Mobile/Notes/07-Sep-2011
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Schedule
Next merge date is 2011-09-27
Major Topics for This Week
Application
Front-end
- Work for Fx9
- Tablet UI
- Tablet UI is progressing nicely
- Bugs should be filed for missing parts
- Tablet UI
- Performance work
- Front-end code affects performance!
- Locale picker is nearly bug-complete
- We'll want to start testing the download feature soon
UX design
- tablet tablet tablet
- listing UI nitpicks here: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/fennecomb-nitpicking - bugs to be created as necessary
- tab changes coming soon (bug 680077: https://bug680077.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=558489
- the bugs:
- bug 679472 - actionbar
- bug 680077 - tab menu
- bug 680212 - awesomebar and more!
- bug 680441 - more menu
- bug 681643 - dialogs
- bug 681650 - site identity menu
- tablet mockups here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61892693@N03/sets/72157627325688069/with/6101561156/
- prefs/tools: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61892693@N03/6101214910/in/photostream/
- portrait tab revision: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61892693@N03/6101561156/in/photostream/
- please try out nightlies!
Platform Support
Android
Performance
- We are discussing whether [/Firefox/Projects/Mobile_Startup_Shrink|Mobile StartupShrink] should become a regular weekly meeting
- We landed a few fixes for startup time
- bug 655337 - (Read hyphenation files from APK) will help a lot for firstrun
Testing
QA
- Concerns
- bug 684242 - Unresponsive browser on resume from sleep on tablet device
- still working on skiplist: bug 683385
- Going to work with Dougt to triage after workweek: Fennec Crash List
Test Suites
Test Automation
- adb devicemanager seems to work for many.
- still confusing to get everything working smoothly, but no changes needed to toolchain
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android#Testing
- will need to start resolving the resolution issue for reftests
- when running via ADB on a local device we use --ignore-window-size and this won't be supported much longer
Release Engineering
- (shipped) - 6.0.1, 6.0.2
- bug 669415 - 40 new tegras coming online
Other
SUMO
- Articles for master password? and webapps? flash? in planning for 8, add bookmark to home screen
- 25 new threads on SUMO this week, major themes for existing threads are support for new devices and flash player for votes
- Android Market reviews for Release v6 (597 total): 145 1 & 2 star ratings this week, 56=slow/unstable representing 38.7% of below-average ratings; 14 below-average ratings cited need for flash player
- Input feedback this week: 93 issues w/ release v6: 12 are flash-related, 9 are too slow
- Long-tail of flash problem, split out slow issue into start-up/rendering/phone perf, assess market rating change if we fix perf problem
- http://www.meetup.com/Firefox-Android-superheroes/ Join Us!
Work Week
- Sessions
- No meeting next week
