Mobile/Notes/05-Oct-2011

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Schedule

• Next merge date is 2011-11-08

Application

Front-end

• Always on the lookout for performance issues
• More stabilizing Fx9 on tablet and phone
  • We have been doing pretty good finding and fixing regresisons
  • We have a few patches to push to Aurora. More coming.
  • More triage on the backlog of non-theme bugs we have been accumulating
• Get more testing on:
  • Webapps
  • Locale Picker
  • Camera
• Make some decisions on:
  • Flash on demand (front-end patch getting better)
  • UA (we should just add 'mobile' to our phone UA, following the Android 'guidelines')
  • Featurettes, like the Clear Private Data changes, need triage and UX

UX design

• Fx9
  • The tablet UI is in Aurora, but there are few things we like to see land in Aurora:
    • Prefs/Downloads/Add-ons screens (as they are in nightly)
    • the new throbber, on tablets only
    • style revisions to Start Page bug 626528
    • that's all - looking good!
  • progress on readability, from dbaron
  • is there a front-end patch/build for flash?
• Post-Fx9
  • new feature page for an Android Firefox widget: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Mobile/Android_Firefox_Widget

Platform Support

Android

Native Front-End

• Planning to have a working prototype for the work week in Toronto

Flash

• Front-end: Working with desktop team on click-to-enable
• Honeycomb work shelved until after the mobile summit
• Snorp working on clipping and performance issues

IME

• bug 653895 - Cached text and selection indexes in parent process aren't always synced
  • Have a draft implementation, which seems to work with SwiftKey X, but still has some issues with Swipe - needs more debugging.
• Shelved for a couple weeks while we're working on the native FE

Performance

• Focusing on mobile startup shrink bugs for Fx 10. There are about 32 bugs in the queue.

Status: 673249 is a dupe of 686805 (incremental zip compression in our linker) and Taras has slated for 10/3

• Need approval of matrix/test cases by eng; will shop them around today so QA has enough time to prep for Friday's test day.

Bugs

A small selection of bugs we are (or could be) looking at:

• bug 674651 - nsContentPolicy should skip resource and chrome schemes
  • Updated patch and found small to no improvement. Looking to make sure all the code paths are covered.
• bug 689713 - Warm up the DNS cache in Java when launching with a URL intent
  • Need to test
• bug 690903 - nsFormHistory should lazily initializes SQLite DB
  • Patch in progress
• bug 691534 - Use asyncFetch when loading files in aboutHome.xhtml
  • Landed and requested Aurora approval
• bug 690901 - Start building a new profile in Java instead of waiting for Gecko to load
• bug 690898 - Use pre-built SQLite DBs when creating a new profile

Testing

QA

• Concerns
  • Recent Camera API issues/crashes e.g, (bug 691377, bug 691560). We'll be testing on other devices
  • Locale Picker issues e.g, (bug 690934)
  • Open Web App Issues (i.e, installation/management API), we'll track them here
• Status
  • Aurora (9.0a2) Testday this Friday
  • 8.0b2 status?
  • Performance testing, test-cases for testing ready tomorrow

Release Engineering

android_tier_1

• we're now at 29 open android tier 1 bugs, even though we're the greenest we've been in ages.
  • we welcome any help here

• (fixed) bug 690496 - n900 talos broken
• (fixed) bug 690751 - tegra power cycle exceptions
  • due to differing firmwares on the remote pdus
  • bear switched us to snmp in bug 690464 (locked); should solidify our power cycle story

• bug 665891 - add 200 new tegras to pool: 70 new tegras on their way shortly; will bring us to 190.
• bug 689937 - 7 new foopies needed to run those tegras