Mobile/Notes/05-Jan-2011

Details

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• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel

Schedule

Major Topics for This Week

Front-end

• Working on blockers and performance.
  • Code from Easy Reading landed in mobile-browser (bug 611555), some known bugs are fixed.
  • Landed some changes to improve responsiveness during page load (bug 621802).
  • We now delay-load most JavaScript to improve startup speed (bug 622423).
  • iframe panning being reviewed; at risk for beta 4.

UX design

Maemo

Qt

Android

• on track for b4
  • remaining bugs:
    • bug 620695 commit IME compositions on blur, has patch, needs review
    • bug 622913 call java gc after startup, optimization shouldn't strictly block
    • bug 622979 this is new, blassey is taking it
    • bug 621015 blassey and stuart to investigate today
    • bug 616980 this should be dropped from be b4 list and rel-noted
• Optimization work
  • Ts
    • bug 608042 Extracting our libs saves 730ms on startup
    • bug 623136 Font loading takes 100ms, look into caching
  • memory
    • bug 622913 call java gc after startup saves 775k
    • bug 622723 using ashmem for jemalloc allocations saves us in low memory situations. Needs verification on droid 1

Electrolysis

General Platform

Video

Camera

• desktop capture picker on bug 621915

Plugins

Performance

Networking

Graphics

Startup

Layout

Content

• IndexedDB
  • No work started yet
  • At least 2 issues
    • e10s prompt
    • no profile dir in content
      • so, you can't get access to the file
  • Either remove from content or build it out for 4.0

Release Engineering

• aki updated https://intranet.mozilla.org/Build:Mobile:Priorities ; need to add some new bugs
• 4.0b3 -- builds 2 and 3; AndroidManifest.xml hack
• tegras
  • up, 5 talos suites on m-c and tm
  • falling over after a while, burning tree (bear working on detecting this)
  • verified that power cycling from the strip gets them back up & green. ip-controlled power switches en route
  • after they're more stable, back to working on unit tests + more suites

• when "go to build" for Fennec4.0b4?

QA

• New Bugs over the week: filed
• Ramping up test planning and test case creation on text reflow and scrolling indicators
• Handing off tasks to Waverley: adding litmus testcases and daily verifications
• Results from nightly Smoketest runs

Automation

• android automation is underway, still working on a solution to prevent the tegra boards from hanging during boot and requiring a manual restart.
• android js shell tests are under development to get into our automation framework.

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