Mobile/Notes/06-Oct-2010

Details

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Schedule

• Beta 1 is being prepped for release
• Beta 2
  • String freeze: Oct 8
  • Code freeze: Oct 19

Front-end

• Primarily working on Beta 2 blockers
• Also working on other blockers and some performance/optimization bugs
• Features (see Planning page)
  • Work re-started on scroll indicators
  • Need to re-evaluate the page interactions feature
• New Core (nee Android) theme is underway
  • Martell is supplying styles and glyphs
  • Patches will start landing incrementally
• Can beta 2 string freeze be pushed to next week?

UX design

• catching up with past two weeks
• working through strings for b2
• b1 logo/wordmarks: http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/sets/72157625108367376/

Android

• Progress dialogs landed
• custom dlopen waiting for reviews
• using packager logic waiting for reivews

General Platform

Performance

• Weave/Sync has a few major performance problems being investigated:
  • Startup
  • Panning during sync

Graphics

• GL layers (bug 598864)
  • regular web content and canvas working
  • lots of problems: slow, blurry, bugs in transforms (some affect desktop)
  • basic, not cross-process GL code isn't working on maemo5-gtk (bug 593880) or android (bug 595087), help appreciated

Release Engineering

• android release updates checked in
  • still not successfully tested?
• android tests
  • bear was able to run 3 test suites green from source checked into hg w/out patches
  • setting up clean test env in MV. need bug 602196 fixed (IT)
  • bmoss helped image 3 tegras in MV; we'll try to get these up shortly as a small test pool
  • trying to get more tegras bug 596166
• if we got fennec linux desktop unit tests (x86) running, would anyone look?

QA

• New Bugs over the week: filed
• Release Testing Beta 1
  • Completed Release Testing for Beta 1 Build 1
  • Issues found: bug 599198, bug 602008, bug 601326 and among many others
  • Verifying bugs on Build 2 and will sign off once that's done
• Need a triage of bugs nominated over the past week
• Already seeing feedback coming in from Android and Maemo nightly users
• Results from nightly Smoketest runs

Automation

• android - results in releng staging! congrats BEAR!
  • talos can run with no patches
  • bug 601634 - update to talos for tp4, tsvg and tdhtml

• browser-chrome - green - linux desktop (1 random timeout)! Thanks Front End Team!
  • bug 600877 - browser chrome fails to get proper focus on maemo, blocking full run

• [mochitest: green]
  • bug 590248 and bug 587646 account for 60% of known mochitest failures on n900!, no progress on these two bugs?! Still no traction on this - WEEK #7, can we get 10 weeks with no resolution?

Automation tracking

• Maemo
  • tpan/tzoom work on android, but tzoom is still orange in general bug 600590

• browser-chrome - need some attention, carryover from last week
  • new tests: bug 489163 [NO PATCH] (should have been bug 489160) [WIP]
  • 1 test left to run green:
    • bug 600528 - browser-sessionstore.js gets a timeout on linux desktop browser-chrome tests

• [mochitest: green]
  • bug 590248 and bug 587646 account for 60% of known mochitest failures on n900!, no progress on these two bugs?! Still no traction on this - WEEK #6, can we get 6 weeks with nobody looking at these?
  • considering running a small subset of passing tests for android mochitests so we have results that people will use.

Fixed last week:

• android - results in releng staging! congrats BEAR!
  • a couple patches working through the review queue for talos on android bug 596132 [FIXED]
  • one patch needs landing for mochitest on android bug 598366 [FIXED]
  • SUTAgent has had some fixes in the last week bug 600266 [FIXED]
  • page loader tests works for android, needs review bug 599494 [FIXED]
    • And this one for reboots bug 600267 [FIXED]

• browser-chrome - need some attention, carryover from last week
  • new test files:
    • bug 570706 need some updating [FIXED]
  • 3 run green:
    • bug 598957 - browser_preferences_basic panning is busted [FIXED]
    • bug 598962 - Viewport browser-chrome tests failures [FIXED]
    • bug 600529 - browser_mainui.js failure [FIXED]
  • need to land patch bug 597056 to remove firefox tests from mobile tests [FIXED]