  • honeycomb theme and structure
  • sync improvements
  • readability discussion yesterday

• ongoing longer-term tablet concept work and Firefox Home design work with that team

Platform Support

Android

• Plugins
  • work has moved to http://hg.mozilla.org/users/blassey_mozilla.com/droid-plugins (regular repo, not shared patch queue)
  • Sample plugin renders in both implemented drawing models
  • We seem to have implemented everything Flash calls, but we're not seeing it render.
• bug 661843 GeckoSurfaceView may double memory requirement for painting
  • Chris Lord jumped right in and potentially halved our SurfaceView's memory requirement
  • Welcome to the team!

Performance

• Cache improvements
  • Cache compression under review: compress uncompressed text/html/js files using zlib
  • Implementing improved eviction algorithm for disk cache
  • Found a bug in the memory cache implementation of LRU-SP

Testing

QA

Android device compatibility survey summary

• http://people.mozilla.com/~atrain/mobile/summary-report-06072011.pdf
  • todo: Triage responses

Firefox 5 beta 4 signed off yesterday

13 days to next merge

• Aurora 6 feature work progressing
• Nightly 7 assembling requirements for features

Release Engineering

Priorities page

• releases
  • (lsblakk) bug 661764 - Fennec 5.0b5 - waiting for 'go'. Lukas is in Paris, and will be building in UTC+1 time.
  • bug 660943 - Fennec 5.0b4 - pushed live yesterday
  • bug 574764 - port mobile releases to 0.8 automation. Go/no-go for 6.0b1 will be this Friday. Fallback option is to continue using split repo releases until it is ready.
• tegras
  • Now on Firefox tinderbox page. Unit tests are hidden -- bug 661896 tracks the blocking bugs needed to unhide.
  • [FIXED] bug 660365 - org.mozilla.fennec_unofficial
    • [FIXED] bug 661994 - fennec won't install on tracemonkey
  • [FIXED] bug 662470 - tegra jsreftests on tracemonkey
  • [almost there?] bug 643607 - browser-chrome T-FAIL

• How do we reduce the number of meetings?
  • How many people find these updates useful ? Is the wiki enough, or does it help to have a voice?