Mobile/Notes/13-Jul-2011

Details

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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)
  • Live in the Android Market

Major Topics for This Week

• Aurora - Should we add to Android Market?
  • discussions are moving ahead
• Wiki Feature Page enhancements are live for Mobile too

Application

Front-end

• Work for Fx8
  • Tablet UI
    • need to check with UX on design status
  • Selecting text in web content followup bugs
    • Patch up for some fixes
  • Language picker support for locales on AMO
    • Process of getting XPIs to AMO
    • Deal with nightly breakage
  • Basic webapp support - landed
    • Some followups landed too
    • Need to "appify" the tab
    • Need to support manifest approach... somehow
  • Master Password
    • Address review comments
    • File some follow up bugs
  • Mobile friendly error pages
    • Patches up for review/ux feedback

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

Platform Support

Android

• Landed a patch to get better (/valid) crashreporter reports. Are we seeing that on Nightly?

Testing

QA

• Crashes per build id Report 7/11/2011
• Explosive Report 7/11/2011
• Crash Report July 13, 2011
  • bug 670269 - Socorro - log monitoring inadequate
  • Top Crashers:
    • Fennec 7: bug 671271 - libxul.so@0x61647c
    • Fennec 6: bug 661158 Pickle::ReadBytes
    • Fennec 5:
      • N900: bug 609166 - Crash [@ libc-2.5.so@0x2a548 ] on Linux 2.6.28
      • Android: bug 613954 - OOM crash [@ libc.so@0x11c80 ]...

Release Engineering

priorities page

• 6.0b2
  • QA is testing our 6.0b1 0.8-automation staging release.
  • We should be good to go with a dual desktop/mobile release for 6.0b2.
• bug 669189 - Still waiting for word from Google re: Android Market
• Android NDK6 or 5 ?
• How long to support Maemo?
  • We have a number of bugs with varying levels of requests for support. Not a complete list:
  • bug 669485 - n900s not running on Try
  • bug 670077 - triggering maemo5-gtk and maemo5-qt builds via trychooser
  • bug 548551 - /builds/scratchbox/users/cltbld/home/cltbld/.ssh is continuously remounted on linux slaves
  • bug 548334 - puppet should be setting the 'sbox' service to on
  • bug 544713 - update binutils used for maemo builds
  • bug 551475 - debug builders for maemo
  • bug 630475 - maemo single locale deb / build doesn't start