Mobile/Notes/21-Sep-2011

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Details

  • Wednesdays - 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 95346
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 95346
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 95346
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 95346
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 95346
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 95346
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 95346
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 95346
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 95346
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 95346
    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
  • vidyo: PB&J

Schedule

Next merge date is 2011-09-27

Major Topics for This Week

  • Focus on tracking-fennec:9 bugs
  • Checking status on some "almost done" features:
    • Camera (UI and Backend)
    • WebApps API
    • Locale Switcher
    • Flash (click to play)
    • UA

Application

Front-end

  • Working on last few tablet UI tweaks before merge
    • We seem pretty solid for Fx9. Some of the tweaks could be pushed to Fx10, if we have other priority work.
  • Check tracking-fennec:9 bugs for anything assigned to you

UX design

  • Adding polish to the tablet UI, the Nightlies are looking great!
  • Please keep nagging ibarlow for UI input / feedback / assets

Platform Support

Android

Performance

  • Startup performance
    • Java frontend?
    • Toolchain improvements (static initializers/PGO)?
  • Perceived performance
    • Static UI during launch

Testing

QA

  • Concerns
    • bug 686763 - Nightly SIGILL related crash on honeycomb
    • bug 686901 - ESPN full desktop site major checkerboarding/layout/zooming issues
      • Related, new STR posted for bug 676780 - Fennec is unable to load webpages and close tabs
  • 7.0b6 signed off, now on market

Test Suites

Test Automation

Release Engineering

android_tier_1

  • (fixed) bug 685242 - split try and non-try tegra pools
  • (fixed) bug 686748 - catch devicemanager exceptions in sut_tools scripts
  • (fixed) bug 687233 - foopies are running out of disk space
  • (fixed) bug 684871 - update dashboard for new tegras
  • (fixed?) bug 687156 - update pageloader max version to * from 9.0
  • (fixed) bug 687018 - intermittent dns failures in Android test jobs
  • (fixed) bug 669415 - new tegras online or distributed to developers; need to be hooked up to foopies

Overall, most purples/reds are now green or orange. Oranges are most likely due to the startup crash that Joel found last week.

Other

  • Welcome Brian Nicholson to Front-end team!