Mobile/Notes/12-Oct-2011

Details

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• vidyo: PB&J

Schedule

Next merge date is 2011-11-08

Major Topics for This Week

• Native Android UI is our primary focus
  • Mozilla has decided to start working 100% on the native Android UI version of Firefox Mobile
  • See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI
  • Firefox Mobile 9 (Aurora) will likely be the last XUL-based UI
  • Many details will be fleshed out at the mobile summit next week.

Application

Front-end

• Firefox Mobile 9 (Aurora) cleanup and wind-down
  • Camera patches for stability
  • Back out locale picker?
  • A few performance and regression fixes will likely land
• Firefox Mobile 10 (NativeUI) is starting up
  • Reviewing architecture
  • Planning tasks

Testing

QA

• Native UI Questions
  • What actions should QA take on present UI/XUL related bugs, and bugs filed on Nightly (10.0a1)?
  • Parallel transition for tablet UI?
  • Minimum viable feature set
• Beta Status